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12 years ago

MegaWizard - Altera PLL 13.0 - generation error

HI

I am trying generate Altera PLL 13.1 Megafunction

(when trying either 64 bit Quartus Version 13.1 - Windows XP Professional 64 bit Service pack 2

or 32 bit Quartus version 13.1 - - Windows XP professional - Service pack 3)

The generation gets as far as

>info : Generating simgen model

>Error: Execution of script C:...../Temp/alt6029_789481781428619152.dir/0002_pll_replace_gen/proj.tcl failed

>Error:Error starting the process ([and,Settings/flong/Local, Settings/Temp/alt6029_789481781428619152.dir/0002_pll_replace_gen, C:/altera/13/1/bin//quartus_sh -t, run_simgen_cmd.tcl]). Cannot run program "and" (in the directory "C:\Documents"): CreateProcess error=2, the system cannot find the file specified

Can anyone shed any light on this error for me please.

Fionbarra

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    12 years ago

    It looks to me like something went wrong with the spaces in the path where you built the project.

    Notice the "C:\Documents" ... and,Settings/ ...

    Try moving your project to a path where none of the containing folders have spaces in their names?
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    12 years ago

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    It looks to me like something went wrong with the spaces in the path where you built the project.

    Notice the "C:\Documents" ... and,Settings/ ...

    Try moving your project to a path where none of the containing folders have spaces in their names?

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    Hi terpstra

    I have had no issue with generating ALTIOBUF and DisplayPort 13.1 megafunctions, so do you still think it could be a path issue?

    fionbarra
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    12 years ago

    Some Megawizard functions are written in - dunno - C or C++, others in Java. The latter ones sometimes are sensitive to spaces in the path. Try it, you won't be disapponted.

    Off-topic: today I tried to build a MinGW C application with an "_" in its project name. Wouldn't compile. Tried without the "_" in the name, no problem. Sigh...

    Best regards,

    Ben
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    12 years ago

    --- Quote Start ---

    Some Megawizard functions are written in - dunno - C or C++, others in Java. The latter ones sometimes are sensitive to spaces in the path. Try it, you won't be disapponted.

    Off-topic: today I tried to build a MinGW C application with an "_" in its project name. Wouldn't compile. Tried without the "_" in the name, no problem. Sigh...

    Best regards,

    Ben

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    Thanks guys.

    It was not the project name or path as much as the environmental setting for the path to TMP that was my problem.

    The path to TMP was C:\Documents and Settings\etc..\Local Settings\Temp

    This PATH must be called by the program run to generate the simgen model.

    Regards

    Fionbarra
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    12 years ago

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    Thanks guys.

    It was not the project name or path as much as the environmental setting for the path to TMP that was my problem.

    The path to TMP was C:\Documents and Settings\etc..\Local Settings\Temp

    This PATH must be called by the program run to generate the simgen model.

    Regards

    Fionbarra

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    Hi Fionbarra,

    I have ran into the same issue with Quartus 13.1 when I generate the Qsys.

    How do you resolve the problem?

    Thanks,

    Frank
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    12 years ago

    Hi Dragonfly

    I just changed the PATH for TMP in the environmental settings.

    It was set to C:\Documents and Settings\...\Temp which as you can see has spaces in the directory name.

    Fionbarra
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    12 years ago

    Hi,

    I have the similar issue in altera pll 13.1. How do we change that path and what is that temp file? I did not understand the error
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    11 years ago

    Hi,

    @bhavyak: In win7 -> ControlPanel/System&Security/System click advanced system settings. There you can change your environment variables.
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    11 years ago

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    Hi,

    @bhavyak: In win7 -> ControlPanel/System&Security/System click advanced system settings. There you can change your environment variables.

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    Thank u, my problem is solved!!!
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    11 years ago

    Men you rock.... "problem was this i fixed it","where to fix it?","in the environment variables","thank u, my problem solved!!!" - WHAT THE HELL SHOULD I WRITE INTO THE VARIABLES EDIT WINDOW?????????????? if somebody cares,please post :)))

    i got that It was set to "C:\Documents and Settings\...\Temp which as you can see has spaces in the directory name." so what now? should i delete all the spaces?