Trying to wrap my head around utilizing Yosys (or something) and creating schematics using VS Code.
Forgive me if anything I say below doesn't make sense or uses incorrect terminology. I've been at this all night.
All I want to do is use something I can run on my computer to do synthesis or just create a schematic of a VHDL design I'm creating on my personal device.
Recently, I had been using GHDL for compilation and simulation, and using GTKwave to view the waveform results.
What I gathered through multiple sources is that I can use the TerosHDL extension in VS Code to view schematics of my design (I forget if it can do RTL schematics of Gate-Level, at this point I'd accept either). Something about installing Yosys and linking TeroHDL to it and GHDL.
I ended up finding the oss-cad-suite executable and I was told that was the way. Apparently that particular download doesn't have a specific yosys_ghdl executable that is necessary for TerosHDL to not produce an error. Idk.
Only to see later that it's not actually the right one(?), then I saw on a similiar Reddit thread a link where something about MSYS2 to download packages for Yosys or something. I did that, again having to google what the hell it meant to "use MSYS2". Then the thread ran out of steps, so I ended up Gemini-ing what to do with the downloaded packages. It gave me steps on how to edit a settings json file, and something something same error. I'm pretty sure Gemini was just hallucinating steps.
I'm hoping that there is a thorough video tutorial that exists that I may have missed; if so can someone please link me to it? Or is there someone that can give some sort of detailed set of steps that may give me an idea of what I'm missing or if there's another link I need to download tools from? Or is it possible that what I'm trying to do doesn't exist on any sort of open-source tool set?
Again, I apologize for the ranty and possibly hard-to-understand issue. Thank you again for any potential insight or even solidarity.