build command from ncs extension does not work

[Anthony Ambuehl]

NCS 2.7.0 with NCS Toolchain 2.7.0 and latest NCS SDK extension

When I right click on a build configuration, there is an menu item  "Copy Build Command"

which produced this command:

west build --build-dir d:/Flipperz/flipper_workspace2/app.git/app/build_thomas_c_track d:/Flipperz/flipper_workspace2/app.git/app --pristine --board thomas_c/nrf52840 --sysbuild -- -DNCS_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION="NONE"

When I run this command a the cmd prompt I get:

D:\Flipperz\flipper_workspace2>west build --build-dir d:/Flipperz/flipper_workspace2/app.git/app/build_thomas_c_track d:/Flipperz/flipper_workspace2/app.git/app --pristine --board thomas_c/nrf52840 --sysbuild -- -DNCS_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION="NONE"
-- west build: making build dir d:\Flipperz\flipper_workspace2\app.git\app\build_thomas_c_track pristine
-- west build: generating a build system
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\python37\lib\runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main
"__main__", mod_spec)
File "c:\python37\lib\runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
exec(code, run_globals)
File "C:\Python37\Scripts\west.exe\__main__.py", line 7, in <module>
File "c:\python37\lib\site-packages\west\app\main.py", line 793, in main
app.run(argv or sys.argv[1:])
File "c:\python37\lib\site-packages\west\app\main.py", line 109, in run
self.run_command(argv)
File "c:\python37\lib\site-packages\west\app\main.py", line 345, in run_command
self.run_extension(args.command, argv)
File "c:\python37\lib\site-packages\west\app\main.py", line 418, in run_extension
config=self.config)
File "c:\python37\lib\site-packages\west\commands.py", line 135, in run
self.do_run(args, unknown)
File "D:\Flipperz\flipper_workspace2\zephyr\scripts\west_commands\build.py", line 239, in do_run
self._run_cmake(board, origin, self.args.cmake_opts)
File "D:\Flipperz\flipper_workspace2\zephyr\scripts\west_commands\build.py", line 593, in _run_cmake
if module.meta['name'] in allow_list and Path(self.source_dir).is_relative_to(module.project):
AttributeError: 'WindowsPath' object has no attribute 'is_relative_to'

I need to get this working so I can start automated builds as part of a continuous integration system..

[lutecop]

It looks like you're encountering an issue due to an outdated Python version or an incompatibility between west and the Zephyr scripts on Windows. The error message:

python

AttributeError: 'WindowsPath' object has no attribute 'is_relative_to'

suggests that is_relative_to is not recognized. This method was introduced in Python 3.9, but you're using Python 3.7:

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File "c:\python37\lib\runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main

[Anthony Ambuehl]

thank you, i had forgotten that i need to use a venv to switch the python.  Also for whatever reason, I thought the terminals i launch in vscode would already have the evironment configuration necessary for west. 

[Anthony Ambuehl]

I have been trying to get this to work  with other versions of python but for some reason west keeps going back to python37.

I'm running pyenv now and have the global version set to python 3.9.12, however still west ends up running python3.7.  

Does west cache the python version or something?

[Anthony Ambuehl]

after install pyenv i had to remove other versions of python from the system path.