MCU-PLUS-SDK-AM243X: Toolchain dependencies (Tools) of mcu-plus-sdk

Fabian Sorkalla

Hello,

we have some problems setting up the build toolchain in our build-server for the am243 processor.

The problem is the following: Some targets in the SDK require tools from CCS. This might be okay for development computers but not for automatic build servers.

Our server is desktopless and therefore we cannot build some targets there since the tools which are shipped with CCS cannot be installed there (for example "utils/tiobj2bin/tiobj2bin").

CCS cannot be installed at our build-severs since the installer requires a GUI.

In our opinion all of those tools shall be included in the build toolchain of the compiler (TI ARM Clang CGT). Then the SDK does not depend on CCS anymore which brings great benefits.

Best Regards

Fabian

over 3 years ago

0 Ming Wei over 3 years ago

TI__Guru 55025 points

Hi Fabin,

You can install the CCS without GUI:

--mode unattended	This will install the CCS installer with no GUI interaction. If no other parameters are provided, it will install all product families in the default directory. If this parameter is omitted, the installer will open up in GUI mode and request values for installation.

Best regards,

Ming

0 Fabian Sorkalla over 3 years ago in reply to Ming Wei

Prodigy 220 points

Hi MIng,

thanks for the answer. I know I found the command line interface of the installer.

I just tried executing it directly like:

./CCS11.2.0.00007_linux-x64/ccs_setup_11.2.0.00007.run

But this gave me an error. But "--help" flag gives a nice overview over commandline options. Maybe this shall be added in the error message since currently I only received this:

Error: There has been an error.
Text mode is not supported. Please set your display and run the installer again.
Press [Enter] to continue:

A hint for the help flag would be beneficial, since the current error message gives no hint about the command line interface

Still I think you should try to move all the needed tools in the CGT Clang Toolchain. CCS has a quite big footprint and in my opinion should not be required for sdk builds.

Best regards

Fabian

0 Ki over 3 years ago in reply to Fabian Sorkalla

TI__Guru**** 463781 points

Hello Fabian,

Fabian Sorkalla said:
A hint for the help flag would be beneficial, since the current error message gives no hint about the command line interface

Please see the below document on command-line installatiom:

https://software-dl.ti.com/ccs/esd/documents/ccs_installer-cli.html

In your scenario, you want to pass in the below parameters:

--mode unattended --unattendedmodeui none

Example:

https://e2e.ti.com/support/tools/code-composer-studio-group/ccs/f/code-composer-studio-forum/1096661/linux-command-line-installation-fails/4065619#4065619

Note that for AM243x, you'd want to use: PF_SITARA_MCU

Fabian Sorkalla said:
Still I think you should try to move all the needed tools in the CGT Clang Toolchain. CCS has a quite big footprint and in my opinion should not be required for sdk builds.

If you are just interested in tiobj2bin, then you likely do not need a whole CCS installation. I will bring this thread to the attention of my colleague who is best familiar with the utility.

Thanks

0 George Mock over 3 years ago in reply to Ki

TI__Guru**** 249380 points

Ki said:
If you are just interested in tiobj2bin

Since you use the tiarmclang compiler, you have a better solution than tiobj2bin. In the same \bin directory as the compiler tiarmclang, there is a utility named tiarmobjcopy. To create a binary file from a executable file, use a command similar to ...

tiarmobjcopy -O binary final_executable.out final_executable.bin

In case it matters ... The utility tiobj2bin originates from the Code Generation Tools XML Processing Utilities.

Thanks and regards,

-George

0 Fabian Sorkalla over 3 years ago in reply to George Mock

Prodigy 220 points

Hi George and Ki,

thanks for the reply.

If tiarmobjcopy is also available in the tiarmclang CGT why is this not used in the Buildsystem of the SDK?

For example have a look into SDK under "examples/drivers/boot/sbl_null/am243x-evm/r5fss0-0_nortos/ti-arm-clang/makefile" in line 201 tiboj2bin is set.