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[sonic4]

Nordic #Devacademy intermediate course: Ticket for exercise 2 of lesson 2

Dear Colleagues,

I selected the #nRF9151-DK, since it was in the list of recommended boards for this course.  It also looked useful for many of the post-evaluation use cases that I have.

So far, my experience is unfortunately that I spend most of the time I have invested in this course in figuring out workarounds for #VSCode problems. I spend very little of my time coding and learning about zephyr and most of it trying to fix VSCode problems.  Use of an IDE that is less-ambitious, more-robust, and more-transparent about how it works would add a lot of value to this course. I think most professionals have a lot of other things to work on, too.  I look forward to getting lesson 2 of the Nordic Devacademy intermediate course, which is about how to use the VSCode debugging features, behind me and getting on to coding some examples.  I don't anticipate using VSCode after this course.

So, here is the current configuration:

SDK:  Zephyr v4.1.99

Toolchain: nRF Connect SDK Toolchain v3.0.2

Board target: nrf9151dk/nrf9151/ns (nordic kit)

Optimization level; Use project default (tried "Optimize for debugging (-Og)", but that failed. Went to the default configuration to take GDB out of the problem equation)

Here's the output from View->Command Palette->nRF Connect: Generate Support Information:

// IMPORTANT: The following data can contain sensitive or confidential information about your environment.
// If you do not want others to see this information, make sure to remove it before sharing the data.

// For help and support, visit Nordic Semiconductor's DevZone at https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/.

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    "vscodeUptime": "00:20:49",
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    "cpu": "Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-1005G1 CPU @ 1.20GHz"
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I would appreciate any serious solution ideas. 

Thank you,

sonic4

[Edvin]

Hello,

I am sorry for the late reply. We are a bit short staffed these days, but we are doing our best to keep the waiting time to a minimum. I am sorry for the delay and inconvenience.

It looks like, based on your generated support information, that you haven't installed any version of nRF Connect SDK (NCS). I see that you have the toolchain v3.0.2, but under SDKs, it says:

  "sdks": [
    {
      "version": "v4.1.99",
      "path": "/home/user/zephyrproject"
    }

What did you select in the very first option when you generated your build configuration?

If you have not installed nRF Connect SDK v3.0.2, try doing so:

And follow the instructions to install the SDK. After it has been installed, open VS Code in the SDKs root folder (the folder called v3.0.2, and then add your application to your workspace. Then select both the SDK version (NCS v3.0.2) and Toolchain version (v3.0.2) when selecting your build configuraton. Now it should try to build in NCS, and not in bare Zephyr. Since the CONFIG_DK_LIBRARY is defined in the nRF part of NCS, and not in the Zephyr project.

Best regards,

Edvin