CCS 6.1 - MSP432 Device C Code Samples don't work

That is great Ryan. I originally posted in the code composer studio forum and they moved it to the msp430 forum. I guess it will bounce back there when they see it again.

I just double-checked and it appears that the new MSPware isn't there yet, as you pointed out in your message. I suspect it's just a minor delay in getting posted on the CCS App Store server.

Though, it appears that the actual MSPware product was updated. You can find the new version via the MSPware folder. Once you download and install it, CCS should recognize it the next time you open it.

Scott

So I went and found a windows box and ran the standalone extractor. I copied the tree of the new MSPWare to the msp430 directory of my linux CCS install. When I started up CCS it detected the new MSPWare and asked if I wanted to install it (3 MSPWare entries were in the list). I left all the packages selected and clicked 'yes'. It restarted and I tried to create a new project. It failed again .. this time at least it was trying to do a python script instead of the create_projectspec.exe.

It is still broken. It tried to execute the create_projectspec.py and got an error 13. I'm not sure if it was because I copied the files there or if the install just doesn't work.

I found the file $(my ccs installdir)/msp430/MSPWare_2_10_00_15/~TIRex/MSPWare/templates/scripts/create_projectspec.py

I noticed it didn't have the execute bit set. I set it. (chmod +x create_projectspec.py) and tried again. That change allowed it to work properly. It created a project and I was able to build the project successfully.

You know, if you want to test this stuff with someone who will actually try it, I'm available for a small fee. I appreciate your efforts with regard to linux support. I'm just not sure you have the right staff to do it.

BTW: using ~TIRex on linux isn't really a good naming convention to use. * Probably not a good idea on OS/X either.

-rick

Sorry that I cannot try this out in Linux, but there might be an alternative way to load a project example. What I'm going to show here is generic to all the examples, but if it doesn't help, it might be useful for us to know which example(s) you're having problems with.

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In general, I like using the TI Resource Explorer, but you can always import examples and other projects 'manually'. You can do this by importing a CCS Project:

Project -> Import CCS Projects...

Then navigate to the directory that contains the project(s) you're interested in. For example, here I navigated to the "timer_a" projects in the MSP432P4xx folder inside the latest version of MSPware DriverLib. Since I took the default EXE installation location, here's where this is on my PC:

C:\ti\msp\MSPWare_2_10_00_15\driverlib\examples\MSP432P4xx\timer_a

Once you've select a directory that contains projects, you can select which one (or more) you want to import into your CCS workspace:

Please note, if you've already tried to import a specific example, or already created your own project with the same name, Eclipse (i.e. CCS) workspaces won't let you have two projects with the same name.

Hopefully this helps,
Scott

Scott, So you really didn't read what I wrote.

What you ship is broken.  I was just trying to alert the people who build and test this stuff. 

What I did to my personal install fixed it (chmod +x on the python script) .. but that doesn't fix what you ship.  So even when this thing gets upload to the App Center it is likely to still be broken.

Any yes I knew how to import the projects into my workspace. That is how I was able to report other bugs with the samples.

So the real question are:

1.)  Why do you only ship .exe versions of MSPWare install

2.) Why don't you rewrite the create_project app in java so you only have to support one thing? Now you have two things.  One a native windows app and the other a python script.  If you wrote it in java you would be able to support one thing and it would run on windows, linux and os/x.

3.) Does anyone really test this stuff on linux.

4.) Should running the MSPWare install .exe  on windows and copying the extracted files to linux work? 

Thanks for the detailed response Zack.

Unfortunately this seems to be a recurring issue for me.  I am teaching an Assembly Language class where we are using EXP-MSP430F5529LP launchpads and Code Composer Studio.  The C examples are useful for my students, but MSPWare is usually broken at the point where you try to view the C files or where you click the blue "Create" button that becomes "Loading Project."  The message is shown is the screen shot.  (You can't copy and paste the message, which is also annoying.)

I poked around and found that at least one problem may be related to the fact that the C directory isn't in the argument, but it is there in the files installed in MSPWare, but I don't know.  The only way I have found to nicely work around this is to copy the whole installation from a working computer that wasn't updated with the latest MSPWare, and use that.  Can you make this work?  My students and I have had the problem on Windows and Linux.

Thanks,

Rob

You definitely installed the program as root. Just use chown to change the own of  ccs. I changed the owner of the entire /opt/ti directory to the user and everything works perfect.

Thanks for the reply!  Unfortunately that didn't solve it for me (Ubuntu 15.10).  I did a sudo chown -R frohro ~/ti, but I still get this:

It is annoying that you can't copy and paste the error into Google or this post.  It just won't allow me to copy it.  

I did make a work around for my class though.  I made a workspace with all the MSP430F5529 C examples, from which my students can import.  It isn't as nice as when CCS used to work, but it it is better that digging through the directories looking for the source, and pasting that into a new project.  The workspace is here if anyone else needs it:  http://people.wallawalla.edu/~rob.frohne/ClassHandouts/Assembly/example_workspace.zip

Thanks,

Rob

Hi Zack,

It appears that the bug described here changed.  I cannot even get as far as I used to.  Now it stops without any error messages without doing anything at all.  This is in Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit, or 15.10 64 bit, and I am just now getting ready to try Ubuntu 14.04 32 bit.  It would be nice to have at least a workspace that we could download with the projects in it.  MSPWare has not worked for at least a year now for me on Ubuntu, and I've spent a while googling for solutions, and trying various things that haven't worked.  Is there a place where MSPWare error logs go?  I don't even have an error to work with now.

Thanks,

Rob

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