Installing EDK, Environment Variables

Installing EDK

You must use an Administrator login when installing EDK on a Windows Platform. Xilinx also recommends using an Administrator login when running EDK on Windows.

To install EDK on your Windows PC:

1.Insert the EDK Installation DVD into your PC. The installer opens automatically.

If the installation process does not start on its own, open Windows Explorer and double-click setup.exe on the DVD.

The installation process prompts you to enter the registration ID.

2.Once you have entered the registration ID, continue to install the product.

Note: If the environment variable XILINX_EDK is set, the default directory for installation is the value of the variable %XILINX_EDK%. Otherwise, the default EDK installation directory is c:\EDK. You can change this to any other directory.

Note: The destination directory name cannot contain spaces.

Environment Variables

The EDK installer creates or modifies the following variables on your machine. These variables are added to the system settings.

♦XILINX_EDK

Sets the value of this variable to the EDK installation directory.

♦PATH

Prefixes the PATH environment variable with %XILINX_EDK%\bin\nt.

EDK tools require the Cygwin tools distributed by Red Hat. A copy of these tools is distributed with the EDK installation. When you run XPS, the SDK IDE, or Xilinx Shell, your registry is checked for the entry:

My Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin.

If a compatible version of Cygwin is found pre-installed on your machine, the EDK tools use it. Otherwise, the registry is set up to point to the Cygwin tools distributed in the EDK installation area.

Note: When you install EDK, Cygwin installation files are copied to your system. Whether or not the copied files are installed depends on the state of existing Cygwin installations on the machine. If you already have Cygwin installed, and if the existing Cygwin installation meets requirements, EDK does not install Cygwin (and the existing Cygwin installation is used). Otherwise, EDK installs Cygwin from the installation area. For more information, refer to the “EDK Shell” Chapter in the Embedded System Tools Reference Manual, available at http://www.xilinx.com/ise/embedded/edk_docs.htm.

Network Installation

To install EDK for access on a network, perform the following steps.

1.Install the EDK software tools on a PC network server.

Make sure that your users know the location of the software tools and have access to the installation directory, and that they have administrator privileges for the following steps.

2.From the local client machine, browse to the following directory:

network_install_location\bin\nt and run setXenv.bat. Running this program sets up the environment and registry settings needed to run the Xilinx tools from the remote location.

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