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Honored ContributorIf I've understood the question correctly, then the answer is that builds are controlled using Make. The top level makefile is generated by the IDE and placed in the Debug/Release directory of your project.
If you don't want the IDE to manage the makefile's for you, then you can create your own project using the "Advanced C/C++ Project" option. This requires you to provide your own makefile. You can copy one from an existing Nios II project as a starting point. The IDE uses GNU make. You can find documentation for this in a lot of different places, including: http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html (http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html)
