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Altera_Forum
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20 years ago

Help regarding NiosII IDE

Hi,

I am having problem inporting existing project into NiosII IDE.

I followed following procedure..

In Nios II IDE : File > inport > Existing altera nios II project into workspace > then browsed to

my already existing project (hello_led_0).

The pop-up window indicates (error) project already exists and finish button is not highlighted.

What I am trying here is to import already existing project into Nios II IDE and edit/build/run it.

( the only way i thought might be to create another new C++ project(hello_led_1) and proceed

in Nios II IDE workspace).

I don't know if I an missing anything.

I appreciate your suggestions.

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    Altera_Forum
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    20 years ago

    ### "Eclipse works different than other tools,

    why make something easy, if you can make it very complicated ?"# ##

    you cannot have two projects with the same name in navigator, even they are

    in different directories.

    you have two possibilities.

    1. in navigator view right click on already existing project and delete it, it normally

    shows a message box where "do not delete contents" is selected, which means that it only

    removes the project from the navigator view and not from the disk. After that you can import

    the project from another location.

    2. I sometimes copy exitsting projects from one location to another, then I open the

    file ".project" and change there the name of the project to a new name.