SIMPLELINK-MSP432-SDK: Rebuilding the NDK – Included with the SimpleLink SDK – with Debug Flags

Thomas,

Looks like the build instructions are very out-of-date. I apologies for this. We will try to update them in the next release.

Use these instructions to rebuild NDK with debug instrumentation:

Edit imports.mak and specify the install path for the following variables (I have use my install paths, replace them with your actual paths):

edit simplelink_msp432e4_sdk_3_10_00_11/imports.mak

CCS                     = C:/CCS/CCS_9_1_0_00001
XDC_INSTALL_DIR         = C:/Products/xdctools_3_51_02_21_core
SYSCONFIG_TOOL          = $(CCS)/ccs/utils/sysconfig/cli.js
NODE_JS                 = $(CCS)/ccs/tools/node/node.exe
CCS_ARMCOMPILER         = $(CCS)/ccs/tools/compiler/ti-cgt-arm_18.12.1.LTS

Edit the ndk makefile and remove the following two lines. This ensures you are only building wit the TI compiler.

edit simplelink_msp432e4_sdk_3_10_00_11/source/ti/ndk/makefile

Remove following lines:

gnu.targets.arm.M4F=\"$(GCC_ARMCOMPILER)\" \
iar.targets.arm.M4F=\"$(IAR_ARMCOMPILER)\" \

You should have the following after your edits above.

XDCARGS= \
    ti.targets.arm.elf.M4F=\"$(CCS_ARMCOMPILER)\" \
    CORESDK_INSTALL_DIR=\"$(CORESDK_INSTALL_DIR)\" \
    MSP432E4DRIVERLIB=$(CORESDK_INSTALL_DIR) \
    BUILDMINSTACK=\"$(BUILDMINSTACK)\" \
    TIPOSIX_REPO=\"$(CORESDK_INSTALL_DIR)/source\" \
    NS_INSTALL_DIR=\"$(CORESDK_INSTALL_DIR)\" \
    MBEDTLS_INSTALL_DIR=\"$(CORESDK_INSTALL_DIR)/source/third_party/mbedtls\"

Finally, edit the ndk.bld script and enable the debug build profile. Add the following lines to the end of the script:

edit simplelink_msp432e4_sdk_3_10_00_11/source/ti/ndk/ndk.bld

/* build in debug mode */
Pkg.attrs.profile = "debug";

I find it easiest to create a Windows batch script to setup my build environment. Create the following file. This file must be in Windows file format (i.e. not Unix). The doskey command will create an alias for 'make' which will run the gmake.exe provided by XDCtools. I use a Windows 7 machine, your path may be different for Windows 10.

edit simplelink_msp432e4_sdk_3_10_00_11/dosrc.bat

@echo off

set system=C:\Windows\System32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem

set xdc=C:\Products\xdctools_3_51_02_21_core

REM prompt $n:$g
prompt $p$g

PATH=%system%;%xdc%;%xdc%\bin

doskey alias=doskey /macros
doskey make="%xdc%\gmake.exe" $*
doskey xdc="%xdc%\xdc.exe" $*
doskey xs="%xdc%\xs.exe" $*

set system=
set xdc=

Now, open a DOS command window and change directory into your SDK folder. Run the batch script.

cd simplelink_msp432e4_sdk_3_10_00_11
dosrc

Change directory into the NDK package folder. Clean and rebuild the NDK component.

cd simplelink_msp432e4_sdk_3_10_00_11/source/ti/ndk

make clean
make all

The first build will take a few minutes. After that, to rebuild the NDK it will be much quicker.

Now you will need to relink your application.

Let me know how this goes.

~Ramsey