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16 years ago

Need hint to compile GNU Scientific Library for Nios II IDE

Dear Forum, I've built a system with two Nios II cpus. One Nios II runs uClinux and the second Nios II does real-time stuff running a stand-alone C program written under the Nios II IDE. I need t...
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16 years ago

I would be tempted to throw away the IDE.

If you just run gcc and ld (with your own linker script) you'll find it much easier to control what ends up at which addresses.

It is trivial to parse the elf program headers so you should be able to load the code for your 2nd nios cpu from the uclinux system.

There are instructions for building gcc on the wiki - the latest source an the Altera website is 9.0 b141 - which is slightly later than the version the IDE has.