Setting up datapath for a not-standard application (Quartus 13.0.1 on Debian 8.7.1)

maja_ldm · 03-13-2017, 11:58 PM

I need to setup Quartus 13.0.1 on a Debian 8.7.1 system and I followed the guide at this wiki.

After installing I need to setup a proper path and the wiki suggests to add the following code to ~/.bashrc:

Quote:

export ALTERAPATH="/opt/quartus/altera/13.0sp1/"
export ALTERAOCLSDKROOT="${ALTERAPATH}/hld"
export QUARTUS_ROOTDIR=${ALTERAPATH}/quartus
export QUARTUS_ROOTDIR_OVERRIDE="$QUARTUS_ROOTDIR"
export PATH=$PATH:${ALTERAPATH}/quartus/bin
export PATH=$PATH:${ALTERAPATH}/nios2eds/bin
export PATH=$PATH:${QSYS_ROOTDIR}

and then just call quartos from a terminal. The problem is that for some reason this doesn't work, and even if I launch the application by specifying the whole path from my terminal the program needs to call other modules from the installation directory and the system can't get there.

I noticed by using the env command that my path results like so:

Quote:

PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/opt/quartus/altera/13.0sp1//quartus/bin:/opt/quartus/altera/13.0sp1//nios2eds/bin:

but I can't seem to get rid of the double forward slashes (I'm not sure they're normal). Also, the installed files doesn't have a hld folder (so I can't be sure of what's supposed to be inside.

(Note that I followed a guide to version 14.0 to installe 13.0.1).

How should I format my files to have a properly setup path to a modular program with a not-standard file structure?

aragorn2101 · 03-14-2017, 04:12 AM

Hi,

Firstly, the double forward slashes are appearing because the ALTERAPATH ends in '/'. So when you retrieve the variable's value the ending slash is already there, e.g.

Code:

export ALTERAPATH="/opt/quartus/altera/13.0sp1/"
export ALTERAOCLSDKROOT="${ALTERAPATH}/hld"

Also, for readability of the code, it is better to use a single line for the PATH setting. A better way of proceeding is shown below

Code:

ALTERAPATH="/opt/quartus/altera/13.0sp1"
ALTERAOCLSDKROOT="${ALTERAPATH}/hld"
QUARTUS_ROOTDIR=${ALTERAPATH}/quartus
QUARTUS_ROOTDIR_OVERRIDE="$QUARTUS_ROOTDIR"
PATH=$PATH:${ALTERAPATH}/quartus/bin:${ALTERAPATH}/nios2eds/bin:${QSYS_ROOTDIR}

export ALTERAPATH ALTERAOCLSDKROOT QUARTUS_ROOTDIR QUARTUS_ROOTDIR_OVERRIDE PATH

An immediate problem here is that QSYS_ROOTDIR has not been initialized anywhere, so maybe that will be source of errors.

One last thing: this will only work for you since it is in your $HOME/.bashrc. If you want to make it work system-wide, you can add the above to a script in /etc/profile.d, e.g.

Code:

#!/bin/sh

# /etc/profile.d/quartus-paths.sh

ALTERAPATH="/opt/quartus/altera/13.0sp1"
ALTERAOCLSDKROOT="${ALTERAPATH}/hld"
QUARTUS_ROOTDIR=${ALTERAPATH}/quartus
QUARTUS_ROOTDIR_OVERRIDE="${QUARTUS_ROOTDIR}"
PATH=$PATH:${ALTERAPATH}/quartus/bin:${ALTERAPATH}/nios2eds/bin:${QSYS_ROOTDIR}

export ALTERAPATH ALTERAOCLSDKROOT QUARTUS_ROOTDIR QUARTUS_ROOTDIR_OVERRIDE PATH

maja_ldm · 03-15-2017, 09:49 PM

I tried the edited version of the code and checking the path with env it seems to be correct, but I still can't open the program when typing

Quote:

quartus

the output is

Quote:

bash: quartus: command not found

I can open it with

Quote:

sudo /opt/quartus/altera/13.0sp1b/quartus/bin/quartus

(I'm also not entirely sure why it requires privileges and it is kind of troublesome because it creates files and folders that belong to root).

maja_ldm · 03-15-2017, 10:01 PM

wrong thread..