11.1 EDK - PlatGen has encountered a problem and needs to close

AR#	32271	Search For Another Answer
Topic	EDK-platgen
Last Updated	06/11/2009
Status	Active

Description

Keywords: fatal, error, path, length, directory

When I run my EDK design, I receive a fatal error from PlatGen that states:

"platgen.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."

Solution

Having a long directory structure (directory plus the PATH environment variable) has been found to cause this problem. The number of characters in the directory structure has to be less than 2048 characters. The number of characters that platgen allows in a directory structure will be increased in a future release.

This problem has been fixed in EDK 11.2, available at:
http://www.xilinx.com/support/download/index.htm