How I got cc-tool to compile on my macosx (10.12.6)

cc-tool_macosx.md

Use CC-tool for CC253X on my mac

Links

1. Flashing the firmware on the CC2531 USB stick | zigbee2mqtt.io
2. dashesy/cc-tool: Mirror of cc-tool from SourceForge
3. compiling - What is the correct syntax to add CFLAGS and LDFLAGS to "configure"? - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
4. Compiling Boost with GCC or Clang on macOS | Solarian Programmer

Compile cc-tool

Following 1 :

brew install autoconf automake libusb boost pkgconfig libtool ##install needed tools to compile the tool :-D
git clone https://github.com/dashesy/cc-tool.git
cd cc-tool\

Then, be sure to use clang++ instead g++ from macport or wathever you have in path. Include boost (c++) library from system (homebrew automagically symlink them under /opt/local/{bin,include}) like:

CC=/opt/local/bin/clang \
CXX=/opt/local/bin/clang++ \
LDFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include \
CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include \
 ./bootstrap

CC=/opt/local/bin/clang \
CXX=/opt/local/bin/clang++ \
LDFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include \
CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include \
 ./configure

make

## now test the executable
./cc-tool --help

Texas Instruments 8051-based System-On-Chip device programmer
 Version: 0.26

 Command line options:
  -h [ --help ]                  produce help message
  --log arg                      create log of all operations
  -d [ --device ] arg            set programmer deivce usb address 'bus:device'
  -f [ --fast ]                  set fast debug interface speed (by default:
                                 slow)
  -n [ --name ] arg              specify target name e.g. CC2530 etc.
  --allow-overlapping-records    allow overlapping records in hex files, the
                                 last one wins (by default: they are
                                 disallowed)
  -i [ --read-info-page ] arg    read info pages
  -a [ --read-mac-address ]      read mac address(es)
  -b [ --write-mac-address ] arg write (secondary) mac address
  -p [ --preserve-mac-address ]  preserve (secondary) mac address across
                                 writing
  -r [ --read ] arg              read flash memory
  -e [ --erase ]                 erase flash memory
  -w [ --write ] arg             write flash memory.
  -v [ --verify ] arg            verify flash after write, method '(r)ead' or
                                 '(c)cr' (used by default)
  --reset                        perform target reset
  -t [ --test ]                  search for programmer and target
  -l [ --lock ] arg              specify lock data in hex numbers or by string:
                                 debug[;pages:xx]
  -s [ --flash-size ] arg        specify target flash size in KB

 Supported targets:
   CC2530 CC2531 CC2533 CC2540 CC2541 CC2543 CC2544 CC2545 CC2510 CC2511 CC1111 CC1110 CC2430 CC2431

 Supported programmers:
  VID: 0x0451 PID: 0x16a2 Description: CC Debugger
  VID: 0x11a0 PID: 0xdb20 Description: SmartRF04 Evaluation Board
  VID: 0x11a0 PID: 0xeb20 Description: SmartRF04 Evaluation Board (Chinese)
  VID: 0x0451 PID: 0x16a0 Description: SmartRF05 Evaluation Board

why this doesn't work
cc-tool-master % which boost boost not found

because boost is a set of C++ libraries, there is no 'boost' binary in this package AFAIK. which is a tool to show path to binary that will be executed on given command, but there is no binary named boost

cc-tool-master % which cc-tool cc-tool not found

you have to put cc-tool in your path by adding directory with it to your PATH environment variable, or you can just create a symlink to it in a directory that is present in PATH:

sudo ln -s /path/to/your/cc-tool /usr/local/bin/cc-tool

Thank you @eizemazal,
my CC2541 board is not getting recognized by ccdebugger(status led = RED) after i compiled using this following command and flashed(code was simple led blink). What do you think? i'm guessing i have accidentally erased the bootloader routine due to incorrect command. Please comment.
MacBook-Air Application code % sdcc -mmcs51 --code-loc 0x0000 --data-loc 0x0000 --iram-size 256 -I /usr/local/share/sdcc/include -I . -o ledblink.hex main.c

@gaurav3015 sorry I do not know. In fact I have no experience with CC2541 except for compiling tool for it, so you may better ask someone else about it)

Thanks @eizemazal

Hi guys, trying now on Sonoma 14.0 and getting that error, any suggestions? Thanks

checking for the toolset name used by Boost for /usr/bin/clang++... xgcc42 -xgcc
checking for boost/program_options.hpp... yes
checking for the Boost program_options library... no
configure: error: cannot find the flags to link with Boost program_options

I'm on Sonoma 14.3 and get this error:

error: cannot find Boost headers version >= 1.74.0

I have to run bootstrap & configure with sudo to get here.