From e2cbcd37d822a3efefc0e8c5845505bbc0dbc900 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wilson Snyder Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 18:43:02 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Commentary --- docs/install.adoc | 28 +++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/install.adoc b/docs/install.adoc index 3d8c9fd5e..8293479f0 100644 --- a/docs/install.adoc +++ b/docs/install.adoc @@ -78,18 +78,7 @@ MSVC++. === Install Prerequisites -To build Verilator you will need to install some standard packages: - - sudo apt-get install git - sudo apt-get install autoconf - sudo apt-get install flex bison - -The following are optional, but should be installed to improve compilation speed: - - sudo apt-get install ccache - sudo apt-get install libgoogle-perftools-dev - -Additionally, to build or run Verilator you need these standard packages: +To build or run Verilator you need these standard packages: sudo apt-get install perl python3 sudo apt-get install make @@ -97,7 +86,20 @@ Additionally, to build or run Verilator you need these standard packages: sudo apt-get install libgz # Non-Ubuntu (ignore if gives error) sudo apt-get install libfl2 libfl-dev zlibc zlib1g zlib1g-dev # Ubuntu only (ignore if gives error) -Those developing Verilator may also want these (see internals.adoc): +To build or run the following are optional but should be installed for +good performance: + + sudo apt-get install ccache # If present at build, needed for run + sudo apt-get install libgoogle-perftools-dev + +To build Verilator you will need to install these packages; these do not +need to be present to run Verilator: + + sudo apt-get install git + sudo apt-get install autoconf + sudo apt-get install flex bison + +Those developing Verilator itself may also want these (see internals.adoc): sudo apt-get install gdb asciidoctor graphviz cmake cpan install Pod::Perldoc