I have a new installation of ARM Development Studio 2023.0. I haven't gotten to the point of requesting a 30-day evaluation license. Immediately when launching the program, the product hangs with the following dialog:
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Like many systems, I have an environment variable "LM_LICENSE_FILE" set to "C:\FlexLM\license.dat". On a hunch, I renamed the "license.dat" file to something else and created an empty "license.dat". 2023.0 launched successfully, being rewarded with the expected "Add License" dialog:
I added one comment line:
# IMPORTANT
...to "license.dat" and received the "Activate product" dialog:
I removed the comment and substituted the first "feature" in the file, which happened to be for ModelSim:
INCREMENT msimcompare mgcld 2023.120 30-mar-2024 0 CFC395FD7C6058EB16C8 \ VENDOR_STRING=CD6B950A HOSTID=FLEXID=9-72c52260 SN=283629548 \ SIGN2="101F FA0D 8C47 C6FC 46B9 AAD1 6DAB BE9E 9671 B790 17CB 9032 \ D99A 05CA C53C 1D09 5F30 3424 4F2D 5B59 0431 90F2 C45A B7AB BA48 D0AB \ B8AC D045 5B42 BC37"
...and got the above "Activate product" dialog. Lastly, I put both the comment and the feature in the same file thus:
# IMPORTANT INCREMENT msimcompare mgcld 2023.120 30-mar-2024 0 CFC395FD7C6058EB16C8 \ VENDOR_STRING=CD6B950A HOSTID=FLEXID=9-72c52260 SN=283629548 \ SIGN2="101F FA0D 8C47 C6FC 46B9 AAD1 6DAB BE9E 9671 B790 17CB 9032 \ D99A 05CA C53C 1D09 5F30 3424 4F2D 5B59 0431 90F2 C45A B7AB BA48 D0AB \ B8AC D045 5B42 BC37"
...and got the usual hang dialog:
Hopefully, that will give your development engineers enough to replicate and/or fix the issue.
Hi again Ken,
Thanks for this information - yes, LM_LICENSE_FILE is searched for a license (as is ARMLMD_LICENSE_FILE).
I suspect the lack of an Arm DS license therein caused this issue.
I'll update the development team.
Hope you can now proceed with the tools.
Regards, Ronan