Glenn, Thanks for the pointer. So far, outside of this issue with gen_xps_files.m, I have not seen any problems with having cygwin installed on my windows machine. I run Xilinx ISE 13.4, perhaps some of the issues you mention are solved for this version?
Gopal On 08/22/2012 02:18 PM, G Jones wrote: > Hi, > I strongly recommend not having cygwin installed on a windows system > with the toolflow. Xilinx EDK includes its own version of cygwin and > the two will conflict with inexplicable errors and failures. > Glenn > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Gopal Narayanan <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am not sure who to send this patch to since there are multiple >> mlib_devel github repositories, so I thought a general email would be >> better. >> >> The latest version of CASPER tools fail in the last stages with a >> cryptic error message. I have tracked it down to a problem in >> gen_xps_files.m wherein if you have a windows system with Cygwin >> installed, it assumes it is a unix-like OS, and then fails to run some >> bat files. >> >> Attached is a simple patch to gen_xps_files.m. Hope this helps someone. >> >> Gopal >> >> -- >> Gopal Narayanan Ph #: (413) 545 0925 >> Department of Astronomy e-mail: [email protected] >> University of Massachusetts Amherst MA 01003 -- Gopal Narayanan Ph #: (413) 545 0925 Department of Astronomy e-mail: [email protected] University of Massachusetts Amherst MA 01003
