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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

uClinux question

Hello, i just started to work with uClinux on an altera eval board. I have a question regarding uClinux. Does uClinux when running on a nios system have it's own compiler built-in? ...
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16 years ago

uClinux running on board doesn't have GCC included in. Applications must be cross-compiled on a host Linux machine using Nios II binary tools (same used to compile kernel).

These are the precompiled tools.

http://www.niosftp.com/pub/gnutools/nios2gcc-20080203.tar.bz2 (http://www.niosftp.com/pub/gnutools/nios2gcc-20080203.tar.bz2)

So, your application can be added to your system in two ways:

* Adding application during kernel compilation.

* Adding the compiled application to your uClinux file-sytem through a storage device (USB pendrive, SD card) or a Network filesystem.