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21 years ago

elf2flash can't find boot copier

I just installed Quartus II 3.0 (yes, the old version) alongside my existing Quartus II 4.0 and Nios II IDE installations. Since then, building any software project in N2IDE produces this error: ...
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21 years ago

I just closed Quartus 4 and the IDE, then restarted the IDE and tried to build some projects: 

Error in build:
(Exec error:Launching failed)

In eclipse/.metadata/.log: 

!ENTRY org.eclipse.cdt.core 4 4 Sep 03, 2004 15:48:26.52
!MESSAGE Error
!STACK 0
java.lang.NullPointerException
    at com.altera.ide.core.builder.AlteraGeneratedMakefileBuilder.invokeMake(AlteraGeneratedMakefileBuilder.java:483)
    at com.altera.ide.core.builder.AlteraGeneratedMakefileBuilder.incrementalBuild(AlteraGeneratedMakefileBuilder.java:298)
    at com.altera.ide.core.builder.AlteraGeneratedMakefileBuilder.managedBuild(AlteraGeneratedMakefileBuilder.java:187)
    at com.altera.ide.core.builder.AlteraGeneratedMakefileBuilder.build(AlteraGeneratedMakefileBuilder.java:157)
    at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager$2.run(BuildManager.java:427)
    at org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.InternalPlatform.run(InternalPlatform.java:1006)
    at org.eclipse.core.runtime.Platform.run(Platform.java:413)
    at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuild(BuildManager.java:125)
    at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuild(BuildManager.java:181)
    at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuild(BuildManager.java:191)
    at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager$1.run(BuildManager.java:151)
    at org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.InternalPlatform.run(InternalPlatform.java:1006)
    at org.eclipse.core.runtime.Platform.run(Platform.java:413)
    at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuild(BuildManager.java:165)
    at org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.build(BuildManager.java:265)
    at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Project.build(Project.java:85)
    at org.eclipse.ui.actions.BuildAction.invokeOperation(BuildAction.java:156)
    at org.eclipse.ui.actions.WorkspaceAction.execute(WorkspaceAction.java:122)
    at org.eclipse.ui.actions.WorkspaceAction$1.execute(WorkspaceAction.java:279)
    at org.eclipse.ui.actions.WorkspaceModifyOperation$1.run(WorkspaceModifyOperation.java:71)
    at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Workspace.run(Workspace.java:1595)
    at org.eclipse.ui.actions.WorkspaceModifyOperation.run(WorkspaceModifyOperation.java:85)
    at org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext$ModalContextThread.run(ModalContext.java:101)

Then I did a "Rebuild" of a project. Now, building projects only gives me the boot loader error, not the mysterious "(Exec error:Launching failed)" nor the app.mk file-not-found problem.