LM3S8962 Basic Assembly Project

mouka zwina

But I can't get it to compile properly. It keeps complaining about stack and other stuff as well.

What are the exact errors you are getting? If you can copy and paste the full error message from the CCS build console that will be helpful.

When you create the new project are you selecting the "Empty Assembly-only Project" template from the list of templates? This would be the appropriate one to select for a project that is going to contain only assembly source files and no C source file. From there on you should be able to add your source file and build.

That's exactly what I did.

1. I created a new Empty Assembly Project.

2. CCS did create an empty project for me.

3. I added a simple .asm file containing the code I showed before.

4. I tried assembling, but the assembler, or the compiler, complained about all kinds of things missing or undefined.

If you can post the complete output of the CCS build view we can try to explain what the errors mean and what could be causing them.

Was the code snippet you attached the full assembly source file? When you created the new project in CCS, did you pick Stellaris LM3S8962 as the device variant?

Here's all the code I had in my main.asm:

             .text
start:
              mov r0,#1234
              mov r1,#5678
              add r2,r1,r0
stop:     b stop

here are the errors:

warning #10204-D: automatic RTS selection: could not resolve index library "libc.a" to a compatible library
error #10198-D: no input section is linked in

"../lm3s8962.cmd", line 44: error #10104: undefined symbol "__stack" used in expression
>> Compilation failure
warning #10202-D: no suitable entry-point found; setting to 0
error #10010: errors encountered during linking; "junk.out" not built
gmake: *** [junk.out] Error 1
gmake: Target `all' not remade because of errors.

**** Build Finished ****

The quick-and-dirty answer is to change "start" to "main", and add a ".global main" directive (don't forget to indent it).  You'll get a bunch of startup code that you don't really need, but that's probably the easiest path for now.

I just did. I added ".global main" directive. Without the double quotes obviously. But I am getting the same error messages as I did before.

I think it is compiling my project as if it were a C project. The reason I am saying this is because it is trying to link the object code with libc.a. 

I don't even know if CCS is capable of assembling simple projects. It seems that gcc is always trying to compile stuff as a C project.

I tried several blank projects. But I am always getting the same errors. I tried changing stuff to address the errors I am getting, only to generate a lot more errors.

Please do a "build all" and show us the entire contents of the build console window.

**** Build of configuration Debug for project Test ****

"C:\\ti\\ccsv5\\utils\\bin\\gmake" -k all
'Building file: ../main.asm'
'Invoking: ARM Compiler'
"C:/ti/ccsv5/tools/compiler/arm_5.0.1/bin/armcl" -mv7M3 --code_state=16 --abi=eabi -me -g --include_path="C:/ti/ccsv5/tools/compiler/arm_5.0.1/include" --diag_warning=225 --display_error_number --diag_wrap=off --preproc_with_compile --preproc_dependency="main.pp" "../main.asm"
'Finished building: ../main.asm'
' '
'Building target: Test.out'
'Invoking: ARM Linker'
"C:/ti/ccsv5/tools/compiler/arm_5.0.1/bin/armcl" -mv7M3 --code_state=16 --abi=eabi -me -g --diag_warning=225 --display_error_number --diag_wrap=off -z --stack_size=0 -m"Test.map" --heap_size=0 -i"C:/ti/ccsv5/tools/compiler/arm_5.0.1/lib" -i"C:/ti/ccsv5/tools/compiler/arm_5.0.1/include" --reread_libs --warn_sections --display_error_number --diag_wrap=off -o "Test.out" "./main.obj" -l"libc.a" "../lm3s8962.cmd"
<Linking>
warning #10204-D: automatic RTS selection: could not resolve index library "libc.a" to a compatible library

>> Compilation failure
error #10198-D: no input section is linked in
"../lm3s8962.cmd", line 44: error #10104: undefined symbol "__stack" used in expression
warning #10202-D: no suitable entry-point found; setting to 0
error #10010: errors encountered during linking; "Test.out" not built
gmake: *** [Test.out] Error 1
gmake: Target `all' not remade because of errors.

**** Build Finished ****

Just for clarification: I went into the lm3s8962.cmd and I removed any references to the stack since I don't need it to be configured in an assembly project. But then I started getting errors relating to libc.a

I removed any reference to libc.a from my project settings, and I still couldn't build the project properly.

I have Googled CCS and I have found some stuff online relating to CCS 4. I have installed CCS 5. I don't know what happened when stuff got moved from version 4 to version 5. But I know for sure that an assembly project selected from the default CCS 5 templates does not work. Too many settings were not done properly.

I got the project to build properly. I was even able to trace (debug) my small program and the registers were changing exactly the way they were supposed to.

Thanks a LOT for your help.

I think we should put SOLVED for this thread.