AM623: IDE Path Setup

Blake Carpenter

Part Number: AM623
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: AM62L, SYSCONFIG

Tool/software:

* Note AM62L

Hi Support,

I post this hear but it may be better in the Tools Forum. Since it is Linux based design I will leave it here unless you ask me to move it.

1. However, with CCS IDE 20.0, we see as long as one environment variable is changed, the building process will take forever.

Can you please share what environment variable have you changed and why the change is needed?

In CCS if you open any project properties, you will have option to update the dependencies there itself.

More Info:

We want to change all paths from absolute path to relative, so everyone who clones the repo can have everything under one folder

eg: COM_TI_MCU_PLUS_SDK_AM62X_SYSCONFIG_MANIFEST

Original path is E:/R2_Study/mcu_plus_sdk_am62x_10_01_00_33/.metadata/product.json

We tried to change it to "../mcu_plus_sdk_am62x_10_01_00_33/.metadata/product.json" then we see the building is taking "forever"

For our project, we would like to follow this kind of structure so relative paths will be easier to maintain.

Thanks!

Blake

7 months ago

0 Tushar Thakur 7 months ago

TI__Mastermind 49648 points

Hi Blake,

Thanks for your query.

Can you please confirm, are you getting any build errors ? If yes, please share the complete logs.

Or is it the build process never ends and doesn't give any logs?

Regards,

Tushar

0 Dazong Chen 7 months ago in reply to Tushar Thakur

Intellectual 400 points

Hi Tushar,

The build process never ends and doesn't give any logs after hours.

The goal for this project is to set all absolute paths into relative paths.

Thank you,

Dazong

0 Tushar Thakur 7 months ago in reply to Dazong Chen

TI__Mastermind 49648 points

Hi Dazong,

You can create another environment variable for Workspace location and then set the MCU_SDK and other tools path relative to it like shown in below image.

Please refer below screenshot.

Regards,

Tushar

0 Dazong Chen 7 months ago in reply to Tushar Thakur

Intellectual 400 points

hi Tushar,

I thought variables are relative to the build config folder already (debug/release) or not?

Here is what my project looks like, I already copied the whole sdk under hello world folder

Thanks,

Dazong

0 Tushar Thakur 7 months ago in reply to Dazong Chen

TI__Mastermind 49648 points

Hi Dazong,

Dazong Chen said:
I thought variables are relative to the build config folder already (debug/release) or not?

No, the variables are not relative to build config and it takes the absolute path.

Dazong Chen said:
Here is what my project looks like, I already copied the whole sdk under hello world folder

You can simply link the SDK instead of copying it for every project.

Regards,

Tushar

0 Dazong Chen 7 months ago in reply to Tushar Thakur

Intellectual 400 points

Thank Tushar,

Is there a way we can get this to relative path. As mentioned, the goal it to have all necessary folders under one project folder, and team members don't need to setup anything.

Regards,

Dazong

0 Tushar Thakur 7 months ago in reply to Dazong Chen

TI__Mastermind 49648 points

Hi Dazong,

I have already shared the way to overcome this. Create a variable with your workspace absolute path and then add relative links with this workspace variable.

Regards,

Tushar

0 Dazong Chen 6 months ago in reply to Tushar Thakur

Intellectual 400 points

Hi Tushar,

I think I am getting closer to what I want regarding to relative path. I am working on the hello world example

What variable should I set in order for the header files and src code in these two folders can be visible to auto generated makefile?

Thank you,

Dazong

0 Tushar Thakur 6 months ago in reply to Dazong Chen

TI__Mastermind 49648 points

Hi Dazong,

Please add the path of the folders in the include option of project properties.

Open properties, navigate to Tools -> Arm Compiler -> Include Options

Please refer below image.

Regards,

Tushar

0 Dazong Chen 6 months ago in reply to Tushar Thakur

Intellectual 400 points

Thanks Tushar,

It works. Another question I have is how to make a duplicated window of the IDE so I can do code comparison on two screens?

Regards,

Dazong

0 Tushar Thakur 6 months ago in reply to Dazong Chen

TI__Mastermind 49648 points

Hi Dazong,

You can open file side by side by just right clicking the file and spilting it.

Please refer below image.

