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What were Altera thinking? They don't do this to the Verilog users. Looking at the ERROR on:- m1372899.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/altera-qsys-eclipse-initialize-on-chip.html Half way down the page. This appears to be caused by:- # ** Error: (vcom-1935) Unable to move temporary file That is why vcom can't find it. I think that this doesn't happen with ModelSim ASE. Not for me anyway. (So far, fingers crossed etc.) ASE may be unaffected due to the PREcompiled VHDL Libraries. I don't know about ModelSim AE. I was thinking of upgrading to Mentor ModelSim for mixed Language Simulation of existing IP but the stupidly LONG PathNames & even just the MASSIVE FileNames give me great doubts. Look at the Error Msg posted by saber890. Part of the problem is that the name that is given to the QSYS System appears THREE times in the PathName So with the name that was chosen which was niosii_system, that adds 39 chars to the PathName because it is 13 chars by itself. But that is not the WORST part, you also get:- niosii_system_nios2_instruction_master_translator_avalon_universal_master_0_agent.vho This is an EIGHTY NINE char FileName. The resulting PathName is 165 chars LONG. C:/an35_design/niosii_system/testbench/niosii_system_tb/simulation/submodules/niosii_system_nios2_instruction_master_translator_avalon_universal_master_0_agent.vho Anyway, back to the other example:- m1372899.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/altera-qsys-eclipse-initialize-on-chip.html C:/Users/cm78/Documents/Altera/projects/20120807testqsys/software/test_mem_windows/obj/default/runtime/sim/mentor/libraries/qsys_nios_system_tb_uart_0_s1_translator_avalon_universal_slave_0_agent/_temp/vloghrrwre is 213 chars LONG & C:/Users/cm78/Documents/Altera/projects/20120807testqsys/software/test_mem_windows/obj/default/runtime/sim/mentor/libraries/qsys_nios_system_tb_uart_0_s1_translator_avalon_universal_slave_0_agent/qsys_nios_system_uart_0_s1_translator_avalon_universal_slave_0_agent/_primary.dbs is 278 chars LONG Soooooooooooooo The command to move that file is about 500 chars LONG so you can't be surprised when on Windows you get:- # ** Error: (vcom-1935) Unable to move temporary file I suppose it may be possible to PREcompile the QSYS VHDL Libraries if I get the full version of ModelSim from Mentor. (The Simulation Lib Compiler in Quartus obviously DOESN'T PREcompile the QSYS files that are causing the problems) Does anyone reading this know how to do that? Please let us know. The PREcompiled VHDL Libs that come with ModelSim ASE have worked so far for me. ...................................................... Altera, you have gone mad with these LONG PathNames. Where were your minds when you did this? No more EIGHTY NINE char FileNames please. You didn't do this to the Verilog users so why do it to the VHDL users? FIX IT! In the meantime, post a TCL File to PREcompile Generated QSYS VHDL Files into Libraries for whatever version of Mentor ModelSim your customers are using. AND a TCL File to make use of them in your customers projects.
