Quick start guide for windows binaries?

[Shaun chua]

Hi there Verible Community, 

I am trying to try out the tool and have downloaded the Zipped windows 64 bit binary release.

After that I am not too sure how to launch the app? 

I tried double clicking the .exe files in the downloaded zip folder, but nothing seem to be happening. 

Thanks. 

[Henner Zeller]

> I am trying to try out the tool and have downloaded the Zipped windows 64 bit binary release.
>
> After that I am not too sure how to launch the app?
>
> I tried double clicking the .exe files in the downloaded zip folder, but nothing seem to be happening.

These are command line tools, so you'd typically invoke them on the
command line or in scripts and provide the files and options right
there.
If you launch them without parameters (e.g. by double-clicking on
them), they will finish immediately as they didn't get any files to
work on.

You find a list of tools in
https://github.com/chipsalliance/verible/tree/master/verilog/tools

... in each of the subdirectories you find the description of the
command line parameters you can provide, e.g. for the linter, that
would be in
https://github.com/chipsalliance/verible/tree/master/verilog/tools/lint#readme

A lot of functionality (lint, format, go-to-definition...) you can
also get directly in your editor by using the language server; if you
are using VSCode, then you
can get it from the marketplace
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CHIPSAlliance.verible

.. but many other editors can also direcctly work with the Verible
language server; here are a few examples of configured editors
https://github.com/chipsalliance/verible/tree/master/verilog/tools/ls#readme

Cheers,
Henner.