You can launch the Project Creator in various ways based on your operating system and how you work.

As a stand-alone GUI tool​

Launch the Project Creator as a stand-alone GUI tool by running its executable for your operating system (for example, select it using the Windows

Start

menu or the macOS Finder). By default, it is installed here:

<install_dir>/ModusToolbox/tools_<version>/project-creator

GUI command-line options​

The Project Creator GUI provides several useful command-line options that you can use when launching the GUI. The following table shows each option and its corresponding purpose:

Option

Description

--close

Closes the GUI once the project creation is complete.

--ide <IDE Name>

Sets the value of the

Target IDE

field on the Application page. The <IDE Name> can be one of the following: eclipse, vscode, ewarm, uvision, none.

--ide-readonly

Causes the

Target IDE

field in the project-creator to be read-only.

--machine-interface

Outputs project creation status in a JSON format to the standard output.

--verbose[0-3]

When launching from the executable, you can add this option to specify more or less messaging in the message console. The default level is 1.

From the Dashboard​

Starting with the ModusToolbox™ 3.1 tools package, there is a Dashboard tool that allows you to launch the Project Creator for a given IDE. Refer to the

Dashboard user guide

for more details.

As a command-line tool​

To run the Project Creator as a command-line tool, navigate to the install location and run the

project-creator-cli

executable from a command-line prompt. By default, it is installed here:

<install_dir>/ModusToolbox/tools_<version>/project-creator

For more information about command-line options, run the

project-creator-cli

executable using the

-h

option. Refer to the

CLI description

section later in this document for more details and an example.