Altera Monitor Error Windows8

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Which version of Quartus are you using? Older version of Quartus are known to have problems with cygwin on newer OSes.

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Thank you Daixiwen.

My version 13.1 64bit and OS Windows8.1 64bit.

To fix;

Download / Install most recent Cygwin w/Perl for both x86 and x86_64.

I Renamed original folders C:\altera\13.0sp1\quartus\bin\cygwin to \cygwin_original

C:\altera\13.0sp1\quartus\bin64\cygwin to \cygwin_original

Created new empty ....\cygwin folders

Copy paste recent Cygwin into their respective directories C:\altera\13.0sp1\quartus\bin\cygwin (x86) and C:\altera\13.0sp1\quartus\bin64\cygwin (x86_64) directories respectively.

Referenced;

http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=43526&gsa_pos=2&wt.oss_r=1&wt.oss=couldn%27t%20compute%20fast_cwd%20pointer

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To fix;

Download / Install most recent Cygwin w/Perl for both x86 and x86_64.

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ok, I went to the cygwin (https://cygwin.com/install.html) page were I downloaded the setup-x86.exe (https://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe) and setup-x86_64.exe (https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe) files.

After runing one of them the installation assistent asked me to select the packages to install.

What packages should I select? (default, reinstall, uninstall, install)

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What packages should I select? (default, reinstall, uninstall, install)

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all in default works fine :)

thank you...

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all in default works fine :)

thank you...

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I am still having this issue. I have tried the fix posted on the University Programs site. As well as getting cygwin directly from the cygwin dot com site. I tried both the default cygwin install and the complete install. Neither have fixed the problem. Anyone have any other options to try?

I also deleted the folders in <quartus II install>/bin and /bin64 and re-installed the default cygwin packages and it still fails.

I'm using quartus 13.0sp1 and am trying to complete the intro tutorial with a DE2 board.

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I am still having this issue. I have tried the fix posted on the University Programs site. As well as getting cygwin directly from the cygwin dot com site. I tried both the default cygwin install and the complete install. Neither have fixed the problem. Anyone have any other options to try?

I also deleted the folders in <quartus II install>/bin and /bin64 and re-installed the default cygwin packages and it still fails.

I'm using quartus 13.0sp1 and am trying to complete the intro tutorial with a DE2 board.

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Hello,

This is what I did to solve that problem, it worked for me, hope it works for you:

check this page: http://www.altera.com/education/univ/unv-index.html

and follow the steps at the end of the page.

But I warn you, that after I solve that problem, I found another one which is mentioned is this thread:

http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=43109

So I went back to Quartus 12.1 and everything is working perfect for me now...

I use Win8 in my desktop and Win8.1 in my laptop, both of them are working fine with Quartus 12.1

Hope this help you.

I have resolved my Issue (although I feel there may still be issues)

When copying all the the cygwin patch files into the altera install directories there is a file <current> with no extention located in <cygwin_patch>\bin64\cygwin\usr\share\groff it is also present in the x86 path <cygwin_patch>\bin64\cygwin\usr\share\groff.

This file appears to be a symbolic link to the 1.22.2 folder located in the same path. When I open it in notepad++ there is one line that reads !<symlink>1.22.2 NUL

Having copied every file except for these "current" files into the altera into the install directory I can now successfully compile the tutorial files.

I am wondering if I should replace the folder within the install folder with the files contained in the 1.22.2 directory. (effectively creating the symbolic link for real) However, I am going to stop here before I do that because it is working with out doing that.