gcc compiler for nios2

The Nios II toolchain can be rebuilt under Linux using the source code found on the Nios II Embedded Processor CD.

The source code should be installed onto your windows machine. I tarred and bzipped it, and then transferred it to my Linux machine.

Word of warning... the toolchain is littered with CRLF's that really cause problems with the configure scripts and Makefiles. Any problems you might have are quite likely due to CRLF's. You may want to try running the source tree through a "dos2unix" type utility. I used "flip" to fix up the tree.

I used the following environment variables while following the instructions below:

target = nios2-elf
prefix = /home/kenw/work/r6200
scratch = /home/kenw/tmp

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Building/Installing binutils

$ mkdir -p $scratch/build/binutils

$ cd $scratch/build/binutils

$ $scratch/src/binutils/configure

--target=$target

--prefix=$prefix

-v 2>&1 | tee configure.out

$ make -w all install 2>&1 | tee make.out

$ export PATH=$prefix/bin:$PATH

Building/Installing gcc

$ mkdir -p $scratch/build/gcc

$ cd $scratch/build/gcc

$ $scratch/src/gcc/configure

--target=$target

--prefix=$prefix

--with-gnu-as

--with-gnu-ld

--with-newlib

-v 2>&1 | tee configure.out

$ make -w all-gcc install-gcc

LANGUAGES="c c++" 2>&1 | tee make.out

Building/Installing newlib

$ mkdir -p $scratch/build/newlib

$ cd $scratch/build/newlib

$ $scratch/src/newlib/configure

--target=$target

--prefix=$prefix

2>&1 | tee make.out

$ cd $scratch/src/newlib/newlib

$ cp configure.host.smallc configure.host

$ make 2>&1 | tee make.out

$ make install[/b]

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Good luck!

Thanks for your reactions. I&#39;ve found the source files. It was an extra option during the installation of the NIOSII IDE.

I compiled the source code and now I have a working compiler.

Jelle