That's almost certainly not the right correction, but as long as you don't
use the ram_mirror section it won't matter.
Thanks for following up; I'll add a ticket so if there's another release it
gets fixed.
Peter
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Thierry Varidel <thierry_vari...@sensimed.ch
> wrote:
> I found the problem!
>
> There was a typo in the memory.x file at this line :
>
> ram_mirror (wx) : ORIGIN = 0xfc000, LENGTH = 0x-f5c00
>
> instead of :
>
> ram_mirror (wx) : ORIGIN = 0xfc000, LENGTH = 0xf5c00
>
> Now it compiles with mspgcc 4.7.0!
>
> TV
>
>
> 2013/7/2 Peter Bigot <big...@acm.org>
>
>> Sorry; I misread that as the FR5969.
>>
>> In short, the only combinations that are supposed to work are the ones
>> that are in mspgcc releases. The 20120406 mspgcc release you're using will
>> probably not work with 20130321 msp430mcu, but the 20120911 mspgcc release
>> probably would except for the risk of damaging FRAM chips if it was used
>> for them.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 8:08 AM, Thierry Varidel <
>> thierry_vari...@sensimed.ch> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Peter,
>>>
>>> Thank you for answering.
>>>
>>> I have seen the mailing list entry you mentioned before.
>>>
>>> In it, you said that the release 20130321 of msp430mcu is not working
>>> with FRAM chips but the F5659 is not using FRAM this is why I was thinking
>>> that it was feasible to use its headers from 20130321-msp430mcu with
>>> previous builds. So is it supposed to work with this non FRAM chip?
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> TV
>>>
>>>
>>> 2013/7/2 Peter Bigot <big...@acm.org>
>>>
>>>> > Can anybody give me some information on how to achieve that?
>>>>
>>>> Not really. In some cases you can mix versions of the component
>>>> packages of mspgcc and they'll probably work; in this case you can't. See:
>>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/mspgcc-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg11556.html
>>>>
>>>> In short, the new FRAM chip headers require a compiler patch and are
>>>> unsupported in released mspgcc at this time. An entity that may pay for
>>>> mspgcc maintenance is caught up on an internal matter that must be resolved
>>>> before they can fund a new release that includes the fix for this. I have
>>>> no ability to influence that process, and at this time do not plan to
>>>> donate the necessary release packaging/testing effort myself (especially
>>>> since I have no boards using these new chips).
>>>>
>>>> Peter
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 7:23 AM, Thierry Varidel <
>>>> thierry_vari...@sensimed.ch> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I want to use mspgcc with the MSP430F5659 and I've seen that the header
>>>>> files for this microcontroller have been made available in
>>>>> msp430-mcu-20130321.zip.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm working with Windows 8 and I was secretely hoping that it was as
>>>>> simple
>>>>> as copying the .x and .h files of the MCU in the mingw32 prebuilt
>>>>> package
>>>>> include and bin folders but if I do that, I have the following error
>>>>> when
>>>>> linking :
>>>>>
>>>>> memory.x(20): error : nonconstant expression for length
>>>>>
>>>>> I've spent a lot of time altavisting for this and it seems that I'm the
>>>>> only guy in the world using this MCU with MSPGCC. I couldn't find any
>>>>> clue
>>>>> on how to put the mcu-20130321 in my mspgcc distribution.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm using mspgcc 4.6.3 for now but I plan to update to 4.7.0 for large
>>>>> memory support.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can anybody give me some information on how to achieve that?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>>>
>>>>> TV
>>>>>
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