DE1-SOC working without DS5 tool

[Altera_Forum]

Recently I got the DE1-SOC board. I could run the board and wrote codes for the FPGA and NIOS apps. 

Now I want to use the ARM processor. I tried a lot but found that I needed DS5 altera edition tool. My first question is, can I work on SOC arm baremetal app without using DS5? NIOS programming used the eclipse coming with the quartus without SocEDS. I knew that the free license of the community edition of the DS5 is free but I cannot run the program from over there. So my second question is, is the community edition enough for working? Thanks

[Altera_Forum]

Start with Linux or use GCC for baremetal

[Altera_Forum]

I don't want to use linux now as I am not very familiar with it now. 

Is there any good tutorial to describe how to use the GCC?

[Altera_Forum]

Doing baremetal is a very hard topic.. 

You can start with terasic user manual that guide you throught linux app on de1-soc

[Altera_Forum]

I did not wish the baremetal to be hard. But thanks anyway I will try in linux.