Re: Code Generation Tools version

HI Gary,

you can find out what you have installed by going to Window->Preferences->Code Composer Studio->Build->Code Generation tools

They are also available to download and install in that same location from here

http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Compiler_Releases

Please keep us informed how it goes.

Best Regards,

Lisa

<sigh>

Why am I unable to explain what I want?

1.  I have Compiler v6.0.1
2.  Code Composer tells me this source file was once built
    with v5.2.1.  It has somehow invisibly 'branded' my
    source file such that no one may ever build it with any
    version of the compiler other than 5.2.1, and orders me
    to downgrade. (I used to think I understood ASCII.)
3.  I refuse to downgrade. I refuse to believe that one
    compilation of a source file links it in perpetuity to
    a specific compiler version. I want it to build now with
    what I already have installed.

Am I missing something or is Code Composer that massively
broken?

Hi Gary,

when you import the project CCS should ask you if you want to build with the newer compiler version.  You can simply select yes.  Alternatively you can select which from your installed compiler versions to use under

Project->Properties->CCS General.  You have to have the advanced settings expanded.  You will see "compiler version"

Does this answer things then?

Best Regards,

Lisa

I had no recollection of Code Composer asking me whether I
wanted to build with the new version, so I deleted the
project and imported it again.  The complete wizard cycle is
illustrated herewith:

I still don't see anything about changing versions.

Hi Gary,

I am wondering if you only have one compiler version installed so it did not ask and is perhaps doing everything automatically.

Please check the following two things

Window->Preferences->CCS->BUild->COde Generation TOols ... what compiler versions do you have installed?

Did you try setting a specific version in the project properties as per my last post?

Project->Properties->CCS Build (corrected for v4.2.4 ... sorry I am too used to v5 now).  Once again compiler version can be set here.

Please keep us informed.

Best Regards,
Lisa

On Wednesday, April 11, 2012 4:30 PM; Lisa TI wrote:
>
> Please check the following two things
> Window->Preferences->CCS->BUild->COde Generation TOols ...
> what compiler versions do you have installed?
> 
 

It would appear I have 3 (I only ordered C2000).

>
> Did you try setting a specific version in the project
> properties as per my last post?
>
That would be the following directive?
>
> Alternatively you can select which from your installed
> compiler versions to use under Project->Properties->CCS
> General. You have to have the advanced settings expanded.
> You will see "compiler version"
>
I can find no "CCS General" but I do find the following:

If I read that correctly, I only have 1 version.

Hello,

yes you only have v6.0.1 for the C2000 compiler so your projects will use this version as you can see. 

Does this help clarify things for you then?

Best Regards,
Lisa

I should explain that I have been so silent because of a
much needed vacation.  I returned yesterday and resumed work
on this project.

On Wednesday, April 11, 2012 6:45 PM; Lisa TI wrote:
>
> Does this help clarify things for you then?
>
No, I still don't know why I could not build my project with
the version I had installed.

Then on Wednesday, April 11, 2012 6:57 PM; JohnS wrote:
>
> When a project is created it stores the compiler version in
> the project. This is so that you can have a project that is
> set to use a specific version of the compiler and another
> project that uses a different one. This is very typical when
> you have a project where all the testing and validation has
> been done with a specific version and you don't want to
> change that. However your new project is starting off and
> you want to use the latest tools.
>
This make sense.  But only if I can override it.

>
> In your case your project is set to use a version that you
> do not have installed so CCS lets you know this when you try
> to build. If your team is all aligned on a newer version
> then you can checkout the project, switch the compiler
> version in the project to the newer one you have and then
> check it back in.
>
As I wrote in the original post, I never changed compilers.
I acquired this code from a co-worker who may have built it
with an earlier version before he checked it in, but we have
upgraded in sync.

I still don't know how to switch the project to my version
of CCS, if it is earmarked for an older one.

You will recall, when someone said the import wizard should
ask me during the import process whether I want to switch
versions of the compiler, I deleted the project that was
causing me pain, and re-imported the project, capturing
every screen of the process in an image that I posted on
this forum. I was trying to document that it never asked me
whether I wanted to switch versions, and I didn't see it the
second time.

At about this point I left town for 5 days. I don't remember
whether I re-built the project after the new import, but
this week the error message no longer appears and I can no
longer replicate the problem. I have too many other
challenges to devote much time trying to bring it back.

I notice someone has marked my question as answered. If Code
Composer does wierd things when the moon is waning gibbous,
then yes, that explains everything. Otherwise, if it comes
back again, I will have no more idea what to do about it
than I did this time.