ncs 2.7.0 command line build fails, works in vscode

[denis]

I have an existing project with a custom board.  It builds from VSCode and command line with ncs 2.6.0.  With 2.7.0 it builds from vscode, but not from the command line (see below).  Is there something additional that needs to be setup for 2.7.0 to build from the command line?

CMake Deprecation Warning at /Users/denis/sandbox/pison/workspace/zephyr/soc/CMakeLists.txt:15 (message):

  

            ---------------------------------------------------------------------

            --- WARNING: Functionality to describe SoCs in HWMv1 is           ---

            --- deprecated and should be replaced with HWMv2, including       ---

            --- boards. HWMv1 SoCs support remains only to ease the migration ---

            --- of out-of-tree SoCs and associated boards. It will not be     ---

            --- possible to build using HWMv1 SoCs at all in future releases. ---

            ---------------------------------------------------------------------

=== child image hci_ipc - CPUNET begin ===

loading initial cache file /Users/denis/sandbox/pison/workspace/vulcan-firmware/applications/ready/build/hci_ipc/child_image_preload.cmake

Loading Zephyr default modules (Zephyr base).

-- Application: /Users/denis/sandbox/pison/workspace/zephyr/samples/bluetooth/hci_ipc

-- CMake version: 3.26.4

-- Using NCS Toolchain 2.7.20240620.1065210518403 for building. (/opt/nordic/ncs/toolchains/f8037e9b83/cmake)

-- Found Python3: /opt/nordic/ncs/toolchains/f8037e9b83/bin/python3 (found suitable version "3.9.6", minimum required is "3.8") found components: Interpreter 

-- Cache files will be written to: /Users/denis/Library/Caches/zephyr

-- Zephyr version: 3.6.99 (/Users/denis/sandbox/pison/workspace/zephyr)

-- Found west (found suitable version "1.2.0", minimum required is "0.14.0")

CMake Error at /Users/denis/sandbox/pison/workspace/zephyr/cmake/modules/boards.cmake:234 (message):

  Error finding board: sebring_03_nrf5340_cpunet in

  /Users/denis/sandbox/pison/workspace/vulcan-firmware/boards/arm/sebring_03_nrf5340.

  This indicates the board has been removed, renamed, or placed at a new

  location.

  Please run a pristine build.

Call Stack (most recent call first):

  /Users/denis/sandbox/pison/workspace/zephyr/cmake/modules/zephyr_default.cmake:132 (include)

  /Users/denis/sandbox/pison/workspace/zephyr/share/zephyr-package/cmake/ZephyrConfig.cmake:66 (include)

  /Users/denis/sandbox/pison/workspace/zephyr/share/zephyr-package/cmake/ZephyrConfig.cmake:92 (include_boilerplate)

  CMakeLists.txt:5 (find_package)

[denis]

I migrated to the new board file format and now sebring_03_nrf5340_cpunet can be found.  So apparently the old format no longer works for nrf5340?

[Einar Thorsrud]

Hi,

You are right that you should transition to hardware model v2, and it is good to see that it works when you do. There is backwards compatibility now though, so I would have expected your old board files to work as well for now, but I am not able to see from this why your sebring_03_nrf5340_cpunet is not found.

[denis]

Note that with the new build in ncs 2.7.0, it seems that BOARD is what was specified on the command line in part of the CMake script flow, but later changes to be split into BOARD and BOARD_QUALIFIERS.  So different parts of the CMake flow needed to be updated to use those variables differently.  I couldn't find anything about that in the documentation or migration notes.