Synopsys A-2007.12 Manuale Utente

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Installing the Software

IC Compiler uses the Synopsys Installer tool, which allows you to use a text script or a 
graphical user interface (GUI). For information about downloading  the Synopsys Installer, 
see Installing Synopsys Tools at 

To install IC Compiler, follow the procedures described in Installing Synopsys Tools. This 
document provides a Synopsys media installation script. IC Compiler is installed in a similar 
manner.

IC Compiler is a stand-alone product and cannot be installed over an existing Synopsys 
product, including a prior version of IC Compiler. You must create a new directory for IC 
Compiler.

To set up the user environment, you must specify the location of the executable file and set 
the license environment variable.

A platform-independent wrapper script is provided for the IC Compiler tool. This script 
automatically determines the operating system platform at runtime, which simplifies the 
setup required to use IC Compiler. 

The platform-independent wrappers are located at
icc_root/bin and include the following new options:

-32bit|-64bit

Note:   

If you select an executable file that is not available, you will automatically be switched to 
an available platform based on your current environment. A warning message will not be 
issued. 

To set up the environment by using platform-independent wrappers, add the IC Compiler bin 
directory to the PATH environment variable.

If you are using the C shell, add the following line to the .cshrc file:

set path=(icc_root/bin $path)