


The root cause is Arduino who publishes a platform that can not be installed. Configure a platform in Windows-Preferences-Arduino and add a json file or board. Instead of the completely cryptic error message of no board found in boards.txt at the expected location (which is empty) say "No boards found. Unfortunately -after a Arduino json update- the "selection options" Sloeber uses no longer selected the arduino avr platform but selects a platform that Arduino made uninstallable (I would have removed the platform from the json) That is why I opted to install a platform if none is present. I'm a strong believer of "working out of the box". Strip out all default platforms and put up a big dialog box at the end of the install that says to go get a platform. The Arduino IDE works after installing DxCore but I can't work with such a limited tool. I am hoping to be able to use it for the new AVR128DA* series because the Atmel Studio 7 is totally broken for them. That would fix it! Many thanks for putting this tool together. Instead of the completely cryptic error message of no board found in boards.txt at the expected location (which is empty) say "No boards found.Strip out all default platforms and put up a big dialog box at the end of the install that says to go get a platform.No one will be able to install then start a project without getting knocked in the head. Then I found the Sloeber one, installed it and got this.

Then I tried the plugin only and got this. After installing in C:\eclipse and downloading the plugin ide I got this. Note: The instructions are also included in the /nios2eds/bin/README file.I installed three times: twice on Windows because the first time I just left the path at the default and got the windows path nastygram.
