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16 years ago

Any reported issues with NIOS IDE using vista?

Hi Everyone, I have just spent all afternoon trying to figure out why I have been getting a stack overflow error when trying to compile my project in NIOS IDE using Vista. When I tried the same...
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16 years ago

Yes I saw that a lot running on 64-bit Vista. I also know that running Logitect setpoint software with the IDE open can be quite painful (it's some sort of conflict with Eclipse). I haven't seen any issues yet using the new software built tools for Eclipse on Windows 7 64-bit edition and I would expect the same on Vista.

Worst comes to worst I typically install virtualization software and run whatever guest OS I want. Virtualbox from Sun seems to do a pretty good job and they support the latest host operating systems from Windows. Disk accesses can be a bit slow as well as accessing a USB-Blaster through the virtual layer but it works.