Integrating Cocotb to Quartus using Native link

Hi ShengN_altera​ ,

Thanks for the suggestion, I find it a bit cumbersome to add an extra file in a folder that is automatically generated and cleaned by Quartus. But based on your insights, I found an alternative. Perhaps it is not yet the best solution, but it avoids creating an extra file. 

1) First, set an environment variable as follows:

export FLI_LIB='\"cocotb_init [exec cocotb-config --lib-name-path fli questa]\"'

2) Then, set the simulation option as you suggested, `questa=-foreign $1 `

3) The first simulation attempt will fail, but then one restarts with the following argument parameter:

do user2mon_run_msim_rtl_vhdl.do {$::env(FLI_LIB)}

4) Then it works

It is not ideal, because it is hard to make it work with Continuous integration.

Based on this feedback, can you imagine a way that it could already work without restarting the simulation?