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Joakim
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7 years ago

How to add a qip file to project using Makefile

I like to have the project file untouched unless I make an active decision to add something, so I create the project file using make. The first instance of the project file is created by quartus_map...
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KhaiChein_Y_Intel
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7 years ago

Hi Joakim,

The .qsf file has to be created first and then add the source file in the .qsf file.

Thanks.

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Joakim
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7 years ago

Thanks KYeoh,

Yes, that is my question. How can I do that using the quartus tools?

Or do I have to create the qsf file manually?

quartus_map project_name --analysis_and_elaboration --family=... -f sourcefiles.args

Will create a qsf file with the source files I want, together with some settings like the chip family. But the command will fail when the source files are using components from the qip file and I have not found any good way to add the qip file when calling quartus_map or before it is called.

The Quartus GUI is calling Info:

quartus_map --read_settings_files=on --write_settings_files=off ...

So I have tried to create an empty qsf file with just the qip reference, with variants of the read/write_settings_files, but it seems like the settings file is not read until it has processed the source files in the argument.

BR / Joakim