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21 years ago

automated building

Hi all, I am wondering about the possibility of automated build processes for the NiOS board. I am looking both at the process for FPGA designs and for C files. For FPGA designs: I und...
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21 years ago

There is a section in the manual about command line tools which you should probably check.

nios2-build and nios2-run are for the legacy SDK which is not recommended for new projects.

For projects based on the HAL the best way is to create your project in the IDE, build it once and then use `make` and `nios2-download` to build and run it. In 1.0 and 1.01 the step of creating the makefile is not available from the command line, but there's a new script to do this available in 1.1.