Error in VHDL (Xilinx): failed to link the design

Question

why I get error in VHDL for this? Also, sometimes: cannot do process as a process failed previously?

Many thanks.

Answer 1

For the process failing part, it seems that Xilinx tool writers may have an issue try restarting them and if needed, your machine as well.

Answer 2

Permanent solution 1: on win 10 Find the "installation directory \ Xilinx \ 14.x \ ISE_DS \ ISE \ gnu \ MinGW \ 5.0.0 \ nt \ libexec \ gcc \ mingw32 \ 3.4.2 \ collect2.exe" and delete it and re-run the emulator, the problem resolved! !

Just delete this or cut and paste somewhere as else, now re-run the code or test bench it will work.

Please accept the solution if find working

No need to update any minGW

Answer 3

I found answer! Look at ningunos answer and put "fuse" file in: C:\Xilinx\14.x\ISE_DS\ISE\bin\nt

Answer 4

1. Download latest version of MinGW

2. Copy all the content from the MinGW folder into Xilinx\14.2\ISE_DS\ISE\gnu\MinGW\5.0.0\nt

Now it should be working.

Answer 5

just run the 64bit variant of ISE

Answer 6

ofcourse the answer belowed is from **

Mr. Purohit Gaurav on dt of 11 jul 2016

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i tried the same one on windows 8 it works perfect...........

i just cut the collect2.exe and paste it somewhere else

Permanent solution 1: on win 8 Find the "installation directory \ Xilinx \ 14.x \ ISE_DS \ ISE \ gnu \ MinGW \ 5.0.0 \ nt \ libexec \ gcc \ mingw32 \ 3.4.2 \ collect2.exe" and delete it and re-run the emulator, the problem resolved! !

Just delete this or cut and paste somewhere as else, now re-run the code or test bench it will work.

Answer 7

This link worked for me. Solved windows 10 issue with xilinx. I tried this solution (as mentioned in link): "ISE 14.7 64-bit - Turning off SmartHeap:"

1) Navigate to the following ISE install directory: \Xilinx\14.7\ISE_DS\ISE\lib\nt64\

2) Rename the file "libPortability.dll" to "libPortability.dll.orig".

3) Copy the "libPortabilityNOSH.dll" file to the same folder, and rename it to "libPortability.dll".

4) Repeat steps 1-3 in the following folder: \Xilinx\14.7\ISE_DS\common\lib\nt64\

The above steps substitute the original "libPortability.dll" with a "libPortability.dll" file that has SmartHeap disabled, the NOSmartHeap (NOSH) version.

This does not negatively impact the operation of the tools, and should successfully work around the ISE 14.7 crash documented above.