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12 years ago

Altera Monitor Program Error in Win8

Hi everybody I'm trying to realize a simple project using Altera Monitor Program on a PC with Win8. but when I'm going to compile the C source I receive the following error. 0 [main] ...
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11 years ago

Right, problem solved for me. Here is how:

(1) extract the patch into some directory that is not the quartus one.

(2) copy the contents of the "bin" folder (not the "bin64" folder) from the extracted files

(3) paste this into <quartus directory>\quartus\bin64 replacing any files and folders.

For some reason quartus 14 comes with a 32bit version of Cygwin installed in its bin64 directory (I discovered that when trying to use the 64bit Cygwin setup to upgrade it). So basically you have to use the 32bit files to patch it.