CODECOMPOSER: What is required for CCS to detect a project?

Seth Kazarians

Part Number: CODECOMPOSER

Tool/software:

I had to set aside my CCS project for a week. I committed all the relevant files, deleted the generated ones, switched branches, and moved on with my work. Now that I'm coming back, I find my project unable to be detected by CCS.

When I double click on the `project.syscfg`, I get an error of `Project '[project name redacted]' does not exist or is not accessible`.

When I try to launch the debugging, I get an error of `The project does not have a target configuration file.`

I tried making an empty project, and it looks like I have all the same files available.

Is there a listing of all the requirements for a CCS project? I've had to create a new project several times and copy over my config and code, and I'm fairly certain that's not the design intent behind the tool.

3 months ago

0 Ki 3 months ago

TI__Guru**** 463821 points

Hello,

All valid CCS projects will have at least the three following files in the project folder:

.ccsproject
.cproject
.project

If any of these files are either missing or corrupted, then CCS will not be able to "detect" it.

If you have these files and you are unable to have your project detected by CCS, please provide your project folder with these three files in a zip and attach the zip here.

Thanks

0 Seth Kazarians 3 months ago in reply to Ki

Prodigy 60 points

Thank you for that list.

I checked that both projects (my current one and the newly generated one) have those 3 files. I also compared the contents of those files between the two projects and didn't really find any obvious bugs or issues.

I have attached the project here, however, because this is a project protected by an NDA, I needed to rename some files and items within the files.

Also, what triggers CCS into scanning the folders it has open for projects? In the past, I've launched CCS and it will open into a state where it doesn't recognize the folders as CCS projects. I found I could solve this by generating a new project from a template (and then deleting the project as it's not needed).

Thanks,

Seth

client_project.zip

0 Seth Kazarians 3 months ago in reply to Seth Kazarians

Prodigy 60 points

Worth noting: I found that CCS will regenerate the .project file on it's own if the file is missing, and with the same content as the Create Project process. So we're left with the other two files being the culprits.