Bruno,

Thanks for your answer, i will try to explain my report more detailed.

For the DWF2XML problem :

I only updated the Ride7 installation because your website says that RKIT for Arm is not changed,
the version mentioned is version 1.18.0903 and that is what i already have installed and the file
name to install that version is the same as i have on my system
So if the Rkit for Arm is changed also then you forgot to update the website and that fooled me.
I have been looking at your ftp site and downloaded an RKIT-ARM.msi file but i have not tried to install this
because as said i tought that RKIT was not chagend.
I will try this file later on to see if t's an neer version and let you know how it goes.

Concerning the Wix installation

Maybe i have to apologize for the wording of this, i was a bit sarcastic wich unfortunally is a incurable
habbit in my family.

I do not have a problem with first uninstalling an old version before installing a new one, if the uninstall
is done correctly than working this way can prevent a lot of problems that in the end can waste a lot
of your time.

What i meant is that with previous updates the installer first uninstalled both RKit-Arm and Ride and then
you had to start the RKit installer again to install RKIT-arm and then start the Ride installer.
With the Ride7-ide.msi file that is now on the website i got the message that i had to uninstall the previous
version and to do this i had to go to the control panel etc. to do this.
And altough not a big problem for most of us i did not think that doing it this way (forcing me to go to the control panel )
is an improvement.

Now i am typing this i see that the uninstall was done by the Rkit-Arm installer and since i did update Rkit-Arm
because i had the impression that it was not necessary it might be that this caused the problems.
So i will try to reinstall both RKIT with the .MSI file and then Ride and see what happens.

I will let you know how it goes.

Kind Regards,

Ed van Rijn

Bruno,

I used the RKit-ARM.msi i got from your ftp site and Ride7_IDE.msi that i got from your web site to update my system and
this solved the DWF2XML problem i had.
(i still have a problem with a library but that is reported in the ARM forum and is handled by Vincent )

The versions i now have are RIDE : 7.20.09.0139 and Rkit : 1.20.09.0140 so it looks like your web site is not up to date.

The new installers now tell you in what sequence Ride and RKIT should be installed and that is an improvement because it
takes away a possible error in the sequence.

However both installers tell you that a previous version version is installed and that you have to go to the control panel to uninstall them while the previous version of the RKIT installer also started the uninstall and altough not difficult i don't
think that these extra sidesteps to the control panel are an improvement.

Kind Regards

Ed van Rijn

Hi Ed,

Thanks for these details. I'm glad to hear that your dwf2xml issue is solved with the version you installed.
We are about to release a new RKit-ARM very soon, which is why you may have found that our Web site is a little inconsistent. It should be cleaned up after the release.

About this uninstall stuff, we will check what happened, we should not distribute bare msi files. We have a launcher utility that takes care of uninstalling previous versions, we will check why this is not in the distributed package.

Regards,
Bruno

Hi Ed

First I received your project so it is going to help us understanding the library issue.

Concerning install:

We had not noted that the dw2xml used with new Ride7 and previous RKit-ARM were not compatible.
We have build a lot of projects without this error so it might be a problem which only appear in specific project or a mismatch due to uninstall and reinstall.

The RKit-ARM.msi you have downloaded from ftp was there for partners to test.
It is not an official version so you can use it but keep in mind it is not something we delivered officially.
As Bruno said the release of RKit-ARM is to be done, we were waiting because we want to add surpport for ST0M32105 and STM32107 derivatives.

The software were not delivered with the same package (no setup ....) because we need to adapt the setup to the new install system.

I hope this clarify a little bit the situation

Regards,
Matloub

Bruno,

Thanks for the explanation, it indeed clarifys the situation.

For me this unoffical version works ok so i don't have a problem with using it.

