There are ISE Foundation and ISE Webpack versions for Red Hat Enterprise 
Linux 3.0  How strict is this port?  Has anybody managed to run these 
tools on Fedora or Mandrake Linux (now Mandriva), or any other Linux 
variant?  If so, how well did it work?

In article
<zG28e.2191$J...@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com>,
 David <d...@yahoo.com> writes:
|> There are ISE Foundation and ISE Webpack versions for Red Hat Enterprise 
|> Linux 3.0  How strict is this port?  Has anybody managed to run these 
|> tools on Fedora or Mandrake Linux (now Mandriva), or any other Linux 
|> variant?  If so, how well did it work?

Debian and SuSE work nicely. Just the usual environment variable hassles.

Rainer

On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 06:56:31 +0000, David wrote:

> 
> 
> There are ISE Foundation and ISE Webpack versions for Red Hat Enterprise 
> Linux 3.0  How strict is this port?  Has anybody managed to run these 
> tools on Fedora or Mandrake Linux (now Mandriva), or any other Linux 
> variant?  If so, how well did it work?

They run fine on Fedora Core 3 once you have them installed. The only
problem is the installer which is looking for an older version of the
libcurl library. You can do a soft link between the version in FC3 and the
required version.

ln -s /usr/lib/libcurl.so.3.0.0 /usr/local/lib/libcurl.so.2 

If that doesn't work for you then the other alternative is to use RHEL3
or a clone, I used Whitebox Linux, to do the install and then you can
rsync the directories to your other machines.

In article
<zG28e.2191$J...@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com>,
David  <d...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>There are ISE Foundation and ISE Webpack versions for Red Hat Enterprise 
>Linux 3.0  How strict is this port?  Has anybody managed to run these 
>tools on Fedora or Mandrake Linux (now Mandriva), or any other Linux 
>variant?  If so, how well did it work?
>

I've managed to get it running on Mandrake (I think Ihave 10.0).  I had to 
install an openmotif package to get libXm.so.3.  At the end of the long 
install I got some popup box message that said something about not being 
able to run an install drivers script of some sort - I suspect that means 
I won't be able to run IMPACT.

Also, you need to do:

export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.7
export DISPLAY=:0 

before you run the installer (and before you start any of the Xilinx 
tools).

At the end after I got it all installed I tried running 'ise' and it took 
several _minutes_ for it to actually appear on my screen - What's up with 
that?

Phil

In article
<d...@enews3.newsguy.com>,
Phil Tomson <p...@aracnet.com> wrote:
>In article <zG28e.2191$J...@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com>,
>David  <d...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>There are ISE Foundation and ISE Webpack versions for Red Hat Enterprise 
>>Linux 3.0  How strict is this port?  Has anybody managed to run these 
>>tools on Fedora or Mandrake Linux (now Mandriva), or any other Linux 
>>variant?  If so, how well did it work?
>>
>
>I've managed to get it running on Mandrake (I think Ihave 10.0).  I had to 
>install an openmotif package to get libXm.so.3.  At the end of the long 
>install I got some popup box message that said something about not being 
>able to run an install drivers script of some sort - I suspect that means 
>I won't be able to run IMPACT.
>
>Also, you need to do:
>
>export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.7
>export DISPLAY=:0 
>
>before you run the installer (and before you start any of the Xilinx 
>tools).
>
>At the end after I got it all installed I tried running 'ise' and it took 
>several _minutes_ for it to actually appear on my screen - What's up with 
>that?
>


Well, it turns out the the ISE GUI is unusable for me - it takes up to 
several minutes to respond to mouse clicks.

However, I'd actually prefer to be able to script the whole thing.  I know 
that a while back someone posted a link to a webpage that showed how to 
run the Xilinx tools from the command line but now I can't find it even 
via goodle.  
Anyone got the link?

