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Martin Rose

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I am very new to Texas DSP so apologies if this has been asked before. I am trying to build code that was written by another department in my company for TMS320F28035. After installing CCS etc. I can eventually load the the project and get it to build. However I get a warning that code was originally built with compiler version V5.2.6[C2000] and I am using V6.0.2.

My question is can I install the older version of the compiler and choose which version to use or do I need to uninstall the newer version and then install the older version (I am assuming this is still available from TI downloads)? I want to use the older version so that I can produce exactly the same hex file etc. as other people.

over 14 years ago

0 Alvaro Tarazona over 14 years ago

TI__Intellectual 1560 points

Martin,

To download and install older compiler versions, see this page: http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Compiler_Releases

It has instructions on getting the files from CCS directly(recommended), but it also has the link to download them separately (https://www-a.ti.com/downloads/sds_support/TICodegenerationTools/download.htm)

Regards,

Alvaro

0 Martin Rose over 14 years ago in reply to Alvaro Tarazona

Prodigy 90 points

Thanks for the info Alvaro. The only thing I am unsure of now is if I use the download page this gives me a 32K code limited version, for a full version I need to update via CCS but this only seems to allow you to update to newer versions and not go backwards to older versions?

0 Alvaro Tarazona over 14 years ago in reply to Martin Rose

TI__Intellectual 1560 points

Hmm, I'm not really sure how that works. The team here in the compiler forum should be able to help though.

Regards,

Alvaro

0 AartiG over 14 years ago

TI__Guru**** 173310 points

Martin Rose said:

My question is can I install the older version of the compiler and choose which version to use or do I need to uninstall the newer version and then install the older version (I am assuming this is still available from TI downloads)? I want to use the older version so that I can produce exactly the same hex file etc. as other people.

Yes, you can install and build with an older version of the codegen tools. It is not required to uninstall the newer version of codegen tools. You can have multiple versions of compiler tools installed and tell CCS which version to use for a project build.

As you noted, the compiler downloads page you were pointed to, only has the code size limited version of the C2000 tools. In this case, the simplest way to get to v5.2.6 is download and install from this page. You may install it in any directory and then have CCS detect and use this version by following the steps in this page.

0 Martin Rose over 14 years ago in reply to AartiG

Prodigy 90 points

Thanks AartiG. Unfortunately because I wanted to get going I have already downloaded the code limited version and got it installed and working, presumably my program is smaller than 32K (not sure how you find out the actual size). I suppose if I exceed 32K I will have to uninstall it and install this one instead.

Cheers

Martin

0 AartiG over 14 years ago in reply to Martin Rose

TI__Guru**** 173310 points

The code limited version will give you an error when you exceed the 32k code size limit. If that does happen, yes, you would need to uninstall the code size limited version and install the full version.

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