Cygwin_setup_and_questasim_license_file

1. Download cygwin setup
2. Download questasim setup file
3. select the relevant files while installing the cygwin.
Internet Installation
If you decide to do an internet installation, you'll need to select several packages. If you want to run swathed/jview and other OMG command line programs, choose the following packages:
• X libraries
If you want to compile OMG software, you'll need the following in addition to above:
• Vi
• Gvim
• Git
• Makefile
• C compiler
• gcc for c/c++ compilation (under development section)
• OpenGL (under graphics section)
• make
• flex
• lesstif
• libglitz-glx1 (under X11 section)
• glitz (under X11 section)
Other handy packages:
• ImageMagick
• tcsh
• vim
• gdb
• indent
• more
• OpenSSH
  
3. Setup .bashrc file--->inside home
3. in .bashrc file add this line --->                                                                                                                                                          export LM_LICENSE_FILE="D:\EDA_Installations\Questasim\flexlm\license_file.dat"
4. Setup .vimrc  -->inside vim directory
5. Setting environment variables system_properties->advance->env_variables     //this is for questasim licesense file
1. Name:LM_LICENSE_FILE->value-path
1. LM_LICENSE_FILE:
2. Ex: D:\EDA_Installations\Questasim\flexlm\license_file.dat







6. D:\EDA_Installations\Cygwin\bin ->add in path, after power shell      ------------->use from cmd prompt
1. Ex :C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;D:\EDA_Installations\Cygwin\bin; C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common


7. For vsim: if vsim is not working  in cygwing
                       Path:
               D:\EDA_Installations\Questasim\win64;                                                                                               D:\EDA_Installations\Cygwin\bin;C:\Users\babu\AppData\Local\GitHubDesktop\bin