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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

Correct, this is on Windows. Cygwin will slow it down, but Xilinx uses Cygwin too, and it's not anywhere near this slow.

A full build of everything including the runtime library takes about 8-10min, building after a change to one source file takes about 2min 15sec, most of that while "make -s all includes" is being displayed.

During the build, I saw compile messages indicating that only the source file I changed was being recompiled. Building again immediately with no source changes takes 1min 50sec.