Xilinx Webpack

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The Xilinx software is used for synthesis of projects to be used on Xilinx chips such as FPGA.

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As of [Jul 06] there are Two Webpack entries in the application database.

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Installing

Installing on Mandrake 10.1 and wine 0.9.16 On the command line..

wine WebPACK_63_fcfull_i.exe

Wine cant install and run USB drivers so dont worry bout those, whups wrong button. Oh well..: 

Enabling USB hubs...
fixme:setupapi:SetupDiGetClassDevsExW
fixme:setupapi:SetupDiGetDeviceInfoListDetailW
mxhubcon.exe failed.
Exit code = 2
Exiting installer.

And errors with extracting desktop icons are not important: 

err:menubuilder:extract_icon32 LoadLibraryExW (L"C:\\Xilinx\\.xinstall\\mysupport.ico") failed, error 126
err:menubuilder:InvokeShellLinker failed to fork and exec wineshelllink
err:menubuilder:extract_icon32 LoadLibraryExW (L"C:\\windows\\temp\\WZSE0.TMP\\http:\\support.xilinx.com\\
support\\software\\install_info.htm") failed, error 126
err:menubuilder:InvokeShellLinker failed to fork and exec wineshelllink

Tried rebooting Wine, but Wine became stuck with extracting icons again, so eventually stopped with Ctrl+C and then made sure wine had recovered by stopping wineserver

wineserver -k

Then attempted to run the webpack:

wine "C:\Xilinx\bin\nt\ise.exe"

The MSVCP60.dll was missing. Download the Redistribution pack: http://download.microsoft.com/download/vc60pro/Update/1/W9XNT4/EN-US/VC6RedistSetup_enu.exe extract the files to fake windows/system32

wine VC6RedistSetup_enu.exe

then cd to the fake windows/system32 and run the file

cd .wine/drive_c/windows/system32
wine vcredist.exe

Then trying to run the ise.exe works! The install created an icon on the desktop which works well. Or on the command line with

wine "C:\Xilinx\bin\nt\ise.exe"

There was a message about the language not recognised, but it even detected there was an update. For now I declined and then opened an existing example project called a frequency meter. The first try failed as I needed a folder with out spaces in the name. I created a folder on my desktop and then tried again. Everything i have tried so far works well:

Started process "Generate Programming File".
WARNING: en_GB:en is not supported as a language. Using usenglish.
Completed process "Generate Programming File".

and creating a new project file worked as well. For some reason, I apparently needed to stop the wineserver again.

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