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21 years ago

Getting Nios GCC Source

I've been searching Altera's web site for some time now trying to find a link for the gcc source for the NiosII. The best thing I found on the site was a link pointing me to reference the "Fi...
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21 years ago

The Nios II port isn't in the main GCC tree yet.

The 1.1 and later toolchains do build under Linux. It might be easier for you to get the Linux version of the kit as that provides a tested Linux port of the IDE and other command line tools as well.

But if you really want the pain of building the toolchain yourself then you should know that the source code is the same for Windows and Linux. The differences between the machines are detected when you configure.