I want to setup a development environment for a Nordic device (nRF5340-DK board). I want to use a devcontainer in VS Code to share the same environment with CI pipeline. Nordic provides a ready docker image : https://hub.docker.com/r/nordicplayground/nrfconnect-sdk. I opened it in VS code with following configuration (devcontainer.json):
{
"name": "nRF-Dev",
"image": "nordicplayground/nrfconnect-sdk:v2.0-branch",
"workspaceMount": "source=${localWorkspaceFolder},target=/workdir/project,type=bind",
"workspaceFolder": "/workdir/project",
"customizations": {
// Configure properties specific to VS Code.
"vscode": {
"settings": {},
"extensions": [
"streetsidesoftware.code-spell-checker",
"ms-vscode.cpptools-extension-pack",
"ms-vscode.cmake-tools",
"mcu-debug.debug-tracker-vscode",
"marus25.cortex-debug",
"nordic-semiconductor.nrf-connect-extension-pack"
]
}
}
}
The image has correctly exported ZEPHYR environment variables:
ZEPHYR_BASE=/workdir/zephyr
ZEPHYR_TOOLCHAIN_VARIANT=zephyr
ZEPHYR_SDK_INSTALL_DIR=/workdir/zephyr-sdk
Configuration and compilation a sample project in commandline works fine. However, problems arise when I want to use the nRF Connect extansion ( nRF Connect for VS Code - Visual Studio Marketplace ). In the welcome screen, it cannot find the SDK, showing the following message (see image)
When I set the path to /workdir, (where the zephyr-sdk directory resides), it says enigmatically:
Has anyone succeeded in setting up this extension in a devcontainer?
