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CCS: Update/Upgrade to CCS v8: Best Practices?

Tool/software: Code Composer Studio

Have recently installed CCS v8 - alongside an existing v7 install - as I was not aware of any 'upgrade' option. In any case, I thought a clean install might be the better path forward.

How now to properly delete v7? I can individually uninstall packages; ti_cgt_tms470_17.9.0.STS_uninstaller.app would be an example - but the uninstall_ccs.app is completely unresponsive. Is a wholesale drag-to-trash a safe bet?

Further, will v8 be able to install all the versions of various packages we'd been using on v7, including older ones required by some of our projects, from directly within the interface?

Or should we be dragging-and-dropping, and letting CCS figure it out?

What the smoothest, safest way forward?

  • For packages installed in /ti CCSv8 should just find them automatically. If you have things like the 17.9 compiler installed inside your CCSv7 folder in something like /ti/ccsv740/tools/compiler you could just copy them over to the same folder in CCSv8. That would be the quickest way to do it. Alternatively CCSv8 will let you install all of those items, just remember that if you wanted to install 2 releases of the same compiler stream (say 17.12.0 and 17.12.1) you need to install the oldest one first as otherwise CCS will not let you get an older version of the same stream.

    Personally I would just copy the compilers over and then delete the ccsv7 installation folder. I never run the uninstaller.

    Regards,
    John
  • Thanks, JohnS, I'll try it this way then... I assume by "need to install the oldest one first as otherwise CCS will not let you get an older version" -- you mean CCS will not let me get a newer version. I also remember something about disabling one version to use another, etc. OK, must experiment. In any case, am relieved to know I can just copy stuff over and delete the rest.