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OHarb1
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6 years ago

Locate Design File does not work on a restored project from a .qar file in TimeQuest

When I restore a .qar file that has been generated in by our build in the cloud, I can't use Locate Design File from Timequest. The problem is that the .qar file contains absolute paths, which exist...
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sstrell
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6 years ago

Normally, when you archive a project that includes files outside the project directory, the archiver copies the external files into the .qar and gives them a virtual drive letter to make the .qar portable. I don't know if the -common_dir option (which I haven't seen before) is affecting this. Have you tried creating the .qar without this option?

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OHarb1
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6 years ago

Excluding "-common_dir", has no effect: Quartus still tries to use absolute paths on the restored project and TimeQuest fails to locate the design file.

The absolute path is to a folder within the folder where top.qsf is located.