Portable AppImages for Yosys, OpenSTA, Surelog, Netgen & ABC – no more building from source or using ancient distro packages

[u/Rough-Egg684]

Hey everyone,

Tired of building Yosys (and friends) from source or getting years-old versions from your distro packages?

I’ve been packaging Yosys, OpenSTA, Surelog, Netgen, and ABC as single-file AppImages. Just download, chmod +x, and run — no dependencies, no containers.

Repo: https://github.com/MrAbhi19/open-eda-appimage

Docs: https://mrabhi19.github.io/open-eda-appimage/

If anyone tries them, it would be super helpful if you could leave a quick comment about your experience (especially on different distros) in the Discussions page. That feedback helps a lot in improving the packaging.

Also looking for help with documentation — any contributions there (or elsewhere) are very welcome!

Thanks!