Topic : STM8S-Discovery Raisonance compiler w/STVD?

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June 5, 2010 - 7:17am Guest	I wrote about the STM8S-Discovery kit a while back (http://www.drdobbs.com/blog/archives/2010/05/7_development_k.html). So not that I don't have enough PIC/AVR/ARM/SX/etc. etc. etc. kits, but I figured for under $10 it would be fun to check out. I did the license steps to get the 32K ride license. I also downloads STVD from ST because -- correct me if I'm wrong -- Ride won't program/debug through the ST-Link on this board. I was pleased that STVD figured out where the toolchain was. But apparently when launched from STVD it doesn't know it is licensed. I hit a 1K limit trying to run through the STVD Raisonance tutorial. Is there a way to make it figure that out? Ride 7 tells me I have Rkit-STM8-Lite Suite. But apparently Ride7 is somehow letting the software know it has a valid license key. STVD isn't. And yes, I could just compile to hex and then use STVP, but that won't let me debug, just download. I think. Al W DDJ (http://www.ddj.com/embedded)

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+1 0 -1 June 7, 2010 - 7:43am Raisonance Support Team	Mmmmh looks strange... The limitation is NOT related to Ride7/STVD but to the tools themselves (compiler/assembler/linker). However, what Ride7 reports may not be accurate, the latest version does not recognize properly the 32KB extension but 16KB. Can you tell us your OS version, STVD version, and share a screenshot of the "Help/About" dialog from Ride7? We will try to see if we can understand what happens. As a workaround, you can use Ride7 to develop, and STVD to program/debug your device. Not as comfortable, but at least you can experience Ride7 while developing. Regards, Bruno
+1 0 -1 June 7, 2010 - 2:49pm Guest	Thanks for the reply. OS is XP SP3 (well, running in a VM under Linux, but still XP SP3) 4.1.5 is the STVD version number. About Ride 7 says: Copyright 1995-2009... Licensed to Al Williams DDJ Ride 7: 7.28.10.0075 Full functional, no serializaton needed 2010/06/04 RKit-STM8 for Ride 7 2.28.10.0092 RKit STM8 - Lite Suite 2010/06/04 Expanding that out has the same version for compiler/linker and compressor. The compiler and linker both say Lite (16kb code limited) and the compressor says Evaluation (no result saving) I had read that Ride 7 reports 16k even with the 32k license, so I'm not worried about that. Compiling the stop light demo from STM (yes, I know I have to change the device, and I understand there may be more changes, but I'm not getting that far yet) gives me: ----------- Project tutorial - Raisonance - Configuration Debug ------------- Compiling timer.c... rcstm8 timer.c OBJECT(Debug\timer.o) PIN("C:\Program Files\Raisonance\Ride\inc\ST7") PIN("C:\Program Files\Raisonance\Ride\inc") WRV(0) ST7STACKSET0 DEBUG DGC(page0) DLC(page0) ST7SET OT(0) PR(Debug\timer.lst) CD CO SB LAOB RCSTM8 COMPILER V2.28.10.092 Evaluation (1 Kb code limited) Copyright (c) Raisonance S.A.S. 1987-2010. All rights reserved. RCSTM8 COMPILATION COMPLETE. 0 WARNING, 0 ERROR Running ST7 linker rlstm8 "Debug\timer.o" TO(Debug\tutorial.aof) LIBPATH("C:\Program Files\Raisonance\Ride\Lib\ST7") DEBUGLINES DEBUGPUBLICS DEBUGSYMBOLS PR(Debug\tutorial.map) DATASTART(0x80) RAMSIZE(0x80) CODESTART(0xfa00) CODESIZE(0x600) STACKTOP(0x100) STACKSIZE(0x40) LINKER/LOCATOR RLST7 V2.28.10.092 Evaluation (1 Kb code limited) Copyright (c) Raisonance S.A.S. 1987-2010. All rights reserved. ***FATAL ERROR 246 : MAXIMUM OBJECT SIZE REACHED RLST7 ABORTED The command: "rlstm8 "Debug\timer.o" TO(Debug\tutorial.aof) LIBPATH("C:\Program Files\Raisonance\Ride\Lib\ST7") DEBUGLINES DEBUGPUBLICS DEBUGSYMBOLS PR(Debug\tutorial.map) DATASTART(0x80) RAMSIZE(0x80) CODESTART(0xfa00) CODESIZE(0x600) STACKTOP(0x100) STACKSIZE(0x40) " has failed, the returned value is: 1 exit code=1. tutorial.elf - 2 error(s), 0 warning(s)
+1 0 -1 June 8, 2010 - 6:29pm Raisonance Support Team	Hi Al (quite a famous name from THE Dr Dobbs Journal!) Quoting the Ride7 release notes: A. Supported Configurations/Platforms Raisonance tool sets and Ride7 operate on Windows Vista (including 64-bits) and Windows XP. Other versions of Windows, including Windows 2000 and Windows Server, are not supported. I guess it's time to buy a new PC. Your OS is not supported under a Linux virtual box, which seems to cause this discrepancy between STVD and Ride7. Can you try to open Ride7, navigate to the Examples\STM8\C\Whetstone\ directory and build the project? If it does, then it's a good indication that STVD does NOT support XP with our tools. Regards, Bruno
+1 0 -1 June 8, 2010 - 6:47pm Guest	Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure what you mean, though. The release note says "... and Windows XP." And I am running Windows XP (service pack 3). As far as I can tell, Ride7 is working fine. Its just the command line tools that are not finding their license.
+1 0 -1 June 9, 2010 - 5:23am Guest	Whoops. Operator error (that is to say, my fault). I thought I had changed the processor type to an ST8M in the project settings (in STVD) but apparently I didn't hit the "select" button so I was still building ST7 code and, of course, I don't have the 32k license for that. Changing the CPU to the right family did the trick. Thanks for the help!
+1 0 -1 July 27, 2010 - 9:39am Guest	I've got similar problem. The STM8 compiler could be registered only in administrative mode. So I did and now I can use the compiler only in administrative mode, which is inconvenient. Moreover, RIDE reports administrator: 32 kb user: 1 kb STVP/STVD reports administrator: 32 kb user: 1 kb Starting compiler from the command line administrator: 1 kb user: 1 kb Something is wrong...