Overview
VHDL-Tool can be run as a standalone command line application without editor integration. This is useful if you want to syntax-check or lint your files from the command line.VHDL-Tool is a multi mode binary, like git. This means that command line invocations of vhdl-tool must be followed by a subcommand. The available modes are summarised by the --help command:
VHDL-Tool has a client server architecture. This means that some of the subcommands, specifically client and rpc require a running server before they will function. The server is started with the vhdl-tool server command.
Each of the commands is covered below.
check-config
Icarus Verilog is a Verilog simulation and synthesis tool. It operates as a compiler, compiling source code written in Verilog (IEEE-1364) into some target format. For batch simulation, the compiler can generate an intermediate form called vvp assembly. This intermediate form is executed by the ``vvp' command. VHDL-Tool Free Version is being distributed as Freeware for personal, commercial, non-profit organization, or educational use. You are NOT allowed to redistribute this Software whether as a stand-alone product, or as part of a compilation or anthology, nor to use it for supporting your business or customers. Combined with a GUI-based wave viewer and a good VHDL text editor, GHDL is a very powerful tool for writing, testing and simulating your VHDL code. GHDL is based on the very popular GNU compiler GCC and runs on Linux, Windows and Apple OS X. You can freely download a binary distribution for your OS or try to compile GHDL on your own machine.
Checks your configuration file for common errors.
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. Teaches VHDL by example. Includes tools for simulation and synthesis. CD-ROM containing Code/Design examples and a working demo of ModelSIM. Since VHDL-Tool uses the Language Server Protocol protocol to communicate with your editor, its features are available in all compatible editors. This includes editors like Vim and Emacs which, while extremely capable of text editing, do not traditionally support ide.
ctags
Generates a ctags compatible tags file. This can be used for navigation, but is most useful in conjunction with plugins like TagBar for displaying an overview of the current file.
lint
Syntax checks the file given to it as the only argument.
server
This launches a VHDL-Tool IDE server. VHDL-Tool first reads your configuration file to determine which files make up your project. It then parses and indexes these for later queries. It provides a JSON RPC interface through a unix socket which can be queries using the rpc command.
client
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The client subcommand provides convenience wrappers around the RPC commands. For now, only the lint command is wrapped. In this case, the wrapping exists to provide an easier-to-parse alternative to JSON for lint warnings that can be consumed by, for example, Syntastic. In the free version, which only performs syntax checking, this produces the same output as the vhdl-tool lint command.rpc
Provides a command line interface to query the JSON-RPC server exposed by the server command. This interface is intended for internal use by editor plugins.
For example, the definitions command takes a file name and position within the file. It also takes the file contents through stdin (since the file contents within the editor may differ from the contents on disk). It returns through stdout a JSON array of locations where the identifier at the specified position is defined.
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Provides a Language Server Protocol server over stdin/stdout.