Project:MSP430 Mac Howto

This page documents Flux's attempt to get the TI LaunchPad working on a MacBook Air running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2.

USB Driver

• Downloaded binary from http://e2e.ti.com/support/interface/digital_interface/f/130/t/55982.aspx
• Installed as per included instructions

Building Toolchain

• Make sure you have Xcode installed (for GCC et al) - you can download it from the App Store
• Install wget - just download (e.g. http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-1.13.tar.gz) and compile:

$ ./configure --without-ssl
$ sudo make install

Download the toolchain and bunutils:

$ git clone git://mspgcc4.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/mspgcc4/mspgcc4

Fix to binutils version: Change line 136 in mspgcc4/buildgcc.pl to: $BINUTILS_VERSION = "2.21.1";

Compile the build tools (select default options for everything apart from Insight - it won't compile by default on the Mac):