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CCS: How to install TI-RTOS for TM4C in CCS

Matthew Kendall
Intellectual 785 points

Tool/software: Code Composer Studio

I'm planning to use a Tiva TM4C1294 with TivaWare and TI-RTOS, using CCS as the development platform.

I need some help getting TI-RTOS installed.

The TI-RTOS download page says "If you plan to use TI-RTOS within Code Composer Studio v6.0 or higher, is it recommended that you use the CCS App Center to install TI-RTOS", and the TI-RTOS for TivaC Getting Started Guide SPRUHU5 says much the same thing; use the CCS App center.

So I go to the App Center and TI-RTOS is not there. I refresh, and update, and click See More, and so forth before eventually noticing the text that says please use the Resource Explorer.

So I go to the Resource Explorer and it doesn't seem to be there either. I see the "TI-RTOS for TivaC - v:2.16.00.08" folder in the tree, but it just seems to contain other folders that ultimately just contain documentation or example code. I don't see the actual RTOS. I found the "CCS App Center does not list TI-RTOS Add-ons" thread in this forum from about a month ago but I'm afraid I did not understand the resolution. Maybe I'm just being dense, but with reference to the screenshot below, could somebody please tell me what, specifically, I'm supposed to click on to install TI-RTOS (the actual RTOS, not documentation or examples).

Thanks.

  • 0
    Guru 86425 points
    Hi,

    I press the download button and the TI-RTOS for TivaC starts downloading. Does the same happen to you?

    Do you have Tivaware already installed?

    - kel
  • 0 in reply to Markel Robregado
    TI__Guru**** 173310 points

    The download button Markel is referring to is the icon highlighted below, which says "Install to Desktop" when you hover over it.

  • 0 in reply to AartiG
    Intellectual 785 points

    Thanks, I see that now. In my defense, it seems quite un-intuitive. That looks like a download button for the folder I have selected on the left, which seems to contain other folders, which themselves seem to contain nothing but documentation and other folders containing examples. I was expecting to see an icon somewhere in the tree on the left representing the actual RTOS source files themselves. I didn't particularly want the documentation or examples for evaluation boards I'm not using so I had discounted that button.

    Anyway, it does sort of work. If I hover it says "Install on Desktop" and if I click I am offered "Make Available Offline", which does seem to download and invoke an installer. But said installer just goes ahead without asking and installs tirtos and xdctools folders in C:\ti\tirex-content. That's not where I have CCS or other TI tools installed and I could not find a way to change it. So in the end I just gave up and downloaded the conventional installer from the TI-RTOS download page on the TI web site. That worked fine and the result was detected by CCS next time I opened it.

  • 0 in reply to Matthew Kendall
    TI__Guru**** 173310 points

    Matthew,

    Thank you for the feedback. Many of the items you noted are things we are already working on improving for future releases.

    For instance, the install location currently defaults to c:\ti\tirex-content but we are looking to change that c:\ti to be consistent with packages downloaded and installed from TI download page. On a side note, packages installed to c:\ti\tirex-content via Resource Explorer should also be detected and picked up by CCS automatically.
    Also giving user the option to choose where to download content from Resource Explorer is another request we are tracking.