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I am using NIOS II paltform for my project .. do you know the steps on how to switch to Cygwin MinGW?
because actually I am very new to Eclipse and I'm still in the process of learning to use eclipse ..
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I guess you no need to switch to MinGW as it will be lengthy process rather you can just update the cygwin files in the Altera software. For this you first need to got to the Cygwin site, download the 32 and 64 bit files and install the files in any drive of your computer. Then locate the cygwin files in the quartus software it will be inside the 32 bit in bin folder and 64 bit in bin64 of the Quartus software. Just overwrite the the cygwin files with the latest files you have downloaded.
Please let me know if you find and any trouble to update the cygwin files in quartus software.
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