CCS: Command line project create - How to change PRU Linker Runtime Environment Initialization Model

Nijin P said:

Actually, we want to do the project creation and build via command line only without using CCS GUI. After getting the build errors in terminal, we tried troubleshooting the created project settings by importing to CCS GUI.

Please forgive me, but I still don't understand.  When you say "build via command line", I presume you use make (or something similar) to invoke the compiler shell clpru.  In that case, compiler options typically appear as assignments to variables in the makefile.  There is no method to automatically import such a build into CCS.  (Though it is possible to configure a CCS project to use your custom makefile to perform the build.)  So please describe, in detail, how you intend your project to build, and exactly how you import that into CCS.

Nijin P said:

So we want to know to why the ROM autoinitialization model is getting enabled by default in the created project and would like to disable it command line itself.

I still don't understand the nature of your created project, so I cannot answer.  Speaking generally, not using either --ram_model or --rom_model  will solve your problem.

One other detail to watch for ... Make sure your linker command file does not contain --ram_model (or the older short equivalent -cr) or --rom_model (or the older short equivalent -c).  

Thanks and regards,

-George

Nijin P said:

But the problem is that when I am not specifying anything (deleted the above mentioned linker option in the args list), 'Link using ROM autoinitialization model' (second entry) is enabled in the created project. How to avoid this to get a command line created project with empty value for the initialization model

Nijin,

Some default compiler and linker options (depending on the device selected) are always added to any new CCS project. This is done behind the scenes by the CCS project interface. The --rom_model is one of those linker options that is added to all C projects. You can confirm this by creating an empty project using the CCS GUI as well.

The only time this option is not added is if you select the "Empty Assembly-only Project" template. With this template, that option is set to blank. So you could use the workaround of creating the new project with this template. The option to specify a template with command line projectCreate is -ccs.template <id>. Please see this link for details.

Note that with the "Empty Assembly-only Project" template a few other default options are different as well. Ones that I noticed were the --stack_size and --heap_size options. But these can be changed using the -ccs.setLinkerOptions.

Let us know if this helps.