The author explains that he built the tool because of difficulties getting msp430-gcc to run and doesn't feel like screwing with mspgcc4.<p>I do recommend screwing with mspgcc4. It comes with a download-and-build script. It built flawlessly on my Linux box and compiled OpenChronos [1](the free firmware for the geek wristwatch) without problems so far.<p>1. <a href="http://github.com/poelzi/OpenChronos" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/poelzi/OpenChronos</a>