NRF_SECTION_SET_DEF usage into crossworks IDE with GCC

RE: NRF_SECTION_SET_DEF usage into crossworks IDE with GCC

Nguyen Hoan Hoang — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 22:18:19 GMT

You can also use the totally free Eclipse with GCC on nRF5 series.

RE: NRF_SECTION_SET_DEF usage into crossworks IDE with GCC

Susheel Nuguru — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 09:18:47 GMT

[quote user="ThierryC"]Use SDK 12.3 and SD140 (with nRF52840). What's the risk ?[/quote]

Please do not do this. SDK12.3 is maintained for nRF51 devices and all fixes and updates on nRF52 devices are not going into SDK12.X releases. The risk of failures is very high here.

[quote user="ThierryC"]Migrate ALL my project to SES (or Keil ?). But this will take some time.[/quote]

I would recommend you this. But before doing that, please ask Rowley's guys to confirm if they have any updates on supporting nRF52840 with SDK14.x and above. If not, then I think porting your project to SES is what I would recommend. We at Tech Support use Keil/SES/GCC/IAR a lot and could help you even from basic to advanced configuration.

RE: NRF_SECTION_SET_DEF usage into crossworks IDE with GCC

ThierryC — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 15:22:38 GMT

So looking more on this subject I found:

Crossworks IDE currently support only SDK up to 12.2 (http://www.rowleydownload.co.uk/arm/packages/index.htm?http://www.rowleydownload.co.uk/arm/packages/nRF51.htm)
S132 is supported for nRF52840 only for "demo purpose". If I correctly read this (https://www.nordicsemi.com/DocLib/Content/Comp_Matrix/nRF52840/latest/COMP/nrf52840/nRF52840_ic_rev_sdk_sd_comp_matrix), we MUST use SDK 15.x for a nRF52840 product. Correct ?

Both of these seems to says that we cannot build a product using nRF52840 with Crossworks IDE.

From these I have options:

Try to make SDK 15 working "the best as possible" on Crossworks by manually changing some file of the SDK.
Use SDK 12.3 and SD140 (with nRF52840). What's the risk ?
Migrate ALL my project to SES (or Keil ?). But this will take some time.

None of these solutions are without risk, and 'm not sure which one to choose. What do you suggest ? Other ideas ?

RE: NRF_SECTION_SET_DEF usage into crossworks IDE with GCC

ThierryC — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 14:08:56 GMT

I just inherited this environment, with the licences for it.

RE: NRF_SECTION_SET_DEF usage into crossworks IDE with GCC

Susheel Nuguru — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 13:45:56 GMT

We have very little experience working on CrossWorks IDE, just wanted to know why you chose that IDE, when there were SES which is officially supported in our solutions.