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xil_cache error in Xilinx SDK

I am working on a small project of mine on Digilent Atlys and after all of the standard generating the netlist and bitstream, and exporting to SDK, I happen to get a weird error which states that the xil_cache.h is not present anywhere (even though it is there).

I need to mention that if I don't add an interrupt controller and a timer it works, but I really do need them.

Has anyone encountered this error before?

Error Message:

08:24:21 **** Build of configuration Debug for project hiworld ****
make all 
'Building file: ../src/helloworld.c'
'Invoking: MicroBlaze gcc compiler'
mb-gcc -Wall -O0 -g3 -c -fmessage-length=0 -I../../hiworld_bsp/microblaze_0/include -mlittle-endian -mxl-barrel-shift -mxl-pattern-compare -mcpu=v8.50.c -mno-xl-soft-mul -Wl,--no-relax -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -MMD -MP -MF"src/helloworld.d" -MT"src/helloworld.d" -o "src/helloworld.o" "../src/helloworld.c"
'Finished building: ../src/helloworld.c'
' '
'Building file: ../src/platform.c'
'Invoking: MicroBlaze gcc compiler'
mb-gcc -Wall -O0 -g3 -c -fmessage-length=0 -I../../hiworld_bsp/microblaze_0/include -mlittle-endian -mxl-barrel-shift -mxl-pattern-compare -mcpu=v8.50.c -mno-xl-soft-mul -Wl,--no-relax -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -MMD -MP -MF"src/platform.d" -MT"src/platform.d" -o "src/platform.o" "../src/platform.c"
../src/platform.c:43:23: fatal error: xil_cache.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make: *** [src/platform.o] Error 1

08:24:21 Build Finished (took 734ms)
Solution

  • Try after setting below environmental variables:

    XILINX = C:\Xilinx\14.5\ISE_DS
XILINX_EDK = C:\Xilinx\14.5\ISE_DS\EDK\bin\nt64

    this is suggested in the Xilinx forum and seems to solve the problem.

    A user writes:

    "Magic :-)

    I created a batch file to launch it, as from what I know the path variables persit within that batch file

    I set it to 

    set path=""
XILINX = C:\Xilinx\14.5\ISE_DS
XILINX_EDK = C:\Xilinx\14.5\ISE_DS\EDK\bin\nt64
C:\Xilinx\14.5\ISE_DS\EDK\bin\nt64\xsdk.exe

    Interesting the shortcut to the SDK first contains a link to settings64.bat which I assumed set all these variables correctly, but it looks like it doesnt get them right!

    I have to admit its been a trek just getting this far as the documentation is a bit blurry."

    Here you can find the page.