Xilinx "Free ISE WebPACK 7.1i" under Fedora core 3 ?

Hi,

  Does this "Free ISE WebPACK 7.1i" for linux work
with any distribution other than Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 ?
I tried to install this under Fedora Core 3 / Debian and
installation didn't succeed. Looks like the installer is
linked against libwiclient.so, libcommdlg50.so ....
libodbc50.so etc, which are not there on the system.

Does anyone know which package provides these ?

Would like to know which packages are required to install
this software.

(An opensource Webpack will be a lot better idea :-))

Thanks,
George

Geogle <georgevarughese@indiatimes.com> wrote:
> Hi,

>   Does this "Free ISE WebPACK 7.1i" for linux work
> with any distribution other than Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 ?
> I tried to install this under Fedora Core 3 / Debian and
> installation didn't succeed. Looks like the installer is
> linked against libwiclient.so, libcommdlg50.so ....
> libodbc50.so etc, which are not there on the system.

> Does anyone know which package provides these ?

The webpac installer is in charge to install them. They are found in
../bin/lin

> Would like to know which packages are required to install
> this software.

> (An opensource Webpack will be a lot better idea :-))


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Institut fuer Kernphysik  Schlossgartenstrasse 9  64289 Darmstadt
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Uwe Bonnes wrote:
> Geogle <georgevarughese@indiatimes.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> >   Does this "Free ISE WebPACK 7.1i" for linux work
> > with any distribution other than Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 ?
> > I tried to install this under Fedora Core 3 / Debian and
> > installation didn't succeed. Looks like the installer is
> > linked against libwiclient.so, libcommdlg50.so ....
> > libodbc50.so etc, which are not there on the system.
>
> > Does anyone know which package provides these ?
>
> The webpac installer is in charge to install them. They are found in
> ../bin/lin

Thanks, they are in the BIN area!

When I tried to install the software, I got the following message:
(  running setup from the extracted files/
and
sh Webpack*..sh yielded the same
result. )
Wind/U X-toolkit Error: ", 24Wind/U X-toolkit Error:
wuDisplay: Can\'t open display\n", 30wuDisplay: Can't open display

Apparently:
connect(4, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(6000),
sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}, 16) = -1 ECONNREFUSED (Connection
refused)
is the message from strace on xilsetup.


I was running X from display manager.
Then I tried starting it manually and surprisingly the installation gui
did show
up.
It did proceed to almost the final step and
I got a message:

path/xilinx/installer/platform/lin/bin/lin
Wind/U Error (294): Unable to install Wind/U ini file
(/path/xilinx/installer/platform/lin/data/WindU).
See the Wind/U manual for more details on the ".WindU" file and the
"WINDU"
environment variable.

Error:cannot run process -
/path/Webpack/.xinstall/install_driver_installscript

insmod: error inserting '/lib/modules/misc/windrvr6.o': -1 Invalid
module formatinsmod: error inserting '/lib/modules/misc/windrvr6.o': -1
Invalid module format

But I succeeded in running ise, and got
one example project "implemented". Haven't gone in to details though.

I get another message too :
./ise
OLE API Function OleInitialize is not currently implemented.  Further
warnings will be suppressed

Hope you have some information to share regarding this.

Thanks,
George

Geogle <georgevarughese@indiatimes.com> wrote:
> Uwe Bonnes wrote:
> > Geogle <georgevarughese@indiatimes.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> >
> > >   Does this "Free ISE WebPACK 7.1i" for linux work
> > > with any distribution other than Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 ?
> > > I tried to install this under Fedora Core 3 / Debian and
> > > installation didn't succeed. Looks like the installer is
> > > linked against libwiclient.so, libcommdlg50.so ....
> > > libodbc50.so etc, which are not there on the system.
> >
> > > Does anyone know which package provides these ?
> >
> > The webpac installer is in charge to install them. They are found in
> > ../bin/lin

> Thanks, they are in the BIN area!

> When I tried to install the software, I got the following message:
> (  running setup from the extracted files/
> and
> sh Webpack*..sh yielded the same
> result. )
> Wind/U X-toolkit Error: ", 24Wind/U X-toolkit Error:
> wuDisplay: Can\'t open display\n", 30wuDisplay: Can't open display

Normally $DISPLAY is ":0.0" on the local host.
Zillions of applications work with that setting. The "WINDU" library, that
Xilinx  uses for implementing a Win32 Library layer on *NIX however doesn't
understand it.

Set it to ":0" and xilinx should start up.

