Compile Verible on Windows

[mikhailbond]

Hi all!
I saw that there were added support to compile Verible on WIndows. But I don't understand what should I do exactly to achieve this.
Could you help me, please, like step by step guide, how to build and run Verible on Windows?

[hzeller]

A good starting point for what to do is the Continuous Integration script which runs the compile and test.
https://github.com/chipsalliance/verible/blob/master/.github/workflows/verible-ci.yml#L270-L285

Mostly the important part is to use clang (llvm) to compile as there were issues with msvc (@corco knows the details).

But once you've installed clang and bazel, the compile should work as described in the README. The bazel install will not work AFAIK on windows, so you have to manually copy the resulting executables from bazel-bin/verilog/tools/*/verible-verilog-{syntax,lint,format}

[lf-]

I would really appreciate if binaries from compiling Verible on Windows are added to the release artefacts.

[hzeller]

I have no experience in what a good distribution format is for Windows; accepting pull requests that adds something that is useful for Windows systems.

[hzeller]

@corco you mentioned in #307 that you'd like to look into extracting windows artifacts from the CI. Are you still up for it ?

[corco]

Yes, I have been heavily side-tracked on this task ;) I will take another look at it next week