No reports generated and can't assign pins in Quartus II

I am having the same issue, and it appears to be an installation specific problem.

I cannot get Quartus10.0, or Quartus10.0 SP1, to run on my work XP machine (call this machine XPSystem1). I have Quartus 10 installed on two other XP machines and it runs fine. The history of the three machines is as follows:

XPSystem1 - Ran Quartus 9.1 sp1 properly

Uninstalled Quartus 9.1 sp1, installed Quartus 9.2 SP2

Ran Quartus 9.2 sp2 properly

Installed Quartus 10.0 is a separate directory

Quartus 9.2 sp2 would compile projects, Quartus 10.0 would not compile.

Uninstalled Quartus 10.0, installed Quartus 10.0 sp1.

Quartus 9.2 sp2 would compile projects, Quartus 10.0 sp1 would not compile.

Uninstalled Quartus 9.2 sp2 and 10.0 sp1. Reinstalled Quartus 10.0 sp1

Quartus 10.0 sp1 will not compile projects

Uninstalled Quartus 10.0 sp1, and removed all registry entries containing

Quartus information, or CygWin links to it. Reinstalled Quartus 10.0 sp1

Quartus 10.0 sp1 will not compile projects

XPSystem2 - Ran Quartus 9.1 sp1 properly

Uninstalled Quartus 9.1 sp1, installed Quartus 9.2 SP2

Ran Quartus 9.2 sp2 properly

Uninstalled Quartus 9.2 sp2. Installed Quartus 10.0 sp1

Quartus 10.0 sp1 runs properly

XPSystem3 - Ran Quartus 9.1 sp1 properly

Uninstalled Quartus 9.1 sp1, installed Quartus 9.2 SP2

Ran Quartus 9.2 sp2 properly

Uninstalled Quartus 9.2 sp2. Installed Quartus 10.0 sp1

Quartus 10.0 sp1 runs properly

All machines are running the identical project. XPSystem1 fails to compile anything, and generates no errors or reports. I simply reports:

Info: You have a valid up-to-date license

Info: You have a valid up-to-date license

Info: You have a valid up-to-date license

Info: You have a valid up-to-date license

Info: You have a valid up-to-date license

Info: You have a valid up-to-date license

Info: Quartus II Full Compilation was successful. 0 errors, 0 warnings

This entire process only takes 20 seconds, where the entire compile

takes 10-15 minutes on the other machines.

Running the Altera sample project "fir_filter" in the qdesigns directory,

the results and timing are identical. Only 2 files are ceated in the

sample directory, type .qdf and .done. THere are no reports or summary

or compiled files. The db directory is created, but only gets 4 skeleton

files type .info,.sci,.qmsg, and .tmw_info.

Any help on what to try would be appreciated.

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All machines are running the identical project. XPSystem1 fails to compile anything, and generates no errors or reports. I simply reports:

Info: You have a valid up-to-date license

Info: You have a valid up-to-date license

Info: You have a valid up-to-date license

Info: You have a valid up-to-date license

Info: You have a valid up-to-date license

Info: You have a valid up-to-date license

Info: Quartus II Full Compilation was successful. 0 errors, 0 warnings

This entire process only takes 20 seconds, where the entire compile

takes 10-15 minutes on the other machines.

Running the Altera sample project "fir_filter" in the qdesigns directory,

the results and timing are identical. Only 2 files are ceated in the

sample directory, type .qdf and .done. THere are no reports or summary

or compiled files. The db directory is created, but only gets 4 skeleton

files type .info,.sci,.qmsg, and .tmw_info.

Any help on what to try would be appreciated.

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Hello Frank,

I gave up in the end. Like you said maybe it will work on another computer but its not a good result for a free version of software.

Also why is this software so large ?? 3 Gigs !!

Compared to MaxPlus it is massive !!

And what on earth are they using Cygwin for ?

Has this software been developed for Unix and ported across to Windows ??

regards

david

After 3 weeks of tech support, I've given up and gone back to running Quarus 9.1 SP2, which appears to be more stable. The best gues appears to be some problems with conflict with HP PCL6 print spoolers if you have the wrong HP drivers are installed. I ran Quatus using the Visual C++ 2008 debugger, and found:

My working Quartus 10 installation generated numerous first chance exceptions of the form:

First-chance exception at 0x7c812afb in quartus.exe: Microsoft C++ exception: long at memory location 0x0012ccd8..

First-chance exception at 0x7c812afb in quartus.exe: Microsoft C++ exception: CExceptSetLastErr at memory location 0x0012ccbc.

My non-working Quartus 10 installation reported loading and unloading of HP PCL6 print spool drivers here (Why? I don't understand)

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86\2\HPBAFD32.DLL', Binary was not built with debug information.

'quartus.exe': Unloaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86\2\HPBAFD32.DLL'

Quartus 9 does neither of these things. Best guess, is that Quartus QT package gets confused about linking up some spooler requirements, and this process needs to fail, or the command/report pipeline gets disrupted. This could be why Quartus cannot capture any reports or output from the modules. Speculation at best...

FrankAtEsi,

You previously said that you were able to install in two other XP systems. Can you confirm that you do not have the "HP PCL6 print spool drivers" running?

And have you try disabling this driver to see if Quartus works? It seems like Qt has some problems with Printer drivers. It will be nice to confirm that this is the issue.

