Modelsim Intel-Altera 10.5c on Fedora26

This blog post is about how to run Modelsim Intel-Altera 10.5c on Fedora 26 (4.12.13-300.fc26.x86_64) after its installation. Modelsim Intel-Altera 10.5c comes with intelFPGA_pro 17.0.

First install the 32-bit libraries.

$ sudo dnf install glibc.i686 zlib.i686 bzip2-libs.i686 libXft.i686 libXext.i686 ncurses-compat-libs.i686

Download the freetype of el7 from here and copy the so files to modelsim’s internal directory.

$ rpm2cpio freetype-2.4.11-9.el7.i686.rpm | cpio -idmv
$ cp usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6* intelFPGA_pro/17.0/modelsim_ase/lib/

Add the following lines to the .bashrc :

$ export PATH=$PATH:~/intelFPGA_pro/17.0/modelsim_ase/bin
$ alias vsim="LD_PRELOAD=\"/home/$USER/intelFPGA_pro/17.0/modelsim_ase/lib/libfreetype.so.6\" vsim"

If vsim is launched at this time, you will get the following error:

Error: cannot find “/home/chitlesh/intelFPGA_pro/17.0/modelsim_ase/bin/../linux_rh60/vsim”

This error occurs because the intelFPGA’s vsim script has not considered linux kernels 4.*.

[chitlesh@localhost ~]$ uname -r
 4.12.13-300.fc26.x86_64

Add this following line on line 210 of bin/vsim.

4.[1-9][0-9]*) vco="linux" ;;

Below line 50 dir=`dirname "$arg0"`, add

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${dir}/lib

If DPI-C is not required, rename all the gcc directories into _gcc and use +UVM_NO_DPI.

That’s it.

 

If you find this blog post useful, please do leave a comment below to let me know if you have successfully run Altera Modelsim on Fedora.