EDK Installation: Windows 2000

Installing Xilinx EDK

• Insert the Xilinx EDK distribution CD into the CD-ROM drive. The installer window appears in about half a minute.
• If the installer does not pop-up, you can install EDK by double clicking on setup.exe in the root of your CD.
• The EDK installer will guide you through the installation and setup process
• The default EDK installation directory is c:\EDK
• Please note that there should not be any spaces in the EDK installation directory name.
• EDK tools require a patch to Xilinx ISE tools. This patch is available on the CD image.

• Open up the Control Panel window by selecting Start->Settings->Control Panel
• From within the Control Panel, select Add/Remove Programs
• Within the list of products, Select Xilinx Embedded Development Kit
• Select Remove
• Note: Un-installation will not remove files and folders changed by the user. Please delete the unwanted files. If you wish to re-install EDK, EDK installer will not overwrite any files from the previous installation.

• The Xilinx EDK installer automatically sets or modify the following environment variables:
• XILINX_EDK
• Set by the Xilinx EDK installer to identify the <edk_install_dir>
• Points to c:\EDK by default
• PATH
• The Xilinx EDK installer adds to PATH <edk_install_dir>\bin\nt;<edk_install_dir>\gnu\microblaze\nt\bin; <edk_install_dir>\gnu\powerpc-eabi\nt\bin;
• The EDK installer automatically creates the following registry entries:
• My Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Xilinx\EDK
• My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Xilinx\EDK
• You can run mb-gcc, mb-gdb, etc. from a xygwin shell or Xilinx Platform Studio.

EDK Installation: Solaris (2.8)

• Change directory to the location of the installation image.
• Execute the command install_solaris.csh.
• This prompts you for the destination directory. (Default is $HOME/EDK )
• EDK tools require a patch to Xilinx ISE tools. This patch is available on the CD image. The installer script will prompt you for installation of this patch.

Uninstalling the Xilinx EDK on Solaris involves removing the <edk_install_dir>. The Xilinx EDK is entirely contained within the directory hierarchy rooted at <edk_install_dir>.

• To un-install Xilinx EDK execute rm -rf <edk_install_dir>

• From within your EDK install directory, source the setup script as follows:

source <edk_install_dir>/setup.csh
• Sourcing the setup script sets or modifies the following environment variables:
• $XILINX_EDK
• Set by the Xilinx EDK installer to identify the <edk_install_dir >
• Points to $HOME/EDK by default
• $PATH
• Prefixes the PATH with $XILINX_EDK/bin/sol:$XILINX_EDK/gnu/microblaze/sol/bin:$XILINX_EDK/gnu/powerpc-eabi/sol/bin
• You can now run mb-gcc, powerpc-eabi-gcc, etc from your csh or tcsh shell window

Note: Environment settings apply only to the given shell windows that the setup scripts was sourced in. If you open a new shell window you must source <edk_install_dir>/setup.csh again.