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nRF9160 development on MacOS

pemar13

Hi

Why is Mac OS no longer listed as a supported operating system for the nRF Connect SDK (see http://developer.nordicsemi.com/nRF_Connect_SDK/doc/0.3.0/nrf/gs_ins_os.html)?

The setup of a MacOS-based development system is described in the latest version v0.9.0 of the Getting Started Assistant in the latest version v2.6.2 of nRF Connect for MacOS.

Following this description it is possible to get development using Segger Embedded Studio for Nordic v 4.16 to work assuming one finds a suitable version of ncs; the recommendation of using tagged releases leaves you with v0.3.0 from December, which, besides being far behind, doesn't work well. I hope a new tagged release is due in the coming days (before the end of the month).

The problem I have is getting the command-line version of development using cmake and ninja to work (runs find under Windows). The command ninja flash gives the error "[Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'nrfjprog': 'nrfjprog'".

I have "installed" the latest version of the nRF5 Command Line Tools (https://www.nordicsemi.com/?sc_itemid=%7B56868165-9553-444D-AA57-15BDE1BF6B49%7D, made sure the path is accessible from the terminal window I run in, and installed the latest version of the J-Link software (https://www.segger.com/downloads/jlink/#J-LinkSoftwareAndDocumentationPack) but this is obviously not sufficient although it is for Windows.

What else should I do?

Best regards,

per

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    Hi,

    pemar13 said:
    Why is Mac OS no longer listed as a supported operating system for the nRF Connect SDK (see http://developer.nordicsemi.com/nRF_Connect_SDK/doc/0.3.0/nrf/gs_ins_os.html)?

    Since we have macOS support for SES Nordic edition, and Zephyr project support macOS, I believe that nRF Connect SDK should also support macOS.  This would then be a documentation bug, but I will check internally to confirm it.

    pemar13 said:
    the recommendation of using tagged releases leaves you with v0.3.0 from December, which, besides being far behind, doesn't work well. I hope a new tagged release is due in the coming days (before the end of the month).

    We are in the process of releasing v0.4.0. I recommend checking out the 0.4.0 when that comes, as for now, you should either use master branch or the v0.4.0-rc1 tag.

    pemar13 said:
    made sure the path is accessible from the terminal window I run in

    Are you able to use nrfjprog in a normal terminal window? Try nrfjprog -v

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    Hi,

    pemar13 said:
    Why is Mac OS no longer listed as a supported operating system for the nRF Connect SDK (see http://developer.nordicsemi.com/nRF_Connect_SDK/doc/0.3.0/nrf/gs_ins_os.html)?

    Since we have macOS support for SES Nordic edition, and Zephyr project support macOS, I believe that nRF Connect SDK should also support macOS.  This would then be a documentation bug, but I will check internally to confirm it.

    pemar13 said:
    the recommendation of using tagged releases leaves you with v0.3.0 from December, which, besides being far behind, doesn't work well. I hope a new tagged release is due in the coming days (before the end of the month).

    We are in the process of releasing v0.4.0. I recommend checking out the 0.4.0 when that comes, as for now, you should either use master branch or the v0.4.0-rc1 tag.

    pemar13 said:
    made sure the path is accessible from the terminal window I run in

    Are you able to use nrfjprog in a normal terminal window? Try nrfjprog -v

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