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20 years ago

Mini howto build toolschain and initramfs on Linux

UPDATE : This post is out of date. Please follow the new one, http://forum.niosforum.com/forum/ind...showtopic=3174 This is a mini howto about building toolchains ,uClinux and initramfs for NIOS2 o...
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20 years ago

frist, make sure you have the compiler build, 

$ nios2-elf-gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc/nios2-elf/3.4.1/specs
Configured with: ../../gcc/configure --target=nios2-elf --enable-languages=c
Thread model: single
gcc version 3.4.1 (Altera Nios II 5.1 b73)

then, the hardware include header generation.

note, this is a signle line command. 

make ARCH=nios2nommu O=/usr/local/src/nios2/build/kernel CROSS_COMPILE=nios2-elf- hwselect SYSPTF=/usr/local/src/nios2/build/yoursystem.ptf

next the config,

note, this is a signle line command. 

make ARCH=nios2nommu O=/usr/local/src/nios2/build/kernel CROSS_COMPILE=nios2-elf- menuconfig

next, the compile,

note, this is a signle line command. 

make ARCH=nios2nommu O=/usr/local/src/nios2/build/kernel CROSS_COMPILE=nios2-elf-