Macro in `include compiler directive.

You really don't want to use a macro for this, as it would force you to recompile for each simulation. You should consider using the $value$plusarg() call to pass in a string at simulation time:

xrun -R +rom_file=/path/to/rom_image.hex

string romfile;
initial begin
  if ($value$plusargs("rom_file=",romfile))
    $readmemh(....);
  else
    $fatal(1,"No ROM file specified");
end

Haven't tried it out myself, but if you would want FILEPATH to be dereferenced as a define, you should write:  `include `FILEPATH  

Still not sure if this will work

I think the op wanted to say "each file from a different path" and was not talking about preloading a ROM image.

Good point Tudor, clearly I need more coffee ;-)

Hi,

The following works:

 > more test.sv
`define FILEPATH ""
//`include "foo.sv"
`include  `FILEPATH
module test;
  foo foo_i();
  initial begin
    $display("module test");
    $display("FILEPATH = %s", `FILEPATH);
  end
endmodule

> more foo.sv
module foo;
  initial $display("module foo");
endmodule

> xrun -clean test.sv +define+FILEPATH='"foo.sv"'

Log Snippet:

xcelium> run
module foo
module test
FILEPATH = foo.sv
xmsim: *W,RNQUIE: Simulation is complete.
xcelium> exit

Hi everybody, thank you for your very quick help!

I confirm muffi's code works for me, too.

I made an interesting observation, though. I tried a similar line, that didn't work, which is why I came to this forum, in first place.

What I literally had in my code was something like this:

`include "/../../.."`FILEPATH"/../.."

So, I actually just wanted to hand various directory names per external defines to the simulator. And this apparently cannot be done! So, macros, that would need to replaced inline, can't be resolved. Full paths given per macro, like in muffi's example work, though.

I just wanted to share this with you. muffi's solution solves my issue, as I can hand over full paths in my flow.

Again, thank you all!

Michael