How to setup Build environment

This tutorial explains how to prepate the PC environment for CRKit building process e.g. simulation, synthesis and place/route. Note that this is the external building process unrelated to the MATLAB build environment.

To build the CRKit framework, we would need the following tools :

1. Modelsim
2. Xilinx ISE
3. Xilinx EDK (optional for now)
4. Cygwin

First, we will setup the .bash_profile (this file should be located in "c:\Documents and Settings\YOUR_USER_ACCOUNT") The .bash_profile environment variables will be loaded into cygwin shell when started. Add following to the .bash_profile

export SDR_HDL_HOME="YOUR_PATH_TO_CRKIT_SVN_FOLDER/design/trunk"       #example : export SDR_HDL_HOME="d:/mystuff/crkit_svn/design/trunk"
export CYG_SDR_HDL_HOME="CYGWIN_PATH_TO_CRKIT_SVN_FOLDER/design/trunk  #example : export CYG_SDR_HDL_HOME="/cygdrive/d/mystuff/crkit_svn/design/trunk"
export MODELSIM_WORK_HOME="YOUR_PATH_TO_MODELSIM_WORK_FOLDER"          #example : export MODELSIM_WORK_HOME="d:/mystuff/hw" 
export XILINX_ISE_MODELS="YOUR_PATH_XILINX_ISE_PRECOMPILED_LIBRARIES"  #example : export XILINX_ISE_MODELS="d:/mystuff/hw/xlib/ise10.1"
export XILINX_EDK_MODELS="YOUR_PATH_XILINX_EDK_PRECOMPILED_LIBRARIES"  #example : export XILINX_EDK_MODELS="d:/mystuff/hw/xlib/edk10.1"
export MODELSIM="$SDR_HDL_HOME/setup/modelsim.ini"
export MODEL_TECH="YOUR_PATH_TO_MODELSIM_FOLDER"                       #example : export MODEL_TECH="c:/Modeltech_6.4c"
export CYG_MODEL_TECH="CYGWIN_PATH_TO_MODELSIM_FOLDER"                 #example : export CYG_MODEL_TECH="/cygdrive/c/Modeltech_6.4c"
export PATH=$CYG_HDL_HOME/setup:$CYG_MODEL_TECH/win32:$PATH

unset autologout

cd $CYG_SDR_HDL_HOME/setup

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