What Linux distribution for cross-dev ?

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originally posted by bigboss25@Jul 14 2006, 07:44 PM

hi all,

what kind of linux distribution should i use if i want to cross-develop nios2 uclinux apps under an linux operated pc ?

gentoo ? fedora core or what else ?

please help me !

thx.

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Gentoo, FC/RHEL/startcom, ubuntu , slackware, suse ... most popular distros should work.

I use FC5 now.

Just choose what you like.

You may install binary toolchain of nios2 cross gcc, which I built with buildroot.

http://nioswiki.jot.com/wikihome/operating...binarytoolchain (http://nioswiki.jot.com/wikihome/operatingsystems/binarytoolchain)

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hi all,

what kind of linux distribution should i use if i want to cross-develop nios2 uclinux apps under an linux operated pc ?

gentoo ? fedora core or what else ?

please help me !

thx.

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Gentoo, FC/RHEL/startcom, ubuntu , slackware, suse ... most popular distros should work.

I use FC5 now.

Just choose what you like.

You may install binary toolchain of nios2 cross gcc, which I built with buildroot.

http://nioswiki.jot.com/wikihome/operating...binarytoolchain (http://nioswiki.jot.com/wikihome/operatingsystems/binarytoolchain)

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Thx Hippo !

Hope you will never die or quit the nios2 scene http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif you&#39;re so helpfull and responsive !

May I ask you some more questions :

- is it possible to use NIOS2 IDE (Eclipse + gnu tools...) under coLinux (let&#39;s say under KDE) ?

- if yes, is it faster than the window version, because Eclipse/IDE under Windows is soo slow (like a turtle as you said) ?

Kind regards.

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- is it possible to use NIOS2 IDE (Eclipse + gnu tools...) under coLinux (let&#39;s say under KDE) ?

- if yes, is it faster than the window version, because Eclipse/IDE under Windows is soo slow (like a turtle as you said) ?[/b]

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I didn&#39;t use IDE on windows XP or Linux.

And I didn&#39;t try IDE under coLinux, too.

I think IDE (ie, Eclipse CDT) for uClinux will be better in the future, but there is still a long ways to go.

I would prefer working with the simple, old and trusty command line tools. I don&#39;t think GUI tools can give me more productive capability. ( I use Emacs to edit ,compile and version control. It is good. And you may try. )

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originally posted by hippo@Jul 15 2006, 10:37 PM

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- is it possible to use nios2 ide (eclipse + gnu tools...) under colinux (let&#39;s say under kde) ?

- if yes, is it faster than the window version, because eclipse/ide under windows is soo slow (like a turtle as you said) ?

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I didn&#39;t use IDE on windows XP or Linux.

And I didn&#39;t try IDE under coLinux, too.

I think IDE (ie, Eclipse CDT) for uClinux will be better in the future, but there is still a long ways to go.

I would prefer working with the simple, old and trusty command line tools. I don&#39;t think GUI tools can give me more productive capability. ( I use Emacs to edit ,compile and version control. It is good. And you may try. )

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update, I have tried the quartus 6.0 and nios2 6.0 for Linux workstation on a Whitebox EL4 Linux PC.

the nios2 IDE speed improved a lot. the usbblaster works fine, too.