Build configuration not showing up in Visual Code Extension

[Tage Korsdal Nielsen]

Hi

Our present build system on v2.6.1, builds variants of our baseline application using batch files.

It ends up building using west in this way:

west build --build-dir %BUILD_FOLDER% ..\%APPLICATION% --pristine --board %TARGET_BOARD% -- -DCONF_FILE=config/%PRJ_CONF% %DDTC%

The generated build configuration was discovered and added by the nRF visual code extension automatically.

Now migrating to v3.0.2, the setup can still configure and build, but the build configuration is no longer discovered by the Visual Code nRF extension.

I don't wanna switch to sysbuild at this time.

rgds Tage

[Priyanka]

Hi,

The VS Code extension is designed to work with the current build system (using the sysbuild).

Since the old child/parent image mechanism is no longer supported in v3.0.2, the extension will not recognize or properly handle build configurations that do not use sysbuild for multi-image projects, which is why your manually generated build folders are no longer automatically discovered by the extension.

I would suggest you to migrate your build setup to use sysbuild, because then you will get the full VS Code extension support for build configuration discovery and management.

You can take a look at the migration guide here: https://docs.nordicsemi.com/bundle/ncs-latest/page/nrf/releases_and_maturity/migration/migration_sysbuild.html#child-parent-to-sysbuild-migration 

Regards,

Priyanka

[Priyanka]

Maybe you can try to still build from the command line, but the extension will not provide the same level of integration or automation as before. So it's better to migrate to the sysbuild.