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CCS: CCS 9.3: installed MSP430Ware but can't discover or use it in CCS projects

zguo
Intellectual 440 points
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: MSP430WARE

Tool/software: Code Composer Studio

After a clean, fresh install of CCS 9.3 desktop on Windows 10, and after downloading MSP430Ware, it shows in Resource Explorer that MSP430Ware is installed.
CCS is installed in C:\ti\ccs930, and MSP430Ware in C:\ti\msp430ware_3_80_07_00.

However, MSP430 DriverLab option is not available when creating new CCS project, or when adding new sources to existing CCS project.
Specifically,
By choosing "File - New - CCS Project" and specifying MSP430 as target, the "MSP430 DriverLab" option doesn't show up under "Project templates and examples", as described in MSP430 DriverLib User Guide, page 21-22 (DOCNUM-2.91.11.01).
And, in "Project Explorer", by right clicking an active project and choose "Source - Apply Project Template", the "MSP430 DriverLab" option doesn't show up, as described in MSP430 DriverLib User Guide, page 23-24.

When going to "Window - Preference - Code Composer Studio - Products", MSP430Ware doesn't show up as installed, despite the correct product discovery paths are selected.
In "Window - Preference - Code Composer Studio - Products - RTSC", the MSP430Ware file path is added to "Products and Repositories". But there is no option available in the "Target" and "Platform" selections.

I'm able to import the example MSP430Ware projects from Resource Explorer, as new CCS projects. Or manually copy the MSP430 DriverLab include files to existing projects. But these are not the desired methods.

Why? Because I'm collaborating on team projects which uses MSP430 DriverLab. The ways of including files are different.

Here's how it's done in the MSP430Ware example projects:
#include "driverlib.h"
...

Here's how it's done in the project I'm working on:
#include "driverlib/MSP430F5xx_6xx/usci_b_spi.h"
#include "../../../../ti/MS430ware/msp430ware_3_80_04_05/iqmathlib/include/IQmathLib.h"
...

If I copy the source code into a template MSP430Ware project, or manually copy the library files into existing projects, the include paths and #include statements will be different.
This creates too many troubles for version control. The other team members need to change and exactly replicate my include paths and project settings.
The less troublesome way is for me to get MSP430 DriverLab working in CCS project setting.
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    TI__Guru**** 162855 points

    I am not aware of a "MSP430 DriverLab" template.  In general we have moved aware from the templates in the project wizard.   However I looked as far back as CCSv6.0.1 and I don't see a template like that.  Overall the recommendation is to use Resource Explorer for importing examples.  I will loop in the MSP430 team to see if they can provide more assistance.

    Regards,

    John

  • 0 in reply to JohnS
    Intellectual 440 points
    Do you mean the latest supporting document "MSP430 DriverLib User Guide, page 21-24 (DOCNUM-2.91.11.01)" is incorrect? This is what I've been trying to follow...
  • 0 in reply to zguo
    TI__Mastermind 39750 points

    Hi 

    I am using the CCS  Version: 9.0.1.00004 

    Click the View--->Resource Explorer and I can find the driverlib like below

  • 0 in reply to Gary Gao
    Intellectual 440 points
    I have the same, MSP430Ware is installed under Resource Explorer. But when creating new project, there is no option of using MSP430 DriverLib template, and no option of importing DriverLib to existing project, which is what I want.
  • 0 in reply to zguo
    TI__Mastermind 39750 points

    You can import an driver lib project from the example projects and add your files.

  • 0 in reply to Gary Gao
    Intellectual 440 points
    Again this isn't the desired solution... The desired way is not to import example projects, but to include MSP driver libraries in existing project, so I can re-create the same problem of other people's code (written in earlier versions of CSS) with hopefully identical project settings and binary outputs. - because CSS project settings are not the same across different OS and versions.
    The goal is not setting up a project properly, but re-create bugs with only source code available and missing dependencies, on different CSS versions...
    But I think it's OK. I've figured out alternative ways to solve it.