CodeWarrior 3.1 and Windows 7 - Licensing Issue

[ericLGC]

Hi,

I recently received a new PC with Windows 7 and I am trying to get my old CodeWarrior 3.1 for HCS12 (IDE 5.5) to work.  It is installed and the editor seems to work fine.  My USB dongle seems to be recognized as well.  My problem is when I compile I get Error C5300 "Limitation: code size > 1024 bytes".  I do not get this error for the same project and same license on my XP PC.  My license is for 64k.  Any ideas on why I am getting this error and how to fix it?  Has anybody been successful in using this version with Windows7?

Thanks,

Eric

[CrasyCat]

Hello

Did you own a special edition license? A standard one? A professional one?

If you own anything else than a special edition you need to migrate your license to your new PC.

Go to www.freescale.com and log in using your Freescale login and password.

Then click on the link CodeWarrior Licensing and click on License options button next to the product you want to migrate.

Once there click on Rehost and follow instructions on the screen.

CrasyCat

[ericLGC]

How do I tell if its a special edition?  We have 3 dongle licenses here.  When I open 2 of the license.dat files, they say "HC12 Special Edition with 64k C Upgrade" at the top of the file.  The 3rd file does not say anything like that but it should be the same type of license.  

Can these licenses be migrated?

By the way, I did try re-installing CodeWarrior outside of the Program Files folder and it did not help with this problem.

Thanks,

Eric

[CrasyCat]

Hello

Yes you need to migrate these licenses.

CrasyCat

[ericLGC]

Freescale support is telling me there is no way to upgrade these licenses to support Windows7 but they would LOVE for me to purchase CW 5.1.  Its frustrating because CW 3.1 is running fine in Windows 7, the Flex LM is working great and the USB dongle works fine.  I don't know why the license issue.

Has anybody been successful with this?  Is XP emulator mode the only way to go?

[kef · Accepted solution]

I wonder if CW 3.1 dongle will work in Win XP Mode. USB devices I tried until now were working in WinXP Mode, provided you have drivers for both Win7 and WinXP. You need to use Win XP mode menus to connect device to emulated WinXP.

(If you not familiar with WinXP Mode, then try looking here)

[ericLGC]

Yes, I was finally able to get the Codewarrior license to work in Windows 7 XP Mode.  The trick here is to disable the "Integration Services" in XP Mode which disables resource sharing (hard drives, printers, etc) between Win 7 and XP.  Since my license is node locking, it would not allow Remote Desktop or Terminal Server connections and the Integration Services acts as a Remote Desktop.  Once I get past the license check, then I can re-enable the Integration Services.

[kef]

Did you install CW to Program Files subfolder? If so, then try reinstalling not to Program Files. Win7 does very smart things with Progs folder, which may be not comparible with old apps.