Failed to load argument parser (Vivado 2014.3)

[marbehant]

Get following error when installing my own app in Vivado 2014.3:

tclapp::install utils
INFO: [Common 17-660] Loading Tcl app 'utils' into namespace {mycompany::utils}
ERROR: [Common 17-359] Failed to load argument parser (attempt to provide package ::tclapp::support::args 1.0 failed: no version of package ::tclapp::support::args provided).

Same app is working fine in previous versions of Vivado.

[marbehant]

Still playing with XilinxTclStore in Vivado 2014.3

Actually the "Failed to load argument parser" error appears when opening the command help in the GUI (Xilinx Tcl Store > Details > Tcl Procs > Help...). Same error occurs with Xilinx apps.

Relative Tcl package name of installed apps is broken, we need to use fully qualified namespace to run commands.

% xilinx::projutils::convert_ngc -help
invalid command name "xilinx::projutils::convert_ngc"

% ::tclapp::xilinx::projutils::convert_ngc -help
ERROR: [Vivado-projutils-301] Unknown option '-help', please type 'convert_ngc -help' for usage info.
ERROR: [Common 17-39] 'send_msg_id' failed due to earlier errors.

[binochotta]

projutils is loaded into the global namespace. You should run it without any namespace. E.g. convert_ngc –help.
Thanks,
Bin

From: Marbehant Jean-Francois [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 6:42 AM
To: Xilinx/XilinxTclStore
Subject: Re: [XilinxTclStore] Failed to load argument parser (Vivado 2014.3) (#348)

Still playing with XilinxTclStore in Vivado 2014.3

Actually the "Failed to load argument parser" error appears when opening the command help in the GUI (Xilinx Tcl Store > Details > Tcl Procs > Help...). Same error occurs with Xilinx apps.

Relative Tcl package name of installed apps is broken, we need to use fully qualified namespace to run commands.

% xilinx::projutils::convert_ngc -help

invalid command name "xilinx::projutils::convert_ngc"

% ::tclapp::xilinx::projutils::convert_ngc -help

ERROR: [Vivado-projutils-301] Unknown option '-help', please type 'convert_ngc -help' for usage info.

ERROR: [Common 17-39] 'send_msg_id' failed due to earlier errors.

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[marbehant]

Hi Bin,

projutils was not the best example. But still “convert_ngc -help” doesn’t work for me.

I need to use fully qualified namespace for all apps (designutils…). I get the same error from the command help GUI (for example “invalid command name "xilinx::designutils::bisect_pblock"” in the Command Reference window).

Regards,
Jean-François

From: Bin Ochotta [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: mardi 28 octobre 2014 16:39
To: Xilinx/XilinxTclStore
Cc: Marbehant, Jean-François
Subject: Re: [XilinxTclStore] Failed to load argument parser (Vivado 2014.3) (#348)

projutils is loaded into the global namespace. You should run it without any namespace. E.g. convert_ngc –help.
Thanks,
Bin

From: Marbehant Jean-Francois [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 6:42 AM
To: Xilinx/XilinxTclStore
Subject: Re: [XilinxTclStore] Failed to load argument parser (Vivado 2014.3) (#348)

Still playing with XilinxTclStore in Vivado 2014.3

Actually the "Failed to load argument parser" error appears when opening the command help in the GUI (Xilinx Tcl Store > Details > Tcl Procs > Help...). Same error occurs with Xilinx apps.

Relative Tcl package name of installed apps is broken, we need to use fully qualified namespace to run commands.

% xilinx::projutils::convert_ngc -help

invalid command name "xilinx::projutils::convert_ngc"

% ::tclapp::xilinx::projutils::convert_ngc -help

ERROR: [Vivado-projutils-301] Unknown option '-help', please type 'convert_ngc -help' for usage info.

ERROR: [Common 17-39] 'send_msg_id' failed due to earlier errors.

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[dpefour]

Hi Jean-Francois,

Can you try to run tclapp::reset_tclstore and re-start Vivado?

Let us know if it works.

Thanks,
David

From: Marbehant Jean-Francois [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 8:53 AM
To: Xilinx/XilinxTclStore
Subject: Re: [XilinxTclStore] Failed to load argument parser (Vivado 2014.3) (#348)

Hi Bin,

projutils was not the best example. But still “convert_ngc -help” doesn’t work for me.

I need to use fully qualified namespace for all apps (designutils…). I get the same error from the command help GUI (for example “invalid command name "xilinx::designutils::bisect_pblock"” in the Command Reference window).

Regards,
Jean-François

From: Bin Ochotta [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: mardi 28 octobre 2014 16:39
To: Xilinx/XilinxTclStore
Cc: Marbehant, Jean-François
Subject: Re: [XilinxTclStore] Failed to load argument parser (Vivado 2014.3) (#348)

projutils is loaded into the global namespace. You should run it without any namespace. E.g. convert_ngc –help.
Thanks,
Bin

From: Marbehant Jean-Francois [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 6:42 AM
To: Xilinx/XilinxTclStore
Subject: Re: [XilinxTclStore] Failed to load argument parser (Vivado 2014.3) (#348)

Still playing with XilinxTclStore in Vivado 2014.3

Actually the "Failed to load argument parser" error appears when opening the command help in the GUI (Xilinx Tcl Store > Details > Tcl Procs > Help...). Same error occurs with Xilinx apps.

