Compatibility with Aldec Active-HDL on Windows

Dear cocotb community,

I’m new to cocotb and trying to get the endian_swapper exampl running. My setup is:

• Win10
• Aldec Active-HDL9.3
• Miniconda with Python 3.7

What I did so far:

1. 1. Installed msys: conda install -c msys2 m2-base m2-make libpython m2w64-toolchain
2. 1. Install the development version of cocotb :
3. • git clone https://github.com/cocotb/cocotb
4. • pip install -e ./cocotb
5. cd cocotb/examples/endian_swapper/tests
6. make SIM=aldec TOPLEVEL_LANG=vhdl

This leads to

runsim.tcl(5) error: parse error
@if [string length<--
/c/temp/cocotb/cocotb/share/makefiles/simulators/Makefile.aldec:144: recipe for target 'results.xml' failed
make[1]: *** [results.xml] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/c/temp/cocotb/examples/endian_swapper/tests'
c:\temp\cocotb\cocotb\share\makefiles/Makefile.sim:150: recipe for target 'sim' failed
make: *** [sim] Error 2

So first of all it seems to that my vsimsa (build 9.3.2744.sp1.09.4995) cant handle the statements generated by Makefile.aldec @if [string length [array get env LICENSE_QUEUE]] { set LICENSE_QUEUE $::env(LICENSE_QUEUE) } in runsim.tcl

So I removed in Makefile.aldec for testing:

        @echo "@if [string length [array get env LICENSE_QUEUE]] {" >> $@  
        @echo " set LICENSE_QUEUE $$::env(LICENSE_QUEUE)" >> $@  
        @echo "}" >> $@  

After running again with make Im getting:

`runsim.tcl(8) error: parse error
asim   +access +w -interceptcoutput -O2 -dbg -loadvhpi C:/temp/cocotb/cocotb/libs/libcocotbvhpi_aldec:vhpi_startup_routines_bootstrap<--
/c/temp/cocotb/cocotb/share/makefiles/simulators/Makefile.aldec:144: recipe for target 'results.xml' failed
make[2]: *** [results.xml] Error 1`

I could trace this problem back to vsimsa which seems to need “” around -loadvhpi "C:/temp/cocotb/cocotb/libs/libcocotbvhpi_aldec:vhpi_startup_routines_bootstrap" After adding the quotation marks to Makefile.aldec:

else ifeq ($(TOPLEVEL_LANG),vhdl)  
    GPI_ARGS = -loadvhpi \"$(LIB_DIR)/libcocotbvhpi_aldec:vhpi_startup_routines_bootstrap\"

I again started with make. this now leads to execution of the generated script with vsimsa but Im getting VHPI: Loading library 'C:/temp/cocotb/cocotb/libs/libcocotbvhpi_aldec.dll' VHPI: Cannot load 'C:/temp/cocotb/cocotb/libs/libcocotbvhpi_aldec.dll' library. Library does not exist or is corrupted. The simulation seems to start running but never stops. This is how far I got with my Issue. I hope you can help me get cocotb running on my machine with this simulator and hopefully also improve the project also a bit.

[themperek]

to have a solution if you run a 32bit simulator and have conda in 64 bit already installed?

This is exactly what is here: https://github.com/cocotb/cocotb/wiki/Tier-2-Setup-Instructions#conda-based-installation-all-os

[eric-wieser]

Oh, looks like my version is out of date, apologies.

That last line should be (__version__, os.path.dirname(__file__), os.getcwd())).