Dev_MSP430_Toolchain

Getting a toolchain up and running on Archlinux.

Packages you need:

• mspgcc-ti
• mspdebug
• mspds

MSPDS

In order to communicate with the F5529 experimentor board, you'll need to get the tilib protocol in mspdebug working. To do this you have to compile the libmsp430.so library from Ti's msp debug stack.

Build script for mspds

# Maintainer: Christopher Bero <bigbero@gmail.com>
# Taken from https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mspds
# PKGBUILD copied from https://github.com/greigdp/msp430-mspds
pkgname=mspds
pkgver=3.05.01.01
pkgrel=3
pkgdesc="MSP430 Debug Stack. Contains a dynamic link library as well as embedded firmware that runs on the MSP-FET430UIF or the eZ430 emulators."
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/MSPDS_Open_Source_Package"
# Licenses were found in "Manifest MSPDebugStack OS Package.pdf" from the mspds source archive.
license=('custom:TI BSD' 'custom:IAR BSD' 'custom: TI TSPA')
group=('msp430')
depends=('hidapi' 'boost')
makedepends=('unzip' 'dos2unix')
optdepends=('mspdebug')
noextract=('slac460n.zip')
source=('http://www.ti.com/lit/sw/slac460n/slac460n.zip'
		'hidapi.patch')

sha256sums=('181418a33400567fa19e411f16df340a2869dd87e941e517732280004ee0fed7'
			'e2bb2522f34e37ad91b6713c28e267e5e40591a4508ae315fcaea6c2103bb9e3')

prepare() {
	unzip slac460n.zip
	find ./MSPDebugStack_OS_Package/ -type f -exec dos2unix -q '{}' \;
	# This hidapi patch allows us to build mspds from the hidapi Archlinux package rather than the v0.7 source.
	patch -p1 -d MSPDebugStack_OS_Package < ../hidapi.patch
}

build() {
	cd "$srcdir/MSPDebugStack_OS_Package"
	# The -j flag is the number of parallel jobs to run, adjust accordningly.
	make -j 3
}

package() {
	install -Dm644 "$srcdir/MSPDebugStack_OS_Package/libmsp430.so" "$pkgdir/usr/lib/libmsp430.so"
}

In the course of preparing this system for compiling MSP430 firmware, we've become package maintainers for the AUR's mspds package.

MSPDEBUG

To use mspdebug: mspdebug tilib -d /dev/ttyACM0

Code::Blocks

To use the mspgcc-ti package with code::blocks you have to configure your project to deffer to a makefile. That's the easiest way I've found to incorporate the driverlib tools and USB API stack.

Codeblocks makefile instructions