Re: IRSIM support

[Steven Rubin]

At 05:43 PM 1/17/2007, you wrote:
> Is IRSIM supported in 8.04 or on MAC OS X?
> When I try to run electric with the electricBinary-8.04.jar in the 
> classpath, or from the cmdline
> I get the following exception
>
> =================================1=================================
> Exception executing terminateIt
> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sun/electric/tool/simulation/Engine
> at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
> at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:620)
> at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:124)
> at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:260)
> at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:56)
> at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:195)
> at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
> at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
> at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
> at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:299)
> at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:268)
> at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251)
> at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:319)
> at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
> at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:164)
> at com.sun.electric.tool.simulation.Simulation.hasIRSIM(Simulation.java:301)

Yes, IRSIM should work.  The crash here (in "hasIRSIM") is where 
Electric uses reflection to detect whether the IRSIM module is 
present.  It should not crash.  Exactly how did you invoke Electric with IRSIM?

   -Steven Rubin