The ISE design tools include a shell script that modifies the environment variables (mostly PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH). Leaving it checked will cause errors during the installation. By default, the whole application is installed to /opt/Xilinx/, so make sure the user running the installer has permissions to write to this directory.ĭuring installation, uncheck the 'Install Cable Drivers' option. Then, install the ISE Design Tools: $ cd Xilinx_ISE_DS_Lin_14.7_1015_1įollow the instructions to install the ISE. You need to remove the QT_PLUGIN_PATH environment variable before executing the installer: $ unset QT_PLUGIN_PATH If you are running the KDE desktop environment, the installer may try to load the 'Oxygen' widget theme, which will fail due to the older Qt framework bundled with the Xilinx ISE design tools. The ISE design tools installer is a Qt application.

Note: The installation is last known to work with Xilinx ISE 14.7, requiring the dynamic library fix described below.Įxtract the tarball containing the installation data: $ tar -xvf Xilinx_ISE_DS_Lin_14.7_1015_1.tar Install the package xilinx-ise AUR, you will have to place the tarball with the installation data in the same folder of the PKGBUILD before starting the building process. If not, link /usr/bin/sh to bash: # ln -sfT bash /usr/bin/sh Then /usr/bin/sh already points to /usr/bin/bash. If the output looks like this: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 13 Mar 06:47 /usr/bin/sh -> bash This can be checked by running this command: $ ls -l /usr/bin/sh Make sure /usr/bin/sh points to /usr/bin/bash. This installation silently fails when the default shell is set to dash. Default Shellĭuring the installation, the Mentor CodeSourcery toolchains for embedded processors can be installed along with the Xilinx tools. This compiler requires the lib32-glibc package from the multilib repository and lib32-ncurses5-compat-libs AUR from the AUR.

for Xilinx Zynq SoC devices), you will want to install the GCC cross-compiler bundled included with the Xilinx Embedded Development Kit (EDK).

If you plan to develop software for an embedded ARM core (e.g. the FPGA editor) requires libstdc++5, openmotif, xorg-fonts-75dpi and xorg-fonts-100dpi. Several tools included in the ISE Webpack (and the installer itself) depends on ncurses5-compat-libs AUR. To obtain the install data visit the official download page. The Xilinx ISE WebPACK is a freeware software released under a proprietary license which does not allow redistribution. 3.8 CORE Generator fails to generate core.3.7 Running Xilinx tools from within KDE.3.3 Xilinx Platform Cable USB-JTAG Drivers.

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