In this tutorial you can install the Altera Quartus II 14.0 software with ModelSim Altera Edition simulation application on Ubuntu Linux 14.10 (utopic unicorn) 64 bit.
I use the Altera Quartus II Web Edition for this example. Download the installer kit (Quartus-web-14.0.0.200-linux.tar) from Altera Download Center-ből. You have to register for download. In the following I continue the installing steps in the command line.
Unpack the installer kit.
$ tar -xf Quartus-web-14.0.0.200-linux.tar
You need to edit the setup.sh file, because the env command is on an other place in Ubuntu; the example below show the head of the edited version (You need #!/usr/bin/env in place of #!/bin/env). Below you have the sed command, which makes the changes.
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Copyright (c) 2014 Altera Corporation. All rights reserved.
# Your use of Altera Corporation's design tools, logic functions and other
...
So you can edit the setup.sh file with the following sed command.
$ sed -i setup.sh -e 's/#!\/bin\/env/#!\/usr\/bin\/env/'
By default, the installer installs the software to the $HOME/altera/14.0 path and the command below accomplish the installation without anything asking.
$ ./setup.sh --unattendedmodeui minimal --mode unattended
Launching of the installed Quartus II:
$ $HOME/altera/14.0/quartus/bin/quartus
While the operating system and the Quartus II are 64 bits, the ModelSim is a 32 bits software. To run, it needs the FreeType library, but Ubuntu 14.10 contains 2.5.2 version and ModelSim needs 2.4.12, so you have to install it from source. FreeType is available at http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/.
You have to install some packages for ModelSim.
$ sudo apt-get install libncurses5:i386 libxext6:i386 libxft2:i386
Download FreeType 2.4.12.
$ cd /tmp
$ wget http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/freetype-2.4.12.tar.bz2
Then you can prepare the needed multiarch environment with the following commands.
$ sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential gcc-multilib g++-multilib
$ sudo apt-get build-dep -a i386 libfreetype6
The compiling process is described here.
$ cd /tmp
$ tar -xf freetype-2.4.12.tar.bz2
$ cd freetype-2.4.12
$ ./configure --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu "CFLAGS=-m32" "CXXFLAGS=-m32" "LDFLAGS=-m32"
$ make
The compiled pack can be installed for ModelSim.
$ cd $HOME/altera/14.0/modelsim_ase
$ mkdir lib32
$ cp -r /tmp/freetype-2.4.12/objs/.libs/* lib32/
For using the freetype library by ModelSim, the $HOME/altera/14.0/modelsim_ase/vco file have to be patched. The example below contains a part of the modified version of vco file, and below you have the editing sed command.
...
*) arg0=`dirname $arg0`/$x ;;
esac
done
dir=`dirname $arg0`
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${dir}/lib32 ### ezt a sort kell hozzáadni ###
vco=${uname}${utype}
case $vco in
SunOS4*)
...
Editing by sed command:
$ sed -i vco -e '/dir\=`dirname \$arg0`/a \' -e 'export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=\${dir}/lib32'
Launch by the following command, or in the Quartus II environment as usual:
$ $HOME/altera/14.0/modelsim_ase/bin/vsim
JTAG programming of an Altera FPGA, through an SSH tunnel with Quartus II. The device is on the network, connected to a remote machine through USB Blaster.
Altera Quartus II and NIOS II command line