Installing MSPGCC4 and MSPDEBUG on Kubuntu 10.04

21. June 2010 by admin.

A few weeks ago I decided to upgrade my PC from an older version of OpenSuse to Kubuntu 10.04. Here are my steps to install on Kunbuntu 10.04.

I installed following packages via System Settings->Add and Remove Software but I believe it would just as easy to use apt-get on the command line.

• subversion
• gcc-4.4
• texinfo
• patch
• libncurses5-dev
• zlibc
• zlib1g-dev
• libx11-dev
• libusb-dev
• libreadline6-dev

With those packages installed I could install mspgcc4 with following steps:

1. check out mspgcc4 from sourceforge via “svn checkout https://mspgcc4.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/mspgcc4″
2. change directory into newly created mspgcc4 via “cd mspgcc”
3. run the build script via “sudo sh buildgcc.sh”
   I basicly used all the default answers by pressing ENTER only selecting “Build now” with yes (default there is no)
   This installed all the tools under /opt/msp430-gcc-4.4.3.
4. Next I added /opt/msp430-gcc-4.4.3/bin to the path in /etc/profiles (”export PATH=${PATH}:/opt/msp430-gcc-4.4.3/bin”)

Next I downloaded the tar file for mspdebug from sourceforge ( http://mspdebug.sourceforge.net/download.html ).

Then I was able to install the mspdebug via:

1. tar xvfz mspdebug-version.tar.gz
2. cd mspdebug-version
3. make
4. sudo make install

I can start mspdebug for the ez430F2013 with “mspdebug -u /dev/ttyUSB0″ Update: in version 0.10 the -u option is not there anymore. Instead I had to use “mspdebug -d /dev/ttyUSB0 uif” to connect to my EZ430

Next to come build the blinking LED example for the ez430F2013.

Optional:

If you don’t like the msp-insight you can use ddd with msp430-gdb via installing the ddd package and starting it with “ddd msp430-gdb”.

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