Installing the Development Version¶
We are assuming here that you have installed the prerequisites.
The instructions for installing the development version of cocotb vary depending on your operating system:
The development version of cocotb can be installed globally by running
pip install --global-option build_ext --global-option --compiler=mingw32 https://github.com/cocotb/cocotb/archive/master.zip
See also the pip User Guide.
The development version of cocotb can be installed globally by running
pip install https://github.com/cocotb/cocotb/archive/master.zip
This requires administrator permissions.
In order to install only for your current user, run
pip install https://github.com/cocotb/cocotb/archive/master.zip --user
See also the pip User Guide.
Warning
pip may belong to a different Python installation to what you expect.
Use pip -V to check.
If this prints “(python 2.7)”, use pip3 or python3 -m pip in place of pip in the command shown.
After installation, you should be able to execute cocotb-config.
If it is not found, you need to append its location to the PATH environment variable.
This may happen when you use the --user option to pip, in which case the location is documented here.