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MSP430 CGT Licensing

Sergey Tarassenko
Prodigy 205 points

Hello,

I have installed CCSv5 with activated valid license and it's possible to successfully build project. However I would like to have another version of MSP430 CGT installed and to be able to use it. I've taken MSP430 Compiler 3.3.2 from previous CCSv5 distribution and installed it in custom folder. Now I have the problem, that newly installed compiler is working in evaluation mode:
MSP430 C/C++ Compiler                   v3.3.3 - compiler in CCSv5 folder
MSP430 Evaluation C/C++ Compiler        v3.3.2 - newly installed compiler

How do I provide license file for compiler? http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Compiler_Installation_and_Selection - doesn't provide any information about licensing issues.

Thank you in advance!

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    TI__Guru**** 163045 points

    Sergey,

    The compiler doesn't use the license file.  The code size limited and full compilers are actually physically different packages.  Thus it is not possible to get the 3.3.2 compiler that you have installed in your CCSv4 code size limited installation to read your v5 license and get rid of the limit.

    From within CCSv5 you could get access to newer compilers but not older ones.  The easiest thing to do will be for me to send you a private message with a link to the 3.3.2 compiler that you could install and then point CCSv5 to it.

    Regards,

    John

     

  • 0 in reply to JohnS
    Prodigy 205 points

    John, thank you for provided link, this compiler doesn't have code size limitation after installation.

    However I don't understand the difference between compiler packages. Could you please explain it more?

    I have installation image of CCSv5. It's possible to extract CGT installation package from CCS5.1.0.07001_win32\featurerepo\binary\com.ti.cgt.msp430.3.3.win32_root_3.3.3. If I install this package manually I get code size limited compiler. If I install complete CCSv5 and provide a valid license file - I get full compiler. So I assume that it's possible to get full and code size limited compiler from package provided with CCSv5. Why isn't it possible to perform similar steps to obtain full compiler manually? Am I missing something?

  • 0 in reply to Sergey Tarassenko
    TI__Guru**** 163045 points

    Sergey,

    We are not going to provide information on how to control whether the compiler installer in CCS installs the full or code size limited tools.

    John