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From: Uwe Bonnes<bon@e...>
Date: Tue Mar 1 23:55:51 CET 2005
Subject: [oc] Re: what opensource tools to use
>>>>> "Shawn" == Shawn Tan Ser Ngiap <shawn.tan@a...> writes:
Shawn> On Tuesday 01 March 2005 02:59 pm, Mike Delaney wrote:
>> Well, the only way I know of (for free) is to download Xilinx Webpack
>> and install it. Look in the $XILINX/vhdl/src directory. So you'll
>> still need a Windows box, but the source is also included with the
Shawn> Hehe, not exactly true.. Xilinx Webpack installs and runs just
Shawn> fine with WINE.. So, you don't need a Windows box to use
Shawn> Webpack.. We've successfully run it this way for a long time now
Shawn> here.. There are just two minor issues:
Recently there was a regression. Current CVS wine hits an error with ise.
The commandline tool should work however
Can you tell me your wine version? Perhaps I can isolate the error with a
binary search. Perhaps others can report what wine versions work and what
versions not.
Shawn> 1) You'll just need to remember to set the $XILINX environment
Shawn> variable before starting the webpack else it'll fail.. This is
Shawn> fixed easily using a simple script..
If you run the GUI, ise.exe cares for setting the environment variable.
Shawn> 2) You'll want to turn off
Shawn> the main STDERR window for the webpack as the screen updates are
Shawn> quite slow.. You can still get all your error messages from the
Shawn> log file..
Recently a patch got checked into the Linux kernel that solved this problem.
2.6.11 should fix that.
Bye
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Uwe Bonnes bon@e...
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