manage and remove DEBUG flags for FW in production stage

[StefXinet]

Dear Nordic,

I need to release to the production stage a FW developed. I have two separated project: one for the bootloader and one for the application.

The bootloader is compiled with DEBUG_NRF and NRF_DFU_DEBUG_VERSION defines setted.

The application package is made by this script: 

nrfutil.exe pkg generate ^
--debug-mode ^
--application "%cd%\_build\release\release.hex" ^
--application-version 0000 ^
--hw-version 52 ^
--sd-req 0x0126 ^
--key-file private.pem "\_output\release.zip"

In DEBUG stage all works fine, but now I need to remove it, but If I compile the bootloader without DEBUG_NRF and NRF_DFU_DEBUG_VERSION defines or if I pack the FW without --debug-mode option nothing works.

I tried some different configuration but I can't find the right way to solve this issue. please can you help me suggesting what I should do with DEBUG defines?

Thanks!

[Amanda Hsieh]

Hi, 

Which nRF5 SDK version are you using?

Are you using the example bootloader or the custom bootloader? 

Maybe you could try to test with the non-debug version of the example bootloader. 

Regards,
Amanda H.

[StefXinet]

I'm using the latest SDK: nRF5_SDK_17.1.0_ddde560

The bootloader I'm using is the \dfu\secure_bootloader\pca10040e_s112_ble_debug

[Amanda Hsieh]

Can you try pca10040e_s112_ble?

[StefXinet]

sorry, I did a mistake: I based my bootloader on pca10040_s132_ble_debug example.

What should I do to go in production stage?

[Amanda Hsieh]

Hi,

StefXinet said:

I based my bootloader on pca10040_s132_ble_debug example.

Is it possible to test with the bootloader on pca10040_s132_ble? 

With --debug-mode, it would stitch to Debug mode and enable version check skipping.

Could you try to change the application-version number?

What S132 version are you using? 

The firmware ID 0x126 is s112_nrf52_7.3.0

StefXinet said:

What should I do to go in production stage?

Do you modify the pca10040_s132_ble_debug example for the development? If not, you could use pca10040_s132_ble without the debug version which would not show the debug log. 

-Amanda H.