aoc: unable to generate hardware for hello_world example

[Altera_Forum]

Hello, 

I am trying to generate the aocx file for the hello_world design example from the altera website. I'm using aoc and quartus 17.0 in Linux and when i try to run the command "aoc -v device/hello_world.cl -o bin/hello_world.aocx", I get the following error: aoc: First stage compilation completed successfully. Error: Compiler Error, not able to generate hardware.  I am trying to generate the hardware for the s5_ref board. The AOCL_BOARD_PACKAGE_ROOT points to the appropriate dircetory. Emulation mode compilation and execution occurs just fine.  The quartus_sh_compile.log file lists the following: *** Fatal Error: Segment Violation at (nil) Module: quartus_syn Stack Trace:  0x60a43: google::protobuf::FileDescriptorTables::~FileDescriptorTables() + 0x33 (protobuf.so.8)  0x3c53a: __cxa_finalize + 0x9a (c.so.6)  0x21f4c: __libc_start_main + 0xfc (c.so.6)   End-trace Error (114016): Out of memory in module quartus_syn (1695 megabytes used)  There is enough and more memory in the system. Could somebody please help me rectify this error?  Thank you.

[Altera_Forum]

You should be pointing to the board in your aoc command: "aoc --board <board>" 

 I don't know if that will fix the problem, but it's certainly something to try.

[Altera_Forum]

thank you for your suggestion sstrell 

I tried that too, and it leads to the same error.

[Altera_Forum]

Do you have a license for the SDK?

[Altera_Forum]

Yes, i do. Earlier i had gotten a different error because I did not have appropriate license. Now I have the license, that issue is replaced by this one. 

Thanks

[Altera_Forum]

--- Quote Start ---  There is enough and more memory in the system. Could somebody please help me rectify this error?  --- Quote End ---    And how much memory is that?

[Altera_Forum]

about 256 GB

[Altera_Forum]

Okay, that should be more than enough. Still, the "Out of memory" message in the log is generally accurate. Are you running multiple compilations in parallel? Maybe someone else was also using the machine for some memory-heavy operation? 

 Also test with Quartus/AOC v16.1.2 for the sake of it; a lot of things related to OpenCL seems to have changed in v17.0, and not all of them for the better...

[Altera_Forum]

Hello 

It was an issue with the specific installation. it has been resolved now. Thank you everyone for your concern and help

[Altera_Forum]

Hi shruthiarav, can you tell us how you resolved this problem. I am having exactly the same issue.

[Altera_Forum]

--- Quote Start ---  Hi shruthiarav, can you tell us how you resolved this problem. I am having exactly the same issue.  --- Quote End ---   Well, my issue was because of some issues with how the ACDS was installed. I ended up having to reinstall the whole package. You could check if yours is an installation issue as well, by trying to invoke quartus_syn by itself(since the segment violation is in the quartus_syn module). quartus_syn is located in the $QUARTUS_ROOTDIR/bin - just try ./quartus_syn. If the same segment violation error occurs then, then it is an error related to the installation or it could be some OS compatibility issues.

[Altera_Forum]

Your Computer must have at least 24GB of Ram

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--- Quote Start ---  And how much memory is that?  --- Quote End ---    At least is 24GB of Ram