General

The General section lists general user options. You can see and change these options in the quartus2.ini file with two Tcl commands, set_user_option and get_user_option under the project package.

The following table shows the General section variable names and values:

Variable Name	Values
`AUTO_RECOMPILE_BEFORE_SIM`	`1 \| 0 (On \| Off)`
`AUTO_RECOMPILE_BEFORE_SWBUILD`	`1 \| 0 (On \| Off)`
`COMPACT_REPORT_TABLE_FORMAT`	`0 \| 1 (Off \| On)`
`DELAY_QSF_UPDATES`	`1 \| 0 (On \| Off)`
`DESIGN_ASSISTANT_CUSTOM_RULE_FILE`	`<location>/<file name>`
`DISPLAY_MESSAGE_WHEN_PROCESS_DONE`	`1 \| 0 (On \| Off)`
`GENERATE_EQUATION_FILES`	`1 \| 0 (On \| Off)`
`GENERATE_HTML_REPORT_FILES`	`1 \| 0 (On \| Off)`
`GENERATE_SINGLE_REPORT_FILE`	`1 \| 0 (On \| Off)`
`HDL PREFERENCE`	VHDL \| Verilog \| AHDL
`LICENSE_FILE`	`<location>/<file name>`
`READ_WRITE_HEX_FILES_TO_WORD_BOUNDARY`	`1 \| 0 (On \| Off)`
`RUN_PROCESS_AT_LOWER_PRIORITY`	`1 \| 0 (On \| Off)`
`USER_LIBRARIES`	`<location>/<file name>`
`NUM_PARALLEL_PROCESSORS`	<number of processors> \| `All`
`USE_64BIT`	`(On \| Off)`
`SOUND_WHEN_PROCESS_DONE`	`1 \| 0 (On \| Off)`