porting Light Switch Example to IAR Embedded Workbench

[Fabian Hauschild]

Hello,

I am trying to port the light switch server example form the nRFSDK for Mesh to IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM.

I am using

nrf SDK Version 15.0.0 

SDK for Mesh Version 2.1.1

Softdevice SD132v5.1

IAR Workbench for ARM Version 8.20.1

BL652 Dev Kit (nRF52832)

I am getting the error message "Your compiler is currently not supported."

screenshot from "nrf_mesh_assert.h"

Is it possible to build a mesh application with IAR Embedded Workbench?

Wich type of compiler should be selected?

I hope you could help me with this problem.

regards Fabian 

[Einar Thorsrud]

Hi Fabian,

IAR is not a supported toolchain for the Mesh SDK. The only supported options are Segger Embedded Studio or CMake with the arm-none-eabi-gcc or the armcc v5 toolchain (Keil). See the Getting started chapter in the nRF5 SDK for Mesh v2.0.1 documentation for details.

[Fabian Hauschild]

Thanks for your answer Einar.

So there is no chance to build a mesh application with the Mesh SDK and IAR?

Will the IAR tollchain  be supported in the future?

Is there a reason why IAR is not supported? 

[Einar Thorsrud]

Hi Fabian,

We have not done any work on supporting IAR for the Mesh SDK. I am sure it can be done, but I do not know how much work it will be. We do not have any plans for adding IAR support to the Mesh SDK at this point. As far as I know the only reason IAR is not supported is that it has not been prioritized as supporting more toolchains requires more development and testing resources.

Is there any particular reason you don not want to use for example Segger Embedded Studio? It is free to use for all development where the target device is a Nordic Semiconductor chip.

Best regards,

Einar

[Fabian Hauschild]

Hi Einar,

Thanks for your answer.

We are using IAR for develpment in our company and don't want to use a new toolchain/IDE for this project.

We are planing to integrate the Bluetooth Mesh into an existing IAR Project.