Network Installations

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Installing software to a network location provides a way for various client machines to access the software by pointing to it on the network drive. To run the software on the network, the client machine(s) must be set up correctly to ensure, for example, that the environment variables, registry, and program groups all point to the network. The following sections describe the procedure for network setups.

Workstation Clients

1. Each software user must source the settings.csh or settings.sh from the $XILINX area where the software is installed. This sets up the Xilinx environment variable, path and LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to the installed location.
2. To run the software applications from a remotely installed location, you must also run an X Windows display manager, and you must include a DISPLAY environment variable. Define DISPLAY as the name of your display. DISPLAY is typically unix.0.0. For example, the following syntax allows you to run the software on the host named bigben and to display the graphics on the local monitor of the machine called mynode.

   setenv DISPLAY mynode:0.0
   xhost = bigbenPC Clients 
   

1. Install the ISE software tools to a PC network. Make sure that your users know the location of the software tools and have access to the installation directory.
2. From the local client machine, browse to the following directory: network_install_location/bin/nt and run the program setXenv.bat.

Running this program sets up your environment and registry settings needed to run the Xilinx tools from the remote location.

Note You will also need to run setenv.bat at each client machine after installing a Service Pack on the server.