Electronic – License dilemma Texas Instruments Code Composer v5 for Stellaris vs MSP430

I just got one of those $4.30 MSP-EXP430G2 boards, and, having worked with both Eclipse and CCSv3 (the full license version), I also downloaded CCSv4, thinking that would be the path with the easiest learning curve.

There may be some kind of tutorial on the MSP430 launchpad wiki, but I haven't found it yet. Ideally there should be a how-to that shows, starting from scratch, how to create a project and get it into the device. If I do find such a thing, I'll edit this post to try to include the correct link.

There is a device-specific library you have to include that defines the I/O devices as they are on your cpu, and another library that supplies the 'IQ math' routines. I don't have access to the CCSv3/ezDSP setup I worked with a year or two ago (long weekend!), but I think at least the IQ math library was IQmath.lib, or possibly IQmath.out; the F2808 in that project required including a file with a name something like ml28xx.out. Sorry I can't get these file names right until probably Monday evening, but if you search for ml28* and/or IQmath* in the C:\tidcs tree, you might be able to find them.

On CCSv3, there was a dialog for compiler/linker options where you could name these libraries as part of your project. Not sure where these would be with the new Eclipse based CCSv4. Perhaps the eclipse way of right clicking the project name, and looking for 'build properties' would reveal the dialog you need.