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meenalkb
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5 years ago

Error occurs starting Nios II SBT (18.4) after installing plugins through Eclipse marketplace

I would like to install some plugins into Nios II SBT 18.4. Specifically, these are the Percepio Tracealyzer plugin and the Micrium uC Probe plugin. However, I get the following error message whe...
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meenalkb
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5 years ago

Thank you. I have successfully used the method you described, for Tracealyzer. However, the same issue applies to the other plugin(s) I would like to install.

I am hoping someone from Intel will reply and tell me about when Nios II SBT is going to be updated to a newer version of Eclipse? Is there a way I can request this?

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BoonBengT_Altera
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5 years ago

Hi @meenalkb,

Thank you for posting in Intel community forum, hope this message find you well and apologies for the delayed in response.
Eclipse for NIOS II is based on the publicly available eclipse, per my understanding there should be nothing that have been introduced to explicitly stop the plugin from working, but unfortunately we do not perform any interoperability testing with the plugin mention.

Upon some investigation, suspecting that the eclipse mars upon plugin installation, the rebuilding the files might have cause some files corruption.
Found this particular workaround in the nets, can you please try to see if that helps:
- Start fresh from a working version of NIOS 2.
- Installed the plugin, but do not restart the application.
- Close the NIOS SBT manually.
- Navigate to the profiles (i.e. C:\Users\<user>\.altera.sbt4e\<quartusversion>-windows64\configuration) folder.
- There should be a 'org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator''org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator.old'
- Try to start NIOS sbt and check if plugin are available.

As for updates on the newer version of eclipse, as of now I have not heard of any updates from the relevant team, allow me to check again and reconfirm on this.
Please do try and let us know if that helps.

Warm regards.
BB

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    BoonBengT_Altera
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    5 years ago

    Hi @meenalkb,

    Greeting, by any chances did you managed to try out the steps mention?

    Please do let us know if that has provided any helps.

    Thank you.

    Warm regards

    BB

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      meenalkb
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      5 years ago

      Hi @BoonBengT_Altera

      Thanks for the suggestion.

      Unfortunately it did not work - I followed the steps and could see "org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator" folder - but still get the error message when restarting Nios II SBT.

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        BoonBengT_Altera
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        5 years ago

        Hi @meenalkb,

        Thanks again for trying out the method to see if it works.
        Unfortunately we do not officially support 3rd party plugin on the Nios SBT.
        However we would try our best to feedback this to our internal team or find a workaround for this.
        If you have a wish list of plugin, please do share it to us and we would include this to be review in the next gen planning for the Nios tool.

        Warm regards
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