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10 years ago

Is it possible to create a NIOS BSP **without** Eclipse?

Is it possible to **never** use eclipse when developing NIOS software? How can one create a BSP from an sopcinfo **without** this kludgy retrograde eclipse?
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10 years ago

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not quite understand your objective, your objective is not to implement some application using nios? or are you looking for alternative development software to replace eclipse?

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Yes, I want to implement a nios application, but without using eclipse; as I understand, to generate the BSP, the only option is with that kludgy eclipse.

I am running the whole altera environment in a virtual box (at home I have a mac, hence cannot use it directly), and the eclipse thing is reaaaaaly slow; I am not a fan of eclipse, even when running it in a windows pc, so I would be really glad if I could create the BSP and basic makefiles using only the nios command line.

at work, I use a windows PC, and I use the eclipse only to generate the BSP; then everything else I do from the command line.