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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

I installed the dev tools on another computer (XP, P4 2.4GHz) and the build times there are very good, a full rebuild is about 2min, and a build after changing one source file is 7sec. So something is up with my main PC (XP, Core 2 duo 2.67GHz) that's causing the slowness. Reinstalling the dev tools on my main PC didn't help.

Could the Cygwin installed with the Xilinx tools cause a problem like this?

I haven't tried updating Cygwin yet. Can I just install it using the Cygwin installer, or do I need to copy files into the Altera directory?

I'm not sure how to do a command line build.