[CMake] Toolchain file: Texas Instrument C6000 Code Generation Tools

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Thursday 14 March 2013, Laszlo Papp wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Florian Reinhard <
> 
> florian.reinhard at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > If ARM and DSP toolchain are commandline compatible, there could be an
> > option to specify the architecture, like C6000 (DSP core in OMAP
> > processors), C2000, C6400 which map to the correct
> > compiler/linker/archiver/strip names.
> 
> 1) Of course, TI for sure shares the language parser among the toolchains,
> so do they with the interface. It would not make too much sense otherwise.
> I bet it is only a historical issue why they do not use their binaries with
> the same names. Note that, they already migrated from cl470.exe to
> armcl.exe to be more generic across ARM cores. One step ahead could be that
> they even merge that with the DSP toolchain binaries in the future with a
> relevant target option, or perhaps not. It is not a biggie after all.
> 
> 2) I am not sure an option is a good idea. In fact, you need to specify the
> compiler executable (path) in your toolchain file, and once you specify
> that, the other executables match the naming schema quite well to be
> logical what their name would be.

the TI_DSP_to_TI branch on cmake stage now tries to automatically detect the 
compiler prefix and suffix and searches ar and strip accordingly.
It seems to work for me (but I can't run the binaries).

Please verify that it works, so I can still get it into 2.8.11 hopefully.

Thanks
Alex