CCS/TM4C1294NCPDT: What's the correct way to manually link NDK libraries to a project?

The way you have added the libraries looks to be fine.

The allocation error is happening because the size of the .bss section for your application is greater than the SRAM memory available. The large section size could be contributed by the libraries or by something in your application itself. You can further isolate which component(s) is contributing to the large section size by taking a look at the linker map file. To do that though you would first need a successful link.

Open the linker command file in your project (the default one is usually named EK_TM4C1294XL.cmd). Edit the length of the SRAM memory region (from 0x40000 to something much larger, like 0x80000). Note that this is only meant to be a temporary change to allow the link to complete. After a successful link, open the linker map file (.map) generated by the build and scroll into the .bss section under Section Allocation Map details. That should show the breakdown and size of each input section that contributes to the .bss output section. Hopefully that will help you understand where the large sections are coming from so you can try to trim them down if they are coming from your application.  

Hi AartiG, thanks for the help!

I did what you said and it seems that the biggest input section is:

20000380    0004cb00     stk6.aem4f : pbm_data.oem4f (.bss:NDK_PACKETMEM)

This can be seen in the memory allocation windows as well:

Do you know how can I solve this? My code is just trying to initialize the stack and configure IP. Is there anything wrong with it?

#include <ti/sysbios/knl/Clock.h>
#include <ti/ndk/inc/netmain.h>

void initIP(void* hCfg);
void initDHCP(void *hCfg);
void networkOpen();
void networkClose();
void networkIPAddr(uint32_t IPAddr, uint32_t IfIdx, uint32_t fAdd);
void serviceReport(uint32_t item, uint32_t status, uint32_t code, HANDLE hCfgEntry);

extern void llTimerTick();

const char *hostName    = "tisoc";
const char *LocalIPAddr = "192.168.1.14";
const char *LocalIPMask = "255.255.255.0";
const char *GatewayIP   = "192.168.1.1";
const char *DomainName  = "demo.net";

void NDKStackTaskFxn()
{
    HANDLE hCfg;
    int rc;
    Clock_Params clockParams;
    Clock_Handle ndkClockHandle;

    /* Create the NDK heart beat */
    Clock_Params_init(&clockParams);
    clockParams.startFlag = TRUE;
    clockParams.period = 1000;
    ndkClockHandle = Clock_create((Clock_FuncPtr)llTimerTick, clockParams.period,
                                  &clockParams, NULL);
    if (ndkClockHandle == NULL) {
        return;
    }

    rc = NC_SystemOpen(NC_PRIORITY_LOW, NC_OPMODE_INTERRUPT);
    if(rc) {
        return;
    }

    hCfg = CfgNew();

    if(!hCfg) {
        goto final;
    }

    initIP(hCfg);
    // initDHCP(void *hCfg);

    // Configure low priority task stack size
    rc = 2048;
    CfgAddEntry(hCfg, CFGTAG_OS, CFGITEM_OS_TASKSTKLOW, CFG_ADDMODE_UNIQUE,
                sizeof(uint32_t), (unsigned char *)&rc, NULL);
    // Configure normal priority task stack size
    rc = 2048;
    CfgAddEntry(hCfg, CFGTAG_OS, CFGITEM_OS_TASKSTKNORM, CFG_ADDMODE_UNIQUE,
                sizeof(uint32_t), (unsigned char *)&rc, NULL);
    // Configure high priority task stack size
    rc = 2048;
    CfgAddEntry(hCfg, CFGTAG_OS, CFGITEM_OS_TASKSTKHIGH, CFG_ADDMODE_UNIQUE,
                sizeof(uint32_t), (unsigned char *)&rc, NULL);

    // Boot system
    do {
      rc = NC_NetStart(hCfg, networkOpen, networkClose, networkIPAddr);
    } while(rc > 0);

    // Shutting down...
    CfgFree(hCfg);

final:
    NC_SystemClose();
}



void initIP(void* hCfg)
{
    CI_IPNET NA;
    CI_ROUTE RT;

    // hostname
    CfgAddEntry(hCfg, CFGTAG_SYSINFO, CFGITEM_DHCP_HOSTNAME, 0,
                strlen(hostName), (unsigned char *)hostName, NULL);

    // Ip and mask
    bzero(&NA, sizeof(NA));
    NA.IPAddr  = inet_addr(LocalIPAddr);
    NA.IPMask  = inet_addr(LocalIPMask);
    strcpy(NA.Domain, DomainName);
    NA.NetType = 0;
    CfgAddEntry(hCfg, CFGTAG_IPNET, 1, 0, sizeof(CI_IPNET), (UINT8 *)&NA, 0);

    // Gateway
    bzero(&RT, sizeof(RT));
    RT.IPDestAddr = 0;
    RT.IPDestMask = 0;
    RT.IPGateAddr = inet_addr(GatewayIP);
    CfgAddEntry(hCfg, CFGTAG_ROUTE, 0, 0, sizeof(CI_ROUTE), (UINT8 *)&RT, 0);


    // DNS
    IPN IPTmp;
    IPTmp = inet_addr("8.8.8.8");
    CfgAddEntry( hCfg, CFGTAG_SYSINFO, CFGITEM_DHCP_DOMAINNAMESERVER, 0, sizeof(IPTmp),
                 (unsigned char *)&IPTmp, 0 );
}

void initDHCP(void *hCfg)
{
    CI_SERVICE_DHCPC dhcpc;
    unsigned char DHCP_OPTIONS[] = { DHCPOPT_SUBNET_MASK };

    // hostname
    CfgAddEntry(hCfg, CFGTAG_SYSINFO, CFGITEM_DHCP_HOSTNAME, 0,
                strlen(hostName), (unsigned char *)hostName, NULL);

    // Usa DHCP para obter IP na interface 1
    memset(&dhcpc, 0, sizeof(dhcpc));
      dhcpc.cisargs.Mode = CIS_FLG_IFIDXVALID;
      dhcpc.cisargs.IfIdx = 1;
      dhcpc.cisargs.pCbSrv = &serviceReport;
      dhcpc.param.pOptions = DHCP_OPTIONS;
      dhcpc.param.len = 1;
      CfgAddEntry(hCfg, CFGTAG_SERVICE, CFGITEM_SERVICE_DHCPCLIENT, 0,
                  sizeof(dhcpc), (unsigned char *)&dhcpc, NULL);
}

void networkOpen()
{

}

void networkClose()
{

}

void networkIPAddr(uint32_t IPAddr, uint32_t IfIdx, uint32_t fAdd)
{

}

void serviceReport(uint32_t item, uint32_t status, uint32_t code, HANDLE hCfgEntry)
{
    /*
     *  Item:        Item que sofreu alteração
     *  Status:      Novo status após alteração
     *  Code:        Report code (se houver)
     *  hCfgEntry    Ponteiro não referenciado para
     *               a entrada com mudança de status
     */
}

Thanks in advance,

Ronan