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14 years ago

Quartus 8.1 on Linux

We have an old development project running with Quartus V8.1 which works fine on XP.

Our new development PCs are Windows7 which is unsupported with Quartus, so I thought I'd try running the Linux version.

I've downloaded and installed the NIOS IDE/Quartus II and I can see everything is in /opt/altera81, but when I load the project into Eclipse it won't compile!

It looks like the path to the nios2-elf-gcc (and the other tools) can't be found. Is there a script or something that I need to run before loading the IDE? There seems to be several snippets, but nothing that works properly.

Can anyone help me?

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    Altera_Forum
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    14 years ago

    Try adding the following directories to your path: (Of course using the correct install directory for your 8.1 install..)

    /opt/altera/11.1/quartus/sopc_builder/bin/:

    /opt/altera/11.1/nios2eds/bin:

    /opt/altera/11.1/nios2eds/sdk2/bin:

    /opt/altera/11.1/nios2eds/bin/gnu/H-i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin:

    Of course for longevity, I would try to migrate to the newest tools, but if that isn't possible, a Virtual Machine is a nice way to archive old projects. Generate a VM with Windows XP and all the tools you need, and build it in that. (Vmware player is free! and works great!)

    Pete