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CCStudio 1.0 - ti\cgtools folder is missing

Robert Campbell1
Prodigy 20 points
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: CCSTUDIO

I inherited an unloved, never used 'C6201 EVM and bundled software (CCStudio V1.0 released 1999) when the company closed my office.

It's now sitting quite happlly in an old Dell Dimension XPS B1000r (Pentium III 1.0GHz, 128M of RAM, 20G HDD and a fresh install of Win 98SE). The installation appeared to run without any trouble apart from having to reseat the board once and the Confidence Test passes without a hiccup. However, when running through the Tutorial I cannot locate the required library, rts6201.lib. In short the cgtools folder is missing, clearly I've missed a step somewhere or something went wrong silently.

Can anyone shed some light on this problem?

NB. I'm only wanting to use the EVM board as a platform for self-training in DSP while looking for the next job so don't want to spend money on the latest and greatest CCStudio (yet :-)).

Robert

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    TI__Guru**** 450031 points

    Hi Robert,

    Wow you are going way back there with a P3 running CCSv1! Either you have a bad install and can try reinstalling or the cgtools folder is in a different folder than what the project is expecting.

    I would expect the cgtools folder to be in <CCS INSTALL DIR>\c6000\cgtools. Did you try searching the entire install directory for the lib?

    Sorry I can't help you more. I don't even have access to that old CCS version so I can't check myself.

    ki

  • 0 in reply to Ki
    Prodigy 20 points

    Hi Ki,

    Well, I'm into retro computing ... or maybe it's just the thrifty Scot in me that doesn't like throwing working gear out :-)

    I checked the whole C: drive, no sign of cgtools anywhere. Then I uninstalled CCS, leaving the EVM driver and utilities in place, re-installed CCS and got the same result. It's not just the library that's missing, there's no cgtools at all - compiler, assembler, linker the lot.

    Code Generation Tools are certainly available as free downloads but only much later versions (not surprising) that don't support Win98 (wouldn't expect them to either) but I would have thought they'd be included in the EVM bundle. I can't see anything obvious on the disc (like a cgtools.cab file) and the CAB files aren't recognised as such by Win98's 'extract' so I can't check them at the moment. There is, however, a BAT file that adds environment variables which have a 'ctools' as opposed to 'cgtools' folder in the path. What are the chances of part of the installation failing because the cgtools or ctools folder hasn't been created?

    As for the version required, the Release Notes mention CGTools V3.0 so I guess anything around that vintage would work.

    Any further thoughts?

    Thanks,

    Robert