nRF52833: Zigbee Light Switch sample not building

[nandinee]

Hello, 

I am attempting to build the Zigbee Light Switch sample on my nRF52833 DK, but the sample is generating an error every time I am attempting to build it. I have tried various combinations of settings in the build configurations but there always seems to be some error. I am attaching a file showing the terminal output (using the integrated terminal in the nRF for VSCode extension) while building and a screenshot of my build configuration in VSCode. 

I would greatly appreciate some help in this matter, thank you!

[AHaug]

Hi, 

Thank you to checking! 

nandinee said:

I am using the nRF Connect for VS Code extension with the nRF Connect SDK v2.4.0 

Good to know!

nandinee said:

No, I did not change anything in the prj,conf of the project. 

1. I did not change anything in the nrf52833dk-nrf52833.conf file either, and I just checked and saw that CONFIG_CRYPTO is set to 'y'.

Hmm, interesting. Are you able to compile any other zigbee samples? How about any other non-zigbee samples, for instance the hello world sample?

I do also see that the path used in the build log is '"c:\Users\nandi\Desktop\nrfProject\light_switch\build_1", do you know if this is outside of where you've installed the SDK?  The issue might be path related so could you try to compile a sample from the SDK? Use the "Open existing application", navigate to the Zigbee sample located in <ncs install location\v.2.4.0\nrf\samples\zigbee\zigbee_light_switch and build for nrf52833dk_nrf52833 or through commandline, whichever you prefer

nandinee said:

I believe I am working with a pristine SDK, but what is the method to confirm this? I am a beginner and still unclear on the exact meaning of these terminologies. 

No worries, I understand how that could cause some confusion. When I refer to a "pristine SDK" I mean that if you have changed any configuration files or dependencies that samples depend on. By trying to build anything in a pristine sdk it excludes if the errors you've encountered is caused by changes or not

This is not necessary the best solution, but one suggestion is to use a similar setup as mine 

I have every version that I need to use installed in one location. Every v.x.x.x is one instance of the SDK that I have kept relatively pristine. 

In my_projects I have the different projects that I have created by using "create new application from existing sample" and setting the Application location to a respective folder in my_projects.

This way I can keep the samples as pristine as possible and modify them as I need outside of the SDK

Let me know if you building within the SDK solves the issue or if you have any other questions throughout the process

Kind regards,
Andreas