Hello Everyone! Just got my MSP432 P401R Launchpad. I am trying to import/build and run Out of the box project in CCS 6.1. I am getting 23 build errors as it's missing msp.h from the driver lib. I did try to get all the updates without any success.

Hello,
msp.h should come with the base CCS installation inside ./ccsv6/ccs_base/arm/include/ (assuming msp components have been installed). Please check that the file is in there. If so, can you explain how you imported the project? Did you import via Resource Explorer?

Also, did you see the video how to get started with CCS and the MSP432 Out-of-box experience demo?
www.youtube.com/watch

Thanks
ki

Hi kI, Yes. I did watch the video. I do not see any .h under arm/include. I only see few *.lds and *.c files. I remember some checksum error after CCS download. But it's finding the target and passing emulation test.. The board is running blink led at start up.. I am stuck and not able to move forward. Please help. Thanks a lot.

Are you sure you installed MSP support with your CCS installation?

Do you not have any of the files I highlighted in red?

No. I do not have any of those files.

Rerun the CCSv6 installer over your existing installation and you will have to option to add additional components. Make sure you select the options for MSP

btw, the components you need are shown in the youtube video I referenced earlier (1:45-2:00)

Sorry. Tried that. No change. All the components are selected. I am using default ti install dir. Can you send me path to new install. As I mention earlier, I did get checksum fail after download.

ok, here is the link to the download page:
processors.wiki.ti.com/.../Download_CCS

I would recommend the "off-line" installer, where you download the whole install package first.

make sure you install in a clean new folder.

Okay. So I was able to complete install in the different directory (just installed MSP432) and able to load/build the demo. But demo did not run. It says running but both LED stays on. I did terminate/reload/debug. but looks like it's not going to Main. There is not code. I did rebuild Blink LED. But do not see LED blinks. Both LEDs stays on. I did verify .out. Its showing reset occurred on target in debug view. It shows no source available at 0xfffffffe.

Can you try starting a project-less debug session? I just want to see if you can manually connect to the target fine and it will be halted on connect.

To launch a projet-less debug session:
www.youtube.com/watch

I, too, am getting nowhere with the outOfTheBox experience. These should just work 'out of the box', and this sort of failure is so disappointing - and so common. TI is not alone in this regard. I'm having the same horrible newbie experiences with xilinx FPGA out-of-the-boxiness too!

ANYWAY -
The difference is that I _do_ have the files you have annotated above in red (they were just there with the v6.1.2.00015 install - on windows), but as the project doesn't build then I must assume the above is a red herring. All I got on following the instructions was - after a successful project import - a failure which included hundreds of errors and the news that the software I'd spent an afternoon installing (and failing to update - but that's another story) had changed last month and that - basically - I had to jump through a whole nested tree of hoops to get things up to scratch.

"If you are using MSP432 software between 11/2015 and 03/2016 but have not updated your software ecosystem using the installer available on this page, this wiki is also for you."

Wonderful. Which means of course that nobody at TI is, apparently, maintaining the Out of The Box software. I got some way towards remedying the situation by successfully updating the MSP432 emulators to 6.2.1.1 - a process not made at all easy by the 'updates available' software being essentially broken (it seems as if anything prevents any one of the updates from being applied, i.e. a missing source or a missing index, then no updates at all get applied, which means you have to update package by package - a process which takes forever). But beyond that, I've no idea what to do. I'm supposed to get a new OutOfBox_MSP432P401R project from the CCS Cloud IDE, without any help as to what constitutes a project or how to find it (newbie, out of the box, why would I know this?) and - assuming you can find it (I found something, after searching blindly for about an hour) you then have to download another bit of software called code_converter on all the project files in a flat directory and all I have is a deep tree of (presumably) source files with no idea which of them this converter is supposed to process.

Has anybody at TI updated/code_converted the relevant project software? Might they possibly helpfully position it at the ti.com/beginMSP432launchpad so that instead of dozens of ignorant newbies having to go through this agony, one expert could provide the correct project material already sorted out? I've no objection (and am no stranger to) a whole boatload of work to get something to work as advertised, but only when I've settled in to an IDE/methodology after a few weeks of fiddling around and getting to know stuff. Not on day one of a an entirely new 'ecosystem'. OutOfTheBox is - all too often it seems - OutOfTheFryingPan.