CCS: CCS 7.1 Problems

Guy Mardiks said:

After all installations completed, when i imported projects for Cortex M4 (Using TDA3xx SOC) i get the following warning:

“Target name 'ti.targets.arm.elf.M4' could not be verified. Your project may not build as expected.”

With CCS version 7.0.0.00043 everything seems to be OK and NO warnings are issued.

Could you compare the TI-RTOS products installed by both versions of CCS to see if they match up? You can check this under Window->Preferences->Code Composer Studio->Products. My suspicion is that a required RTSC/TI-RTOS package is not installed/detected in CCS 7.1.0. If that is the case you can have CCS rediscover products from that dialog, or if the TI-RTOS product is in a path that is not already listed under Product Discovery path, you can add the path to it and then have CCS rediscover. 

Let us know if this helps.

Hi,
I compared the installed product between ver 7.0 to ver 7.1 and made sure they are both the same but still the problem with ver 7.1 remained the same.
any other suggestions?

Thanks
Guy

Which project are you importing when you see this message? If it is an example project from a SDK, could you let us know which one and from which SDK? If it is not an example project, would you be able to attach a test case with which we can reproduce the issue?

Hi,
I have also tried importing:
VISION_SDK_02_08_00_00\ti_components\networking\nsp_gmacsw_4_13_00_00\packages\ti\ndk\tda3xx\examples_ipu1

and it has the same warning. it does not seem be related to a specific project but more like something general related to maybe changes that were done in CCS 7.1

Hope you can help
Thanks

Hi,

Specifically for the project you mentioned, it seems to have been built with much older tools than the ones present in the Vision SDK.

To verify this, the document <nsp_gmacsw_4_13_00_00_release_notes.html> under the directory VISION_SDK_02_08_00_00\ti_components\networking\nsp_gmacsw_4_13_00_00 shows the dependencies of this package. It states that several components are older than the ones installed by this SDK:

- SYSBIOS 6.40.03.39 was used (the SDK ships with SYSBIOS 6.42.02.29).
- XDCTools 3.30.03.47_core (the SDK ships with 3.31.02.38_core). 

Also, when importing the project I get an error that the component UIA 2.0.0.28 is not installed. 

Therefore for this project to be properly built it seems you will have to manually download and install these components separately. 

We at the CCS forum can't necessarily explain why this project's dependencies are so different than the components provided with the SDK, but I will try to contact some people that could make additional comments about this.

I apologize for the inconvenience,

Rafael

P.S. Just for your information and if you haven't done so, if you intend to create projects inside CCS with the SDK you are using, you have to add the products to your environment the following way.

Go to menu Window --> Preferences, navigate to the path below and add the highlighted directories: 

In the above screen, click on Rediscover and the new products will be shown. Select the highlighted ones below and click on Install:

CCS will ask to be restarted. After doing this, go back to menu Window --> Preferences, go to the options below and add the path highlighted. 

Now your CCS has all the necessary products to allow building SDK projects. 

Hi, Thanks.
I have no issues with mismatched components - i only mentioned the SDK project since you asked for an example from the SDK which you could try yourself it it had the same issue i am having with CCS 7.1.
The problem is with the warning:

“Target name 'ti.targets.arm.elf.M4' could not be verified. Your project may not build as expected.” Like is also seen on the image you attached - this also shows in CCS7.1 when all components and dependencies are fine and not on earlier CCS version (i.e. version 7.0)

It seems there is a problem with the target for CCS7.1 but i cannot figure out what
Thanks
Guy

Guy,

I understand. This new warning is a result of the fix for the bug CCSIDE-3031. In the past, when the entered target-name could not be verified against the list of all known target-names, the Target field would get cleared to force the user to enter a proper target-name. In CCS 7.1.0 this behavior was relaxed – instead of clearing the field, this warning is shown.

When a target-name cannot be verified against the list of known target-names, the problem is either with the user’s entered target-name (i.e. they entered a bad target-name), or the problem could be that the list of known target-names is incomplete. That is usually solved by installing an appropriate version of either the TI-RTOS or SYSBIOS that supports the target.

Hope this helps,
Rafael

Hi & Thanks.
I am not sure i understand - according to what you wrote when using previous version if there was a problem with the target name it would just clear the field instead of issuing a warning but i am using this target name (releases 7.0 and below) and there is no problem so does it mean that all the packages i have do have the proper target name in their list? from some reason version 7.1 does not recognize this target name anymore.
just to verify - can you explain how can i see the list of target names i have and how can i find per RTOS or SYSBIOS vesion what names they support?

Thanks
Guy

Guy,

>> from some reason version 7.1 does not recognize this target name anymore.
Unfortunately it seems this warning message is being thrown incorrectly, as we were able to create and build a project for a Cortex M4 core despite what the warning says.

At the moment we are trying to track what are the issues with this mechanism and will report back our findings.

I apologize for the inconvenience,
Rafael