CW 7.3 & 8.2 co-existing

[windam]

Hello,

I would like to have CW 7.3 and 8.2 running on my PC (Win XP) because I have to support an older products that were compiled with 7.3 and I have to develop for a new platform which requires 8.2.
So... is it possible to have both working and not interfering with each other?  If so, please let me know.

Thanks,

-win

[jag]

Hi,
yes, you can have the two versions installed and not interfering each other.
The only "problem" is that you have to open the right version of Codewarrior and then open the project (I put the alias on the desktop). If you double click on the .mcp usually it opens the newer version.

But my advice is to consider porting your older project to Codewarrior 8.2. The transition is, as far as I know, without problem.

Bye Jack

[J2MEJediMaster]

Just make sure to install each version of CodeWarrior into its own directory. That is:

C:\Program Files\Freescale\CodeWarrior 7.3\
C:\Program Files\Freescale\CodeWarrior 8.2\

Then, as jag pointed out, you're going to have a minor conflict where the last CodeWarrior install (say, 8.2) modifies the registry where when you click on a source file for a CW 7.3 program, Windows is going to launch CW 8.2. A short cut to each CodeWarrior IDE file for each works fine for avoiding that problem.

---Tom

[windam]

Just an update on what I did:
- during the 8.2 install, I did not select any file associations for CW 8, so that win xp won't launch the IDE that I may not want
- when I have to switch between 7.3 or 8.2, I have to run the corresponding regserver.bat file in the bin folder

It seems to working well.

Thanks for the advice.

-win