32-bit HP700 platform

ModelSim loads shared libraries on the HP700 workstation. A shared library is created by creating object files that contain position-independent code (use the +z or -fpic compiler option) and by linking as a shared library (use the -b linker option). Use these gcc or cc compiler commands:

gcc compiler:

gcc -c -fpic -I/<install_dir>/modeltech/include app.c
ld -b -o app.sl app.o -lc 

cc compiler:

cc -c +z -I/<install_dir>/modeltech/include app.c
ld -b -o app.sl app.o -lc 

Note that -fpic may not work with all versions of gcc.

for HP-UX 11.0 users

If you are building the PLI/VPI library under HP-UX 11.0, you should not specify the "-lc" option to the invocation of ld, since this will cause an incorrect version of the standard C library to be loaded.

In other words, build libraries like this:

cc -c +z -I/<install_dir>/modeltech/include app.c
ld -b -o app.sl app.o 

If you receive the error "Exec format error" when the simulator is trying to load a PLI/VPI library, then you have most likely built under 11.0 and specified the
"-lc" option. Just rebuild without "-lc" (or rebuild on an HP-UX 10.0 machine).

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