I'm trying to compile a uvm project on my machine and I keep getting the following error message. I'm on Manajaro, I have multilib enabled on my system and I have followed the instructions on this page All the required dependencies are Installed.
I can start modelsim from commandline without any issues, but when I call this makefile, it always fails at the below line. Which makes me believe I might be missing something related to gcc, but I'm not sure what that is and googling this particular issue has yielded no results.
Compiling /tmp/cyberbemon@cyberbemon-x570aorusmaster_dpi_77438/linux_gcc-5.3.0/exportwrapper.c
# ** Fatal: ** Fatal: (vsim-3828) Could not link 'vsim_auto_compile.so': cmd = '/opt/modeltech/gcc-5.3.0-linux/bin/g++ -shared -fPIC -m32 -o "/tmp/cyberbemon@cyberbemon-x570aorusmaster_dpi_77438/linux_gcc-5.3.0/vsim_auto_compile.so" /home/cyberbemon/Development/uvm/final/tb_build/sub_system_tbs/pss_tb/sim/work/_dpi/auto_compile@/linux_gcc-5.3.0/*.o "/tmp/cyberbemon@cyberbemon-x570aorusmaster_dpi_77438/linux_gcc-5.3.0/exportwrapper.o" -Wl,-Bsymbolic '
# (vsim-50) A call to system(/opt/modeltech/gcc-5.3.0-linux/bin/g++ -shared -fPIC -m32 -o "/tmp/cyberbemon@cyberbemon-x570aorusmaster_dpi_77438/linux_gcc-5.3.0/vsim_auto_compile.so" /home/cyberbemon/Development/uvm/final/tb_build/sub_system_tbs/pss_tb/sim/work/_dpi/auto_compile@/linux_gcc-5.3.0/*.o "/tmp/cyberbemon@cyberbemon-x570aorusmaster_dpi_77438/linux_gcc-5.3.0/exportwrapper.o" -Wl,-Bsymbolic >'/tmp/questatmp.AFzKOV' 2>&1) returned error code '1'.
# The logfile contains the following messages:
# /lib/crti.o: file not recognized: File format not recognized
# collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
This issues was caused by Modelsim using a different gcc version, manually deleting all the gcc-..*-linux folders from modelsim directory forced it to use my system GCC and that has solved the issue.
This solution was suggested here
Instead of manually deleting it, you can re-run the installer and choose to remove the GCC components. You will get the same result.