Regards,

Tushar

0 Dazong Chen 6 months ago in reply to Tushar Thakur

Intellectual 400 points

Hi Tushar,

What I want is a new window, split left will still be in same window so I can drag it to the other monitor

Regards,

Dazong

0 Tushar Thakur 6 months ago in reply to Dazong Chen

TI__Mastermind 49648 points

Hi Dazon,

Dazong Chen said:
What I want is a new window, split left will still be in same window so I can drag it to the other monitor

Yes, you will need to duplicate the CCS window to drag it to another monitor.

Regards,

Tushar

0 Dazong Chen 6 months ago in reply to Tushar Thakur

Intellectual 400 points

Do you mean open another CCS? Or there is a option to duplicate the CCS window?

0 Tushar Thakur 6 months ago in reply to Dazong Chen

TI__Mastermind 49648 points

Hi Dazong,

Yes, I mean open another CCS.

Regards,

Tushar

0 Dazong Chen 6 months ago in reply to Tushar Thakur

Intellectual 400 points

Ok, thank you Tushar

0 Tushar Thakur 6 months ago in reply to Dazong Chen

TI__Mastermind 49648 points

Hi Dazong,

Thanks for the confirmation.

Closing the thread.

Regards,

Tushar

0 Dazong Chen 6 months ago in reply to Tushar Thakur

Intellectual 400 points

Hi Tushar,

Actually, another question. Without going into the SDK folder, can I directly access SDK C file in IDE? When I do CTRL+left button I only can see .h file

Thanks,

Dazong

0 Tushar Thakur 6 months ago in reply to Dazong Chen

TI__Mastermind 49648 points

Hi Dazong,

You can switch between source and header by using Alt+O key combination.

Please refer below image.

Regards,

Tushar

0 Dazong Chen 6 months ago in reply to Tushar Thakur

Intellectual 400 points

Hi Tushar,

Seems not working on my side. Can you try the uart_echo_callback example and try to access UART_write() under uart_echo_callback.c and see if it will direct you to uart.c?

transferOK = UART_write(gUartHandle[CONFIG_UART_CONSOLE], &trans);

Thanks,

Dazong

+1 Tushar Thakur 6 months ago in reply to Dazong Chen

TI__Mastermind 49648 points

Hi Dazong,

Dazong Chen said:
Seems not working on my side. Can you try the uart_echo_callback example and try to access UART_write() under uart_echo_callback.c and see if it will direct you to uart.c?

I have tried it and it is not working on my side also. It seems like the CCS searches for the exact name with *.c extension. For uart.h the source is uart_v0.c which is different. You will need to navigate to this file manually.

Regards,

Tushar

0 Dazong Chen 6 months ago in reply to Tushar Thakur

Intellectual 400 points

Thanks for confirmation Tushar,

Dazong

0 Dazong Chen 6 months ago in reply to Tushar Thakur

Intellectual 400 points

Hi Tushar,

Is there a way we can disable the IDE to add header file automatically?

eg: when I define a new uint32_t var, a header cstdint will be automatically added, and cause compiling error

Thanks,

Dazong

0 Tushar Thakur 6 months ago in reply to Dazong Chen

TI__Mastermind 49648 points

Hi Dazong,

You will need to deselect the language option in the CCS to disable the auto insertion of header file.

Deselect the language from C to plain text.

Please refer below image.

Regards,

Tushar

0 Dazong Chen 6 months ago in reply to Tushar Thakur

Intellectual 400 points

How do you open this search bar?

0 Tushar Thakur 6 months ago in reply to Dazong Chen

TI__Mastermind 49648 points

Hi Dazong,

Dazong Chen said:
How do you open this search bar?

Just click on the language option highlighted in the above image at bottom right.

Regards,

Tushar

0 Dazong Chen 6 months ago in reply to Tushar Thakur

Intellectual 400 points

Oh sorry I didn't see the bottom right corner.

I changed it to plain text but then the whole text color becomes white...

0 Tushar Thakur 6 months ago in reply to Dazong Chen

TI__Mastermind 49648 points

Hi Dazong,

Yes, the above is expected, as we have disabled the intelligence function for C language and now the code is treated as plain text.

Regards,

Tushar

0 Dazong Chen 6 months ago in reply to Tushar Thakur

Intellectual 400 points

So we cannot just disable the auto insertion?

0 Tushar Thakur 5 months ago in reply to Dazong Chen

TI__Mastermind 49648 points

Hi Dazong,

I cannot see such an option in CCS to disable the embedded code. When you click enter on the suggestion shown in IDE, it automatically embeds the respective code from where it is referenced.

Regards,

Tushar

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