Quartus II Linux Missing Docs

Altera_Forum · ‎05-13-2010

Installed Quartus II 9.1. cannot find a single document telling me how to correctly launch it. What environment variables do I need, what to source. I have gotten most of it working, but I would like to know the correct way of running it.

Please add the right documentation, this is not Free software (which usually happen to have better docs though)

Regards

Altera_Forum · ‎05-13-2010

i actually filed a documentation enhancement request this week on the same issue.

for using Quartus you'll need to set a minimum of QUARTUS_ROOTDIR to the path to the quartus directory and appending $QUARTUS_ROOTDIR/bin to your path.

to use the Nios tools etc there are a few more bin directories to add to your path, for example $QUARTUS_ROOTDIR/../nios2eds/bin

then you can run: quartus at the command line. :cool:

Altera_Forum · ‎05-13-2010

That is great. With all this run into a problem,

$ vsim

Error: cannot find /opt/altera9.1/modelsim_ase/bin/linux/vsim

This gives me an idea that a symlink is missing. I think I need to do this

~ ]$ cd /opt/altera9.1/modelsim_ase/bin/

bin]$ ln -s ../linux .

This does make it better, I don't know if this is right or I am missing something. Looking at the driving script, they do expect bin/linux to be there, I think the installation script forgets to make the symlink.

Looking through the installation log, I do see partial instructions for exporting the environment. This is strange, that would be the last place I would look for "Instructions".

Altera_Forum · ‎05-13-2010

i believe its actually supposed to be /opt/altera9.1/modelsim_ase/linuxaloem added to your path.