[Wine]Re: Trying to get Xilinx tools running

[Duane Clark]

Andrew Ward wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am new to wine and am trying to get the Xilinx ISE FPGA command line tools 
> running. FYI these are gate array compiler tools for the hardware industry.
> 
> Anyway, wine seems to be setup enough so that I can run notepad.exe and I also 
> ran the Xilinx installer which only crashed at the very end when it was doing 
> some device/usb installation, but it managed to copy all the files alright 
> and setup the registry. Now when I try to run 'wine xst.exe' which is a 
> command line compiler tool that comes with the Xilinx software I get the 
> following error messages, which keep on scrolling, but here are the first 
> ones:
> 

If you are using a 2.4 Linux kernel, and you follow these instructions 
closely, the Xilinx tools should work fine:
http://www.danbbs.dk/~kibria/xilinx.html

I just tried this a few days ago with a current Wine and Webpack6.3. It 
works fine, and the tools run fine for me. I am running RH9. I have seen 
reports that there might be problems on a 2.6 Linux kernel.