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When Will CodeWarrior Run On Windows Vista?

FC — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 02:43:38 GMT

Hello,

Will there be a patch for CodeWarrior to run on Windows Vista soon? All new computers come with Vista, I need to upgrade my computer which runs Windows 98SE because CodeWarrior runs very slow on this computer.

Thanks

Re: When Will CodeWarrior Run On Windows Vista?

peg — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 05:01:41 GMT

Yes, "they" seem quite happy to follow Microsoft's lead in dropping support at the older end. But as for the newer end.........

Re: When Will CodeWarrior Run On Windows Vista?

Curt — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:47:41 GMT

Hi FC.

I've been running CW on a Win98 platform with 94MB for a few days now, and don't consider it slow at all. Could there be another reason for the performance you're seeing? (Or perhaps I just have a high tolerance for slowness...)

In the name of "security," we will soon have to get written permission from MS to do _anything_ with our PCs. Vista is a giant step in this direction IMHO. Avoid it!!!

"They" will have to pry Win98 from my cold, dead hands!

Re: When Will CodeWarrior Run On Windows Vista?

Voxan — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:34:19 GMT

All,

CodeWarrior installers and installed CodeWarrior product will not work with Microsoft’s new Windows VISTA operating system. Many development tools and applications are currently incompatible with VISTA because of significant changes in this major operating system release.
We recommend that our customers do not plan to deploy CodeWarrior tools and technologies on the VISTA operating system this year (2007).
Further, we recommend that our customers continue to monitor our website for announcements about work-arounds or product releases that will support this operating system. We encourage you to speak to a Freescale sales representative.

Regards

Re: When Will CodeWarrior Run On Windows Vista?

Curt — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:13:44 GMT

Amen.

Re: When Will CodeWarrior Run On Windows Vista?

tequila — Thu, 03 May 2007 08:54:50 GMT

If you absolutely need to upgrade you could run Codewarrior inside a virtual machine like Vmware Server, it won't be as fast as if was a native install, but it shoulld be fast enough, as a matter of fact, I'm running Codewarrior in this very fashion.

Cheers

Re: When Will CodeWarrior Run On Windows Vista?

Alban — Thu, 03 May 2007 17:48:17 GMT

Hi Tequilla,

Nice to see there is an alternative. Thank you for sharing !
Personally, I keep my workstation on XP. I don't really need a shiny desktop, there are always windows opened...

Cheers,
Alban.

Re: When Will CodeWarrior Run On Windows Vista?

neocronos — Thu, 10 May 2007 06:50:29 GMT

Just what I need .... Just when I was excited about Vista's upgrade. To be honest, few weeks ago, I started to look for well compatibility between Vista and all my installed programs (XP) and I stopped because I saw that each company made it's homework by making a pach .... wrong idea.

I hope that freescale guys pay atention on Vista users (not few people) by helping us with an upgrade. I know that freescale has made cool things to make our programmer life better and as I say, I hope that they keep it in that way.

I'll try with the virtual machine, but we all know what it implies to our PC.

Thanks.

Message Edited by neocronos on 2007-05-10 12:52 AM

Re: When Will CodeWarrior Run On Windows Vista?

Alban — Thu, 10 May 2007 19:25:36 GMT

Hello Neo and welcome to the boards,

As far as I know, there is a team dedicated to Windows Vista.

My hope is that Microsoft team improved the Windows Installer (MSI) so you don't need that much free space (1GB or so) on the C: drive when you want to install 400MB on the D: drive.
This was quite a problem for a few users.

Keep the faith !
Alban.

Re: When Will CodeWarrior Run On Windows Vista?

mke_et — Thu, 10 May 2007 19:41:09 GMT

A friend of mine upgraded to Vista at home. While he's not a CodeWarrior user, he has a number of programs that caused him serious issues.

He picked up some kind of virtual manager program that he runs, and he claims he can run all his old stuff under Vista with it. Supposedly even running 'linux' in a box under Vista.

I'll have to see if he can get CodeWarrior running with it...

Anyway, I just called him, and he's willing to try, so I'll cart my setup over to his place and see what happens.

The program is VMWare Player. You need a tool called VMWare Workstation to configure it. He got it for XP, but says it's works fine on his Vista upgrage.

Ok, it's not free, and it's not cheap, but it if works...

Message Edited by mke_et on 2007-05-10 08:51 AM

Re: When Will CodeWarrior Run On Windows Vista?

tequila — Mon, 28 May 2007 06:41:49 GMT

You don't need VMware Workstation, VMware server is available for free, and it pretty much does anything you could need so... I'd recommend you'd give it a try.

Re: When Will CodeWarrior Run On Windows Vista?

manoel_garbuio — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 20:24:19 GMT

The problem is that some new PC´s come with windows Vista installed and for those new machines there´s no option for Windwos XP, if you need it you have to by in separated.

It would be great if Freescale updates the CodeWarrior in order to make it supports Windows Vista..

I´m in exatlly this situation, I´m moving to other micro because of lack of development tool on Windows Vista..But if freescale update it I´ll be have to back.

Re: When Will CodeWarrior Run On Windows Vista?

CrasyCat — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 20:51:32 GMT

Hello

Which processor are you targeting?

I know we should have soon a version of CodeWarrior running on Vista for HC(S)08/RS08.

CrasyCat

Re: When Will CodeWarrior Run On Windows Vista?

Andrey — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:56:19 GMT

And how soon is that? My company just ordered new laptop for me and it has Vista on it. By the way, I'm still waiting for the Windows XP 64-bit addition of the driver, for my workstation! I cannot program the MCU with it either.

Re: When Will CodeWarrior Run On Windows Vista?

CrasyCat — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:05:46 GMT

Hello

I have checked with marketing.

Launch Date for CodeWarrior for MCU V6.0 is planned for end of this month (around June 26th).

CrasyCat

Re: When Will CodeWarrior Run On Windows Vista?

HansenOnDk — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:58:20 GMT

Hello,

Just want to follow this topic as seems to be we have already middle of July.

Regards,

Tadek, first time on boards..

Re: When Will CodeWarrior Run On Windows Vista?

Alban — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:15:39 GMT

Hello,

Yes, I can confirm that we are the middle of July.
Thank you.

And I can also confirm that CW 6.0 has been available for some time already.

Alban.

Re: When Will CodeWarrior Run On Windows Vista?

Andrey — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 07:30:01 GMT

I got my laptop and I downloaded CW V6.0, it runs perfect on Vista. I used it for 12 days now. Seems to be faster, although I'm not sure if it's the laptop or the CW V6.0.

I did not notice any visual/significant changes, except for
- Some difference in adding components
- Yes, skip programing promt checkbox is back (the one that let's you select a programming adapter and other programming options))!

Great job!

p.s. this version still does not work with Windows XP 64-bit. I guess because there is no driver for the device. The installer gives an error and quits.

Re: When Will CodeWarrior Run On Windows Vista?

CrasyCat — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:38:03 GMT

Hello

I can confirm that CodeWarrior MCU V6.0 has not been extended to support Windows XP 64-bit.

CrasyCat

Re: When Will CodeWarrior Run On Windows Vista?

HansenOnDk — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:18:57 GMT

Haven't told I develop on HCS12.

But I will try again to find some Vista-compatibel CW for this family.

Tadek