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15 years ago

nios ide in windows and linux are different?

hi there everyone

ive upgrade my quartus and nios ide from v8.1 to 9.1 recently in windows..

and since i also used ubuntu. i upgraded them from 8.1 to v9.1 also.

however i found that the nios eds in linux is not the same as in my windows.

for example in windows the niosII app use BSP project however in linux it still use the old syslib. so i cant reuse projects that i created in windows ubuntu.

is this normal? or did miss somewhere in the installation step and get the wrong nios eds in linux?

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    15 years ago

    The newest version of NiosII EDS includes NiosII SBTE(Software Build Tool for Eclipse) which uses BSP project, while also supports the previous NiosII IDE which uses syslib project. You can look at these from Altera Homepage.

    The new NiosII SBTE is more convenient because it can view the HAL code directly. That's a very easy-to-use function from my opinion. But there are also some important differences betwwen them.

    The new version uses NiosII SBTE by default, but you can also open NiosII IDE from StartMenu in Windows. In Linux, the command "nios2-ide" uses for opening NiosII IDE, while the command "eclipse-nios2" opens NiosII SBTE. The two commands both locates in "[installation directory]/nios2eds/bin".
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    15 years ago

    --- Quote Start ---

    The newest version of NiosII EDS includes NiosII SBTE(Software Build Tool for Eclipse) which uses BSP project, while also supports the previous NiosII IDE which uses syslib project. You can look at these from Altera Homepage.

    The new NiosII SBTE is more convenient because it can view the HAL code directly. That's a very easy-to-use function from my opinion. But there are also some important differences betwwen them.

    The new version uses NiosII SBTE by default, but you can also open NiosII IDE from StartMenu in Windows. In Linux, the command "nios2-ide" uses for opening NiosII IDE, while the command "eclipse-nios2" opens NiosII SBTE. The two commands both locates in "[installation directory]/nios2eds/bin".

    --- Quote End ---

    thanks. so with eclipse-nios2 i will go to the NIOSide which is the same as in windows (which use the BSP project)?
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    15 years ago

    eclipse-nios2 uses the BSP project, while nios2-ide uses the syslib project.

    eclipse-nios2 in Linux is equal to NiosII Software Build Tools for Eclipse in Windows, while nios2-ide in Linux equal to NiosII IDE in Windows.
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    15 years ago

    I have problems running eclipse-nios2 (nios2-ide works fine) on my Ubuntu Lucid 10.4

    I get the next error:

    An error has occurred. See the log file

    /home/izi/workspace/.metadata/.log.

    Is there a known workaround?
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    15 years ago

    I'm also having problems running eclipse-nios2. I'm running it on Centos 5 64bit.

    I get the same error :

    An error has occurred. See the log file /home/joey/workspace/.metadata/.log

    The contents of that file are attached.

    Anyone have any ideas on how to get around this.