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8 years ago

NIOS II Command Shell not working

Excuse me if I this is a dumb question I am brand new at trying to use the NIOS II SBT. I am running Quartus Prime 17 on Windows 10 and keep getting an error when trying to open the software build to...
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8 years ago

I suspect you are using the standard tools. According to this page the Nios II EDS for 17.0 and 17.1 are only supported with ACDS pro:

http://dl-test.altera.com/requirements/17.1/

http://dl-test.altera.com/requirements/17.0/

To open eclipse-nios2.exe from the command line make sure to do that with the Nios II command shell since that sets up your environment. The screenshot above looks like a plain Windows command menu so you are missing the environment setup steps. The Nios II command shell is Cygwin based so when you use it you should see paths like cygdrive/c/etc......