Open QuestaSim from Quartus Simulation does not work on Linux

Probably you need to check if the Questa is pointed correctly in Quartus setting in Go to Tools > Options > EDA Tool Options

Hi,

thanks for the reply.

The path is set in the options settings see the picture below.

When changing the path to something different i will receive a different error message which says questas could not be found. So i think quartus is finding questas but not the license file

This is the error message that is reffered to in the error maybe this helps

================The following additional information is provided to help identify the cause of error while running nativelink scripts=================
Nativelink TCL script failed with errorCode:  issued_nl_message
Nativelink TCL script failed with errorInfo:  Can't launch Questa Intel FPGA Simulation software -- make sure the software is properly installed and the environment variable LM_LICENSE_FILE or MGLS_LICENSE_FILE points to the correct license file.
    while executing
"error "$emsg" "" "issued_nl_message""
    invoked from within
"if [ catch {exec $vsim_cmd -version} version_str] {
                set emsg "Can't launch $tool Simulation software -- make sure the software is properly installed..."
    (procedure "launch_sim" line 88)
    invoked from within
"launch_sim launch_args_hash"
    ("eval" body line 1)
    invoked from within
"eval launch_sim launch_args_hash"
    invoked from within
"if [ info exists ::errorCode ] {
                set savedCode $::errorCode
                set savedInfo $::errorInfo
                error $result $..."
    invoked from within
"if [catch {eval launch_sim launch_args_hash} result ] {
            set status 1
            if [ info exists ::errorCode ] {
                set save..."
    (procedure "run_sim" line 74)
    invoked from within
"run_sim run_sim_args_hash"
    invoked from within
"if [ info exists ::errorCode ] {
            set savedCode $::errorCode
            set savedInfo $::errorInfo
            error "$result" $savedInfo ..."
    (procedure "run_eda_simulation_tool" line 334)
    invoked from within
"run_eda_simulation_tool eda_opts_hash"

Hi Hannes,

Does reinstall resolve the issue?

Just sanity check.

So i did some deeper research inside the tcl scripts.

It fails in the section on the picture when checking the questas installation.

I have then printed out the full response in "version_str" which then gives me this error

This says to me he can execute vsim but gets an error afterwards

which after a quick lookup this errror means that some llibary version is outdated or something like this.

Still its interesting that this does not happen when im running vsim -version from the terrminal so i think quartus is then using some old libraries or smth like that.

Hi Hannes,

Thanks for your feedback. Is that feasible to run using cli in terminal.

Does this total roadblock you?

I am checking this issue with developer for a fix if this is a bug.

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