From ead88ed66d15cbf92c165092dff86fbef071ff9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim 'mithro' Ansell <me@mith.ro>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 14:41:45 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] Support forcing colorama colors on.

This is needed if you want colors but are using pipes and similar.
---
 litex/build/xilinx/common.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/litex/build/xilinx/common.py b/litex/build/xilinx/common.py
index 170e67e2..4c59a998 100644
--- a/litex/build/xilinx/common.py
+++ b/litex/build/xilinx/common.py
@@ -2,7 +2,11 @@ import os
 import sys
 try:
     import colorama
-    colorama.init()  # install escape sequence translation on Windows
+    # install escape sequence translation on Windows
+    if os.getenv("COLORAMA", "") == "force":
+        colorama.init(strip=False)
+    else:
+        colorama.init()
     _have_colorama = True
 except ImportError:
     _have_colorama = False
-- 
2.30.2