Flashing a 3rd party NFR52832 with ST link V2 on Eclise?

[MikeLemon]

Hello,

I am in a little bit of trouble here trying to flash a 3rd party module that is mounted on a custom PCB I made with the SWD pins exposed for programming.

I've been using it with the Arduino IDE and the st link V2 so far(Thus flashed softdevice S132 on it already) but I want to make the transacting from it sins it lacks capabilities. any way I know it works in term of hardware.

Now I'm not interested in wasting my money on buying the Segger J link so I want to use the ST link V2 so far I've followed this tutorial: devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../ up to the point of "Flash download" build the blinky code successful and waiting to see how you flash the chip with it.

Does anybody have any experience with it? thanks for your time.

[MikeLemon]

Yeah I've done just that. Is it suppose to work like seggers J link now?

Also a few thing I wanted to sort out for me but I don't think it's appropriate to post a whole question topic what is makefile for compilers? and when I want to upload an example from my SDK 11.0 to my 3rd party module which board folder to I head up to(for example PCA10040)? Can you get a visual C++ code from those examples? all I can see there is a makefile and .ld file

What is soft device? I have the S132 flashed on my board I assume it's some kind of bootloader for bluetooth could you make the bluetooth peripheral and central work without it?