V2.3.0 build of ncs-example-application fails

[Gary Sandhower]

I am not sure what happened. I started with the main branch of ncs-example-application and I was able to build it. I then noticed it wasn't 2.3.0 so I instead checked that out and tried to build that in the same exact way and it failed. I uninstalled everything (everything!) and reinstalled everything. And I still cannot build the 2.3.0 version. For giggles I tried to build the main branch again and it failed. I have no idea what has changed. Below is the error.

I tried setting CC and CXX to no avail. Below is after a clean install without me touching CC nor CXX.

[Priyanka]

Hi Gary,

Which sample did you try, and did you try in west and VSCode?

Best Regards,

Priyanka

[Gary Sandhower]

Let me ask this question: Should one be able to follow the step listed on the page successfully? Or is it out of date?

https://github.com/nrfconnect/ncs-example-application/tree/v2.3-branch

[Priyanka]

Hi Gary,

Apologies for the delayed response as I was a bit held up with another case. This is an example on how to have an out-of-tree application. You can see here: https://developer.nordicsemi.com/nRF_Connect_SDK/doc/latest/nrf/developing/adding_code.html#workflow-2-out-of-tree-application-repository 

I don't think it's out of date. But please take a look at the link attached and also, did you go through the getting started guide?

-Priyanka

[Gary Sandhower]

I did follow the getting started guide when I first set things up.

The thing is that somewhere it says that the "ncs-example-application" is the "highly recommended" template to use (highly recommended by Nordic). Which, if true, is fine. So I would like to just follow that but it doesn't work for me.

I'd be curious if it worked for anybody. 

[andreasd]

Nope, doesn't work for me neither.

I wonder why the project doesn't include the cmake project() command.

But it fails to find a C compiler although I started the bash comman prompt from the NRF toolchain manager (Windows 11) and unset the ZEPHYR_BASE environment variable from there.

The CMakeLists.txt is missing some lines:

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.20.0)

find_package(Zephyr REQUIRED HINTS $ENV{ZEPHYR_BASE})
project(workspace-sample)

edit: nevermind! The actual application is in the /app/ subdirectory!