Hi friends, thank you for the forum. I'm new to embedded and loving it.

I'm trying to blink an msp430fr5969 using win 10 OS, msp430-gcc cross compiler, and mspdebug to program the chip; but I'm having trouble installing mspdebug - I cant find a forum specific to mspdebug; I thought you fellas might have some experience.

Following the instructions on mspdebug,



after downloading and extracting, with my terminal in the mspdebug-0.25 dir, when I run 'make' I get:



The next step would be 'make install', but I see no binary in the directory:



I looked around in the makefile, but I dont understand it enough to trust myself to make changes:

CC ?= gcc
INSTALL = /usr/bin/install
PREFIX ?= /usr/local
LDFLAGS ?= -s


BINDIR = ${PREFIX}/bin/
MANDIR = ${PREFIX}/share/man/man1
LIBDIR = ${PREFIX}/lib/

UNAME_S := $(shell sh -c 'uname -s')
UNAME_O := $(shell sh -c 'uname -o 2> /dev/null')

ifdef WITHOUT_READLINE
READLINE_CFLAGS =
READLINE_LIBS =
CONSOLE_INPUT_OBJ = ui/input_console.o

else
READLINE_CFLAGS = -DUSE_READLINE
READLINE_LIBS = -lreadline
CONSOLE_INPUT_OBJ = ui/input_readline.o

endif

BSLHID_OBJ ?= transport/bslhid.o
RF25000_OBJ ?= transport/rf2500.o

ifeq ($(OS),Windows_NT)
MSPDEBUG_CC = $(CC)
BINARY = mspdebug.exe
ifneq ($(UNAME_O),Cygwin)
OS_LIBS = -lws2_32 -lregex
OS_CFLAGS = -D__Windows__ -DNO_SHELLCMD
RM = del

endif

else
MSPDEBUG_CC = $(CC)
BINARY = mspdebug
ifneq ($(filter $(UNAME_S),OpenBSD NetBSD),)
OS_LIBS =
else ifneq ($(filter $(UNAME_S),FreeBSD DragonFly),)

OS_CFLAGS = -pthread
OS_LIBS = -lpthread
else ifneq ($(filter $(UNAME_S),SunOS),)

OS_LIBS = -lpthread -ldl -lresolv -lsocket -lnsl

else

OS_LIBS = -lpthread -ldl
endif

ifeq ($(UNAME_S),Darwin) # Mac OS X/MacPorts stuff
ifeq ($(shell fink -V > /dev/null 2>&1 && echo ok),ok)

PORTS_CFLAGS := $(shell pkg-config --cflags hidapi libusb)
PORTS_LDFLAGS := $(shell pkg-config --libs hidapi libusb) -ltermcap -pthread
else ifeq ($(shell brew --version > /dev/null 2>&1 && echo ok),ok)

PORTS_CFLAGS := $(shell pkg-config --cflags hidapi)
PORTS_LDFLAGS := $(shell pkg-config --libs hidapi) -framework IOKit -framework CoreFoundation

else

PORTS_CFLAGS := -I/opt/local/include
PORTS_LDFLAGS := -L/opt/local/lib -lhidapi -framework IOKit -framework CoreFoundation

endif

BSLHID_OBJ = transport/bslosx.o
RF25000_OBJ = transport/rf2500hidapi.o
LDFLAGS =

else ifneq ($(filter $(UNAME_S),OpenBSD NetBSD DragonFly),)

PORTS_CFLAGS := $(shell pkg-config --cflags libusb)
PORTS_LDFLAGS := $(shell pkg-config --libs libusb) -ltermcap -pthread

else

PORTS_CFLAGS :=
PORTS_LDFLAGS :=

endif


endif

INCLUDES = -I. -Isimio -Iformats -Itransport -Idrivers -Iutil -Iui
GCC_CFLAGS = -O1 -Wall -Wno-char-subscripts -ggdb
CONFIG_CFLAGS = -DLIB_DIR=\"$(LIBDIR)\"
MSPDEBUG_LDFLAGS = $(LDFLAGS) $(PORTS_LDFLAGS)
MSPDEBUG_LIBS = -L. -lusb $(READLINE_LIBS) $(OS_LIBS)
MSPDEBUG_CFLAGS = $(CFLAGS) $(READLINE_CFLAGS) $(PORTS_CFLAGS)\

