I respectfully disagree. MSPGCC is one of the better documented efforts in embedded/gnu/open source world. Have you read and followed http://mspgcc.sourceforge.net/manual/ ??? It may be a bit outdated but should get you started right away. BTW, you do not have to use msp-jtag. GDB/insight can program the part directly. Sergei P.S. Insight WILL give you problems. Single stepping, stepping out does not always (usually? ;-) work. Use a breakpoint if in doubt. Eclipse suppose to be a better front end but it did not work for me. That is I can compile the project but the debugger is failing saying something about not been able to get info threads. I've seen posts from other people with the same problem. Anybody?
-----Original Message----- From: mspgcc-users-ad...@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:mspgcc-users-ad...@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Garret Crisler Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 8:39 AM To: mspgcc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Mspgcc-users] msp430-gcc + Eclipse support under Linux? Can you tell me what this file is?? f: cd f:\programme\mspgcc\bin msp430-jtag -e f:\programme\eclipse\workspace\...\....elf msp430-gdbproxy --port=2000 msp430 Anymore information that you could give us would be greatly appreciated as I also have now spend about 2 days trying to get this system up and running. I seem to be having trouble with the makefile, where does it come from? I believe this complier works and has great potential, however the supporting literature is worse than terrible. Garret Crisler ----- Original Message ----- From: Dieter Teuchert <mailto:die...@cadt.de> To: mspgcc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 3:57 AM Subject: [Mspgcc-users] msp430-gcc + Eclipse support under Linux? Hi, i have been successfully debugging with Eclipse 3.0 and mspgcc unter W2K. There was one major problem getting it to work: I found a web site with a description on how to do it. Besides a lack of explanation of the intended workings, that description was old and invalid. It seems like, there has been an important change in Eclipse in that recent versions can make msp430-gdb connect to msp430-gdbproxy automatically. With old versions you had to include statements in the gdb.ini file to setup the connection. Now when you use the new Eclipse with the old ini file, you are really trying to connect to msp430-gdbproxy TWICE and an error results. It cannot work. So my ini file looks like this: set remoteaddresssize 16 set remotetimeout 999999 set download-write-size 512 set remote memory-write-packet-size 512 set remote memory-write-packet-size fixed set remote memory-read-packet-size 512 set remote memory-read-packet-size fixed mon reset The ini file sits in the Eclipse workspace in the same directory as the elf file. There is no "target remote localhost:2000" command and no "load ....elf" command. Loading the elf file to the debugger and to the debugging gui is automatic in Eclipse, if you select the right binary parser. The download (jtag programming) is included in a batch file that also starts up gdbproxy. The default port number is as good as 2000, except you have to setup eclipse to tell msp430-gdb to use the correct port. f: cd f:\programme\mspgcc\bin msp430-jtag -e f:\programme\eclipse\workspace\...\....elf msp430-gdbproxy --port=2000 msp430 f:\programme\eclipse is the path where i installed Eclipse. f:\programme\mspgcc is the path where i installed mspgcc. Solving the problems took some time and is impossible without studying a little bit the gdb manual. Eclipse includes a console window where you can watch some of the data exchanged with the msp430-gdb. You can also enter commands by hand, e.g. to reset everything. So the intended connection scheme looks like this: Eclipse <-> msp430-gdb <-> Socket <-> msp430-gdbproxy <-> Parallel port <-> JTAG cable <-> MSP430 (DUT) msp430-jtag AND msp430-gdb AND Eclipse need to read the elf file Eclipse is something rather impressive. Debugging failed, though, when i had multiline embedded assembler sequences in my MSP430 source. Regards Dieter Teuchert -- Dipl.-Phys. Dieter Teuchert Software und Systeme Postanschrift: Telefon: Telefax: EMail Firma: EMail persönlich: Internet: Rommelstr. 6 D-76571 Gaggenau Germany +49 7225 989253 +49 7225 989254 i...@cadt.de die...@cadt.de <http://www.cadt.de> http://www.cadt.de
