Hi,
I'm using Fedora and had the same problem. As it turned out, Quartus starts ModelSim, but ModelSim itself cannot run due to some problems; however, Quartus only saw that the ModelSim process started, and reported that everything was successful.
What helped me are these two articles:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/altera_design_software#modelsim-altera_edition (
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/altera_design_software#modelsim-altera_edition) and
http://mattaw.blogspot.de/2014/05/making-modelsim-altera-starter-edition.html (
http://mattaw.blogspot.de/2014/05/making-modelsim-altera-starter-edition.html).
In a nutshell:
- manually execute ModelSim from the shell to see what it tells you; the executable is /installation_path/modelsim_a
- you probably need all sorts of packets to be installed manually
- you probably have to modify the ModelSim startup script (the same file as in my last bullet point), to be compatible with your Linux version
- you probably have to install an old version of the freetype library, because the latest and greatest that is installed with modern Linux distros is incompatible with ModelSim
I have to admit that I never use NativeLink, as manually writing scripts for ModelSim is way more conventient, but I double-checked that on my system invoking ModelSim through NativeLink from Quartus works.
Best regards,
GooGooCluster
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