Does this "Free ISE WebPACK 7.1i" for linux work with any distribution other than Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 ? I tried to install this under Fedora Core 3 / Debian and installation didn't succeed. Looks like the installer is linked against libwiclient.so, libcommdlg50.so .... libodbc50.so etc, which are not there on the system.
Does anyone know which package provides these ?
Would like to know which packages are required to install this software.
(An opensource Webpack will be a lot better idea :-))
When I tried to install the software, I got the following message: ( running setup from the extracted files/ and sh Webpack*..sh yielded the same result. ) Wind/U X-toolkit Error: ", 24Wind/U X-toolkit Error: wuDisplay: Can't open display\n", 30wuDisplay: Can't open display
Apparently: connect(4, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(6000), sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}, 16) = -1 ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused) is the message from strace on xilsetup.
I was running X from display manager. Then I tried starting it manually and surprisingly the installation gui did show up. It did proceed to almost the final step and I got a message:
path/xilinx/installer/platform/lin/bin/lin Wind/U Error (294): Unable to install Wind/U ini file (/path/xilinx/installer/platform/lin/data/WindU). See the Wind/U manual for more details on the ".WindU" file and the "WINDU" environment variable.
Error:cannot run process - /path/Webpack/.xinstall/install_driver_installscript
Normally $DISPLAY is ":0.0" on the local host. Zillions of applications work with that setting. The "WINDU" library, that Xilinx uses for implementing a Win32 Library layer on *NIX however doesn't understand it.
I also found that gdmsetup (under security tab) could be used to enable port 6000 (X) tcp/ip access. It is disabled by default when X is started from gdm. When enabled, default DISPLAY setup was acceptable to Xilinx.
The windrvr is used by the programming tools to access the parallel and usb ports. Without this driver, it will be impossible to program any devices.
I had to patch / recompile the drivers. I used the method outlined in this article:
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There were some unnecessary parts, and some necessary parts that were a little foggy. Hint: don't bother with the Xilinx drivers - use the windrvr from
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You'll also probably need to edit your /etc/rc.local to remove the two previous references to windrvr and add a /sbin/modprobe/windrvr line.
Any idea why these special drivers are used ? Even simple parallel port access won't work without windrvr I guess! I was trying an old coolrunner board ( from the days of philips coolrunners ) which apparently has a parallel port JTAG interfae. Just trying to see if I could use that board.
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