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16 years ago

Slow Nios II Build and Download Times

Hi All, I just started using the Nios IDE, starting out with the hello world test program, and the entire build and download process seems very slow. I'm using Nios II IDE 9.0 SP2, and I'm...
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16 years ago

As it seems you're using Windows, the Cygwin layer emulation slows down every thing, compile process in Linux is much faster.

Every Nios II project has a related run-time library, its compilation time is longer than in main project, if you don't change your sopc builder system, run-time library is not recompiled.

Are you sure compile messages are showed even if you didn't change the code (gcc calls)?