CCS4 - gmake: *** Access is denied.

Where do I start... at the beginning I suppose?

CCS3:

OK. I started using CCS3 (free unlicensed version) last week (5/29/2013) to familarize myself with the tools and MSP430. It was working fine - I didn't have any problems.

CCS5:

Then my company purchased a license for me and I downloaded the latest version of CCS5. Initially, CCS5 was working fine with the small code that I was using.

When I tried to expand the code base (by .c adding files) I started getting "gmake: *** Access is denied" errors and CCS5 would be stuck "Refreshing workspace". (I didn't save any of the log files.) I spent about 8 hours searching the internet and trying to debug the issue.

CCS4:

One of my co-workers is using CCS4 without any problems. So, I gave up on CCS5 and decided to uninstall it with the intention of installing CCS4. Duing the un-installation of CCS5 an error message box popped up that said something like "Script Error" with a lot of details - I didn't save that information either. I'm not convinced that the uninstallation was fully completed.

Then I began trying to install CCS4. Every time I tried to install CCS4 my system would crash - keyboard/mouse were not responsive. I let it sit for +1 hour once to see if it was just being slow.

Finally, today I realized that if in install CCS4 with only MSP430 checkbox selected (all other checkboxes (C28x, Stellaris, Cortex, Digital Media, C54x, C55x, C6000, ARM) unselected) then I would be able to install CCS4 without crashing my system.

OK. Now I have CCS4 installed on my system and the first thing I did was to import one of the example projects (msp430x5xx_fet_1.c) and compile it. The first time I tried to complie the example project I got the same "gmake: *** Access is denied" error and CCS4 would be stuck "Refreshing workspace". The second time I tried clean/compling the same project CCS4 was successful in the compilation.

This particular "gmake: *** Access is denied" error seems to be time dependent. If I compile a project that is slightly larger than the example project, then sometimes I will receive the error and other times it will compile successfully. Or, if I compile a large project, then it will throw this error in different (and apparently random) places

Below is the a log file with the error for some I2C code that I wrote:

Can someone help me figure out what is going on, please?

Thanks.

Aaron.

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**** Build of configuration Debug for project I2C ****

C:\TexasInstruments\ccsv4\utils\gmake\gmake -k all

'Building file: ../msp430x5xxI2C_01.c'

'Invoking: Compiler'

"C:/TexasInstruments/ccsv4/tools/compiler/msp430/bin/cl430" -vmspx -g -O0 --define=__MSP430F5529__ --include_path="C:/TexasInstruments/ccsv4/msp430/include" --include_path="C:/TexasInstruments/ccsv4/tools/compiler/msp430/include" --include_path="C:/TexasInstruments/ccsv4/msp430/include" --diag_warning=225 --silicon_errata=CPU22 --silicon_errata=CPU21 --silicon_errata=CPU23 --silicon_errata=CPU40 --printf_support=minimal --preproc_with_compile --preproc_dependency="msp430x5xxI2C_01.pp" "../msp430x5xxI2C_01.c"

"../msp430x5xxI2C_01.c", line 44: warning: variable "EEPROM_Rx_Num_Bytes" was declared but never referenced

"../msp430x5xxI2C_01.c", line 47: warning: variable "EEPROM_Tx_Num_Bytes" was declared but never referenced

"../msp430x5xxI2C_01.c", line 48: warning: variable "EEPROM_Tx_Data" was set but never used

'Finished building: ../msp430x5xxI2C_01.c'

' '

'Building target: I2C.out'

'Invoking: Linker'

"C:/TexasInstruments/ccsv4/tools/compiler/msp430/bin/cl430" -vmspx -g -O0 --define=__MSP430F5529__ --diag_warning=225 --silicon_errata=CPU22 --silicon_errata=CPU21 --silicon_errata=CPU23 --silicon_errata=CPU40 --printf_support=minimal -z -m"I2C.map" --stack_size=160 --heap_size=160 --use_hw_mpy=F5 --warn_sections -i"C:/TexasInstruments/ccsv4/msp430/include" -i"C:/TexasInstruments/ccsv4/tools/compiler/msp430/lib" -i"C:/TexasInstruments/ccsv4/tools/compiler/msp430/include" -i"C:/TexasInstruments/ccsv4/msp430/include" --reread_libs --rom_model -o "I2C.out" "./msp430x5xxI2C_01.obj" -l"rts430x.lib" "../lnk_msp430f5529.cmd"

<Linking>

'Finished building target: I2C.out'

gmake: *** Access is denied.

. Stop.

gmake: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

gmake: *** Deleting file `I2C.out'

Build error

(Command canceled)