SystemConsole and Tcl GPIB extension

An update on the gripes with respect to Quartus 11.1sp1 (tested under Windows XP):

1) fileevent now works, so you can handle multiple clients from a SystemConsole Tcl server.

2) info nameofexecutable still returns an empty string (but argv0 can be used instead)

3) package require and TCLLIBPATH now work.

For the Tcl GPIB library, I did not need to use TCLLIBPATH, I just copied the package directory to $QUARTUS_ROOTDIR/sopc_builder/system_console/lib/gpib.

I tried this under 10.1 and although package require would work after copying it to the Quartus subdirectory (since TCLLIBPATH did not work), any attempts to use the GPIB procedures would fail. I suspect the SystemConsole shell does not have all the OS paths set correctly. This is corrected in 11.1sp1.

Definitely an improvement! Thanks Altera!

Cheers,

Dave