使用 Homebrew, apt, MacPorts 安装 gplcver

项目链接

• 主页

命令和别名

• cver

项目历史

The project README states that GPL Cver is a copyrighted Pragmatic C Software work distributed under the GNU General Public License, and that it represents an older Cver line while a newer commercial Cver was offered by Pragmatic C Software.

The SourceForge code tree shows an initial import of cver-2.12a on Apr 27, 2009. The same tree contains top-level documentation, PLI sources, tests, Verilog sources, and release notes, preserving the package as a source-distributed EDA tool.

采用历史

GPL Cver has a narrow but durable package footprint: the input package-manager facts list Homebrew, Debian, MacPorts, and Ubuntu packages. Homebrew describes it as 'Pragmatic C Software GPL Cver 2001' and packages version 2.12a.

Its adoption is mostly historical and specialist: users who need an open Verilog simulator with PLI support can install it from Unix package managers, but it sits beside better-known open-source Verilog tools rather than acting as a general developer utility.

使用方式

Users run the cver executable against Verilog files to simulate designs. The upstream README points users to the INSTALL file for source builds and to the doc directory for Cver documentation.

The release also includes vcddiff, a specialized diff-like utility for Verilog VCD waveform files, which makes the package more useful for regression and simulation-output comparison workflows.

为什么软件包爱好者会关心

GPL Cver is interesting to package maintainers because it preserves a formerly commercial-style Verilog simulator in a redistributable GPL form. That makes it a useful historical EDA package even when install counts are small.

Its package shape is old-school Unix: source tree, docs directory, prebuilt makefiles for older Unix-like platforms, and a single simulator executable.

时间线

• 2001: Homebrew metadata identifies the package as Pragmatic C Software GPL Cver 2001.
• 2009: SourceForge project registration and cver-2.12a source import occurred in April 2009.
• 2024: SourceForge activity records a maintenance update touching the source tree.

Related projects

• Icarus Verilog and VeriWell appear as related Verilog simulator projects in SourceForge's project context.
• Verilog-XL is the commercial simulator lineage used as a comparison point in the project description.
• vcddiff ships with GPL Cver as a related utility for comparing Verilog VCD files.

来源

• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/gplcver
• https://sourceforge.net/p/gplcver/code/ci/master/tree/
• https://sourceforge.net/projects/gplcver/
• https://sourceforge.net/projects/gplcver/files/gplcver/