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13 years ago

Win7-Problem with NIOS-II debugger, can't start gdbserver

I have the following problem: I'm running the (32bit) Quartus 11.0sp1 and Eclipse built tools for the NIOS-II on a Win7-machine with 64bit. An additional standalone-programmer for Quartus 12.0s...
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11 years ago

I discovered that if I open a "Nios II 14.0 Command Shell" and run eclipse-nios2.exe from the resulting Cygwin bash shell, then Eclipse is able to start gdbserver and run the debugger in the "Nios II Debug" perspective correctly. Previously, I had been using the "Nios II 14.0 Software Build Tools for Eclipse" shortcut installed in the Start menu by the Altera installer and encountered the gdbserver problem that you reported.