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Comment on Installing MSPGCC4 and MSPDEBUG on Kubuntu 10.04 by Fer

Fer — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:37:48 +0000

Hi there! I’ve followed all the steps, but I get the message
“uif: can’t open serial device: /dev/ttyACM0: Input/output error”
I’m using kubuntu 11.04 nd a LaunchPad with a MSP430G2231
any idea??

Comment on Installing MSPGCC4 and MSPDEBUG on Kubuntu 10.04 by Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:50:23 +0000

Hi,

Following this great tutorial, I’m trying to install MSPGCC4 on my Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit PC but I always get this error:

sh do-gcc.sh “/opt/msp430-gcc-4.4.5″ “4.4.5″ “http://ftp.uni-kl.de” “build” “gcc-4.x” “4.3.1″ “2.4.2″ exited with status code 2.
Failed to execute sh do-gcc.sh “/opt/msp430-gcc-4.4.5″ “4.4.5″ “http://ftp.uni-kl.de” “build” “gcc-4.x” “4.3.1″ “2.4.2″ at ./buildgcc.pl line 248, line 9.

Has anyone successfully installed the toolchain on Ubuntu 64-bits?

Thanks!

Comment on Installing MSPGCC4 and MSPDEBUG on Kubuntu 10.04 by admin

admin — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 02:54:59 +0000

SubMicro,

I am still on 10.04. but Jurgen posted a comment above that he had to use /dev/ttyACM0.

Anyway if you look at /var/log/messages you should see a message that the ez430 programmer is detected.

Here is what I see when I plug the programmer in:
Mar 21 22:51:20 linuxDesk kernel: [192718.153894] ti_usb_3410_5052 4-1:1.0: TI USB 3410 1 port adapter converter detected
Mar 21 22:51:20 linuxDesk kernel: [192718.153930] ti_usb_3410_5052: probe of 4-1:1.0 failed with error -5
Mar 21 22:51:20 linuxDesk kernel: [192718.158872] ti_usb_3410_5052 4-1:2.0: TI USB 3410 1 port adapter converter detected
Mar 21 22:51:20 linuxDesk kernel: [192718.159093] usb 4-1: TI USB 3410 1 port adapter converter now attached to ttyUSB1

As you can see in this example it was actually using /dev/ttyUSB1 instead of /dev/ttyUSB0.

Comment on Installing MSPGCC4 and MSPDEBUG on Kubuntu 10.04 by SubMicro

SubMicro — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:53:46 +0000

Hello I’m running Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick kernel ver. 2.6.35-28 generic. I followed your blog but was unsuccessful. I get this error “Trying to open UIF on /dev/ttyUSB0… uif: can’t open serial device: /dev/ttyUSB0: No such file or directory”.

Any help would be appreciated. Since I can’t use it untill I fix this, because I’m a Linux only Op system.

SubMicro

Comment on Installing MSPGCC4 and MSPDEBUG on Kubuntu 10.04 by Tommaso Toffoli

Tommaso Toffoli — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 23:19:04 +0000

Can you suggest a place where I can find examples of assembly language programs
for the msp430, including assembler directives and header files. I’m familiar with machine languages and the assembly process, but I can find next to no documentation on the msp430 “flavor” of mspgcc assembler. What assembler coding styles are accepted? What other quirks, like colon or tab after a label, semicolon before a comment, and so forth? What assembler directives? What is a minimal set of header files?

Even a single well-documented representative program would be extremely useful.

Incidentally, I’m producing some professional-grade documentation for what I’m learning
about the use of the mspgcc chain and mspdebug. Ask me if you are interested.

Many thanks,
Tommaso Toffoli

Comment on Installing MSPGCC4 and MSPDEBUG on Kubuntu 10.04 by Jurgen

Jurgen — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:22:18 +0000

Hi,

just to help people out… I’m running Ubuntu 10.10 here - and I had to use /dev/ttyACM0 instead of /dev/ttyUSB0

Hoping to help someone out with this clue

Comment on Installing MSPGCC4 and MSPDEBUG on Kubuntu 10.04 by Mike Goldberg

Mike Goldberg — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:18:25 +0000

Hey, thanks for sharing this information. I had one of these sitting around in my desk for a while because I thought there was no Linux support. I’m glad I was wrong. I just built the tools and now the led is flashing.

Comment on Installing MSPGCC4 and MSPDEBUG on Kubuntu 10.04 by errol

errol — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:33:17 +0000

Thanks so much for this tutorial. I’ve been struggling with building mspgcc4 for several days. It was your list of build dependencies that clinched it. I had less than half of what I needed. I seem to have got away with libreadline5-dev instead of libreadline6-dev though.
The path info saved me time as well, no doubt.
Good effort.

Comment on Installing MSPGCC4 and MSPDEBUG on Kubuntu 10.04 by admin

admin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:46:56 +0000

Miriam, sorry for the late reply. If you still have this problem my guess would be that you have the old msp430-gcc in your path.

You can verify this by executing ‘which msp430-gcc’ this will tell you what executable is actually executed as msp430-gcc. Also take a look at your PATH environment variable via ‘echo $PATH’. If your old install is listed before the new it will be found first and be executed.

Here is my output:

# which msp430-gcc
/opt/msp430-gcc-4.4.3/bin/msp430-gcc
# echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt/msp430-gcc-4.4.3/bin

Hope this helps.

Comment on Installing MSPGCC4 and MSPDEBUG on Kubuntu 10.04 by miriam

miriam — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:24:51 +0000

hi,
thank you for the information, but i have a problem with my old version when I install the mspgcc4 like you did it still gives me the old one:
msp430-gcc –version
msp430-gcc (GCC) 3.2.3
how can I solve this problem
thanks a lot