Code Composer Studio 1.19

Visual Linker Information Update

 

The Problem

When using the Visual Linker tool in Code Composer Studio 1.19, you will not be able to open any Visual Linker files from the graphical user interface . You will be able to run them through the command line linker with no problems, but the GUI fails to open them. The Visual Linker copies some DLLs to at runtime, based on the current target. For example, when loading a C54x file, "lgcy_500.dll" is copied to "lgcy.dll". The dll files were left read-only in this Code Composer Studio release, so the copy fails. There is a simple fix for this problem.

The Fix

To fix the problem, please change directory to C:\ti\vislink and change all the DLL files to be NOT read-only. This can be achieved as follows:

  1. Using Windows Explorer, locate the directory C:\ti\vislink in the left pane and click on it. The contents of that directory will be displayed in the right pane.
  2. In the right pane locate all .dll files. Do the following for ALL the .dll files:

    One at a time, right-click on a .dll file and select "Properties" from the context menu. The properties dialog box is displayed.

    In the "Attributes" part of the properties dialog box, if the "Read-only" box is checked, then click on the "Read-only" box so it is unchecked.

    Repeat for other .dll files in this directory.

This should fix the problem. You can now use the Visual Linker as usual. If you have any questions or encounter any further problems, please contact the TI DSP Hotline at dsph@ti.com.