Issues with GHDL when compiling OSVVM packages

[Christon Fredrick]

I first compiled the required dependencies and GHDL compiled them well. but when I compiled the AlertLogPkg.vhd, it didn’t and showed error like, ^
osvvm/AlertLogPkg.vhd:5356:43:error: no overloaded function found matching “to_string”
“= Expected : ” & to_string(Expected),
I have the same errors for many things. I couldn’t get past this. Please help me with this. Thanks.

[Jim Lewis]

Are you running a current version of GHDL? Our github actions run with GHDL every day. See: https://github.com/OSVVM/OsvvmLibraries/actions

Did you use the directions in OsvvmLibraries/Documentation/Scripts_user_guide.pdf?

Here they are:
GHDL in Windows
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Initialize the OSVVM Script environment by doing:

   winpty tclsh
   source <path-to-OsvvmLibraries>/OsvvmLibraries/Scripts/StartUp.tcl

To simplify this, put source /OsvvmLibraries/Scripts/StartUp.tcl
in the .tclshrc file and add a windows short cut that does
C:\tools\msys64\mingw64.exe winpty tclsh.

GHDL in Linux
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Initialize the OSVVM Script environment by doing:

   rlwrap tclsh
   source <path-to-OsvvmLibraries>/OsvvmLibraries/Scripts/StartUp.tcl

To simplify this, put source /OsvvmLibraries/Scripts/StartUp.tcl
in the .tclshrc file and in bash add alias gsim=’rlwrap tclsh’ to your .bashrc.

Once you have done these, you build OsvvmLibraries by doing:

build $OsvvmLibraries/OsvvmLibraries.pro

Compiling the whole OsvvmLibraries in GHDL takes less than 60 seconds.

[Patrick]

Can you please provide the output of

ghdl --version

[Christon Fredrick]

the GHDL version was 5.0.1, but good news, the OSVVM packages compiled with NVC. And also the basic VHDL code ran and the random function is really powerful when implemented. Really appreciate the work in OSVVM!

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