nRF5340: Compiling nrfx drivers with different compilers

RE: nRF5340: Compiling nrfx drivers with different compilers

rbence — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 14:04:51 GMT

I only have experience with the Segger IDE in terms of NRF stuff. But the MDK has an example scatter file in it for the nRF5340: https://github.com/NordicSemiconductor/nrfx/blob/master/mdk/nrf5340_xxaa_network.sct Maybe you could use this?

My goal is to run an NRF5 SDK + FreeRTOS + radio (not BLE) app on the NRF54L15 instead of the NRF52840. So I thinking about using GCC either with cmake or some IDE + the FreeRTOS port for Cortex-M33

RE: nRF5340: Compiling nrfx drivers with different compilers

dani_martin — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 12:56:06 GMT

hi, we have a cmake based project, with arm-none-eabi-gcc compiler, and with that compiler the linker scripts work perfectly.

Now we are considering a migration to a different compiler (we are evaluating different ones) and thats why I'm interested in the support for them. The compilation of the drivers is one issue and the linker script is another issue, as you know. I'm indeed right now trying to convert nrf_common.ld to a scatter file for clang.

Any experience with clang?

RE: nRF5340: Compiling nrfx drivers with different compilers

rbence — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 12:49:33 GMT

dani_martin May I ask about your toolchain? Do you use any IDE or just make with gcc? Was the linker script in nrfx/mdk working out of the box? Thank you in advance

RE: nRF5340: Compiling nrfx drivers with different compilers

dani_martin — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 12:20:04 GMT

and what about Clang? is it supported/tested with nrfx drivers? Thanks!

RE: nRF5340: Compiling nrfx drivers with different compilers

Kenneth — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 15:38:44 GMT

Hi,

For the nRF5340 we only support development with nRF Connect SDK, to get started check out: https://academy.nordicsemi.com/

There is no support for IAR or Keil like we had one the legacy nRF5 SDK.

Kenneth