MSP-EXP430FR5994: Debugging with Eclipse IDE

Marco Burgener

Dear all,

I'm trying to set up a build environment for the MSP-EXP430FR5594 evaluation board using the Eclipse IDE and the MSP-GCC compiler. I'm using build scripts and CMake to build my project which enables automatic building on a build server and I was able to compile the basic example project blink.c. Now I'm trying to download and debug the code but that's where I got stuck. I couldn't find the eZ-FET debug probe within Eclipse. Is there a plugin for Eclipse that it supports the eZ-FET debug probes?

I'm using Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers (includes Incubating components) Version: 2021-12 (4.22.0)

Thanks and best,

Marco

over 1 year ago

0 Keith Barkley over 1 year ago

Guru 35580 points

Why not get TI's CCS, which is their repackaging of Eclipse? You seem to be doing it the hard way.

https://www.ti.com/design-resources/embedded-development/ccs-development-tools.html

+1 Brandon Fisher94 over 1 year ago in reply to Keith Barkley

TI__Mastermind 27545 points

Hi Marco,

As Keith said, installing CCS would be our recommendation here.

I'm not sure if there is anything available on the Eclipse marketplace which extends Eclipse for the use of ez-FET and is up-to-date, but barring that trying to use Eclipse directly could be painful. CCS however can be installed with all of the necessary support packages for MSP430.

Best Regards,
Brandon Fisher

0 Marco Burgener over 1 year ago

Prodigy 30 points

Thanks for your quick answers. That's what I thought. It's just that we developing on several different microcontroller platforms and for now we always used Eclipse. Now we have a project where we selected a MSP430 and we wanted to support this microcontroller in our standard development environment. But it looks like this is gonna be difficult, so I think I'm gonna go with with the CCS which works quite well.

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