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raviganesh
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4 years ago

Annoying error message during build with Nios2 EDS V20.1 on windows 10

I am able to build successfully but also get these annoying messages...

ravi@DESKTOP-AU89ANE:/mnt/d/1_k32p/a_fpga/k32pNios$ make
Info: Building /mnt/d/1_k32p/a_fpga/k32pNios_bsp
make --no-print-directory -C /mnt/d/1_k32p/a_fpga/k32pNios_bsp
[BSP build complete]
cd ..; powershell.exe ./a.ps1
<3>init: (1684) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2021: Failed to translate /usr/local/sbin
<3>init: (1684) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2021: Failed to translate /usr/local/bin
<3>init: (1684) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2021: Failed to translate /usr/sbin
<3>init: (1684) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2021: Failed to translate /usr/bin
<3>init: (1684) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2021: Failed to translate /sbin
<3>init: (1684) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2021: Failed to translate /bin
<3>init: (1684) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2021: Failed to translate /usr/games
<3>init: (1684) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2021: Failed to translate /usr/local/games
Sep 25, 2021 3:46:52 AM - (INFO) elf2hex: args = --input=./k32pNios/k32pNios.elf --output=./e32p/cpu/InsMem.hex --width=
32 --base=0x00020000 --end=0x0024fff --record=4 --verbose

How can this be turned off?

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  • raviganesh's avatar
    raviganesh
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    4 years ago

    The only useful thing this file "nios2_command_shell.sh" does when Nios II Command Shell is opened is to set three paths.

    Most of the utilities like elf2hex, quartus_asm.exe are native windows executables.

    Hence I use powershell entirely for post build. This is how my post build script has become:

    $env:Path += ";E:\intelFPGA\20.1\nios2eds\bin; E:\intelFPGA\20.1\nios2eds\bin\gnu\H-x86_64-mingw32\bin; E:\intelFPGA\20.1\quartus\bin64"

    quartus_cdb.exe ./e32p/krx -c krb0 --update_mif

    -- Add whatever you want to do post build---

    No more WSL nagging message!!
    PS: Using PowerShell over cmd.exe was a personal preference!

    • raviganesh's avatar
      raviganesh
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      4 years ago

      Rant:

      Atmel Studio Uses GNU. Even Arduino uses GNU. Intalling them is breeze.

      Has anyone installed Nios 2 EDS 20.1 in windows. It is so painful.

      Why did Altera become Intel!!!

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      raviganesh
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      4 years ago

      The annoying error messages are from WSL only. I would recommend not to use WSL for the windows tools like elf2hex and other post build activity. Instead use cmd.exe or Powershell. I find that WSL is used only by Eclipse IDE for "make" and "link" and a windows user can be agonistic to WSL as far as Quartus and Nios2 EDS are concerned.

      In the next versions of Quartus, I would like to have

      1. Full Eclipse IDE packaged

      2. A minimal Linux Kernl packaged instead of downloading Ubuntu18.1LTS

      3. Make, dos2unix and other stuff packaged instead of using "apt"

      Well in the future version I would like to have

      1. Visual Studio Code as the IDE and windows ported "make" using GNU C (just like arduino)

      And lastly I would like to have

      Atom soft processor instead of ARM NIOS and Intel C compiler/Visual studio C compiler and full Visual Studio Code IDE.

      Looks like a nice dream ??