Notes on using Altera design tools on Fedora 23 (in Qubes OS)

fedora-quartus-deps.md

Notes on using Quartus 15.1.0 in Fedora 23 (in Qubes OS)

Dependencies according to the Arch wiki, converted to Fedora pkg names:

• x86_64: expat fontconfig freetype glibc gtk2 libcanberra libpng libpng12 libICE libSM util-linux ncurses tcl zlib libX11 libXau libXdmcp libXext libXft libXrender libXt libXtst

• i686: glibc.i686 expat.i686 fontconfig.i686 freetype.i686 glibc.i686 gtk2.i686 libcanberra.i686 libpng.i686 libpng12.i686 libICE.i686 libSM.i686 util-linux.i686 ncurses-libs.i686 tcl.i686 zlib.i686 libX11.i686 libXau.i686 libXdmcp.i686 libXext.i686 libXft.i686 libXrender.i686 libXt.i686 libXtst.i686

• noarch: xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 tcllib

Also apparently needed...

• xz-libs.i686 libpng12.i686

For compiling VPI stuff

• gcc glibc-devel.i686 libgcc.i686

vsim failing with ** Fatal: Read failure in vlm process (0,0)

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Altera_Design_Software#With_freetype2_2.5.0.1-1

Not sure how to fix properly, for now I've just stolen an old libfreetype.so from another machine and am using a wrapper around vsim that sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH to contain the old lib.

Other useful things

• graphviz iverilog verilator the_silver_searcher