I will update this system with the release version as soon as i see it on your website.

regatds,

Ed van Rijn

Just installed the newest version of Ride (From your official website) 7.20.09.0139 and the RKit-ARM 1.20.09.0154
(Please make it so that the .MSI can uninstall old versions.. Add/Remove programs in control panel is so slooow on computers with many programs installed)
Anyways. After installation I get this error:

Running: GCC
\"$(RKitInst)arm-gcc\bin\arm-none-eabi-gcc.exe" -MD -D_STM32F103VBT6_ -D_STM3x_ -D_STM32x_ -mthumb -mcpu=cortex-m3 -o -I "." -I "..\..\..\Library\stm32\FWLib\inc" -c -fsigned-char -D GCC_ARMCM3 -D useDFU=1 -g -O1 -ffunction-sections -mlittle-endian
Unknown tool: GCC

I notice that i have a ARMCC=D:\RIDE7\Ride\arm-gcc\bin environment variable?

Siggghhhh..

Btw I changed the filenames (which where correct) to

Found a key called:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\RAISONANCE\Ride7\Default Directories\
With the following subkeys:

LastTargetConfig D:\RIDE7\Config\Arm
RKitBin      D:\RIDE7\Bin
RKitHelp   D:\RIDE7\Help
RKitInc     D:\RIDE7\Inc
RKitInst   D:\RIDE7\
RKitLib    D:\RIDE7\Lib

Looks alright to me?

Mhh wierd.. My Projects is not getting shown in the project window, either?

Hi Henrik,

Thanks for your report.

This is a known limitation of our installer, which will be fixed in our next release.

The workaround is to install Ride in a path that finishes by a folder named "Ride" (*not* "Ride7").
For instance you should install in D:\Ride\ or in D:\Ride7\Ride\ or even D:\Raisonance\Ride\, but D:\Ride7\ will not work.

Sorry for the inconvenience.
Bruno

Okie.. Explains it.. I have always used D:\Ride7\Ride\
Don't know why it ended up in d:\Ride7\

Was not easy to get it to work.. I ended up manually deleting my RIDE7\ library after having uninstalled the RKit and Ride..
Now my application is gets errors when it links (changed application name to ):

 Running: LD 
 \"D:\RIDE7\Ride\arm-gcc\bin\arm-none-eabi-gcc.exe" -mcpu=cortex-m3 -mthumb -Wl,-T -Xlinker "D:\work\EmbeddedSW\Applications\DEX\\stm32_obj\.elf.ld" -u _start -Wl,-static -Wl,--gc-sections -nostartfiles -Wl,-Map -Xlinker "D:\work\EmbeddedSW\Applications\DEX\\stm32_lst\.map" -Wl,--warn-once  
 d:/ride7/ride/arm-gcc/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-none-eabi/4.3.2/../../../../arm-none-eabi/bin/ld.exe: D:\work\EmbeddedSW\Applications\DEX\\stm32_obj\.elf section DISCARD will not fit in region RAM  
 d:/ride7/ride/arm-gcc/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-none-eabi/4.3.2/../../../../arm-none-eabi/bin/ld.exe: region RAM overflowed by 3680 bytes  
 d:/ride7/ride/arm-gcc/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-none-eabi/4.3.2/../../../../arm-none-eabi/bin/ld.exe: DISCARD has both ordered [`.ARM.exidx' in d:/ride7/ride/arm-gcc/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-none-eabi/4.3.2/thumb2\libgcc.a(_divdi3.o)] and unordered [`.v4_bx' in d:/ride7/ride/arm-gcc/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-none-eabi/4.3.2/thumb2\libgcc.a(_clz.o)] sections  
 d:/ride7/ride/arm-gcc/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-none-eabi/4.3.2/../../../../arm-none-eabi/bin/ld.exe: final link failed: Bad value  
 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Im going back to the latest versions that works with my projects.. Do not want tospend more time to hunt for issues like this..

Looking forward to some new versions that hopefully works better than your last attempt..

/Henrik
Ps. Ride just got notably slower with this new version aswell. My old versions where:
RKit-Arm - 1.18.0903
Ride7 - 7.18.0903

Just noted that when removing RKit-Arm 1.20.09.0154 it says fail in the end, because Ride was not installed (uninstalled Ride first) - I got aware that this might be an issue when I tried to install the elder version of RKit and RKit install program complained that a newer version was already installed.. Uninstalling using the old version of RKit-Arm worked and with the versions of ride and Rkit mentioned above my projects works again..