Relative Tcl package name of installed apps is broken, we need to use fully qualified namespace to run commands.

% xilinx::projutils::convert_ngc -help

invalid command name "xilinx::projutils::convert_ngc"

% ::tclapp::xilinx::projutils::convert_ngc -help

ERROR: [Vivado-projutils-301] Unknown option '-help', please type 'convert_ngc -help' for usage info.

ERROR: [Common 17-39] 'send_msg_id' failed due to earlier errors.

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[binochotta]

Hi Jean-François,

Did you use env XILINX_TCLAPP_REPO to point to your local repository? Can you send me vivado.log from where you start vivado?
Thanks,
Bin

From: Marbehant Jean-Francois [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 8:53 AM
To: Xilinx/XilinxTclStore
Cc: Bin Ochotta
Subject: Re: [XilinxTclStore] Failed to load argument parser (Vivado 2014.3) (#348)

Hi Bin,

projutils was not the best example. But still “convert_ngc -help” doesn’t work for me.

I need to use fully qualified namespace for all apps (designutils…). I get the same error from the command help GUI (for example “invalid command name "xilinx::designutils::bisect_pblock"” in the Command Reference window).

Regards,
Jean-François

From: Bin Ochotta [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: mardi 28 octobre 2014 16:39
To: Xilinx/XilinxTclStore
Cc: Marbehant, Jean-François
Subject: Re: [XilinxTclStore] Failed to load argument parser (Vivado 2014.3) (#348)

projutils is loaded into the global namespace. You should run it without any namespace. E.g. convert_ngc –help.
Thanks,
Bin

From: Marbehant Jean-Francois [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 6:42 AM
To: Xilinx/XilinxTclStore
Subject: Re: [XilinxTclStore] Failed to load argument parser (Vivado 2014.3) (#348)

Still playing with XilinxTclStore in Vivado 2014.3

Actually the "Failed to load argument parser" error appears when opening the command help in the GUI (Xilinx Tcl Store > Details > Tcl Procs > Help...). Same error occurs with Xilinx apps.

Relative Tcl package name of installed apps is broken, we need to use fully qualified namespace to run commands.

% xilinx::projutils::convert_ngc -help

invalid command name "xilinx::projutils::convert_ngc"

% ::tclapp::xilinx::projutils::convert_ngc -help

ERROR: [Vivado-projutils-301] Unknown option '-help', please type 'convert_ngc -help' for usage info.

ERROR: [Common 17-39] 'send_msg_id' failed due to earlier errors.

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[marbehant]

Hi David, Hi Bin,

I’ve finally found the culprit: 250e258

And it raises an interesting question. My local repo is a clone of the master branch of XilinxTclStore. It also contains my own tcl apps.
From time to time I run “git pull” to fetch latest updates from GitHub.

Since XILINX_TCLAPP_REPO points to my local repo, first time I run a new version of Vivado, it copies the support package (XilinxTclStore/support) from my cloned repo to ~/.Xilinx/Vivado/20xx.y
And it looks like support/args/args.tcl is tightly tied to Vivado. So any breaking change in the support package and the wrong sequence of events lead to a broken XilinxTclStore.

The workaround is to unset XILINX_TCLAPP_REPO, delete ~/.Xilinx/Vivado/2014.3, re-run Vivado. After that I can use my local repo.
My feeling is that the support package should always be copied from the Vivado installation.

Maybe should I track a different branch for each version (which wouldn’t have helped here since the breaking change affects also the branch 2014.3).
And since I can no longer use “set_param tclapp.sharedRepoPath” in the init.tcl script of the Vivado installation, I have only one system-wide XILINX_TCLAPP_REPO env for all versions of Vivado installed on the server.

Will XilinxTclStore support multiple repositories? That would be the best solution.

Best regards,
Jean-François

From: dpefour [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: mardi 28 octobre 2014 16:59
To: Xilinx/XilinxTclStore
Cc: Marbehant, Jean-François
Subject: Re: [XilinxTclStore] Failed to load argument parser (Vivado 2014.3) (#348)

Hi Jean-Francois,

Can you try to run tclapp::reset_tclstore and re-start Vivado?

Let us know if it works.

Thanks,
David

From: Marbehant Jean-Francois [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 8:53 AM
To: Xilinx/XilinxTclStore
Subject: Re: [XilinxTclStore] Failed to load argument parser (Vivado 2014.3) (#348)

Hi Bin,

projutils was not the best example. But still “convert_ngc -help” doesn’t work for me.

I need to use fully qualified namespace for all apps (designutils…). I get the same error from the command help GUI (for example “invalid command name "xilinx::designutils::bisect_pblock"” in the Command Reference window).

