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Project files named _cproject instead of .cproject

A customer sent me a project to review... I've just installed the latest version of CCS,  6.1.3.00033 , (usually I use IAR). It doesn't recognize that there's a project, and comparing to example projects, I see that the project files are named e.g.  "_cproject" instead of ".cproject". I also notice that in the files there are some directory paths that are not in the zipped project. Is this a version issue? A mistake in copying the project? I tried just renaming the _cproject to .cproject, but Windows won't let me do that. It also did not work to take an existing project name, replace the contents with what's in the _cproject file, and move it into the directory. Do I have to create a new project, read through the _cproject file and set everything by hand, and hope that I get all the parameters correct? 

  • Hi Mike,

    the project metadata filenames should start with a dot and not underscore. Something went wrong there and I don't know how that happened.

    Mike Kaelin said:
    I tried just renaming the _cproject to .cproject, but Windows won't let me do that.

    You can rename it in a dos command window:

    > rename _cproject .cproject

    You will also need to do the same for .ccsproject and .project if they have an underscore also.

    Thanks

    ki

  • Thanks, that worked! Stupid Windows...

    Apparently you can't just open a project in a directory, you have to create a new workspace and let CCS copy it in... Done... I built all, and now I get an error:

    ">#10269</a> output file "Dyno_Firmware_Trunk_344.out" exceeds code size limit"

    Apparently the code limit is 16KB on the free version... (It would be great if TI took a lesson from Microchip and gave out a free unlimited compiler!) Is there info anywhere about what code size it wants to create?
  • Hi Mike,

    I suggest using the temporary eval license to get around the code size limit:

    http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Licensing_-_CCSv6#Free_Licenses

    http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Activating_CCSv6#Current_License_in_Use

    If you need more time with the eval, we can always provide an extension. Please let me know

    Thanks

    ki