Hi Peter, Why do you think this is specific to MS Windows? Wouldn't be better to post this question to the general Emacs help list?
2010/4/30 Peter Sørensen <nordstjerneall...@gmail.com>: > I have not been able to make goto error line work for modelsim compile of > vhdl files. > I have not used emacs for many years, but I think I have done it right. > I installed > Emacs precompiled GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.0.6002) > of 2009-07-30 on SOFT-MJASON > on both windows7 and vista with the same result. > The compile command itself works and every think is fine for vhdl files > without any error, but when errors are found > the find first error, find next error do not move the cursor to the > errorline. > I use the modelsim_ae version 6.5b (from FPGA tool Altera Quartus ) but the > vcom responds should be the same as a normal modelsim. > I have tested a little on the regular expression for modelsim and it looks > correct to me, but I am not exactly an expert. > > This is the message > ** Error: (vcom-13) Recompile work.ifft_types because ieee.std_logic_1164 > has changed. > ** Error: d:/Protelevision/SRAM/Buf_Ctrl.vhd(11): (vcom-1195) Cannot find > expanded name "work.ifft_types". > ** Error: d:/Protelevision/SRAM/Buf_Ctrl.vhd(11): Unknown expanded name. > ** Error: d:/Protelevision/SRAM/Buf_Ctrl.vhd(13): VHDL Compiler exiting > > This is the regular expression > \(ERROR\|WARNING\|\*\* Error\|\*\* Warning\)[^:]*: \(.+\)(\([0-9]+\)): > > best regards > Peter Sørensen > > >