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K_Crocker
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3 years ago
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Platform Designer fails QDR II elaboration

This behavior began recently with a mature project. During QSys Generation, the process fails while elaborating a QDR II instantiation claiming it can't find "sequencer/sequencer.elf". Here's the err...
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    K_Crocker
    3 years ago

    *************** Problem Solved ***************

    The issue was traced to enabling WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). Apparently WSL interferes with the scripting used to compile the QDR II sequencer code. So, one can either upgrade to a more recent Quartus version or operate without WSL. The effect is reversible, but disabling WSL destroys any installed Linux distributions and Linux files that you've created.

K_Crocker's avatar
K_Crocker
Icon for Occasional Contributor rankOccasional Contributor
3 years ago

*************** Problem Solved ***************

The issue was traced to enabling WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). Apparently WSL interferes with the scripting used to compile the QDR II sequencer code. So, one can either upgrade to a more recent Quartus version or operate without WSL. The effect is reversible, but disabling WSL destroys any installed Linux distributions and Linux files that you've created.