CCSTUDIO-THEIA: Building Projects from Command Line

Ruben Martins

Part Number: CCSTUDIO-THEIA
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: TMS320F28388D, MSPM0L1306

Hi!

I'm trying to build a ccs project from the command line and having issues. I'm following the documentation here: https://downloads.ti.com/ccs/esd/documents/users_guide_ccs_theia/ccs_project-command-line.html#import-an-existing-ccs-project and the forum post here: https://e2e.ti.com/support/tools/code-composer-studio-group/ccs/f/code-composer-studio-forum/1225042/codecomposer-ccs-theia-creating-and-building-projects-from-command-line with no success.

I've tried both the ccs-server-cli.bat, ccs-server.exe and ccs-serverc.exe with no success, I always get the help message as if I'm missing some option

i.e.

.\ccs-server-cli.bat -noSplash -workspace "F:/workspace/myExistingWsFolder" -application com.ti.ccs.apps.createProject -ccs.name newProject -ccs.device MSPM0L1306

I tried the importProject and buildProject options targeting existing projects with no success either.

The folder myExistingWsFolder has a .theia subfolder with a launch.json with my current projects from CCS and a ti-workspace.theia-workspace saved from CCS ('save workspace as...' option). I also tried creating a new empty workspace or using my home folder default workspace with no success.

What am I missing here?

I'm using Windows and my target device is a TMS320F28388D (tried both TMS320F28388D and F28388D before switching to the MSPM0L1306 from the forum post)

5 months ago

0 Ki 5 months ago

TI__Guru**** 482331 points

Hello,

Which exact CCS version are you using?

Thanks

0 Ruben Martins 5 months ago in reply to Ki

Prodigy 10 points

Hi!

I believe I'm using the latest

Details
Version: 20.4.0.13__1.10.0

Default VS Code API: 1.102.3

0 Ki 5 months ago in reply to Ruben Martins

TI__Guru**** 482331 points

For CCS 20.4.0, please refer to the user's guide for that version:

https://downloads.ti.com/ccs/esd/documents/users_guide_ccs_20.4.0/ccs_project-command-line.html#import-an-existing-ccs-project

Ruben Martins said:

i.e.

.\ccs-server-cli.bat -noSplash -workspace "F:/workspace/myExistingWsFolder" -application com.ti.ccs.apps.createProject -ccs.name newProject -ccs.device MSPM0L1306

This is a command to create a project from scratch. Is this what you want to do? We typically recommend people to use an existing SDK example if one exists. For MSPM0, there are many SDK examples.

https://downloads.ti.com/ccs/esd/documents/users_guide_ccs_20.4.0/ccs_getting-started.html#creating-a-new-code-composer-studio-project

That said, I don't see any issues withe the command you used. It worked for me:

What host OS are you using? If it is Windows, are you running from Command Prompt or PowerShell?

0 Ruben Martins 5 months ago in reply to Ki

Prodigy 10 points

I'm using windows and was using powershell, with command prompt it worked and I was able to build my project for F28388D.

Is there a similar quirk for linux? I tried running it under WSL and on a remote machine through ssh but had the same errors I was getting from powershell, not recognising necessary parameters for the cli command.

0 Ki 5 months ago in reply to Ruben Martins

TI__Guru**** 482331 points

Ruben Martins said:
I'm using windows and was using powershell, with command prompt it worked and I was able to build my project for F28388D.

For using powershell, please see my post:

RE: CODECOMPOSER: CCS with PowerShell: cannot create new project on Windows

Ruben Martins said:
Is there a similar quirk for linux?

The linux terminal should be fine. I have not had any issues there.

Ruben Martins said:
I tried running it under WSL

I have not tried via WSL, only with a native linux environment using the default terminal.

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