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CCS/CODECOMPOSER: General Guidelines for setting up CCS 5.5, importing project workspace, and getting started (Windows 7 64 bit)

Mark Sheats
Intellectual 420 points
Part Number: CODECOMPOSER

Tool/software: Code Composer Studio

I am totally new with the TI products.  Another engineer in the company has been doing all the software for the product I'll now be working on, and he is away on a trip.  Plus I'm not sure he would know how to set me up, since his setup was so long ago.  I did the firmware for the previous version of the instrument we are developing, but that was an entirely different processor and development environment.

So I'm wondering if you can point me to the right resources for installation and setup.  Should I try to import his workspace?  If so, where do I find it?  He said he is using CCS 5.5, and that's what I have downloaded and installed on my Windows 7 64 bit machine.  I think the installation was successful--I disabled antivirus for the install, and the installer said it was installed successfully.

I installed CCS in the default c:\ti directory.  I have copied over all his firmware files from the server into a folder we'll call "current" and inside I have 

Debug
drivers
dvt
Header_Files
RemoteSystemsTempFiles
etc.

We are under a time crunch to get some problems solved, and I appreciate any help you can give me!!!!!

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    TI__Guru**** 173310 points

    Mark Sheats said:
    So I'm wondering if you can point me to the right resources for installation and setup.  Should I try to import his workspace?  If so, where do I find it?

    It sounds like you have already installed CCS and are now looking to import and work on existing projects. In CCS, you would typically import projects, not workspaces. Workspaces are user-specific and are typically not shared between users. If you open CCS and go to menu Project->Import CCS Projects, then browse to your co-worker's directory that you have copied over, it should list all the CCS projects located within that directory. From there, you can select the ones you wish to import.

    There is a Projects and Build handbook here that should give you a pretty good overview of how projects are set up and what the build flow looks like. There is also a wealth of information on these forums so you could find a lot of answers by searching these forums. 

    One comment about the version of CCS - CCS 5.5 is pretty old and no longer supported. We will still answer questions and do our best to support this version as much as possible but if this is a new product development, I would strongly recommend going with a more recent version of CCS. Note that if the project needs to be locked into a specific version of compiler tools that is still possible to do even with moving to a newer version of CCS.

    Details and download for the different versions are available in this page. Hope this helps!

  • 0 in reply to AartiG
    Intellectual 420 points
    Thanks so much, I'm going to check out that handbook. You mentioned, "Note that if the project needs to be locked into a specific version of compiler tools that is still possible to do even with moving to a newer version of CCS." That sounds like what we need to do. Can you point me in the right direction for that?
  • 0 in reply to Mark Sheats
    TI__Guru**** 173310 points

    Mark Sheats said:
    Thanks so much, I'm going to check out that handbook. You mentioned, "Note that if the project needs to be locked into a specific version of compiler tools that is still possible to do even with moving to a newer version of CCS." That sounds like what we need to do. Can you point me in the right direction for that?

    There is a section in the handbook that talks about it: Changing Compiler versions

  • 0 in reply to AartiG
    Intellectual 420 points
    Thanks very much for the warning that 5.5 is very old. I downloaded 6.2 instead, and that was able to open the project file from my colleague. So it looks like he was wrong in telling me it was built with 5.5. At least now I can view the project! This is a great start. Thanks again!!!!!