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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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I found this in the knowledge base. You can disable PNIN or create a dummy interface.

https://www.altera.com/support/support-resources/knowledge-base/embedded/2017/why-quartus-opencl-license-doesnt-work-on-centos-7-x-.html

This solved my problem.

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Thanks a lot, the dummy interface creation worked for me as well! With only one minor adjustment: the "sudo ip li add dummy0 type dummy" command gave output "RTNETLINK answers: File exists", therefore I just repeated it with dummy1 replacing dummy0. Also, I guess that procedure ought to be kept in a script, to be run again if the system is rebooted.