archive_project - 2020.2 English

Vivado Design Suite Tcl Command Reference Guide (UG835)

Document ID
UG835
Release Date
2020-11-18
Version
2020.2 English

Archive the current project

Syntax

archive_project [‑temp_dir <arg>] [‑force] [‑exclude_run_results]
    [‑include_config_settings] [‑include_runs_in_progress]
    [‑include_local_ip_cache] [‑quiet] [‑verbose] [<file>]

Returns

true

Usage

Name Description
[-temp_dir] specify temporary location to save project copy to archive Default: .
[-force] Overwrite existing archived file
[-exclude_run_results] Exclude run results from the archive
[-include_config_settings] Include current project environment configuration settings/files in archive
[-include_runs_in_progress] Include run result even if the run is in progress, this switch will be ignored if -exclude_run_results is specified
[-include_local_ip_cache] Include IP cache results in the archive
[-quiet] Ignore command errors
[-verbose] Suspend message limits during command execution
[<file>] Name of the archive file

Categories

Project

Description

Archives a project to store as backup, or to encapsulate the design and send it to a remote site. The tool parses the hierarchy of the design, copies the required source files, include files, and remote files from the library directories, copies the constraint files, copies the results of the various synthesis, simulation, and implementation runs, and then creates a ZIP file of the project.

Tip: In order to archive the tcl.pre and tcl.post scripts, associated with the synthesis and implementation steps in the Design Run Settings dialog box, you must add these script files to the project as design sources.

An alternative method of archiving the project is using write_project_tcl to create a Tcl script that will recreate the project in its current form.

Arguments

-temp_dir <arg> - (Optional) Specify a temporary directory to copy files to when creating the project archive. The temporary directory will be created if it does not exist, and will be emptied when the archive process is complete. By default, the Vivado tool will create a temporary directory inside of the current working directory.

-force - (Optional) Overwrite an existing ZIP file of the same name. If the ZIP file exists, the tool returns an error unless the -force argument is specified.

-exclude_run_results - (Optional) Exclude the results of any synthesis or implementation runs. This command can greatly reduce the size of a project archive.

-include_config_settings - (Optional) Add any initialization Tcl commands (init.tcl) to the archive file under the <project_name>/config_settings folder.

-include_runs_in_progress - (Optional) Include data in the archive from the directories of incomplete runs. This switch will be ignored if -exclude_run_results is specified.

-include_local_ip_cache - (Optional) Include the cached IP synthesis results in the project archive. This command only includes cached synthesis results if the IP cache is local to the project rather than remote. Refer to the config_ip_cache command for more information.

-quiet - (Optional) Execute the command quietly, returning no messages from the command. The command also returns TCL_OK regardless of any errors encountered during execution.
Note: Any errors encountered on the command-line, while launching the command, will be returned. Only errors occurring inside the command will be trapped.
-verbose - (Optional) Temporarily override any message limits and return all messages from this command.
Note: Message limits can be defined with the set_msg_config command.

<file> - (Optional) The name of the ZIP file to be created by the archive_project command. If <file> is not specified, a ZIP file with the same name as the project is created.

Examples

The following command archives the current project:
archive_project
Note: The project archive is named <project_name>.zip because no file name is specified.
The following example specifies project_3 as the current project, and then archives that project into a file called proj3.zip:
current_project project_3  
archive_project -force -exclude_run_results proj3.zip
Note: The use of the -force argument causes the tool to overwrite the proj3.zip file if one exists. The use of the -exclude_run_results argument causes the tool to leave any results from synthesis or implementation runs out of the archive. The various runs defined in the project are included in the archive, but not any of the results.
The following command archives the current project in the specified file, overwrites an existing file if needed, excludes the run results, and includes any configuration settings used when launching the Vivado tool:
archive_project -force mb1_archive.zip -temp_dir C:/Data/Temp \  
   -exclude_run_results -include_config_settings