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Actually, I'm just doing standard Nios stuff, no uClinux. I would not have posted here, except on searching the entire Nios forum, this was the only thread that seemed to remotely address the problem I was having.
For other forum searchers benefit, I have had to do the following to get cygwin to behave and actually let nios-gcc compile.
http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/huh.gif rebase the cygwin DLLs (google: rebaseall cygwin package)
http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/huh.gif create a /HKLM/Software/Cygnus Solutions/Cygwin/heap_chunk_in_mb DWORD value and set it to 2048
None of my co-workers have had to do this, so it's a mystery to me why my getting this to run on my Acer Ferrari laptop (Turion 64 ML-37, 1GB RAM, 100GB HDD, on vanilla x32 WinXP) has been such a chore. If all the Altera tools were free (technically, they are, but you still get dinged for this that and the other thing), then I could excuse stuff like this.
But when the Quartus dev kit is $1K, and you can't do anything useful if the Nios IDE / dev env lets you down, I tend to get a bit cranky. Linux / Unix guys are used to having hairs and bobby pins sticking out of stuff, but us guys who are used to Keil or other embedded tools expect things to be more buttoned down.
Sorry for posting this rant in this forum - it probably doesn't belong here, but it's the only relevant thread I can find.
Just so you know, I'm feeding the same info to my local Arrow rep, so he can give it to his contact at Altera - we'll see if that helps things any.
In any case, thanks for replying, Mr. Slacker - maybe someday I
will get a chance to use uClinux!
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