Intel Monito Program FAILS in manage header files.

[StefanoMarsi]

After several test I realize that if you need to manage separately source files (.c) and header files (.h) including both in your project using Intel Monitor Program, there is no way to distinguish between them.

Both of them are considered as "source file" and the compilation fails.

The only way I found to bypass this problem is:

1. open the <name_of_project.amp> file
2. substitute the line 
<source_file filepath="true">header_file.h</source_file>
with 
<header_file filepath="true">header_file.h</header_file>
3. erase the file "amp.mk"
4. re-launch the compilation.

Any other suggestions are welcome

[Kenny_Tan]

Hi,

Just to double check, this is related to FPGA, right?

https://ftp.intel.com/Public/Pub/fpgaup/pub/Teaching_Materials/current/tutorials/Intel_FPGA_Monitor_Program_NiosII.pdf

Thanks,

BEst regards,

Kenny Tan

[StefanoMarsi]

Of course it is !

Intel Monitor Program (or in the past Altera Monitor Program) is a University tool to manage DEx-SoC Boards.

looking inside the "amp.mk" related to a  project composed by three file:

 - sample_program_ARM.c

- ADXL345.c
- ADXL345.h

This is how it appears: 

..... missing ....

# Files
HDRS := 
SRCS := Accelerometer_Design_Files/design_files/sample_program_ARM.c Accelerometer_Design_Files/design_files/ADXL345.c  Accelerometer_Design_Files/design_files/ADXL345.h
OBJS := $(patsubst %, %.o, $(SRCS))

and this is how it SHOULD be

..... missing ....
# Files
HDRS := Accelerometer_Design_Files/design_files/ADXL345.h
SRCS := Accelerometer_Design_Files/design_files/sample_program_ARM.c Accelerometer_Design_Files/design_files/ADXL345.c
OBJS := $(patsubst %, %.o, $(SRCS))


But inside Monitor Program I found no option to manage it. 
The only way is to modify manually the file even if it is clearly written:

# Created by the Intel FPGA Monitor Program
# DO NOT MODIFY

[KellyJialin_Goh]

Hi,

Greetings and welcome to Intel's forum for discussion.

I am glad you managed to find a workaround for this issue. May I confirm with you the Quartus version that you are using?

With the suggestion you recommended by changing the header files, is it still a roadblock towards your project?

Hope to hear from you soon.

Thank you.

Regards,

Kelly

[StefanoMarsi]

Thank you for your feedback

Actually, I'm using Quartus 22.1 (but this should be quite independent after the .sof generation)
and Intel Monitor Program 21.1.

The problem is limited in the auto-generation of the "amp.mk" provided by MP that does not distinguish between source files and header files. With the suggested workaround everything seems to work properly.

I leave this note to help other users and hoping the developers of MP would provide a correct version for the feature

[KellyJialin_Goh]

Hi,

Thank you so much for your feedback for the community and us Intel.

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