$(GCC_CFLAGS) $(INCLUDES) $(CONFIG_CFLAGS) $(OS_CFLAGS)

all: $(BINARY)

ifeq ($(OS),Windows_NT)

clean:
ifeq ($(UNAME_O),Cygwin)
$(RM) */*.o
$(RM) $(BINARY)

else

$(RM) drivers\*.o
$(RM) formats\*.o
$(RM) simio\*.o
$(RM) transport\*.o
$(RM) ui\*.o
$(RM) util\*.o
$(RM) $(BINARY)

endif

else

clean:
$(RM) */*.o
$(RM) $(BINARY)

endif

install: $(BINARY) mspdebug.man
mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)
$(INSTALL) -m 0755 $(BINARY) $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)
mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)
$(INSTALL) -m 0644 mspdebug.man $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/mspdebug.1
mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDIR)/mspdebug
$(INSTALL) -m 0644 ti_3410.fw.ihex \

$(DESTDIR)$(LIBDIR)/mspdebug/ti_3410.fw.ihex

.SUFFIXES: .c .o

OBJ=\
util/btree.o \
util/expr.o \
util/list.o \
util/sockets.o \
util/sport.o \
util/usbutil.o \
util/util.o \
util/vector.o \
util/output.o \
util/output_util.o \
util/opdb.o \
util/prog.o \
util/stab.o \
util/dis.o \
util/gdb_proto.o \
util/dynload.o \
util/demangle.o \
util/powerbuf.o \
util/ctrlc.o \
util/chipinfo.o \
util/gpio.o \
transport/cp210x.o \
transport/cdc_acm.o \
transport/ftdi.o \
transport/ti3410.o \
transport/comport.o \
$(BSLHID_OBJ) \
$(RF25000_OBJ) \
drivers/device.o \
drivers/bsl.o \
drivers/fet.o \
drivers/fet_core.o \
drivers/fet_proto.o \
drivers/fet_error.o \
drivers/fet_db.o \
drivers/flash_bsl.o \
drivers/gdbc.o \
drivers/sim.o \
drivers/tilib.o \
drivers/goodfet.o \
drivers/obl.o \
drivers/devicelist.o \
drivers/fet_olimex_db.o \
drivers/jtdev.o \
drivers/jtdev_bus_pirate.o \
drivers/jtdev_gpio.o \
drivers/jtaglib.o \
drivers/pif.o \
drivers/loadbsl.o \
drivers/loadbsl_fw.o \
drivers/hal_proto.o \
drivers/v3hil.o \
drivers/fet3.o \
drivers/bsllib.o \
drivers/rom_bsl.o \
drivers/tilib_api.o \
formats/binfile.o \
formats/coff.o \
formats/elf32.o \
formats/ihex.o \
formats/symmap.o \
formats/srec.o \
formats/titext.o \
simio/simio.o \
simio/simio_tracer.o \
simio/simio_timer.o \
simio/simio_wdt.o \
simio/simio_hwmult.o \
simio/simio_gpio.o \
simio/simio_console.o \
ui/gdb.o \
ui/rtools.o \
ui/sym.o \
ui/devcmd.o \
ui/flatfile.o \
ui/reader.o \
ui/cmddb.o \
ui/stdcmd.o \
ui/aliasdb.o \
ui/power.o \
ui/input.o \
ui/input_async.o \
$(CONSOLE_INPUT_OBJ) \
ui/main.o

$(BINARY): $(OBJ)
$(MSPDEBUG_CC) $(MSPDEBUG_LDFLAGS) -o $@ $^ $(MSPDEBUG_LIBS)

util/chipinfo.o: chipinfo.db

.c.o:
$(MSPDEBUG_CC) $(MSPDEBUG_CFLAGS) -o $@ -c $*.c

 

I don't go this route. I would either download IAR EW for MSP430 and activate the license for limited code version which is free.
You can also got to TI and download CodeComposer Studio or MSP-CCE430 which is also free.

https://www.ti.com/tool/MSP-CCE430