This guide assumes you have already created a project and have the library on your PC

Configuring Include Directories

In order for the compiler to find the libraries header files, you must set the include directories for the project.

To simplify things first configure a Linked Resource Path Variable:

Right-click on the project in the Project Explorer, and click Properties.
Go to Resource->Linked Resources then to the Path Variables tab
Click "New..." and create a Path Variable named EMBEDDED_SOFTWARE and set the location to the location of the library base.

Next to add the actual includes:

Right-click on the project in the Project Explorer, and click Properties.
From the Properties window, go to Build->MSP430 Compiler->Include Options in the menu tree on the left. You should now see two list boxes.
In the lower box, labeled 'Add dir to #include search path (–include_path, -l)' press the add button. You need to add the following directories:
"${EMBEDDED_SOFTWARE}/include"
"${EMBEDDED_SOFTWARE}/hal/ProcessorFamily/Processor" (example "${EMBEDDED_SOFTWARE}/hal/MSP430/MSP430F5529"")

If you have created your system.h file in the project directory, you will also need to add the project directory to the include directories. To do so:

Press the add button but this time click 'Workspace' rather than 'File System'.
This should open a window with each project in the workspace shown.
Click the project you are configuring and press Ok.

Adding the Source Files

Once you have setup your include directories, you'll need to add the source files to your project. First start by adding the library modules to your project. To do so:

Right-click the project in the Project Explorer and click 'Add Files...'
Locate the libraries source files at directory 'PathtoLibrary/src'.
Select the .c files you would like to use for your project. For example, if you are using the timing module and the task module, select timing.c and task.c.
Click Ok, you should be prompted to either copy the files or link to them. So that the library can easily be updated across all projects at once, please select link and make the link relative to EMBEDDED_SOFTWARE

Also, note that you will need to add all dependencies for a desired library. For example, if you use the UART module, you will need to add the charReceiver module as well. Refer to module documentation to determine dependencies.

Once you have added the library source files to your project, you will need to follow the same procedure to add the HAL layer's source files for the desired processor. These source files are located at 'PathtoLibrary/hal/ProcessorFamily/Processor (example PathtoLibrary/hal/MSP430/MSP430F5529)'.

Warning: DO NOT ADD THE hal_timing.c FILE! This file is automatically included through the timing.c file (a trick used to make the timing interrupt as efficient as possible).