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Altera_Forum
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20 years ago

Problem creating external module

Hi! I'm trying to build an external module, to use with insmod, and I'm getting some errors. I'm quite sure it is some type of Makefile error, but I haven't been able to find a...
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Altera_Forum
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20 years ago

It is sead before and I will say it again:

Developing Linux is done under Linux.

Follow the guide at the nios wiki (http://nioswiki.jot.com) and make a nice development environment under linux.

Developing a userspace program under Windoze is difficult, developing a kernel module is worse. You can simply download the binary toolchain and start programming.

Search the forum for a the Makefile. I recently posted the Makefile (and method)I always use to write my kernel modules for the NiosII.

Hope this helps!