No gcc tools

RE: No gcc tools

Jim Peschke — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 19:37:53 GMT

Thank you very much. This information is very useful!

RE: No gcc tools

Nguyen Hoan Hoang — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 18:55:21 GMT

The GCC toolchain is here https://developer.arm.com/open-source/gnu-toolchain/gnu-rm

If you wish to use completely free IDE and GCC. checkout the Eclipse setup for nRF51/nRF52 from this blog page http://embeddedsoftdev.blogspot.com/p/ehal-nrf51.html.

For easy getting started with BLE programming with nRF5x series se this page http://embeddedsoftdev.blogspot.com/2017/12/bluetooth-le-with-nordic-nrf51-nrf52.html

RE: No gcc tools

awneil — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 14:24:36 GMT

Indeed, IAR is a "minority interest".

I presume you're using it because you've already paid the (considerable) licence fee?

Perhaps IAR can help you?

But, at the end of the day, as far as the toolchain is concerned, the nRF52 is just a Cortex-M4.

The main thing with the SoftDevice is reserving the memory (Flash & RAM) for it - apart from that, the toolchain (whatever you use) is pretty much oblivious.

But I think the original question of this thread has been answered - so best to start a new thread for further discussions

PM me if you're looking for paid assistance ...

RE: No gcc tools

Jim Peschke — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 14:06:05 GMT

Thanks for the quick response. Yes, I noticed that I missed the "Q".

Before taking the methodical approach I am taking now, I "jumped in" and tried to load, build, and run IAR examples. The "blinky" examples worked fine. I went to a BLE example (can't remember which). IAR built it but couldn't debug anything.

I assumed this had to do with the SoftDevices, so I started down the "Getting Started" path since I have no experience with SoftDevices. It is here that things got ugly - emphasis on Keil, gcc, etc. I'm trying to get through the make-It-work-in-IAR-with-SoftDevice phase.

Once I get past this, I expect to then get to the "real work" of understanding the whole Nordic ecosystem and BLE 5.0 in general. That's where I want to put the effort, not in the idiosyncrasies of the toolset.

RE: No gcc tools

awneil — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 13:52:51 GMT

[quote userid="18156" url="~/f/nordic-q-a/42003/no-gcc-tools/163449"]The QSPI example[/quote]

Ah; you said SPI - not QSPI.

[quote userid="18156" url="~/f/nordic-q-a/42003/no-gcc-tools/163449"]I am planning to use IAR for development[/quote]

Some of the examples do have IAR projects - so try one of them.

[quote userid="18156" url="~/f/nordic-q-a/42003/no-gcc-tools/163449"]the documentation is chaotic[/quote]

My opinion of the new documentation library is here: https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/41098/what-is-this-horrible-new-documentation-library

Getting Started page:

https://www.nordicsemi.com/DocLib/Content/User_Guides/getting_started/latest/UG/gs/product_development

RE: No gcc tools

Jim Peschke — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 13:38:37 GMT

I'm finding the documentation for this kit very confusing and scattered, so I'm going through the dev documentation step by step. The QSPI example I'm referring to is on this webpage:

https://www.nordicsemi.com/DocLib/Content/SDK_Doc/nRF5_SDK/v15-2-0/getting_started_qspi

Under the heading "Procedure", you'll see that we're directed to navigate to the project directory and make the example:

make flash

This is where I realized that I do not have the gcc tools.

I am planning to use IAR for development. I'm trying to get this working, but the documentation is chaotic. Maybe I don't need gcc anyway, and I certainly don't plan to use quad SPI in the final product. This was just the "next step" in the documentation chain.

If there is a better place I should be looking to get me up and running I'd love to know. I can already run the "blinky" example but haven't succeeded with SoftDevices yet.

Once I can make SoftDevice based examples build, run, and debug under IAR things should be good, but its unclear how to get there.

RE: No gcc tools

awneil — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 11:54:03 GMT

[quote userid="18156" url="~/f/nordic-q-a/42003/no-gcc-tools"]The SPI example[/quote]

Which SPI example?

I can see four SPI examples:

[quote userid="18156" url="~/f/nordic-q-a/42003/no-gcc-tools"]suggests using a makefile[/quote]

Does it?

I don't see that suggestion in any of the above.

I have 15.0.0 installed (not 15.2.0), but it has projects for all the usual IDEs ...

RE: No gcc tools

AndreasF — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 11:42:44 GMT

Hi.

Andrew is correct. I suggest you take a look at the Getting Started documentation, you can find it here.

Best regards,

Andreas

RE: No gcc tools

awneil — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 00:53:46 GMT

No, the SDK does not include a toolchain - it's up to you to choose & install the one you want