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9 years ago

Bare-metal project type not available / Altera Bare Metal GCC

I'm using the Cyclone V SocKit and the EDS version 16, (I also tried 15.1). I can't seem to find the Altera Baremetal GCC toolchain. My colleagues are sending me projects built with the "Altera Bar...
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9 years ago

What finally worked for me was running a program from the embedded command shell. Execute ds5_link.exe from the embedded command shell. The executable was at <eds_install_dir>/embedded/host_tools/altera/ds5_link.

I can now build projects that are setup for the Altera Baremetal GCC toolchain. I still don't have the Baremetal project type, nor can I select the toolchain when creating a project, but the important thing for me was to be able to collaborate on an existing project configured with the Altera Baremetal GCC.