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Honored ContributorThe commandLine options quartus_map (and the like) seem adequate and the TcL scripting is powerful (do quartus_sh --qhelp to get a help on available commands). A few things to iron out but it seems i can tackle this using generated batch files and running them. So that's a good progress.i
--- Quote Start --- originally posted by wombat@Nov 16 2004, 07:09 AM nios2-build and nios2-run are for the legacy sdk which is not recommended for new projects. --- Quote End --- oh dear ... i was looking at the tutorial available on the 'nios software development tutorial' (http://www.altera.com/literature/tt/tt_nios_sw.pdf) doco and also the web server example ('nios ethernet development kit' (http://digital5.ece.tntech.edu/public/altera/books/ug/niosedk.pdf), pg12) and they both seem to demonstrate using nios-build and nios-run. I have successfully managed to complete these examples/tutorials and also in addition make changes and tinker with the code. At no point was there a need for me to use the IDE (except for when loading the reference design). Am i going down the wrong track? --- Quote Start --- originally posted by wombat@Nov 16 2004, 07:09 AM 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. --- Quote End --- So is there no way for me to escape using the IDE? A bit more info, im using the NiOS excallibur with the Ethernet Development Kit, Quartus4.0, running on windows2k3 and developing the application in .NET Thanks for the current feedback ... do bear with me as i am still trying to come to grips with NiOS and the like.
