Nios II Command Shell

Starting the Nios II Command Shell brings up a console window in a UNIX-like environment.

Windows File Systems

The Windows directories are attached to the /cygdrive directory. The C directory, for example, is linked to /cygdrive/c.

Root Directory

The root directory is mapped to a Quartus directory. On my system it is C:\altera\72sp1\quartus\bin\cygwin.

Path

The search path, where the system looks for executable files, can be obtained as follows:
[SOPC Builder]$ echo $PATH
/cygdrive/c/altera/72/nios2eds/bin:/cygdrive/c/altera/72/nios2eds/bin/nios2-gnut
ools/H-i686-pc-cygwin/bin:/cygdrive/c/altera/72/nios2eds/sdk2/bin:/cygdrive/c/al
tera/72/nios2eds/bin/fs2/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/altera/72sp1/quartus/win:
/cygdrive/c/altera/72sp1/quartus/bin:/cygdrive/c/altera/72sp1/quartus/bin/perl/b
in:/cygdrive/c/altera/72sp1/quartus/bin/gnu:/cygdrive/c/altera/72sp1/quartus/sop
c_builder/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:/cygdrive
/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/wbem:/cygdrive/c/bin:/cygdrive/c/program
 files/microsoft sql server/90/tools/binn/:/cygdrive/c/program files/doxygen/bin
:/cygdrive/c/program files/eps13/bin:/cygdrive/c/program files/java/jdk1.6.0/bin
:/cygdrive/c/program files/ivi/bin:/cygdrive/c/program files/visa/winnt/agvisa:/
cygdrive/c/program files/visa/winnt/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/MATLAB/R2007a/
bin:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/MATLAB/R2007a/bin/win32:/cygdrive/c/Python25:/cygd
rive/c/altera/72sp1/quartus/bin

The usual Windows path is included in the colon-delimited list. The first few directories in the list are:

/cygdrive/c/altera/72/nios2eds/bin:
/cygdrive/c/altera/72/nios2eds/bin/nios2-gnutools/H-i686-pc-cygwin/bin:
/cygdrive/c/altera/72/nios2eds/sdk2/bin:
/cygdrive/c/altera/72/nios2eds/bin/fs2/bin:
/bin:
/usr/bin:
/cygdrive/c/altera/72sp1/quartus/win:
/cygdrive/c/altera/72sp1/quartus/bin:
/cygdrive/c/altera/72sp1/quartus/bin/perl/bin:
/cygdrive/c/altera/72sp1/quartus/bin/gnu:
/cygdrive/c/altera/72sp1/quartus/sopc_builder/bin:


Maintained by John Loomis, last updated 17 January 2008