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Altera_Forum
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13 years ago

qsys-script problems

Hello,

Is anyone successfully using the qsys-script tool? It looks like it would be really useful to automate the creation of several similar qsys systems, but I cannot get it to work.

Every tcl command I try and issue it says is invalid. For example below I try to output a simple test message (though I get the same errors with create_system etc). I type into the Nios II Command Shell: 

qsys-script --cmd="send_message INFO testmessage"

And I get... 

2012.07.30.21:05:30 Info: Doing: <b>qsys-script --cmd=send_message INFO testmessage</b>
2012.07.30.21:05:33 Error: invalid command name "send_message"

It seems odd that the info/error messages contain HTML tags. Am I supposed to be running this in a GUI or some other shell/prompt?

It doesn't appear to make any difference whether I specify the commands using the --cmd argument or in a script using --script.

It looks like this was only added to the Quartus handbook in version 12. I'm currently on 12.0, but I am downloading SP1 to see if that helps.

I'm fairly new to tcl scripting, so is there something really obvious I'm missing here?

Thanks,

Richard.

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    Altera_Forum
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    13 years ago

    send_message isnt a tcl command, it is a function included in a quartus package i believe. this works though:

    qsys-script --cmd="puts hello"

    --dalon
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    13 years ago

    --- Quote Start ---

    send_message isnt a tcl command, it is a function included in a quartus package i believe

    --dalon

    --- Quote End ---

    Thanks for your reply. I got send_message from the command list at the end of chapter 5 in vol 1 of the Quartus handbook. Though I've not tried them all, other commands from that list seem to give the same error message.

    The impression I get from the handbook is that I can just call those commands directly in my script. Perhaps I need to 'include' something (if tcl scripting has such a concept) before they will work?

    Thanks,

    Richard.
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    13 years ago

    Re-reading the handbook, it appears I missed the fact that you need to call qsys-script with the --package-version=<value> argument (or include something similar in my script). First time I read it I think I assumed this was only necessary if I was trying to use a version other than the version of the qsys-script executable, but apparently not. Setting this to 12.0 fixes my problems.

    Richard.