16:21 <Guest61> Hi everyone

16:25 <Guest61> Yesterday i tried setting up the build enviroment, a bit of an upphill battle since all the guides are for linux, and since ive already installed the xilinx tools in my windows boot i figured the rest should be the easy part

16:27 <Guest61> so currently im trying to chase down a compiler, it's looking like i'll have to compile it myself

16:28 <Guest61> i thought i could go for the escapedoor of getting the sdk from sifive, but it seems they are not so welcomming since they require a business email

19:00 <ysionneau> I don't know if lots of people are using LiteX on windows :o

19:01 <ysionneau> would be interesting to have this kind of statistics

19:01 <ysionneau> I would imagine most people use Linux but in the FPGA world there is a lot of Windows so ...

19:05 <Hoernchen> the obvious question is, why bother, considering there is wsl1/2 and you can use that linux shell to launch windows applications for synthesis and so on, so "pure" windows is probably just more difficult

19:05 <ysionneau> I am guessing you are trying to target a risc-v cpu ...

19:06 <ysionneau> I see there are windows toolchains here https://gnutoolchains.com/risc-v/

19:06 <ysionneau> you have xpack also https://xpack.github.io/dev-tools/riscv-none-elf-gcc/install/

19:06 <tpb> Title: How to install the xPack GNU RISC-V Embedded GCC binaries | The xPack Build FrameworkHow to install the xPack GNU RISC-V Embedded GCC binaries | xpack.github.io (at xpack.github.io)

22:05 <Guest61> oh hi, yeah i found the one at gnutoolchain, but it did not want to build. Some error about not being able to check existance of directories, i think the included make might be too old? (or perhaps its just a general windows syntax issue)

22:06 <Guest61> Thanks for the tip about xpack, that sounds promising!

22:15 <Guest61> i will probably look into wsl if this aproach does not pan out... and why?

22:15 <Guest61> I guess im a sucker for pain lol. i only spent like 10 minutes trying to use WSL once as the solution to some other thing, did not pan out. I mostly remember being pissed off about about "them" making it a pita to set up or something. Overall the process of just getting a functioning make in windows is pretty broken.

22:24 <Guest61> and you know, i already have the toolchain for synth, and python, so i "just" need the compiler then? it's the lazy dream of it being quick and easy, and then being stubborn.