example Empty TI RTOS project won't build with CCS 11

Dennis Cote

Other Parts Discussed in Thread: EK-TM4C123GXL, SYSBIOS

Hi,

I am trying the new CCS 11.0.0.00012 on Windows 10 Pro 19042.1288 (and macOS 11.6.1).

When I try to import the empty TI RTOS example project for the EK-TM4C123GXL launchpad board from Resource Explporer I get a message saying "The package needs to be installed locally to import...". So I click on Install and I am presented with a screen showing the following:

It has selected version 2.16.00.08 of TI RTOS for TivaC, and informs me that xdctools 3.32.00.06 is unavailable. So I click NEXT and install the selected version of TI RTOS.

When that completes I can import the Empty project into CCS by clicking Import. I get a Summary screen as shown below

It says there are no XDCtools of the required version. If I now build the project it fails with an error:

xdc.cfg.Program : The package 'ti.sysbios.knl' is not compatible with XDCtools used in this build. Please either use XDCtools compatible with that package, or update the product containing that package, or rebuild the package with XDCtools 3.50 or later.

So it appears I am stuck with nonfunctional example programs. I need XDCtools 3.32 which are not available, or I need to rebuild the TI RTOS using the new tools.

It seems to me that TI should be the ones rebuilding TI RTOS using the new tools so that the examples they provide can actually be installed and run.

So will TI be providing updated working examples, or is there some other way around this issue?

over 4 years ago

0 Dennis Cote over 4 years ago

Prodigy 130 points

Hi Again,

I found a similar issue reported a year ago (which would have been using an earlier version of CCS) at (+) CCS/MSP430FR5994: Launchpad and TI-RTOS example won't build - Code Composer Studio forum - Code Composer Studio︎ - TI E2E support forums

The fix there was to manually download and install the older XDCtools version into the C:\ti directory and restart CCS.

When I tried this I saw there were already several older versions (3.32.02.25, 3.50.07.20, and 3.51.01.18) of xdctools installed. I installed the manually downloaded version 3.32.00.06 called for in the error messages alongside the others. When I restarted CCS I did not get any mention of installing discovered products as reported in the linked thread.

When I build I still get the same error.

The Installed Software list shows only RTSC/XDCtools (IDE client) 3.6.1.16 and RTSC/XDCtools (Target Runtime Support) 3.62.1.16 installed.

It looks to me like CCS 11 doesn't recognize or support the earlier versions of XDCtools. So how do we use these RTOS example projects with the new CCS release?