Installing Crossworks for ARM on 64 Bit Debian 7 "Wheezy" Linux Systems

Paul Romero

June 20, 2014 14:52

Please note: this article applies to Debian 7 "Wheezy" only, the steps described are not required for Debian 8 "Jessie" and above. For instructions on running CrossWorks on a 64-bit versions of Linux, see Installing CrossWorks on 64-bit Linux.

            CROSSWORKS PREPARATION

Instructions for installing Crossworks for Arm on AMD64 Debian Linux systems.

Do this as super user in order to point at glibc version 2.15 before
installing or running Crossworks. Note that this technique is general enough to
work with a variety of software.

A) Library Installation

A0) Obtain the 2.15 version of glibc plus the requisite infrastructure
   from Ubuntu. It can be downloaded into a "safe" directory with
   with the following commands.

    cd safe
    wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/e/eglibc/libc6_2.15-0ubuntu20_i386.deb

A1) Create a directory into which the glibc 2.15 infrastructure will be installed.
   For example:

    cd /usr/local
    mkdir glibc_2.15

A2) Unpack the Ubuntu package in the directory you just created.
   For example:

    dpkg -x safe/libc6_2.15-0ubuntu20_i386.deb /usr/local/glibc_2.15

B) Crossworks Installation

B1) Now set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to reference
   the directory containing glibc version 2.15. (i.e. At this point the
   glibc_2.15 directory contains the complete glibc 2.15 infrastructure.)
   Execute the following commands to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (i.e. Assume the
   directory names used in the previous examples.)

    GLIBC_DIR=/usr/local/glibc_2.15/lib/i386-linux-gnu
    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GLIBC_DIR}:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"

B2) Install Crossworks according to the instructions.

    ./install_crossworks

C) Crossworks Execution Environment Preparation

The location of the library needs to be conveyed Crossworks each time it runs.
To achieve this with minimal difficulty, Crossworks is run by a script rather
than directly. This must be done as super user.

C1) Rename the Crossworks executable as follows.

    cd /usr/share/crossworks_for_arm_3.1/bin/
    mv crossssudio crossstudio.exe

C2) Create a script named crossstudio with the following contents and
    the same permissions as the executable (i.e. Assume the directory
    names in the previous examples.)

#
# Make glibc version 2.15 accessible to Crossworks.
#
GLIBC_DIR=/usr/local/glibc_2.15/lib/i386-linux-gnu
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${GLIBC_DIR}:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
/usr/share/crossworks_for_arm_3.1/bin/crossstudio.exe

Now you should be able to run Crossworks in the normal way as a normal user.

Comments

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Robert Wood

July 03, 2014 14:59
I don't have to do any of this on Mageia. I just install it in /opt as su, it puts an entry in my menu and it just works. The only thing I have to do on fresh installations is a udev rules for the JTAG interface,
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Paul Romero

July 03, 2014 15:49
Mageia is not Debian and not from the same Linux branch as Debian and Ubuntu.
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Robert Wood

July 03, 2014 16:01
I appreciate that, I was just raising a doubt that it should be so complicated on Debian. Does Crossworks not ship with its own version of the gcc for example?
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Jon Elliott

July 03, 2014 16:11
As far as current Linux distributions are concerned, I believe this only really effects the current Debian release (V7 Wheezy, both 32-bit and 64-bit versions). The latest Debian derived distributions such as Ubuntu and Mint are fine, as are other non-Debian distributions. The problem is down to the fact that for some reason Debian 7 is using a very old version of glibc (2.13). Any distributions that use glibc version 2.15 or above do not require these steps to be carried out, this should be most distributions in the last two years.

A separate issue is that of installing CrossWorks on a 64-bit version of Linux which has been addressed here.

For completeness, here are the steps I took on a clean 64-bit Debian 7.6.0 installation in order to get CrossWorks up and running:

* As root, install the 32-bit libraries (this is only necessary if using the 64-bit version of Debian):
```
dpkg --add-architecture i386
apt-get update
apt-get install lib32asound2 lib32gcc1 lib32ncurses5 lib32stdc++6 lib32z1 libc6-i386 ia32-libs
```
* Download the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS version of libc from http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/i386/libc6-udeb/download

* As root, extract package to a directory using the following command line:
```
dpkg-deb -x libc6-udeb_2.15-0ubuntu10_i386.udeb /ubuntu-packages
```
* Setup LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to this directory using the following command line:
```
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/ubuntu-packages/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
```
With LD_LIBRARY_PATH set you can run the installer and run crossstudio - you'll need to do both of these from the command line (crosstudio can be found at /usr/share/crossworks_for_arm_3.2/bin/crossstudio).
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Robert Wood

July 03, 2014 16:13
Fair enough! :)
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Joshua Baker

October 20, 2014 17:11
I've already installed CrossWorks for MSP430 on Kubuntu 14.04. Does this still work after installation?

[CODE]

wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/e/eglibc/libc6_2.15-0ub...

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also this link is broken so i cant try this.
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Joshua Baker

October 20, 2014 17:42
I have CrossWorks for the MSP430 Installed on kubuntu 14.04 64-bit. Do i need to take these steps after installation?

i havent tried because this link is broken.

[CODE]

wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/e/eglibc/libc6_2.15-0ub...

[\CODE]
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