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21 years ago

Linux development environment

Does anyone know if the Nios II port of uClinux is available as a simple tarball (i.e. tar.gz or .tgz) that can be downloaded to a Linux machine and configured and built using the nios2-elf-gcc cross...
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21 years ago

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Shouldn&#39;t I just be able to use "nios2-elf-gcc" to compile a program and have it run on the nios2?[/b]

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not if you run the program on uClinux. Under uClinux, we are using a FLAT binary format, not ELF (which could not run on uClinux). You need a tool, elf2flt, to convert ELF format to FLAT format. Please check the userland Rules.mak for details. You also need the source code of elf2flt (with Nios II support) so that you can rebuilt it on Linux.

Regards,

wentao

Microtronix.