Thanks,

- David

Altera

To check if the HP print spool drivers were the cause of the failure to compile, I uninstalled the HP Laserjet 1200 networked printer drivers from my XP machine. These require the PCL 6 drivers that the Quartus package was loading. In comparison, here are the DLLs and threads when Quartus 10 is run with the HPLaserjet printer drivers installed:

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'D:\CAD\altera10\10.0sp1\quartus\bin\resr_rpwq.dll'

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'D:\CAD\altera10\10.0sp1\quartus\bin\ccl_gd.dll'

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'D:\CAD\altera10\10.0sp1\quartus\bin\ccl_png.dll'

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'D:\CAD\altera10\10.0sp1\quartus\bin\gcl_cglq.dll'

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'D:\CAD\altera10\10.0sp1\quartus\bin\gcl_gtoq.dll'

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'D:\CAD\altera10\10.0sp1\quartus\bin\QtWebKit4.dll', Binary was not built with debug information.

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'D:\CAD\altera10\10.0sp1\quartus\bin\phonon4.dll', Binary was not built with debug information.

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'D:\CAD\altera10\10.0sp1\quartus\bin\QtXmlPatterns4.dll', Binary was not built with debug information.

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86\2\HPBAFD32.DLL', Binary was not built with debug information.

'quartus.exe': Unloaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86\2\HPBAFD32.DLL'

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86\2\HPBAFD32.DLL', Binary was not built with debug information.

'quartus.exe': Unloaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86\2\HPBAFD32.DLL'

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86\2\HPBAFD32.DLL', Binary was not built with debug information.

'quartus.exe': Unloaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86\2\HPBAFD32.DLL'

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86\2\HPBAFD32.DLL', Binary was not built with debug information.

'quartus.exe': Unloaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86\2\HPBAFD32.DLL'

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86\2\HPBAFD32.DLL', Binary was not built with debug information.

'quartus.exe': Unloaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86\2\HPBAFD32.DLL'

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86\2\HPBAFD32.DLL', Binary was not built with debug information.

'quartus.exe': Unloaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86\2\HPBAFD32.DLL'

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86\2\HPBAFD32.DLL', Binary was not built with debug information.

'quartus.exe': Unloaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86\2\HPBAFD32.DLL'

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86\2\HPBAFD32.DLL', Binary was not built with debug information.

'quartus.exe': Unloaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86\2\HPBAFD32.DLL'

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86\2\HPBAFD32.DLL', Binary was not built with debug information.

'quartus.exe': Unloaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86\2\HPBAFD32.DLL'

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86\2\HPBAFD32.DLL', Binary was not built with debug information.

'quartus.exe': Unloaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86\2\HPBAFD32.DLL'

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86\2\HPBAFD32.DLL', Binary was not built with debug information.

'quartus.exe': Unloaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86\2\HPBAFD32.DLL'

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86\2\HPBAFD32.DLL', Binary was not built with debug information.

'quartus.exe': Unloaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86\2\HPBAFD32.DLL'

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86\2\HPBAFD32.DLL', Binary was not built with debug information.

'quartus.exe': Unloaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\spool\drivers\w32x86\2\HPBAFD32.DLL'

The thread 'Win32 Thread' (0xfac) has exited with code 0 (0x0).

The thread 'Win32 Thread' (0x818) has exited with code 0 (0x0).

The thread 'Win32 Thread' (0x8a4) has exited with code 0 (0x0).

The thread 'Win32 Thread' (0x5a0) has exited with code 0 (0x0).

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\wdmaud.drv'

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\wintrust.dll'

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\imagehlp.dll'

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\msacm32.drv'

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\msacm32.dll'

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\midimap.dll'

The thread 'Win32 Thread' (0xa88) has exited with code 0 (0x0).

The thread 'Win32 Thread' (0xb20) has exited with code 0 (0x0).

The thread 'Win32 Thread' (0xf3c) has exited with code 0 (0x0).

The thread 'Win32 Thread' (0xf2c) has exited with code 0 (0x0).

The thread 'Win32 Thread' (0x948) has exited with code 0 (0x0)

With the HP Laserjet Drivers uninstalled, I get:

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'D:\CAD\altera10\10.0sp1\quartus\bin\resr_rpwq.dll'

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'D:\CAD\altera10\10.0sp1\quartus\bin\ccl_gd.dll'

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'D:\CAD\altera10\10.0sp1\quartus\bin\ccl_png.dll'

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'D:\CAD\altera10\10.0sp1\quartus\bin\gcl_cglq.dll'

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'D:\CAD\altera10\10.0sp1\quartus\bin\gcl_gtoq.dll'

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'D:\CAD\altera10\10.0sp1\quartus\bin\QtWebKit4.dll', Binary was not built with debug information.

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'D:\CAD\altera10\10.0sp1\quartus\bin\phonon4.dll', Binary was not built with debug information.

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'D:\CAD\altera10\10.0sp1\quartus\bin\QtXmlPatterns4.dll', Binary was not built with debug information.

The thread 'Win32 Thread' (0xb40) has exited with code 0 (0x0).

The thread 'Win32 Thread' (0xd74) has exited with code 0 (0x0).

The thread 'Win32 Thread' (0xfa8) has exited with code 0 (0x0).

The thread 'Win32 Thread' (0xa90) has exited with code 0 (0x0).

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\wdmaud.drv'

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\wintrust.dll'

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\imagehlp.dll'

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\msacm32.drv'

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\msacm32.dll'

'quartus.exe': Loaded 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\midimap.dll'

The thread 'Win32 Thread' (0xa6c) has exited with code 0 (0x0).

However, the result is the same in both cases. There are no reports or output generated. Each module just reports "You have a valid up-to-date license" and it reports compile successful with no errors in a very short period of time.

Hi,

I have this problem also and have not found a solution. In my situation, Quartus II 8.0 Web Edition does not work on Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 3.

I've recently acquired a NIOS Embedded Evaluation Kit (NEEK) and installed the Quartus version from the packaged DVD. I am following the "my_first_fpga_tutorial.pdf" included in the kit and when I try to create the pin assignments, the Pin Planner does not produce any input/output pins I've created earlier.

Thank You,

Jason