Can't build Guiconfig in nRF Connect on Mac

RE: Can't build Guiconfig in nRF Connect on Mac

jacobmossberg — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 11:24:33 GMT

I am also using Mac and I got this error message:

_tkinter.TclError: Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following directories: 

 /opt/homebrew/Cellar/tcl-tk/8.6.11_1/lib/tcl8.6 /opt/nordic/ncs/toolchains/f8037e9b83/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.6/lib/tcl8.6 /opt/nordic/ncs/toolchains/f8037e9b83/Cellar/python@3.9/lib/tcl8.6 /opt/nordic/ncs/toolchains/f8037e9b83/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.6/library /opt/nordic/ncs/toolchains/f8037e9b83/Cellar/python@3.9/library /opt/nordic/ncs/toolchains/f8037e9b83/Cellar/python@3.9/tcl8.6.11/library /opt/nordic/ncs/toolchains/f8037e9b83/Cellar/tcl8.6.11/library

I did this ugly workaround inspired by the other replies.

mkdir -p /opt/homebrew/Cellar/tcl-tk/8.6.11_1/lib/
ln -s /opt/nordic/ncs/toolchains/f8037e9b83/Cellar/tcl-tk/8.6.11_1/lib/tcl8.6 \
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/tcl-tk/8.6.11_1/lib/tcl8.6
ln -s /opt/nordic/ncs/toolchains/f8037e9b83/Cellar/tcl-tk/8.6.11_1/lib/tk8.6 \
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/tcl-tk/8.6.11_1/lib/tcl8.6/tk8.6

RE: Can't build Guiconfig in nRF Connect on Mac

Burt — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 23:33:34 GMT

Thank you. That worked for me--like you said, it is ugly!

Burt

RE: Can't build Guiconfig in nRF Connect on Mac

Burt — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 23:15:49 GMT

I wish they would fix it. These issues are really confusing for we users that have done things in the past successfully and all of a sudden, years later, things no longer work. Please ask the development team to keep on top of things like this. Thanks!

Burt

RE: Can't build Guiconfig in nRF Connect on Mac

Amanda Hsieh — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 17:15:03 GMT

Thanks for the feedback. I have forward it to the team.

RE: Can't build Guiconfig in nRF Connect on Mac

Saxman58 — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 15:52:10 GMT

That post was helpful, but it made it clear that this has been a problem for Mac users for a few years and Nordic still hasn't fixed the toolchain. One of the users said that he solved the problem by adding a simlink, so I tried a similar fix and it worked, but is a fragile patch that will break and have to be redone whenever I update to a newer toolchain. Here's the problem and fix:

The SDK toolchain keeps looking for Tcl 8.6.11_1 in my /usr/local/Cellar/tcl-tk directory, outside of the toolchain directories. I have a newer version of tcl-tk there (8.6.14). The Tcl the toolchain should be using is the one in the toolchain directories, not my setup. So I created a simlink to redirect the toolchain back to its own Tcl setup that it should have been using to begin with. In this case, for the 2.6.1 toolchain (580e4ef81c) this fixed the problem:

ln -s /opt/nordic/ncs/toolchains/580e4ef81c/Cellar/tcl-tk/8.6.11_1 /usr/local/Cellar/tcl-tk/8.6.11_1

But as you can see, the simlink will need to be changed if I change the toolchain. This is not ideal.

I agree with the commentor from the post you linked that your Mac developers probably don't see the same problem as us users because they have the required 8.6.11_1 in their own /usr/local/Cellar/tcl-tk directory, so that masks the problem that the toolchain is pointing to a directory outside of the toolchain folders and thus not guaranteed to exist on user's Macs. It should instead look within the toolchain where it knows the required Tcl files will exist.

RE: Can't build Guiconfig in nRF Connect on Mac

Amanda Hsieh — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 14:58:48 GMT

[quote user="Saxman58"]Does anyone at Nordic have a MacOS setup so they can check if the Guiconfig (which runs Python code that uses Tk) works or not?[/quote]

The developers are not able to reproduce your issue. See this post might help.

RE: Can't build Guiconfig in nRF Connect on Mac

Saxman58 — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 07:24:06 GMT

It would appear that your toolchain uses its own versions of python and tcl, so my paths shouldn't really matter. And unlike the other case you referenced, I don't have any TCL... environment variables that might conflict. It really seems like there is something wrong with the SDK toolchain for the Mac. I installed the new v2.7.0 toolchain and it has the same problem as v2.6.1.

Does anyone at Nordic have a MacOS setup so they can check if the Guiconfig (which runs Python code that uses Tk) works or not?

RE: Can't build Guiconfig in nRF Connect on Mac

Amanda Hsieh — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 13:45:50 GMT

Hi,

It might be an issue with your paths as this case indicated. If you still cannot fix the problem, I would suggest to use nRF Kconfig GUI or menuconfig.

Regards,
Amanda H.