PHil

On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 19:37:07 +0000, Phil Tomson
wrote:

> In article <d...@enews3.newsguy.com>,
> Phil Tomson <p...@aracnet.com> wrote:
>>In article <zG28e.2191$J...@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com>,
>>David  <d...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>There are ISE Foundation and ISE Webpack versions for Red Hat Enterprise 
>>>Linux 3.0  How strict is this port?  Has anybody managed to run these 
>>>tools on Fedora or Mandrake Linux (now Mandriva), or any other Linux 
>>>variant?  If so, how well did it work?
>>>
>>
>>I've managed to get it running on Mandrake (I think Ihave 10.0).  I had to 
>>install an openmotif package to get libXm.so.3.  At the end of the long 
>>install I got some popup box message that said something about not being 
>>able to run an install drivers script of some sort - I suspect that means 
>>I won't be able to run IMPACT.
>>
>>Also, you need to do:
>>
>>export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.7
>>export DISPLAY=:0 
>>
>>before you run the installer (and before you start any of the Xilinx 
>>tools).
>>
>>At the end after I got it all installed I tried running 'ise' and it took 
>>several _minutes_ for it to actually appear on my screen - What's up with 
>>that?
>>
> 
> 
> Well, it turns out the the ISE GUI is unusable for me - it takes up to 
> several minutes to respond to mouse clicks.
> 
> However, I'd actually prefer to be able to script the whole thing.  I know 
> that a while back someone posted a link to a webpage that showed how to 
> run the Xilinx tools from the command line but now I can't find it even 
> via goodle.  
> Anyone got the link?
> 
> PHil

To get the command line options do -h for each command
xst -h
ngdbuild -h virtex4
map -h virtex4
par -h virtex4
trce -h
bitgen -h

>
> However, I'd actually prefer to be able to script the whole thing.  I know
> that a while back someone posted a link to a webpage that showed how to
> run the Xilinx tools from the command line but now I can't find it even
> via goodle.

I don't know about the link, but here are a few commands that should do most
of jobs that ISE GUI does:

ngdbuild : Translate on GUI
map: Map
par: Place & Route
trce: Timing Analysis
bitgen: Generate Programming File

ISE GUI keeps a command log (.cmd_log) file in the working directory. It may
be helpful sometimes.

HTH,
Jim
j...@yahoo.com (remove capital letters)
http://www.geocities.com/jimwu88/chips

Phil Tomson <p...@aracnet.com> wrote:

> Well, it turns out the the ISE GUI is unusable for me - it takes up to 
> several minutes to respond to mouse clicks.

> However, I'd actually prefer to be able to script the whole thing.  I know 
> that a while back someone posted a link to a webpage that showed how to 
> run the Xilinx tools from the command line but now I can't find it even 
> via goodle.  
> Anyone got the link?

Loo at the <projectname>.cmd_log file after a successfull run of the
GUI. You see all commands executed.
-- 
Uwe Bonnes                b...@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de

Institut fuer Kernphysik  Schlossgartenstrasse 9  64289 Darmstadt
--------- Tel. 06151 162516 -------- Fax. 06151 164321 ----------

Phil Tomson <p...@aracnet.com> wrote:

> Well, it turns out the the ISE GUI is unusable for me - it takes up to 
> several minutes to respond to mouse clicks.

> However, I'd actually prefer to be able to script the whole thing.  I know 
> that a while back someone posted a link to a webpage that showed how to 
> run the Xilinx tools from the command line but now I can't find it even 
> via goodle.  
> Anyone got the link?

Look at the <projectname>.cmd_log file after a successfull run of the
GUI. You see all commands executed.
-- 
Uwe Bonnes                b...@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de

Institut fuer Kernphysik  Schlossgartenstrasse 9  64289 Darmstadt
--------- Tel. 06151 162516 -------- Fax. 06151 164321 ----------

David wrote:
> There are ISE Foundation and ISE Webpack versions for Red Hat Enterprise 
> Linux 3.0  How strict is this port?  Has anybody managed to run these 
> tools on Fedora or Mandrake Linux (now Mandriva), or any other Linux 
> variant?  If so, how well did it work?

I have it working on Debian Unstable (sid), with no more than the usual 
environment hassles, after getting the right packages installed (none 
from outside of main+contrib+non-free: libcurl, libmotif3, etc).  Either 
on this machine or on the Fedora Core 3 machine I tried, the installer 
would recoginize each mouse click twice or not at all, depending on the 
widget.  So, I used keyboard shortcuts (tab, enter) and got through it 
that way.

For the most part seems to operate properly, but I'm in the early 
hobbiest stage, so have no way of knowing how screwed it might get 
deeper into "normal" usage.