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8 years ago

aoc cannot find valid licences file

Hello. I'm trying out compiling Altera OpenCL on a new workstation. After acquiring the license file and installing Quartus II and OpenCL SDK. I tried to compile some OpenCL. But aoc refuses to d...
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8 years ago

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The only other reason could be that your OpenCL license is invalid/expired. I suggest opening a service request with Altera directly regarding this issue.

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I am not so sure that that's the only other possible reason, nonetheless you're right, the issue surely deserves a service request.

I've got the same problem but with the following differences:

1. my board is a Terasic DE1-SoC;

2. my Quartus installation is v. 16.1.2 SE.

My system is running Ubuntu 16.04.3 as well. I can't install Quartus v. 17 since v. 16.1 is the highest one that is compatible with my board.

Also in my case, Quartus works just fine with the license I installed, whose path is assigned to LM_LICENSE_FILE in /etc/profile, therefore it is in the environment of every login shell. Nonetheless, the aoc compiler doesn't find it as a valid license. From the knowledge base I gather that there was a workaround to a similar problem with quartus 14.1 (https://www.altera.com/support/support-resources/knowledge-base/solutions/rd02092015_394.html), requiring one to use the MAC address of eth0. Unfortunately, eth0 does not exist on my machine (no Ethernet port). I hope a better workaround will be found for the OpenCL SDK.