8. Frequently Asked Questions

This chapter answers some of the frequently asked questions (FAQs) about CCS.

• 8.1. Installation
  • 8.1.1. Can I install multiple versions of CCS on my computer?
  • 8.1.2. What is the difference between the web installer and the offline installer?
  • 8.1.3. My username has Unicode characters and CCS fails to install. How do I resolve this?
  • 8.1.4. Why does the Linux installer just exit without doing anything?
  • 8.1.5. Why does the Windows installer just exit without doing anything?
  • 8.1.6. After installing on Linux, why does CCS refuse to open?
  • 8.1.7. After installing CCS, I found out some features (such as certain processor families or debug probes) are missing. Is there a way to add these features?
  • 8.1.8. When installing CCS it says “An error occured: can’t read”update“: no such variable”. How do I resolve this?
  • 8.1.9. When trying to install compiler tools, CCS says it is already installed but it is actually not. How do I fix it?
  • 8.1.10. How can I perform a silent or unattended installation of CCS?
• 8.2. Licensing
  • 8.2.1. What is the licensing policy for CCS?
• 8.3. Updates
  • 8.3.1. How do I get updates to CCS?
  • 8.3.2. How do I search for new features for CCS?
  • 8.3.3. How do I get TI-RTOS Updates?
  • 8.3.4. When installing CCS updates I get a dialog box that warns me that the feature is unsigned. Is this a problem?
• 8.4. Projects
  • 8.4.1. How do I override the TEMP and TMP environment variables that are used to determine where temporary files are placed during CCS build process?
  • 8.4.2. Is it possible to convert a non-RTSC CCS project to a RTSC project, and vice-versa?
  • 8.4.3. During project build, a ccsLinker.opt file sometimes gets passed to the linker instead of the list of object files . What is this file and when is it used?
• 8.5. Debug
  • 8.5.1. I get Data Verification errors when loading my program. What does it mean?
  • 8.5.2. What is the difference between Run/Resume and Free Run?
  • 8.5.3. How can I view non debuggable devices and routers in the Debug view?
  • 8.5.4. In multi-core devices, the CIO console prints out the CPU-core name after every output character. Is there a way to prevent this?
  • 8.5.5. My BeagleBone is Rev A5 and greater, but I still can’t connect to CCS . Why?
  • 8.5.6. Can I debug two boards using two separate emulators at the same time?
  • 8.5.7. When debugging program in cache why do cache lines get invalidated?
  • 8.5.8. After connecting to target and loading the program why are the menus/icons for target execution (resume, suspend, step, etc) not available (greyed out)?
  • 8.5.9. How do I resolve this error when launching a debug session “Could not fetch next record for SQL statement” and running fsclean does not help.
  • 8.5.10. How do I resolve error “Cannot read System Setup data from XML file <file path/name>.ccxml. XML configuration file has no <configurations> root node”?
  • 8.5.11. Is it possible for the Graphs view and properties to carry over from one CCS session to another, so when CCS is restarted the graphs come up again?
• 8.6. General
  • 8.6.1. Are simulators no longer included with CCS?
  • 8.6.2. Are C54x devices supported in CCS?
  • 8.6.3. Can I use DSP/BIOS with current releases of CCS?
  • 8.6.4. Which operating systems are supported by CCS?
  • 8.6.5. Is the XDS510LC emulator from Spectrum Digital supported with F2837xS/D and F2807x devices?
  • 8.6.6. How do I modify the maximum Java heap size for Eclipse?