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Altera_Forum
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19 years ago

Quartus issues picking up VHDL package files in libraries

Calling all passengers... Just wondering if anyone knows what the skinny is with quartus not picking up VHDL package files in library folders in quartus? It seems to pick up all other VHDL file...
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16 years ago

I think I have a simple way of explaining some of these things...

Quartus II has a very simple auto-discovery algorithm for basic project setups. When searching for entity foo, it looks for foo.<hdl extension> in the project directory or in the directories defined by Settings -> Libraries. I think a better label for this menu item would be "Search Paths for Auto-Discovered Entities". Quartus II does not auto-find package, architecture, or any other type of file. You need to add those files to your Quartus II project explicitly.