Topic : Ride6 and Rlink in Windows 7

Forum : 8051

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February 9, 2010 - 3:46pm
Guest

Hi,
I have installed Ride6 BN 746-51 in Windows 7 without difficulties, it seems to work.
I have troubles installing the Rlink driver.
I tried the 1.01 release and it always give me errors during the installation.
The new 2.00 seems to installs correctly and Windows 7 is able to recognize the device, but Ride6 cannot connect to the Rlink.

Can you give me support ?

Thank you
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February 9, 2010 - 4:30pm
Raisonance Support Team

Hi,

The USB driver for Vista/Win7 that you installed is (a lot) newer than your software, so your Ride does not know how to connect to it.

Please download and install BN761 from on our website. That should solve it.
(do not reinstall the USB driver from the Ride package. keep the one you have if it works)

Best Regards,

Vincent
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February 9, 2010 - 5:18pm
Guest

I have just installed BN761-51 but it's the same.
I go in "Debug option -> Advanced options" and I click "Connect to RLink" but I receive this error message:

"Unable to open USB communication with RLink, ... ... .. , Unable to open RLinkWinUSB.dll"
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February 9, 2010 - 6:37pm
Raisonance Support Team

Hi,

Indeed the Ride6 install misses this file. Thanks for telling us. :(

Unfortunately the tests were made on PCs that also had Ride7 installed and Ride6 took the files from there.

So the fastest solution for you is to install Ride7 and one of the kits. (RKit-STM8 for example)
You can download them from our website.

I admit that this is not very nice, but I will need some time to build a proper patch, (mostly to find out the exact list of missing files) not speaking about a full release...

Please try that let us know the results.

Best Regards,

Vincent
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February 10, 2010 - 11:13am
Guest

I downloaded Ride 7.26.09.0351 and RKit-STM8_2.26.09.0317.
I installed Ride 7 without errors, but when I try to install Rkit-STM8 it tell me: "The installed version of Ride 7 IDE is not recent enough to support this installer"
What can I do ?
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February 10, 2010 - 1:46pm
Raisonance Support Team

Hi Massimo,

It looks like you have an old Ride7 installed on your system. Can you open Ride7 (with no RKit installes) then click on "Help | About" and check the Ride7 version?
If it is NOT version 2.26, you have to uninstall the previous version then install the latest one (that you already downloaded). The RKit should then install smoothly.

Let us know if you still have a problem.
Regards,
Bruno
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February 10, 2010 - 1:59pm
Guest

Help->About report: Ride7 version 7.26.09.0351
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February 10, 2010 - 2:27pm
Raisonance Support Team

Hi Massimo,

In fact the Ride7 kit alone should contain the files you need.
You probably don't need the STM8 kit, which probably fails to install because of the presence of the Ride6. (we will investigate that here)

Please try to use Ride6 now.
If you still get the same error, please try to copy the RLinkWinUSB.dll and MonitorTools.dll files from the bin folder of Ride7 to the bin folder of Ride6.

I hope it helps.

Best Regards,

Vincent
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February 10, 2010 - 3:56pm
Guest

Here we are,
I have re-installed Ride6 761 and now the RLink works!
Thank you.
Just a question,
I see that the BN 761 has a more recent RC51 compiler, linker etc...
how can I be confident that the new release will compile my huges source codes exactly in the same (and well tested) manner ?

Can I revert to a well known RC51 release ? (I prefer the 3.03.42)
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February 10, 2010 - 4:22pm
Raisonance Support Team

Hi,

You can be confident that it will very probably NOT compile exactly in the same way! Why would we make updates if not for adding compiler optimizations and fixes? ;)

Unfortunately, there is no clean way to upgrade the debugger (which you need) but not the compiler (which you don't want).

The only thing I can suggest is to first configure your project for compiling using the executables not the DLLs, and then copy the compiler, assembler and linker executables (RC51.exe, MA51.exe, LX51.exe) from the old Ride6 to the new Ride6. Then you will have the new IDE with the new debugger, but with the old compile chain.

Best Regards,

Vincent