topic Re: NXP Config Tools v13.1 comes without a python directory in i.MX Processors

NXP Config Tools v13.1 comes without a python directory

wdmegrv — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 06:39:06 GMT

The most recent Config Tools v13.1 (DEB Package) misses a python directory.

Here is how the bin directory looks like after the installation:

ls /opt/nxp/i.MX_CFG_v13.1/bin/
artifacts.xml configuration features icon.xpm jre META-INF p2 plugins readme tools tools.ini

This seems to make the tool fail to locate python.

Unable to locate python

Re: NXP Config Tools v13.1 comes without a python directory

Rita_Wang — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 07:29:53 GMT

Could you tell us which product are you using?

Re: NXP Config Tools v13.1 comes without a python directory

wdmegrv — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 12:51:37 GMT

For an i.MX93 based product.

Re: NXP Config Tools v13.1 comes without a python directory

Rita_Wang — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 05:14:49 GMT

You can refer to https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/user-guide/IMXUG.pdf to use it.

Re: NXP Config Tools v13.1 comes without a python directory

wdmegrv — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 13:02:23 GMT

This Document does not mention anything on how to fix the python issue.
Could you please give me more details.

Re: NXP Config Tools v13.1 comes without a python directory

lionel1 — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 16:49:40 GMT

Where I work, several of us are seeing this problem too. Both the Mac and Linux versions of Config Tools are missing Python in releases as recent as v13.1. I notice that v8 has Python 2.7, so perhaps it was lost in a migration to Python 3?

It would help to know the extent to which the Config Tool developers know this is a problem, whether there is a workaround, and what to expect going forward.

Either way, the ability to run the tools on these platforms (including from the command line, especially when automating or when debugging issues below the veneer of Eclipse) is highly desirable. If your processors' main OS is Linux, isn't it more likely for their developers to know well and use a UNIX-based OS rather than Windows? It's most certainly true in our case.

Re: NXP Config Tools v13.1 comes without a python directory

jviguera — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 11:51:31 GMT

Exactly the same problem here.

Using i.MX_CFG_v13.1 on an Ubuntu 18.04 machine the DDR tool fails with "Unable to locate python".

Is there any progress on this?

Re: NXP Config Tools v13.1 comes without a python directory

don_gunn — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 00:44:50 GMT

I am seeing the same thing. Ubuntu 22.04. I have gone in to the tools.ini file and tried to set a path for python but that does't seem to help.

Re: NXP Config Tools v13.1 comes without a python directory

addiyi — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 13:02:55 GMT

From the Config tools for i.MX release notes:

DDR tool
- The DDR tool is not supported on LinuxOS and MacOS

Re: NXP Config Tools v13.1 comes without a python directory

gigli_korg — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 10:01:21 GMT

Hi All,
in version 14.0, the fix of changing the path in *.ini file seems solve the problem.

ME@PC:/opt/nxp/i.MX_CFG_v14/bin$ ls 
artifacts.xml features jre p2 readme tools.ini
configuration icon.xpm META-INF plugins tools tools.ini.original

ME@PC:/opt/nxp/i.MX_CFG_v14/bin$ diff tools.ini*
21c21
< -Dpython.dir=/usr/bin/python3
---
> -Dpython.dir=python3

ME@PC:/opt/nxp/i.MX_CFG_v14/bin$ uname -a 
Linux ws-gigli 6.2.0-26-generic #26~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Jul 13 16:27:29 UTC 2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Stefano