rts430x lib build taking long time

Adam Johnson 537 said:

What is rts430x anyway?

It is the compiler runtime support (RTS) library.  It contains the startup code, along with standard C library functions like memcpy.  In your case, the full name of the library is rts430x_lc_ld_eabi.lib.  

The compiler package contains the most common variants of the RTS library.  If it contained all possible variants, the package is too large to be a practical download.  The linker automatically determines which variant of the RTS library is required.  If it is not present, it is built.  When that occurs, a diagnostic like this is issued ...

Adam Johnson 537 said:

"warning #10366-D: automatic library build: using library "C:\ti\ccsv7\tools\compiler\ti-cgt-msp430_16.9.9.LTS\lib\rts430x_lc_ld_eabi.lib" for the first time, so it must be built.  This may take a few minutes."

With regard to ...

Adam Johnson 537 said:

The build has already lasted more than 30 minutes

That's unusual.  On most systems, it usually takes around 5 minutes.  My first guess is that your PC is having a problem of some sort.  Perhaps the hard drive is nearly full.  Could this be the case?

Thanks and regards,

-George

Hello Adam,
please run Resource Monitor and check Disk, Memory and CPUs utilization when compiling.
What is your PC config?

George, Tom,

I left my computer compiling, seemingly stuck at 62%, and when I arrived at work the next morning it had completed. According to Windows, my hard drive has 262 GB free of 470 GB. My machine runs Windows 10 Pro x64 with 16 GB RAM and Intel Core-i7-6700 @2.6 GHz.

Any chance this could be because I was using a non-administrative Windows account? Or maybe because of antivirus (I'm running Trend Micro Security Agent, which I can't turn off without IT approval)?

Could a corrupt Code Composer workspace cause this?

Adam,

please run Resource Monitor and check Disk, Memory and CPUs utilization when compiling.
Without monitoring your comp. resources everything is guessing.
Up to 8 instances of the C compiler should run in parallel.

I'm not very familiar with Windows Resource Explorer. Is there a way I can gather data to present it here?
When I run the compiler, it no longer stops to build the rts430x_lc_ld_eabi.lib file, so I'm not sure how to recreate my issue, but if I do a rebuild I can see several instances of acpia430.exe, asm430.exe, cg430.exe. Is that what I'm looking for?

Windows Resource Monitor, not Explorer.

Looks like this:

If compilation takes so long, probably you have lack of I/O performance.

Here are some screenshots as Code Composer Studio starts up, as well as rebuilding a project.  Total time to start and rebuild is about 8 minutes.

Code Composer Studio Starting up:

Rebuilding 1:

Rebuilding 2:

Rebuilding 3 (about 56% complete):

Rebuilding finished:

My drive is solid state already :(

I can't reproduce the really long build time, since the .lib file has already been built. But I can live with 8 minutes for now. I'm thinking I'll just mark this thread as resolved, and if something else comes up that takes much longer, then I'll start a related question.

Thanks for your time!

Adam J.