Creating valid bin file and flashing

Mark Taylor said:

Similarly to what was discussed in the following post, my bin files are always 524K no matter what I do in terms of optimization

The large size of the .bin file for SYS/BIOS projects is explained in this forum post. Could you please try the workaround suggested there of marking the ".vtable" section as NOLOAD in the linker script, and let us know if that helps? 

My bin file went from 524,289KB to 55KB!  To clarify exactly what I did for anyone else that finds this post in the future:

1.) Open your <project>.lds file

2.) Find the following section:

    .vtable (_vtable_base_address) : AT (_vtable_base_address) {
        KEEP (*(.vtable))
    } > REGION_DATA

3.) Change it to this: 

    .vtable (_vtable_base_address) (NOLOAD) : {
        KEEP (*(.vtable))
    } > REGION_DATA

4.) Clean and rebuild.

NOTE: I haven't tried programming this on my board yet.  I'm am away from it at the moment, but I will check back after I test it out.  

As an aside, to get my project to build the bin file in the first place, I went into my project settings inserted this into my Post Build steps:

1.) Show advanced settings -> C/C++ Build -> Settings -> Build Steps -> Post-build steps:

     "${CCS_INSTALL_ROOT}/utils/tiobj2bin/tiobj2bin.bat" "${BuildArtifactFileName}" "${BuildArtifactFileBaseName}.bin"

2.) CCS Build -> GNU Compiler -> Debugging -> {deselect Generate debug information}

3.) CCS Build -> GNU Compiler -> Optimization -> {select Optimize for space rather than speed}

4.) Open up C:\ti\ccsv6\utils\tiobj2bin\tiobj2bin.bat and edit as follows:

   4a.)  Locate "setlocal" (around line 38).

    4b.) Append PATH so the rest of the batch file can locate target binaries:

           "set PATH=%PATH%;C:\ti\ccsv6\tools\compiler\ti-cgt-arm_5.2.7\bin;C:\ti\ccsv6\utils\tiobj2bin"

    4c.) Around line 56... Start removing references to the old ofd and hex executables. I'm not targetting anything but Tiva, so this is okay...

        Take this: 

set ofdcmd=ofd470
if not "%~3" == "" set ofdcmd=%3
set hexcmd=hex470
if not "%~4" == "" set hexcmd=%4
set mkhexcmd=mkhex4bin
if not "%~5" == "" set mkhexcmd=%5

        And change it to this:

set ofdcmd=armofd
if not "%~3" == "" set ofdcmd=%3
set hexcmd=armhex
if not "%~4" == "" set hexcmd=%4
set mkhexcmd=mkhex4bin
if not "%~5" == "" set mkhexcmd=%5

4d.) Around line 100, take this:

call :make_exe_work %ofdcmd% ofd470 armofd
set ofdcmd=%final_cmd%
call :make_exe_work %hexcmd% hex470 armhex
set hexcmd=%final_cmd%

        And change it to this:

set ofdcmd=armofd
set hexcmd=armhex