Regards,
Jean-François

From: Bin Ochotta [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: mardi 28 octobre 2014 16:39
To: Xilinx/XilinxTclStore
Cc: Marbehant, Jean-François
Subject: Re: [XilinxTclStore] Failed to load argument parser (Vivado 2014.3) (#348)

projutils is loaded into the global namespace. You should run it without any namespace. E.g. convert_ngc –help.
Thanks,
Bin

From: Marbehant Jean-Francois [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 6:42 AM
To: Xilinx/XilinxTclStore
Subject: Re: [XilinxTclStore] Failed to load argument parser (Vivado 2014.3) (#348)

Still playing with XilinxTclStore in Vivado 2014.3

Actually the "Failed to load argument parser" error appears when opening the command help in the GUI (Xilinx Tcl Store > Details > Tcl Procs > Help...). Same error occurs with Xilinx apps.

Relative Tcl package name of installed apps is broken, we need to use fully qualified namespace to run commands.

% xilinx::projutils::convert_ngc -help

invalid command name "xilinx::projutils::convert_ngc"

% ::tclapp::xilinx::projutils::convert_ngc -help

ERROR: [Vivado-projutils-301] Unknown option '-help', please type 'convert_ngc -help' for usage info.

ERROR: [Common 17-39] 'send_msg_id' failed due to earlier errors.

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[binochotta]

Hi Jean-François,

Thanks for the detailed explanation of what went wrong.
We will look into it and see we can improve in the future.
Bin

From: Marbehant Jean-Francois [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2014 5:11 AM
To: Xilinx/XilinxTclStore
Cc: Bin Ochotta
Subject: Re: [XilinxTclStore] Failed to load argument parser (Vivado 2014.3) (#348)

Hi David, Hi Bin,

I’ve finally found the culprit: 250e258

And it raises an interesting question. My local repo is a clone of the master branch of XilinxTclStore. It also contains my own tcl apps.
From time to time I run “git pull” to fetch latest updates from GitHub.

Since XILINX_TCLAPP_REPO points to my local repo, first time I run a new version of Vivado, it copies the support package (XilinxTclStore/support) from my cloned repo to ~/.Xilinx/Vivado/20xx.y
And it looks like support/args/args.tcl is tightly tied to Vivado. So any breaking change in the support package and the wrong sequence of events lead to a broken XilinxTclStore.

The workaround is to unset XILINX_TCLAPP_REPO, delete ~/.Xilinx/Vivado/2014.3, re-run Vivado. After that I can use my local repo.
My feeling is that the support package should always be copied from the Vivado installation.

Maybe should I track a different branch for each version (which wouldn’t have helped here since the breaking change affects also the branch 2014.3).
And since I can no longer use “set_param tclapp.sharedRepoPath” in the init.tcl script of the Vivado installation, I have only one system-wide XILINX_TCLAPP_REPO env for all versions of Vivado installed on the server.

Will XilinxTclStore support multiple repositories? That would be the best solution.

Best regards,
Jean-François

From: dpefour [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: mardi 28 octobre 2014 16:59
To: Xilinx/XilinxTclStore
Cc: Marbehant, Jean-François
Subject: Re: [XilinxTclStore] Failed to load argument parser (Vivado 2014.3) (#348)

Hi Jean-Francois,

Can you try to run tclapp::reset_tclstore and re-start Vivado?

Let us know if it works.

Thanks,
David

From: Marbehant Jean-Francois [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 8:53 AM
To: Xilinx/XilinxTclStore
Subject: Re: [XilinxTclStore] Failed to load argument parser (Vivado 2014.3) (#348)

Hi Bin,

projutils was not the best example. But still “convert_ngc -help” doesn’t work for me.

I need to use fully qualified namespace for all apps (designutils…). I get the same error from the command help GUI (for example “invalid command name "xilinx::designutils::bisect_pblock"” in the Command Reference window).

Regards,
Jean-François

From: Bin Ochotta [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: mardi 28 octobre 2014 16:39
To: Xilinx/XilinxTclStore
Cc: Marbehant, Jean-François
Subject: Re: [XilinxTclStore] Failed to load argument parser (Vivado 2014.3) (#348)

projutils is loaded into the global namespace. You should run it without any namespace. E.g. convert_ngc –help.
Thanks,
Bin

From: Marbehant Jean-Francois [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 6:42 AM
To: Xilinx/XilinxTclStore
Subject: Re: [XilinxTclStore] Failed to load argument parser (Vivado 2014.3) (#348)

Still playing with XilinxTclStore in Vivado 2014.3

Actually the "Failed to load argument parser" error appears when opening the command help in the GUI (Xilinx Tcl Store > Details > Tcl Procs > Help...). Same error occurs with Xilinx apps.

Relative Tcl package name of installed apps is broken, we need to use fully qualified namespace to run commands.

% xilinx::projutils::convert_ngc -help

invalid command name "xilinx::projutils::convert_ngc"

% ::tclapp::xilinx::projutils::convert_ngc -help

ERROR: [Vivado-projutils-301] Unknown option '-help', please type 'convert_ngc -help' for usage info.

ERROR: [Common 17-39] 'send_msg_id' failed due to earlier errors.

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