Why does building the Nios® V software project fail in the network server that implements UNC paths?

Description

Due to a software problem in Ashling RiscFree IDE for Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Software version 24.1 in dealing with the UNC path, you might see the below errors:

../riscv32-unknown-elf/bin/ld.exe: cannot find -lc: Invalid argument 

../riscv32-unknown-elf/bin/ld.exe: cannot find -lstdc++: Invalid argument 

../riscv32-unknown-elf/bin/ld.exe: cannot find -lgcc: Invalid argument 

../riscv32-unknown-elf/bin/ld.exe: cannot find -lm: Invalid argument 

collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status 

UNC path is used to access network resources and must be in the format specified by the Universal Naming Convention. 

Resolution

Workaround: 

A patch is available to fix this problem for the Ashling RiscFree IDE for Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Software version 24.1. Download and install Patch 0.01rf from the attached zip file.

Zip file

Zip file content:

• Patch 0.01rf for Ashling RiscFree 24.1 for Windows (.exe) 
• Readme for Patch 0.01rf for Ashling RiscFree 24.1 for Windows (.txt)

Related Information: 

File path formats on Windows systems - .NET | Microsoft Learn 

For more information on the difference between traditional DOS and UNC paths in Windows systems.