Copyright 1991-2019 Mentor Graphics Corporation All Rights Reserved. This document contains information that is proprietary to Mentor Graphics Corporation. The original recipient of this document may duplicate this document in whole or in part for internal business purposes only, provided that this entire notice appears in all copies. In duplicating any part of this document, the recipient agrees to make every reasonable effort to prevent the unauthorized use and distribution of the proprietary information. Trademarks that appear in Mentor Graphics product publications that are not owned by Mentor Graphics are trademarks of their respective owners. ================================================== HOW TO GET AND INSTALL A MODELSIM 2019.4 RELEASE ================================================== There is no licensing change between 10.7 and 2019.1. However, if you are migrating to 2019.1 from a release like 10.6 and older, please note that release 2019.1 uses FLEXnet v11.14.1.3. For floating licenses, it will be necessary to verify that the vendor daemon (i.e., mgcld) and the license server (i.e., lmgrd) have FLEXnet versions equal to or greater than 11.14.1.3. If the current FLEXnet version of your vendor daemon and lmgrd are less than 11.14.1.3 then it will be necessary to stop your license server and restart it using the vendor daemon and lmgrd contained in this release. If you use node locked licenses you don't need to do anything. This release will update licensing to MSL v2017_1_patch2 with MGLS v9.17_10.2.4 and PCLS v9.17.10.2.0 In summary, this release uses the following license versions: • FLEXnet v11.14.1.3 • MSL v2017_1_patch2 • MGLS v9.17_10.2.4 • PCLS v9.17.10.2.0 *** PLATFORM SUPPORT NOTE: Starting 2019.1 release, support for Windows 7 and 8.1 have discontinued. Only Windows 10 is supported. However, we continue to support Windows 7 & 8.1 with our 10.6 and 10.7 release series until their planned End Of Life (10.6 EOL - mid 2019, 10.7 EOL - mid 2020) to coincide with Microsoft's EOL for Windows 7. *** DOWNLOAD/INSTALL NOTE: When downloading UNIX executable with the ".aol" file extension on a Windows box, please make sure that the "Save As Type"  is set to "All Files". This is important in order to preserve the ".aol" extension. Otherwise Windows may append the ".aol" extension with an additional extension which will cause problems with your installation. Never overlay a new ModelSim release over the top of an old release. Either remove the old release first or install the new release to a different location. For win32 installations always use uninstall to remove an old release. Using uninstall will remove the the old releases' registry entry. For Unix or Linux installations you can simply delete the old release. Never do multiple Windows installs into the same target folder/directory. Always use a new folder/directory as the target for each Windows install. The release directory contains the following files: -- Common files -- INSTALL_NOTES This file. RELEASE_NOTES Release notes for current release. modelsim_se_install.pdf Installation details. mgc_licen.pdf Licensing details. -- For Unix or Linux -- modelsim-2019.4.aol Modelsim SE Linux Install modelsim-gcc-4.2.1-mingw32vc12.zip SystemC gcc 4.2.1 for Windows 7, 8.1, 10 modelsim-gcc-4.5.0-mingw64vc12.zip gcc for win64 compile of DPI/VPI/PLI/FLI C/C++ on Windows 7 and 8 Note: The Win32 gcc is NO LONGER automatically installed when ModelSim is installed. See below installation instructions. -- For Windows -- modelsim-win32-2019.4-se.exe ModelSim 32-bit self extracting executable. modelsim-win64-2019.4-se.exe ModelSim 64-bit self extracting executable. 1) Install Release -- For Unix or Linux -- A complete release contains the install file, the base install file, the platform specific install file(s) for your machine type(s) and the documentation install file. From a linux shell prompt, set the DISPLAY environment variable, and then execute the Installer file (modelsim-2019.4.aol) to begin the installation process. Use the MSI interface to install the tool to the locations required. The MSI interface provides documentation by selecting the Help button at the top of the window. Add the ModelSim executables directory to your PATH environment variable: PATH=/ where can be linux, or linux_x86_64. -- For Windows -- win32: modelsim-win32-2019.4-se.exe Double click the file to install ModelSim. win64: modelsim-win64-2019.4-se.exe Double click the file to install ModelSim. ADDITIONAL SYSTEMC INSTALLATION: copy modelsim-gcc-4.2.1-mingw32vc12.zip into the folder Open up the zip file modelsim-gcc-4.2.1-mingw32vc12.zip and extract the contents into this folder. win64 does not support systemc At this point, the installed modeltech directory contains all the base files, the docs files and the platform specific executables. For SystemC, it should also contain gcc executables. Uninstalling from Windows 1) Select: Start menu > Settings > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs 2) Select: Mentor Graphics Products, which invokes the Mentor Graphics Install program. 3) Select the product you want to uninstall 4) Click Next 5) Click Remove Revision Date: Tuesday October 22, 2019 #Mentor Graphics Search Data #meta="doc.type.documentation.sys,product.version.2019.4,product.id.P10467"