Creating the Visual Studio Template Project =========================================== 1. Create an empty Visual C++ Win32 Console App project Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop Open New Project Wizard (File -> New Project..) Project Name: YosysVS Solution Name: YosysVS [X] Create directory for solution [ ] Add to source control [X] Console applications [X] Empty Project [ ] SDL checks 2. Open YosysVS Project Properties Select Configuration: All Configurations C/C++ -> General -> Additional Include Directories Add: ..\yosys C/C++ -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definitions Add: _YOSYS_;_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS 3. Resulting file system tree: YosysVS/ YosysVS/YosysVS YosysVS/YosysVS/YosysVS.vcxproj YosysVS/YosysVS/YosysVS.vcxproj.filters YosysVS/YosysVS.sdf YosysVS/YosysVS.sln YosysVS/YosysVS.v12.suo 4. Zip YosysVS as YosysVS-Tpl-v1.zip Cross-Building for Windows with MXE =================================== Check http://mxe.cc/#requirements and install all missing requirements. As root (or other user with write access to /usr/local/src): cd /usr/local/src git clone https://github.com/mxe/mxe.git cd mxe make -j$(nproc) MXE_PLUGIN_DIRS="plugins/tcl.tk" \ MXE_TARGETS="i686-w64-mingw32.static" \ gcc tcl readline Then as regular user in some directory where you build stuff: git clone https://github.com/cliffordwolf/yosys.git yosys-win32 cd yosys-win32 make config-mxe make -j$(nproc) mxebin