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9 years ago

Running a console executable from a tcl script

Hi there I am attempting to call a console executable file from a tcl script that should run before every compile. Here are a few iterations that I have tried, but nothing seems to make the tcl...
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9 years ago

Hi,

this works here: 


qexec ipconfig
qexec quartus

also: 


set cmd "qmegawiz -silent OPTIONAL_FILES=NONE ${file_name}"
post_message "cmd: ${cmd}"
if {  } {
   post_message -type error "couldn't run $cmd"
} else {
   post_message -type info 
}