At the end of the simulation, AlertLogPkg.vhd must open. causes error message.

[Jeremy]

Hi Jim. Currently using OSVVM version 2023.09. I’ve recently moved to pre-compiling the libraries in an effort to speed up my simulation process. I would like to only use the .lib files and not use any source files. Unfortunately the AlertLogPkg.vhd seems to flag an error message towards the end of the simulation if it is removed. This seems to only happen when using OSVVM version 2023.09. When using a previous version of OSVVM(possibly rev 2022.02 or sooner) I am able to remove the AlertLogPkg.vhd and the simulation finishes without an HDL Editor error message.

Was there a change added to the 2023.09 version requiring AlertLogPkg.vhd to be opened before the simulation completes? If so do you by chance have a workaround for to not receive the error message already?

I am using simulation tool Riviera-Pro.

[David Clift]

Hi Jeremy,

If you are using Riviera-PRO, you can stop the GUI from opening the terminating VHDL file by unsettling “Open editor when simulation is interrupted from source code.” You will find this in Tools –>Preference under Debug–>General.

I hope this helps.
Regards
David…

[Jeremy]

That indeed fixed the issue. Thank you David. Any idea why it’s not necessary to do that for earlier versions?

[Jim Lewis]

Hi Jeremy
Currently OSVVM is doing quit -sim when a simulation ends in error. This unfortunately is necessary to close the transcript file.

A change is coming to not do this when running interactive

Jim

[Jeremy]

That makes sense. Thanks for the update!

[Jim Lewis]

2024.03a addresses this issue – specifically when running interactively, EndSimulation will not be called.

[Jeremy]

We’ve upgraded to version 2024.07, but it appears the AlertLogPkg.vhd file still needs to be accessed in the osvvm directory after the simulation. It’s not a major issue, but you’ll need to ensure that the file is available in the osvvm directory. Otherwise, you’ll encounter an error stating that AlertLogPkg cannot be found.

The simulation is looking to execute line 2175 of the AlertLogPkg.vhd. “file_close(FileID) ;”

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