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18 years ago

Compiling on dual core system

I am trying to get the Nios II IDE working on my new laptop which has a Core2 DUO CPU on board. When compiling the IDE seems to only start one compiler task though. Does anyone know how to set...
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18 years ago

If you're using Windows, I'd advocate running 'make -j2 -s' from a Command Shell after you've built, initially from within the IDE. There might be some way to turn this switch on, automatically, within the IDE that I'm not aware of...

On Linux, this should work, but I'm not sure if the Cygwin environment (used in Windows) allows you to do this. Also, keep in mind that the largest source of "slowness" when using Windows is that Cygwin layer. Linux doesn't have this problem and is, therefore, significantly faster.

Regards,

- slacker