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13 years ago

toolchain. Plese point me to the right direction

Hello All,

after nearly a month trying to compile the toolchain required to start writing some apps, I am just giving up on the whole thing

Can someone point me to where I can find the lates binary toolchain?

on the install nios II linux on altera wiki, it tells me to download the 20100621 tarball

but it says that if i have problems compiling the toolchain I should download the 20080203 binary tool chain

my questions are:

-should I just you that binarytoolchain with the 2010 library?

- I'm on ubuntu 11.04 , X64 system, do I relly need the 4.2 gcc, and if so where do you guys get it form because its not even at the ubuntu 11.04 repositories.

- also if when I download the binary toolchain , should I just drop it in the ..../nios2-linux/toolcahin-builds/ folder?

thanks a bunch its my first time trying to run an embedded linux enviroment.

I appreciate all the help I can get.

Please help. I am really on a dead end here.

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    Altera_Forum
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    13 years ago

    Hey guys,

    Sorry for the bump.

    Im really in a bind here. I actually during the weekend have untarred the 2008 toolchain

    inside of the .../nios2-linux/toolchain-build (where the $PATH points to) and I have tried to compile the hello world from the install niosII linux page.

    and I get an error that it cannot open the header file.

    Thanks for any help

    Gabriel
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    Altera_Forum
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    13 years ago

    Are you trying to compile the toolchain for Linux with or without an MMU?

    I recommend using a 32-bit host to compile the toolchain -- I never had any success on 64-bit.