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20 years ago

Cross Compiling problems

In short, I'm trying to get EPICS ported to linux over NiosII. The folks at Argonne National lab already have EPICS running on linux over x86 architectures. Among the many cross compiling probl...
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20 years ago

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originally posted by dcurry@Jun 30 2005, 10:56 PM

so, my output from the compiler is correct, but during compilation it is using the wrong assembler. how do i get make to use the correct assembler. i tried to set the path in a config file.

path=/cygdrive/c/altera/......../nios2-elf-as:($path)

export path

i bombed after trying to make again. i got

*** recursive variable 'path' references itself (eventually)

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I think that should be

$ PATH=/home/user/path/compiler/bin/:$PATH

$ export PATH

You shouldn't put the binary in the PATH variable, only the location of the binary (directory).

As for the rest, I don't really know what's wrong. Can you compile a simple "hello world" program with your toolchain? If not, your installation of the toolchain must be bad.