STVD displays ''The parameter is incorrect''

[anatoli_soltan]

Posted on March 26, 2011 at 04:17

Just received my STM8L-Discovery, installed STVD 4.2.1 and Raisonance compiler. Whenever I hit F7, STVD shows this non-descriptive message ''The parameter is incorrect''. After that, the only way to exit the application is to kill it in the Task Manager. I tried it on Win XP and Win 7 (32-bit) with same results.

Does anyone experienced a similar problem? Thanks for help!

[justin239955]

Posted on April 24, 2011 at 00:39

I am also seeing this problem. STVD 4.2.1 patch 1 running on Vista 32-bit.

I have installed both Cosmic 32K and Raisonance compilers and I get the error with both. I am using the example workspaces from the Discover project.

Other posts suggest that the problem is not exhibited in 4.2.0; can someone at ST post a link to that install so I can at least get started while this issue is resolved?

[bhamilton2]

Posted on April 27, 2011 at 01:33

I'm having the same problem.  I also get the same message when trying to expand ''External Dependencies'' in the ''Workspace'' panel to the left, though it does not prevent me from exiting STVD normally.

I'd really appreciate a link to STVD 4.2.0 so I can continue with this processor.

[vincent.philippe]

Posted on April 28, 2011 at 16:17

Hi

The problem has been reproduced, before a new release a partial workaround is possible:

     â€¢ Once the set of source files is ready for compilation (Build/rebuild), manually create a directory “Debugâ€� or “Releaseâ€� (depending on your configuration) in your project directory     â€¢ In that directory “Debugâ€� or “Releaseâ€� manually create an empty  object file for each C source file, with the same name and the suffixâ€�.oâ€�: main.c -> main.o….  To do so, for example, use the contextual menu (right-click) when your mouse is over your desktop and select “New -> Text Documentâ€�. Then rename that file.     â€¢ Manually create an empty executable file, named  “your project nameâ€�.elf      â€¢ Then use the command Build to generate real object and executable files. Do not use Rebuild as this command will first delete the .o and .elf files. This workaround valid for C source files. For Assembler, in the same way, manually create

main.obj, mapping.obj, ''your project name''.s19 .

For sumary, it's important to have in the project all the '.o' files before to build the project. Sorry for these problems. Best regards Phil

From: soltan.anatoli

Posted: Saturday, March 26, 2011 4:17 AMSubject: STVD displays ''The parameter is incorrect''

Just received my STM8L-Discovery, installed STVD 4.2.1 and Raisonance compiler. Whenever I hit F7, STVD shows this non-descriptive message ''The parameter is incorrect''. After that, the only way to exit the application is to kill it in the Task Manager. I tried it on Win XP and Win 7 (32-bit) with same results.

Does anyone experienced a similar problem? Thanks for help!

[justin239955]

Posted on April 29, 2011 at 05:17

I can confirm I have achieved a successful build using the steps outlined by Phil, with some additions.

There are a number of comments I would make

• The .o files need to be empty; my first attempt was to simply copy the source files into the Debug directory and change the .c extension to .o
• Make sure you create .o files for the any library source file you are using in addition to the user source files
• Before building a project for the first time it is necessary to compile each source file manually
• Everytime you have an unsuccessful build the .elf file will be deleted and you need to add a new one or face the prospect of using Task Manager to kill STVD

[justin239955]

Posted on April 30, 2011 at 03:18

I am now building and debugging successfully but I went to create a makefile for the project (Project->Export Makefile) and I get the same error. Is there a workaround for this as well?

[normand]

Posted on May 02, 2011 at 16:06

Why ''ST...'' does not make the previous version avaliable so you can backflip to STVD 4.2.0 instead of asking users for quadruple fulltwist around the aplication issue (bug)?

Regards

[fabioaymoto9]

Posted on May 04, 2011 at 21:16

Hello Phil,

Had same problem here, but even following your steps I couldn't compile the project and have the same ''The parameter is incorrect'' message. I'm using STDV 4.2.1, Cosmic for 32k. 

I'm trying to compile the Discover Code from ST.

My procedures for this code are described as follow:

On Discover project we have two source files, Main.c and stm8_interrupt_vector.c:

Main.c Includes:

#include ''stm8s.h''

#include ''stm8_tsl_rc_api.h''

stm8_interrupt_vector.c Includes:

#include ''STM8_TSL_RC_API.h''

#include ''STM8_TSL_RC_TimerDriver.h''

So I create six empty object files in directory Debug as Phil solution mentioned:

C:\STM8Codes\STM8S-Discovery_dev\Project\Discover\STVD\Cosmic\Debug

main.o, stm8_interrupt_vector.o, STM8_TSL_RC_Configuration.o, stm8s_conf.o, stm8_tsl_rc_api.o, stm8s.o

and the discover.lkf file.

I observed that after the error, another discover.lkf is created in the same folder, but this is really the .exe extension, the discover.lkf created manually remains without modifications.

Am I forgeting some procedure?

Before try to compile, I select the correct path for the Cosmic compiler in: 

Project -> Settings -> General -> RootPath -> C:\Program Files\COSMIC\CXSTM8_32K considering that the 16k is the default selection.

[justin239955]

Posted on May 04, 2011 at 21:30

Hi Fabio,

See my comments above. In your file list you are missing a discover.elf file; also I suspect you are missing a few more library modules. Once you have all the object files set up you need to compile each module before attempting to build. ******** ST - TAKE NOTE ******** Despite now being able to build I have found the workaround to be completely unworkable in practice and have posponed the project I was planning for this board until a updated release of STVD is available. **************************************

[fabioaymoto9]

Posted on May 04, 2011 at 22:05

Hello Smith, thanks for reply.

Yeah I could find two other libs being used in this code searching at .h include files as #IFDEF parameters:  

#include ''stm8s_clk.h''

#include ''stm8s_gpio.h''

But even putting these empty object files I didn't have sucess with code compilation. Do you have any idea of what files is missing?

The following files is present on debug folder: 

discover.elf.txt

discover.lkf

main.o.txt

stm8s.o.txt

stm8s_clk.o.txt

stm8s_conf.o.txt

stm8s_gpio.o.txt

stm8_interrupt_vector.o.txt

stm8_tsl_rc_api.o.txt

STM8_TSL_RC_Configuration.o.txt

Could be the extension .txt  the problem? I generate this list by a command dir >c:/capture.txt on prompt command from windows. So these files doesn't have a .obj extension, but a .txt. How can I create an exe file?

I'm thinking to stop using that too, but I have to finish the graduation project quickly. I'm familiarized with ST ARM7. But it's too much powefull for my application.

Regards.

[vincent.philippe]

Posted on May 06, 2011 at 11:51

Hi,

 The problem is now clearly identified, and a patch for fix it coming within the next few weeks. This issue is dependent from the PC time zone: it occurs when you are in GMT-x. A new workaround easier that previous is possible in changing the time zone to GMT or GMT+x. Rgds Phil