User home path problem (bug?)

I had the same problem. Cypress told me to install PDL in a different location and to set the path in project settings. I tested and it worked.

Bob

I would suggest you to get in contact with Cypress directly: At top of Cypress Home page select "Design support -> Create a Support Case" and ask your question. You will be helped by a Cypress engineer.

Bob

I am trying to reproduce the error. Do you get this message from PSoC Creator? I installed PDL into My Documents/банан. It is driving me banans

Failed while attempting to update project 'CE218636_I2S01': Unable to include referenced file: 'C:\Users\yfs\Documents\?????\PDL\3.0.1\drivers\peripheral\ipc\cy_ipc_config.c'. One or more invalid characters appears in the path: 'C:\Users\yfs\Documents\?????\PDL\3.0.1\drivers\peripheral\ipc\cy_ipc_config.c'. Examples of invalid characters are as follows: '", <, >, |, �, �, �, �, �, �, �, �, �, , , �, �, , �, �, �, �, �, �, �, �, �, �, �, �, �, �, �, �, �, �, *, ?'. Please notice that some invalid characters are shown as Unicode characters..

Mark, see case#00371365.

Bob

Ah! Is this an FM0+ project?

It would be very helpful if you would provide the path that you had as the issue may be limited to a specific character and not all non-English characters.

Do you get this...

Unable to open the workspace "C:\Users\yfs\Documents\банан\PSoC_4_BLE_CapSense_Slider_LED\PSoC_4_BLE_CapSense_Slider_LED.cywrk": (Invalid character(s): бан). Address the error and try again.

I do not think this is a PDL issue. The documentation could be better on this subject but the PDL is a driver library for Flexible Microcontroller (FMx) products and also PSoC 6. It is not needed for PSoC 4 BLE.

PSoC Creator cannot handle projects in folders with these characters in the path because it relies upon executables in the build flow that do not support them. We cannot fix the third party tools and so we have to deny the request to create the project. I have tried to create new projects and kit projects and code example projects in my банан folder and it does not let that happen (strictly I am using an internal build of 4.2 but I do not think this has changed since 4.1).

I realize this is a big pain, and I apologize for the inconvenience, but can you create projects in a folder that our software can handle?

To be honest: Windows supports language specific characters in pathnames for 15 years now. A software that is not able to handle that should be corrected, regardless of "third party". At least (the very least) the installer should not propose such filenames nor accept them as a choice. Removing and re-installing can be a pain ita.

Bob

Yesterday, I reproduced the same behavior using your username on a developer setup.  I've filed a defect ticket on this (287653) to not only fix the current behavior but to also add a new test case which is missing.

The only workaround right now would be to create a user with non-Unicode characters.  From this point forward it is on the development team to fix this incorrect behavior.