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sofia
sofia

Reputation: 19

IAR Embedded Workbench

I am trying to open an already created project in IAR (I created it on another computer) and want to open the project file in my own computer. When trying to open it, it says: The project (name of the project with the locations) could not be opened.

Is there a way to be able to open it? I have seen some people do that but when I try it does not work.

I have tried to open the file and it does not work

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1119

Answers (1)

sharpgeek
sharpgeek

Reputation: 590

IAR projects are very sensitive to the IDE version in which they are created.

If not using the same IDE version:

  • A newer IDE version will offer to upgrade an existing "project.ewp" and automatically create a "Backup of project.ewp", which might be unnecessary if the project is under version control.
  • An earlier IDE version will refuse to open a project last saved on a newer IDE version. The EWP format is tightly tied to the IDE and, it is not backward compatible.

In the worst case the project file is a XML file which you can open and try to extract some human-readable information from there, such as the last version in which the file was saved. However a significant part of the information is encoded to the IDE inner workings and, as far as I know, there is no open specification about what such cryptic options might actually mean.

Upvotes: 1

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