| ??? 08/17/06 22:20 Read: times Msg Score: +1 +1 Informative |
#122519 - Xilinx and gnu Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Turns out that the Xilinx tools on a PC are a qwazy qwilt of native code and stuff that runs under a modified version of Cygwin. Look at all of the dlls in the various device directories. On a Linux or other Unix install, you'll find .so files.
This is Xilinx' attempt at using the same code base across differing platforms. I wouldn't blame the gnu tools for Xilinx' ridiculous installer. -a |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| who is imbecile Xilinx or the "GNU group"? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| probably an ex microsoft employee | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Thats why | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Jez, oh Jez | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I dont see it | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I compared to Lattice | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| A curse on software installations | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| mentor's notorious | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| still no answer | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Context | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| any idiot | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Xilinx and gnu | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| It DID download much more slowly | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Xilinx website | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| would that be | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Most of my clients don't speak HDL ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| thanks Andy | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Same as Altera then! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| So, besides slowing everything to a crawl, what do | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Cygwin doesn't slow things down | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Had it been the GUI, then a few minutes would have | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Portability | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| we are drifting | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
I've found it ridiculous too. | 01/01/70 00:00 |