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Altera_Forum
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21 years ago

Windows NT Patch for Linux on NiosII

Folks,

There is a patch available in the 'Downloads/Linux 2.6 Distribution for NiosII' area that will enable you to use Windows NT as your host environment.

Problem

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A host gcc (newer than the one supplied with the NiosII Dev Kit) is required to build Linux. We install a newer version in /usr/local and add this path to the beginning of $PATH. This path addition is accomplished with a user.bashrc script. Both the extensions to /usr/local and the user.bashrc failed to install correctly with NT.

Solution

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This patch allows users to manually replicate the process. V1.1 of the Linux distribution will rectify the problem.

Additional

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If you have a newer or different version of Cygwin installed you might run into conflicts.

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    Altera_Forum
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    21 years ago

    Mike,

    That's much better!! I've been going at this for about half the day. I blew right past this one since it was for Win NT. Turns out you need this for Win 2k as well.

    Doug
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    Altera_Forum
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    21 years ago

    Hi!

    Can you show me the content of your user.bashrc for comparison with my one? It still does not work...

    (I also deleted the entry of my previous installed cygwin from $PATH C:\cygwin\bin - no effect)

    THX