Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.snarked.org!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.arch.embedded Subject: Re: Makefile or not? Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2018 23:50:04 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 67-130-15-94.dia.static.qwest.net X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1544053804 27760 67.130.15.94 (5 Dec 2018 23:50:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2018 23:50:04 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.arch.embedded:28390 On 2018-12-05, Rob Gaddi wrote: > On 12/5/18 2:34 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> Once we ditched the massive pile of Altera's garbage IDE, things went >> much smoother. [Until, as the project neared completion, it became >> obvious that the performance of the NIOS2 was nowhere near what was >> promised, and the whole thing was abandoned.] >> >> The hardware guys were, of course, chained to the Altera VHDL IDE >> software for the duration -- presumably for heinous sins committed >> in a previous life. > > Nah, you can get out of the IDE there too. You wind up having to write > Makefiles that write and call Tcl scripts that communicate with a > jtag-server executable that you extract from deep within the bowels of > the IDE. It's deeply unpleasant, and still preferable for production > code to using the IDE. Can you avoid using the IDE to compile the VHDL and build the various formats of bitstream files? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! My NOSE is NUMB! at gmail.com