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16 years ago

nios2-ide vs nios2-bsp

I don't like to use Eclipse and the NIOS2-IDE. I'm usually much more effective with the tools I'm familiar with like: emacs, make, gcc, gdb, linker scripts, objdump, etc. However I can't seem t...
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16 years ago

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I didn't know that sopc_builder did take any arguments.

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I always thought that sopc_builder was a GUI only application. Well, it's sort of as it's not totally happy running without DISPLAY unset under Linux as I get: 

Info: Generating the Example Design.
Info: Generating the Pin Planner file.
Info: Generating the Synopsys Design Constraints file for the example top level.
java.awt.HeadlessException: 
No X11 DISPLAY variable was set, but this program performed an operation which requires it.
        at java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment.checkHeadless(GraphicsEnvironment.java:159)
        at java.awt.Window.<init>(Window.java:406)
        at java.awt.Frame.<init>(Frame.java:402)
        at java.awt.Frame.<init>(Frame.java:367)
I do builds at night started from cron so this is a little cumbersome as I have to make a dummy X display and set the DISPLAY variable to it.