TI-OpenThread 0.95.00 to 1.00.00

In this guide we will take the doorlock example application from a built state in the TI-OpenThread Stack version 0.95.00 to working with the TI-OpenThread Stack version 1.00.00. The doorlock is a MTD example, the migration will be very similar for FTD projects. I am showing off migrating a ti-cgt toolchain example (ccs), the relevant information changes for gcc will be called out.

Figure 91. Legacy 0.95.00 doorlock project

Warning

The doorlock example was choosen for it’s simple nature, and because it shows off the issues we faced porting from the previous stack to this one. This guide is by no means exhaustive, your application may use different APIs or expect different behavior.

Change the selected product

The first thing to check is that the new SimpleLink SDK is installed and that CCS has discovered it. Open the CCS Preferences dialog by clicking Window → Preferences, then navigate to the products page by selecting Code Composer Studio → Products. You should see the new SimpleLink SDK recognized in the Installed products: pane as in Figure 92. If CCS has not discovered your newly installed product you can click Rediscover... or restart CCS to have it scan again. If CCS does not discover the new SDK, you may not have installed it correctly.

Figure 92. Legacy 0.95.00 doorlock project

Note

Here I have installed an engineering version of the SDK, your version will be the released version. This will work exactly the same as the one I have installed.

Right click on your project in the project explorer and select Properties to open up the Properties dialog for that project. I have opened the doorlock project’s properties in Figure 93. In the Properties dialog, navigate to the General page and select the Products tab. From there change the selected SimpleLink SDK version to your newly installed SDK. Once you click OK, CCS will rewrite the SDK base variable from the old SDK to the new SDK.

Figure 93. Changing the selected SimpleLink SDK version

Repeat this process for each of the projects in your Project Explorer.

Note

This will rewrite the base that the OpenThread projects use to find the OpenThread source code. If you have made any modification to the OpenThread source code you will have to manually port those changes from the old SDK to the new SDK.

Clean all the projects

These projects were originally built with the old SDK source. We need to make sure that no built content is accidentally left over from the old SDK. Select Project → Clean... to open the Clean dialog. Make sure that the Clean all projects radio button is selected and that the Start a build immediately checkbox is unchecked. Then click OK to begin cleaning all the projects in your workspace.

Figure 94. Clean all CCS projects

Build and find errors

Now that you have migrated your projects to point to the new SDK root, try building. This will most likely end in error as seen in Figure 95. Now we’ve got our work cut out for us.

Figure 95. Build and find the errors

Posix errors

Most of the errors we face on our first build are definitions of Posix headers and types. This can be seen in Figure 96.

Figure 96. Posix errors

These errors are caused by a change in how TI-RTOS treats Posix headers. This can be seen in the Upgrade an Compatibility section of the simplelink_mcu_sdk release notes. In the TI-RTOS config file release.cfg we must change the Posix configuration.

From:

var Settings = xdc.useModule('ti.sysbios.posix.Settings');
Settings.supportsMutexPriority = true;

To:

var Settings = xdc.useModule('ti.posix.tirtos.Settings');
Settings.enableMutexPriority = true;

It is also necessary to change the Posix include paths.

From:

TIRTOS:   <SDK_INSTALL_DIR>/kernel/tirtos/packages/ti/sysbios/posix
FreeRTOS: <SDK_INSTALL_DIR>/kernel/freertos/posix

To:

CCS Compiler: <SDK_INSTALL_DIR>/source/ti/posix/ccs GCC Compiler:
<SDK_INSTALL_DIR>/source/ti/posix/gcc IAR Compiler:
<SDK_INSTALL_DIR>/source/ti/posix/iar

Right click on the project that uses Posix and select Properties to open up the properties dialog. Then navigate to the Include Options page by selecting Build → ARM Compiler → Include Options. Then change the posix include path as seen in Figure 97..

Figure 97. Change Posix includes

Deprecated OpenThread APIs

Trying to build after fixing the Posix include paths will result in the errors seen in Figure 98..

Figure 98. otLinkGetJoinerId has been removed

OpenThread removed the API to query the HashMacAddr value. This was because the commissioning process was updated to use the EUI64 instead. For our purposes, it is enough to remove the uses of the API; your application may need to be updated to work around this change.

Warning

These are the only APIs that were deprecated in our example applications. Functionality may have changed between versions of OpenThread, check the difference and changelog on github.com/openthread/openthread.