CCS6 is very slow...

frank.proebstl said:

When I start 'Build Project' it takes up to 80 seconds until the build process is started.

Is this a consistent behavior, (ie) does it happen every time you build the project? Also do other projects imported from TivaWare exhibit the same symptoms?

One suggestion would be to ensure that no anti-virus software is running. Second is to try the same on another PC if at all you have access to one.
This is an odd issue and not something we have experienced internally, so I wonder if it might be specific to one machine/environment.

Yes, it happens every time and with every project. The time depends on the project size and changes from day to day. Today I wait 30 seconds until the process starts. I can not disable antivirus software, in our company its not possibe.

I found out something interesting:

Using the 'External builder' (gmake) its very slow like described. When I use the 'Internal builder' the process starts immediately! and is in total much faster overall.

Whats the reason for this behaviour??

frank.proebstl said:

Using the 'External builder' (gmake) its very slow like described. When I use the 'Internal builder' the process starts immediately! and is in total much faster overall.

Internal Builder uses a builder that essentially emulates make and comes with stock Eclipse, while External Builder delegates to an external gmake and a toolset such as the TI toolchain (and should be the correct one to use for CCS projects). 

I still suspect something is coming in the way of invoking the external builder, perhaps the anti-virus or something else in the PC environment. If you are using Kaspersky anti-virus there are some known issues mentioned in this post.

I have the same problem. For every project, the build idles for a looong time (minutes!), displaying "Scoped incremental build before launch... Generating makefile for source folder <e.g. Release>" but not actually doing anything. This behavior suddenly appeared out of the blue, I'll see if it persists after rebooting my machine. Unfortunately, build times have now gone up from ~ 1 minute to somewhere > 1h.

Brief update: rebooting did not help. I filed a request to temporarily deactivate the anti-virus software, but I doubt that it will have any effect.

Another brief update: At least in my case, the problem was that the license server was down. CCS ran either using the "Free License" or "Unlicensed". Both were horribly slow, although that doesn't seem to be documented behavior.