[ # ] Cadence NCSim Compile Error: *F,NOLSTD

/* Posted April 16th, 2008 at 11:33am */
/* Filed under Hardware, Programming */

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I was compiling some VHDL code to run on the Cadence NCSim simulator with our new tools depot setup when I encountered this compile error:
ncvhdl: 06.11-s002: (c) Copyright 1995-2007 Cadence Design Systems, Inc. ncvhdl_p: *F,NOLSTD: logical library name STD must be mapped to a design library [11.2].
After some investigation, it turned out that our tool setup was missing the critical $CDS_INST_DIR environment variable that our cds.lib file was referring to for the STD library definition. After working with IT to properly define it, the build went through without any problems. The cds.lib file was defined like so:
include $CDS_INST_DIR/tools/inca/files/cds.lib