Hi everyone,
I am working on a Altera Cyclone V SoC development board (http://www.altera.com/products/devkits/altera/kit-cyclone-v-soc.html?GSA_pos=5&WT.oss_r=1&WT.oss=cyclone%20v%20soc%20fpga).
I try to compile a basic bare metal program to test my system on chip using the DS-5 Altera Edition Toolkit (Version 5.14 Build 1702). Everything's fine when I compile, load and debug my project via the DS-5 studio.
My next step is to create a bootable SD card. I have read that I need a .bin file to do this but DS-5 generates .axf executable files. There's a tool called fromelf to convert .axf into .bin.
And there's my problem. When I try to lunch fromelf with the DS-5 command shell, I get this error message:
Environment configured for ARM DS-5 (build 1702)
Please consult the documentation for available commands and more details
C:\EDA\altera\13.0\embedded\ds-5\bin>fromelf.exe --bin --output "C:\Users\XXX\Desktop\test.bin" "C:\DS5_WRK\Altera-SoCFPGA-HardwareLib-GNU\hwlib.axf"
ARM FromELF, 5.03 [Build 24]
Fatal error: Q9932E: Cannot obtain license for Fromelf (feature altera_fromelf5) with license version >= 5.0201301
The desired vendor daemon is down. Check the lmgrd log file, or try lmreread.
Feature: altera_fromelf5
Vendor:Host: eilic01
License path: C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Roaming\ARM\DS-5\licenses\license.lic;1800@eilic01;
FLEXnet Licensing error:-97,121
For further information, refer to the FLEXnet Licensing documentation, available at "www.flexerasoftware.com".
Finished: 1 information, 0 warning, 0 error and 1 fatal error messages.
The license.lic was created using the ARM serial number included with the dev board (The path is set into the ARMLMD_LICENSE_FILE variable). The eilic01 server has licenses for Quartus and other Altera stuff, but no ARM licenses (This path is in LM_LICENSE_FILE).
In conclusion, DS-5 detects the license.lic file, I can compile and debug with DS-5, but I can't lunch fromelf. What's the problem? The license given with the dev board is limited? A version issue? Can I generate directly .bin files from DS-5?
Thank you.
DS-5 Altera edition license does not entitle use of ARM Compiler (Compiler, Assembler, Linker and Fromelf). You need to have a DS-5 Professional edition license to be able to use ARM Compiler.
If you want to tryout ARM Compiler, you can get a 30-day evaluation license using the activation code from http://ds.arm.com/altera/altera-eval-edition/
You're right. With the 30 days evaluation licence fromelf works fine.
I just had to add --tool_variant=eval_alt before the others arguments.
Thank you!