NIOS2 IDE Team CVS

Hi have to correct my self:

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when trying to upgrade manually higher, IDE got smashed fully... new install needed[/b]

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Last time, i tried to update the old ide via update sites... that has failed.

I tried again with a original Eclipse 3.1.2:

- renamed folder ...\nios_51\bin\eclipse to ...\nios_51\bin\eclipse_altera for backup

- copied full eclipse 3.1.2 to ...\nios_51\bin\eclipse

- copied all altera related plugins and features to the new eclipse directory (everthing with altera in its name...)

- copied nios2-ide.exe into ...\nios_51\bin\eclipse

- launched nios2-ide.exe and got a running enviroment:

But there are some disadvantages because of incompability between altera plugins and eclipse 3.1.x:

- Several errors on start up about missing function in cygwin1.dll

- Creating Template Application does not work

- Edit Run-Configuration does not Work

- Flash Programmer does not work

But happliy "compile", "run", system property page works and ... team CVS on cvsnt http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif

The popping errors at beginning can be avoided by not using nios2-ide.exe:

create a file: start.bat into ...\nios_51\bin\eclipse

C:\altera\quartus51\bin\jre\bin\javaw.exe -Xmx256m -cp C:\altera\kits\nios2_51\bin\eclipse\startup.jar org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main -os win32 -ws win32 -arch x86 -vm C:\altera\quartus51\bin\jre\bin\javaw.exe -vmargs -Xmx256m -cp C:\altera\kits\nios2_51\bin\eclipse\startup.jar org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main

and launch it over the nios2-shell, not from windows command line !!!!!! this is very important because all gnu tool will run in the same shell as the javaw.exe and it must be the cygwin shell.

well... i like the newer eclipse because there are lots of features in the cdk

for all the things i cannot do , i do using the saved eclipse ide by simply launching backup copy ..\nios_51\bin\eclipse-altera\nios2-ide.exe

it seems to work fine, also if its directory name has changed...

well... hopefully, altera will update its ide some time themself... then things will be easier http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.gif

addon:

little late now, i figure out that there exist a workaround for older eclipse version to work with cvsnt server: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=39516 (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=39516) http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dry.gif

regards, marek