Nios II perspective missing in eclipse on Windows 7 with 10.1

Altera_Forum · ‎02-02-2011

I'm running Windows 7 (64 bit) and have installed Nios II SBT 10.1sp1 and Quartus 10.1sp1.

Quartus seems to be pretty good, much better than 10.0;

However, Eclipse does not load the Nios II tool / plugin / perspective (or what other name it might have).

It's strange because when I first installed it - it was there but did not work correctley.

I tried some of the old tricks that were required to get version 9.x working under Win 7 (like changing the compadatibility property of eclipsec-nios2 executable). Nothing works.

According to the Altera website Quartus and NiosII 10.1 is supported on:

Microsoft Windows XP / Vista / 7 (32 and 64 bit)

If I'm am having trouble with it, perhaps someone else is....

Altera_Forum · ‎02-02-2011

Run Eclipse in XP Compatible mode.

Altera_Forum · ‎02-02-2011

Have you tried running Eclipse with "Run As Administrator" option?

Jari

Altera_Forum · ‎02-02-2011

Yes, I've set the eclipse executables in the bin directory to XP compatible mode with the Administrator option - does not work on this machine.

Luckily I run XP 64 on another machine - else my work would come to a halt.....

I have not found any posts on this issue with 10.1 tools, so perhaps there is something stange about my computer setup, although it is a new OS install with very few applications.

Has anyone else had problems like this - or am I alone...?

Altera_Forum · ‎02-03-2011

Hi,

have a look on this post and hope you'll get happy : http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20785&page=2

Bye

Altera_Forum · ‎02-03-2011

Thanks pantxoa,

Removing the nios directory before re-installation has worked - the Nios tools are back!

Now, I just need to use it for a while to ensure it is working correctly.

I had looked at the errata sheet, but it was an older one.

I guess I need to keep more up-to-date!

Thanks again.