Janos 5 Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 Hi, I'm a Mac user, but worked with CCS under Windows to write Code for my Launchpad for the last months. I used to flash the .bin output of the CCS to my Launchpad with the LM Flash Programmer. Now I've switched over to a virtual machine, running Linux with CCS to continue working on my Projects. Sadly, the LM Flash Programmer is a Windows only tool. Are there alternative tools, that could do the job under OS X? A GUI would be nice but not absolutely necessary Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rei Vilo 695 Posted October 22, 2015 Share Posted October 22, 2015 I'm using lm4flash and OpenOCD as an alternative for embedXcode. lm4flash is provided by Energia and OpenOCD is installed with Homebrew $ brew install openocd Janos 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Janos 5 Posted October 23, 2015 Author Share Posted October 23, 2015 I found the lm4flash tool inside the Energia app. Just to be sure to not destroy my board with wrong settings, all I have to do is call something like ./lm4flash /Users/Me/Documents/MyCCSWorkspace/Debug/myLastBuild.bin ? Or are there any specific options that have to be passed to the tool to match a special MCU or debug Interface? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cde 334 Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 CCS has a 2nd beta release for native OS X. https://e2e.ti.com/blogs_/b/toolsinsider/archive/2015/03/20/code-composer-studio-beta-for-msp430 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rei Vilo 695 Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 Install Energia, set the Preferences to Verbose, take the blinky example, compile and upload. On the console, you'll see the exact syntax of the upload command. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rei Vilo 695 Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 CCS has a 2nd beta release for native OS X. https://e2e.ti.com/blogs_/b/toolsinsider/archive/2015/03/20/code-composer-studio-beta-for-msp430 Last time I installed CCS beta for Mac OS X, the drivers were conflicting with those of Energia. So, unless you have a spare Mac for beta testing, refrain from installing CCS and even CCS Cloud. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Janos 5 Posted November 11, 2015 Author Share Posted November 11, 2015 I've started writing a small GUI for the LM4Flash tool with Xcode. I've no experience with Objective-C and the Cocoa Framework, so it is a lot of try and error work for me - but in the end it doesn't seem to be that difficult to write such a simple program. If I'm successful I'll share it with you bluehash 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lyon 3 Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 Hi, A nice GUI for MAC can be build from Eclipse + the plugin from this link: http://gnuarmeclipse.github.io The result is something powerful as CCS, if you add openOCD. Also openOCD can be used from terminal, so you have another tool to flash a .bin file. bluehash 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rei Vilo 695 Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 I've developed a free plugin for Xcode called embedXcode. Learn more at http://embedxcode.weebly.com bluehash 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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