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Waveform
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5 years ago
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Quartus 19.1 NIOS II ED error: Makefile:1012: recipe for target '***.elf' failed

Hello! I try to port on Quartus 19.1 working NIOS II project, which was early built on Quartus II 18.1. After installing all the necessaries (Eclipse and WSL , Ubuntu 18.04 and with all packages ...
  • Waveform's avatar
    Waveform
    5 years ago

    Hi!

    The problem is solved, due to help of russian Intel distributor's engineering support. Thanks to Roman!
    He pointed me to two things:
    - need of dividing workspace project and source software directories. It must be different directories inside common project directory.
    - use "New' - "NIOS II Application and Bsp from template" for generaion of new project structure. When I was generating new BSP, I used "New" - "NIOS II Board support package" and got such strange error:

    Executing: wsl;nios2-bsp hal . ../../qsys_system.sopcinfo
    --cpu-name nios2_gen2_0
    (D:\Temp\axie_system_controller_restored\software\qsys_bsp)
    /bin/bash: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
    /bin/bash: -c: line 0: `;nios2-bsp hal .
    ../../qsys_system.sopcinfo --cpu-name nios2_gen2_0'


    Those advices helps me to build my project succesfuly in Quartus Prime Standart 19.1.

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Isaac_V_Intel
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5 years ago

Hi,


I see, your project works with Quartus 18.1 because Eclipse and Quartus are at the same package. From 19.1 Quartus and Eclipse are separated.


I saw a KDB to work around your possible issue, can you try this? [1]


If this does not work with your issue, can you share with me, which steps did you follow to do the 'make all' exactly? So, I can know more about it and do more debug into this.


[1] https://www.intel.com/content/altera-www/global/en_us/index/support/support-resources/knowledge-base/tools/2019/why-does-nios-build-flow-produce-incorrect--elf-file-size-on-win.html


Thanks.

Best regards.


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    Waveform
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    5 years ago

    Hi! Thank you for support in my question.


    I tried to run in wsl command prompt such command, as was recommended in support article:
    make SOPCINFO_FILE=/mnt/d/Temp/axie_system_controller/qsys-system.sopcinfo --no-print-directory -C /mnt/d/Temp/axie_system_controller/Software/hal_bsp/
    And I got the message: [BSP build complete]
    So, it doesn' change the futher situation. After that, I got the same error.
    Also, I added in the application make file such string:
    SOPC_FILE := ../../qsys_system.sopcinfo
    , and it doesn't helped me too.

    I suppose, that the problem is in next tool:
    nios2-elf-g++.exe -T'D:/Temp/axie_system_controller/Software/hal_bsp/linker.x' -msys-crt0='D:/Temp/axie_system_controller/Software/hal_bsp/obj/HAL/src/crt0.o' -msys-lib=hal_bsp -LD:/Temp/axie_system_controller/Software/hal_bsp/ -Wl,-Map=qsys-app.map -O0 -g -Wall -mno-hw-div -mhw-mul -mno-hw-mulx -mgpopt=global -o qsys-app.elf obj/default/src/Main.o obj/default/src/ad9576.o obj/default/src/dac7568.o obj/default/src/stmpe1600.o -lm -msys-lib=m

    , which must generate the .elf file, but it doesn't do it.

    My be I should try the last version of Quartus Prime standart 20.1?

    Best regards, Andrey

    • Waveform's avatar
      Waveform
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      5 years ago

      Hi!

      The problem is solved, due to help of russian Intel distributor's engineering support. Thanks to Roman!
      He pointed me to two things:
      - need of dividing workspace project and source software directories. It must be different directories inside common project directory.
      - use "New' - "NIOS II Application and Bsp from template" for generaion of new project structure. When I was generating new BSP, I used "New" - "NIOS II Board support package" and got such strange error:

      Executing: wsl;nios2-bsp hal . ../../qsys_system.sopcinfo
      --cpu-name nios2_gen2_0
      (D:\Temp\axie_system_controller_restored\software\qsys_bsp)
      /bin/bash: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
      /bin/bash: -c: line 0: `;nios2-bsp hal .
      ../../qsys_system.sopcinfo --cpu-name nios2_gen2_0'


      Those advices helps me to build my project succesfuly in Quartus Prime Standart 19.1.

    • WShep1's avatar
      WShep1
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      5 years ago

      I have just migrated from 18.1 to 20.1 Lite. I am working on a W10 machine and have installed WSL, Ubuntu, etc. NIOS II SBT is running and I was able to create a new project from template as instructed. I created a project using the "Small Hello World" template. The application and bsp projects were created. Cleaning and building the bsp project works well as does clean the application project. However, when I try to build the application project, I get the following error -

      10:03:31 **** Build of configuration Nios II for project test_20_1_7 ****
      wsl make all
      wslpath: hal_bsp: No such file or directory
      Info: Building /mnt/c/a_Nightowl/wds2hdmi/rtl/qsys/software/test_20_1_7_bsp/
      make --no-print-directory -C /mnt/c/a_Nightowl/wds2hdmi/rtl/qsys/software/test_20_1_7_bsp/
      [BSP build complete]
      Info: Compiling hello_world_small.c to obj/default/hello_world_small.o
      nios2-elf-gcc.exe -xc -MP -MMD -c -IC:/a_Nightowl/wds2hdmi/rtl/qsys/software/test_20_1_7_bsp/HAL/inc -IC:/a_Nightowl/wds2hdmi/rtl/qsys/software/test_20_1_7_bsp -IC:/a_Nightowl/wds2hdmi/rtl/qsys/software/test_20_1_7_bsp/drivers/inc -pipe -D__hal__ -DALT_NO_C_PLUS_PLUS -DALT_NO_CLEAN_EXIT -D'exit(a)=_exit(a)' -DALT_NO_EXIT -DALT_USE_DIRECT_DRIVERS -DALT_NO_INSTRUCTION_EMULATION -DALT_USE_SMALL_DRIVERS -DSMALL_C_LIB -DALT_SINGLE_THREADED -Os -g -Wall -mno-hw-div -mno-hw-mul -mno-hw-mulx -mgpopt=global -o obj/default/hello_world_small.o hello_world_small.c
      Info: Linking test_20_1_7.elf
      nios2-elf-g++.exe -T'C:/a_Nightowl/wds2hdmi/rtl/qsys/software/test_20_1_7_bsp/linker.x' -msys-crt0='C:/a_Nightowl/wds2hdmi/rtl/qsys/software/test_20_1_7_bsp/obj/HAL/src/crt0.o' -msys-lib= -LC:/a_Nightowl/wds2hdmi/rtl/qsys/software/test_20_1_7_bsp -msmallc -Wl,-Map=test_20_1_7.map -Os -g -Wall -mno-hw-div -mno-hw-mul -mno-hw-mulx -mgpopt=global -o test_20_1_7.elf obj/default/hello_world_small.o -lm -msys-lib=m
      nios2-elf-g++.exe: error: missing argument to '-msys-lib='
      make: *** [test_20_1_7.elf] Error 1
      Makefile:1010: recipe for target 'test_20_1_7.elf' failed

      10:03:34 Build Finished (took 2s.438ms)

      I have no idea what this error means. Can any one help me?