Altera Monitor Error Windows8

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Hi again, 

 I have DE0Nano and I use simple UniversityPro. example on AlteraMonitorProgram.  Qsys and SOF automatically bring. I include simple helloworld or gettingstarted .c or .asm file provided from Altera.  I get error when compile project.  "0 [main] bash 312 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD pointer. Please report this problem to the public mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com"  Please help..

[Altera_Forum]

Which version of Quartus are you using? Older version of Quartus are known to have problems with cygwin on newer OSes.

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--- Quote Start ---  Which version of Quartus are you using? Older version of Quartus are known to have problems with cygwin on newer OSes.  --- Quote End ---    Thank you Daixiwen.  My version 13.1 64bit and OS Windows8.1 64bit.

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To fix;  

 Download / Install most recent Cygwin w/Perl for both x86 and x86_64.  I Renamed original folders C:\altera\13.0sp1\quartus\bin\cygwin to \cygwin_original  C:\altera\13.0sp1\quartus\bin64\cygwin to \cygwin_original  Created new empty ....\cygwin folders Copy paste recent Cygwin into their respective directories C:\altera\13.0sp1\quartus\bin\cygwin (x86) and C:\altera\13.0sp1\quartus\bin64\cygwin (x86_64) directories respectively.  Referenced; http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=43526&gsa_pos=2&wt.oss_r=1&wt.oss=couldn%27t%20compute%20fast_cwd%20pointer

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--- Quote Start ---  To fix;   Download / Install most recent Cygwin w/Perl for both x86 and x86_64.    --- Quote End ---    ok, I went to the cygwin (https://cygwin.com/install.html) page were I downloaded the setup-x86.exe (https://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe) and setup-x86_64.exe (https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe) files. After runing one of them the installation assistent asked me to select the packages to install.  What packages should I select? (default, reinstall, uninstall, install)

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--- Quote Start ---   What packages should I select? (default, reinstall, uninstall, install)  --- Quote End ---    all in default works fine :)   thank you...

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--- Quote Start ---  all in default works fine :)   thank you...  --- Quote End ---     I am still having this issue. I have tried the fix posted on the University Programs site. As well as getting cygwin directly from the cygwin dot com site. I tried both the default cygwin install and the complete install. Neither have fixed the problem. Anyone have any other options to try?  I also deleted the folders in <quartus II install>/bin and /bin64 and re-installed the default cygwin packages and it still fails.  I'm using quartus 13.0sp1 and am trying to complete the intro tutorial with a DE2 board.

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--- Quote Start ---  I am still having this issue. I have tried the fix posted on the University Programs site. As well as getting cygwin directly from the cygwin dot com site. I tried both the default cygwin install and the complete install. Neither have fixed the problem. Anyone have any other options to try?  I also deleted the folders in <quartus II install>/bin and /bin64 and re-installed the default cygwin packages and it still fails.  I'm using quartus 13.0sp1 and am trying to complete the intro tutorial with a DE2 board.  --- Quote End ---    Hello,    This is what I did to solve that problem, it worked for me, hope it works for you: check this page: http://www.altera.com/education/univ/unv-index.html and follow the steps at the end of the page.   But I warn you, that after I solve that problem, I found another one which is mentioned is this thread: http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=43109   So I went back to Quartus 12.1 and everything is working perfect for me now...   I use Win8 in my desktop and Win8.1 in my laptop, both of them are working fine with Quartus 12.1   Hope this help you.

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I have resolved my Issue (although I feel there may still be issues) 

 When copying all the the cygwin patch files into the altera install directories there is a file <current> with no extention located in <cygwin_patch>\bin64\cygwin\usr\share\groff it is also present in the x86 path <cygwin_patch>\bin64\cygwin\usr\share\groff.  This file appears to be a symbolic link to the 1.22.2 folder located in the same path. When I open it in notepad++ there is one line that reads !<symlink>1.22.2 NUL  Having copied every file except for these "current" files into the altera into the install directory I can now successfully compile the tutorial files.  I am wondering if I should replace the folder within the install folder with the files contained in the 1.22.2 directory. (effectively creating the symbolic link for real) However, I am going to stop here before I do that because it is working with out doing that.