Bye

-- 
Uwe Bonnes                bon@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de

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

Uwe Bonnes wrote:
> Geogle <georgevarughese@indiatimes.com> wrote:
> > Uwe Bonnes wrote:
> > > Geogle <georgevarughese@indiatimes.com> wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > >
> > > >   Does this "Free ISE WebPACK 7.1i" for linux work
> > > > with any distribution other than Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 ?
> > > > I tried to install this under Fedora Core 3 / Debian and
> > > > installation didn't succeed. Looks like the installer is
> > > > linked against libwiclient.so, libcommdlg50.so ....
> > > > libodbc50.so etc, which are not there on the system.
> > >
> > > > Does anyone know which package provides these ?
> > >
> > > The webpac installer is in charge to install them. They are found
in
> > > ../bin/lin
>
> > Thanks, they are in the BIN area!
>
> > When I tried to install the software, I got the following message:
> > (  running setup from the extracted files/
> > and
> > sh Webpack*..sh yielded the same
> > result. )
> > Wind/U X-toolkit Error: ", 24Wind/U X-toolkit Error:
> > wuDisplay: Can\'t open display\n", 30wuDisplay: Can't open display
>
> Normally $DISPLAY is ":0.0" on the local host.
> Zillions of applications work with that setting. The "WINDU" library,
that
> Xilinx  uses for implementing a Win32 Library layer on *NIX however
doesn't
> understand it.
>
> Set it to ":0" and xilinx should start up.

I also found that gdmsetup (under security tab) could be used
to enable port 6000 (X) tcp/ip access.  It is disabled by
default when X is started from gdm.
When  enabled, default DISPLAY setup was acceptable to Xilinx.

Thanks for the help,
George

Geogle wrote:
> Error:cannot run process -
> /path/Webpack/.xinstall/install_driver_installscript
> 
> insmod: error inserting '/lib/modules/misc/windrvr6.o': -1 Invalid
> module formatinsmod: error inserting '/lib/modules/misc/windrvr6.o': -1
> Invalid module format
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> George
> 

The windrvr is used by the programming tools to access the parallel and 
usb ports.  Without this driver, it will be impossible to program any 
devices.

I had to patch / recompile the drivers.  I used the method outlined in 
this article: 
http://www.fpga-faq.org/FAQ_Pages/0044_Xilinx_Parallel_on_Linux.htm

There were some unnecessary parts, and some necessary parts that were a 
little foggy.  Hint: don't bother with the Xilinx drivers - use the 
windrvr from http://www.jungo.com/

You'll also probably need to edit your /etc/rc.local to remove the two 
previous references to windrvr and add a /sbin/modprobe/windrvr line.

Jason

Any idea why these special drivers are used ?
Even simple parallel port access won't work without windrvr I guess!
I was trying an old coolrunner board ( from the days of
philips coolrunners ) which  apparently has a parallel port JTAG
interfae. Just trying to see if I could use that board.

Thanks,
George
http://www.geocities.com/eda4linux

Geogle <georgevarughese@indiatimes.com> wrote:
> Any idea why these special drivers are used ?
> Even simple parallel port access won't work without windrvr I guess!
> I was trying an old coolrunner board ( from the days of
> philips coolrunners ) which  apparently has a parallel port JTAG
> interfae. Just trying to see if I could use that board.

While the Xilinx hardware people are very attentive here, i never notice
anybody from the programming department listening here...
-- 
Uwe Bonnes                bon@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de

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

Uwe Bonnes wrote:
> Geogle <georgevarughese@indiatimes.com> wrote:
> > Any idea why these special drivers are used ?
> > Even simple parallel port access won't work without windrvr I
guess!
> > I was trying an old coolrunner board ( from the days of
> > philips coolrunners ) which  apparently has a parallel port JTAG
> > interfae. Just trying to see if I could use that board.
>
> While the Xilinx hardware people are very attentive here, i never
notice
> anybody from the programming department listening here...

Looks like they are all Microsoft Windows based developers. Most likely
all linux support is provided by Wind/U guys. Thats my guess.

BTW, I put a small FAQ at
http://www.geocities.com/eda4linux/ise/ise.html.
If it could be of use to anyone I will be gladto update it
periodically.

Thanks,
GEorge

Geogle <georgevarughese@indiatimes.com> wrote:

> Uwe Bonnes wrote:
> > Geogle <georgevarughese@indiatimes.com> wrote:
> > > Any idea why these special drivers are used ?
> > > Even simple parallel port access won't work without windrvr I
> guess!
> > > I was trying an old coolrunner board ( from the days of
> > > philips coolrunners ) which  apparently has a parallel port JTAG
> > > interfae. Just trying to see if I could use that board.
> >
> > While the Xilinx hardware people are very attentive here, i never
> notice
> > anybody from the programming department listening here...

> Looks like they are all Microsoft Windows based developers. Most likely
> all linux support is provided by Wind/U guys. Thats my guess.

The worker functions (xst and such) seem like normal C programs. Only the
GUI and the interface to the programmer are Windows-burdened...
-- 
Uwe Bonnes                bon@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de

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