nrfutil on OSX

RE: nrfutil on OSX

Jagor — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 08:45:00 GMT

If you have non-system python installed (via brew or macports) you can try suggestion from github.com/.../47

here are commands that fixed that for me

after pip install pc_ble_driver_py

I ran

sudo install_name_tool -change /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Python /usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.13/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/libpython2.7.dylib /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pc_ble_driver_py/lib/macos_osx/_pc_ble_driver_sd_api_v3.so

sudo install_name_tool -change /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Python /usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.13/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/libpython2.7.dylib /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pc_ble_driver_py/lib/macos_osx/_pc_ble_driver_sd_api_v2.so

RE: nrfutil on OSX

shadowsky — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 23:16:51 GMT

I tried the same installation on my Mac 10.12 (Sierra), and I get exactly the same issue.

Did you manage to fix the problem?

Edit: I finally try to use an older version 0.5.1 from the github and it seems to works correctly.

RE: nrfutil on OSX

Øyvind Karlsen — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 06:45:30 GMT

For some reason py2exe did not work out of the box for me, so I had to manually install it by following instructions from http://www.py2exe.org/.

RE: nrfutil on OSX

Øyvind Karlsen — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 06:36:26 GMT

Since OS X comes installed with python default, it will have it in the path by default as well. This means that if you update python you also need to make sure that the path updates. To find out which version of python is in the path you can run python -V.

I've been looking a bit more into this, bear with me, this is going to be a little "hacky". Note I am still not sure why this fails for you, but this workaround should work.

First off we will download the 0.5 branch of nrfutil (Turns out that the live branch is for a future SDK 12) direct link to zip here.

After unzipping we need to install it, first we need to fix the dependencies, opening the requirements.txt file we find that we need to install the following:

pip install pyserial
pip install enum34
pip install click
pip install ecdsa
pip install behave
pip install py2exe

After installing the dependencies you should be able to run the installer from the unzip location, eg. "[MY UNZIP LOCATION]\pc-nrfutil-0_5_1"

python setup.py install

The neat trick here is that the python script will run "uncompiled" so we can run main without wrappers, navigate to the nordicsemi folder and run main.py

cd nordicsemi\
python __main__.py

For all intents and purposes this main.py is the same as nrfutil.

Let me know if this works, or you find a better solution.

Best regards,

Øyvind

RE: nrfutil on OSX

Chris — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 02:04:53 GMT

Nope, still not working. I upgraded OSX to latest and upgrade Python to 2.7.10 and it still fails..

Very frustrating as I can't make a release without going to a Windows machine..

Exactly same problem

RE: nrfutil on OSX

Øyvind Karlsen — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 11:33:06 GMT

Searching around for the error code gives a lot of references to the python version being the issue, I'd recommend trying an update.

RE: nrfutil on OSX

Chris — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 10:37:55 GMT

Yeah, I get the feeling thats the version thats installed with the OS but it should be modern enough..

I have

Chriss-MacBook-Pro:Downloads christopher$ pip -V pip 8.1.2 from /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages (python 2.7)

RE: nrfutil on OSX

Øyvind Karlsen — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 10:30:11 GMT

Seems that we're using different python versions, it's just a shot in the dark, but perhaps updating Python will do it?

RE: nrfutil on OSX

Chris — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 10:25:12 GMT

Nope, re-ran and still no success.. I can upgrade my OSX but don't think thats it..

RE: nrfutil on OSX

Chris — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 10:19:05 GMT

Yep, I had tested and made sure I was on 2.7.9 ..

I also made sure I installed pip

I'll run through the rest..

RE: nrfutil on OSX

Øyvind Karlsen — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 08:47:31 GMT

Oh, make sure that you are running python 2.7, to find out which version you are running type python -V in the terminal

RE: nrfutil on OSX

Øyvind Karlsen — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 08:47:04 GMT

Hi,

I tried this just now on a 10.11.4 OS X Mactop using Python 2.7.10.

On my Mac I had to install pip as it was not installed, the pipinstaller also installs setup tools for me. I followed the instructions on this link.

Then I installed nrfutil by using pip install nrfutil.

I had to sudo when installing pip and also when installing nrfutil, probably because of a local setting.

As a side note, I've found that whenever you are able to install anything using pip it will make your life infinitely easier. Simply put pip fixes the problems that I usually make for myself when installing tools, wrong paths etc.

Best regards,

Øyvind