I'm not an expert in tcl & ISE file but ASFAIK with the tcl console
does't need the GUI , you can find more information in the software docs
(I just checked the ISE help)
Have fun,
Aurash
Andreas Ehliar wrote:

>On 2006-10-06, Aurelian Lazarut <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>>Hi Andreas,
>>ISE 8.2 has a tcl interface and supports partitions,
>>
>>
>
>Yes, I've read that part of the documentation. But my problem
>is (correct me if I'm wrong here) that there is no information
>about how to use the tcl interface unless the project navigator
>GUI is started. Is it even possible to do so?
>
>If not, is it possible to start project navigator and force it
>to run a certain tcl script at startup?
>
>
>For automatic regression testing for example, it is not really
>acceptable that you have to start a GUI and manually compile the
>project. In fact, you probably don't want to start a GUI at all
>since you are probably running it from a cronjob...
>
>Another reason would be that it would be nice if partitions could
>be used in flows that do not use Project Navigator such as the
>one used in FPGA Advantage where only the Xilinx backend tools
>are used.
>
>My personal reason is that I'm not very fond of Project Navigator,
>it is basically too sluggish and it doesn't interact well with
>dual head. I also don't like the idea of putting all project
>data in a binary blob (.ise) which is quite hard on revision
>control systems [1]. I use emacs to edit all files anyway so my
>only use for project navigator is basically to press the
>"Generate bitfile" button.
>
>
>
>/Andreas
>
>[1] I know that you (nowadays) can use tcl to export and import
> files which makes this situation better but still awkward.
>
>


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