Noobie Question on how to find/build a missing .elf file

[Altera_Forum]

Hello Friends, I'm adding my .sof file to the QuartusII programmer and the following message pops up. Does anyone know what the following message means? ' xxxxx.sof contains one or time limited megafunctions that support the OpenCore Plus Feature that will not work after the hardware evaluation time expires?' Don

[Altera_Forum]

Hi there, 

 That means that you either do not have a licensed Quartus (e.g. Web Edition) or that you do use an unlicensed megafunction in your Quartus and or SOPC/QSYS-Builder. But you've asked about an elf in the topic. Are you still interested in building an elf?

[Altera_Forum]

Hi dtelrest,  

I like your profile image, "we have cookies". Haha. Ah, I should get a license then; I have the Web Edition. I was wondering if this could be the reason that I can't make the needed .elf file. I'll give you some background on what a noobie like me is doing.   I'm following a tutorial for the DE0 Nano and I'm pretty close to finishing the instructions for the NIOSii tutorial in the DE0 NANO USER MANUEL at http://www.altera.com/education/univ/materials/boards/de0-nano/unv-de0-nano-board.html?gsa_pos=1&wt.oss_r=1&wt.oss=de0 nano (http://www.altera.com/education/univ/materials/boards/de0-nano/unv-de0-nano-board.html?gsa_pos=1&wt.oss_r=1&wt.oss=de0 nano)   I get to the step where I build the hello world project. During building, I get the following message in the console window:    'No rule to make target `Info/My', needed by `Designs/myfirst_niosii/DE0_NANO_SOPC.ptf/Debug/system_description/../obj/generated_app.mk-t'. Stop. Build completed in 1.903 seconds'  Could a web edition of Niosii or unlicensed macrofunction from a tutorial be the reason why I can't build and generate the .elf? Or does the error message above mean that I'm missing something, like making a target.   Friendly Noob, Don

[Altera_Forum]

Hi Don, 

thanks. This sounds a lot like a linker error. For Nios C and Assembler Development you do not need a license, just for generating the sof in Quartus. Can you get me a link where to find the sample project, hello world.

[Altera_Forum]

dtelrest, 

The instructions are in the DE0 user manuel found on the Terasic website http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&ved=0cc4qfjaa&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.terasic.com.tw%2fcgi-bin%2fpage%2farchive_download.pl%3flanguage%3denglish%26no%3d364%26fid%3d0c266381d75ef92a8291c5bbdd5b07eb&ei=9stauvnrg4mo9gtooodacg&usg=afqjcnedamlt03srgwei1jtjsm2bdnz41g&bvm=bv.53899372,d.ewu (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&ved=0cc4qfjaa&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.terasic.com.tw%2fcgi-bin%2fpage%2farchive_download.pl%3flanguage%3denglish%26no%3d364%26fid%3d0c266381d75ef92a8291c5bbdd5b07eb&ei=9stauvnrg4mo9gtooodacg&usg=afqjcnedamlt03srgwei1jtjsm2bdnz41g&bvm=bv.53899372,d.ewu).   The NIOS ii hello world file simply says the following,  # include <stdio.h>  int main() {  printf("Hello from Nios II!\n");   return 0; }  The hello world file came with my download of NIOS ii 10.1.  Don

[Altera_Forum]

Hi there, 

i see that6 you do have a dot in your Path,  myfirst_niosii/DE0_NANO_SOPC.ptf/Debug/ that may be the problem. Did you generate and build your BSP, using the sopcinfo file, in your NIOS environment?