From a853559b2cb4c8c08fa4e847cb6ac5399fe31d8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lars Asplund <lars.anders.asplund@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:11:00 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Added VUnit menu in Questa/Modelsim GUI.

---
 vunit/sim_if/modelsim.py             | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 vunit/sim_if/vsim_simulator_mixin.py |  8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/vunit/sim_if/modelsim.py b/vunit/sim_if/modelsim.py
index df07e8a1e..b83865bdc 100644
--- a/vunit/sim_if/modelsim.py
+++ b/vunit/sim_if/modelsim.py
@@ -787,6 +787,22 @@ def _create_run_function():
 }
 """
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def _create_vunit_menu():
+        """
+        Create a menu in the GUI to call the VUnit commands.
+        """
+        tcl = 'add_menu "" VUnit\n'
+        tcl += 'add_menuitem "" VUnit "Run" vunit_run\n'
+        tcl += 'add_menuitem "" VUnit "Restart" vunit_restart\n'
+        tcl += 'add_menuitem "" VUnit "Compile" vunit_compile\n'
+        tcl += 'add_menuitem "" VUnit "Load Design" vunit_load\n'
+        tcl += 'add_menuitem "" VUnit "Run User Init File" vunit_user_init\n'
+        tcl += 'add_separator "" VUnit\n'
+        tcl += 'add_menuitem "" VUnit "Help" vunit_help\n'
+
+        return tcl
+
     def _vopt_extra_args(self, config):
         """
         Determine vopt_extra_args
diff --git a/vunit/sim_if/vsim_simulator_mixin.py b/vunit/sim_if/vsim_simulator_mixin.py
index 616a1c18b..9c5d64c8d 100644
--- a/vunit/sim_if/vsim_simulator_mixin.py
+++ b/vunit/sim_if/vsim_simulator_mixin.py
@@ -301,11 +301,19 @@ def _source_tcl_file(file_name, config, message):
         )
         return tcl
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def _create_vunit_menu():
+        """
+        Create a menu in the GUI to call the VUnit commands.
+        """
+        return ""
+
     def _create_gui_script(self, common_file_name, config):
         """
         Create the user facing script which loads common functions and prints a help message
         """
         tcl = f'source "{fix_path(common_file_name)!s}"\n'
+        tcl += self._create_vunit_menu()
         tcl += self._create_user_init_function(config)
         tcl += "if {![vunit_load]} {\n"
         tcl += "  vunit_user_init\n"