nRF9160 development on MacOS

RE: nRF9160 development on MacOS

pemar13 — Thu, 23 May 2019 12:07:37 GMT

Hi again!

So I finally got around to try again. In the end, it turns out there was only one thing wrong…

I basically followed the steps in your macOS guide, i.e., preparing for Zephyr, installing the GNU Arm Embedded toolchain, cloning ncs release v0.4.0, “installing” Segger Embedded Studio ARM v416 Nordic, and installing JLink_MacOSX_V644i.

At this stage building and programming using Segger Embedded Studio works fine.

After “installing” nRF-Command-Line-Tools_9_8_1_OSX and setting up a permanent path for bash to the folders nrfjprog, ninja flash fails as before whereas running nrfjprog -v results in the expected lines: ‘nrfjprog version: 9.8.1’ and ‘JLinkARM.dll version: 6.44i’.

The reason for this must be that ninja doesn’t know the path to nrfjprog. Indeed, manual programming using ‘nrfjprog --program …/build/zephyr/zephyr.hex -f NRF91 --sectorerase' works fine.

To solve the path issue, I created a symlink to nrfjprog in /usr/local/bin by executing ‘ln -s /path/to/nrfjprog/nrfjprog /usr/local/bin/nrfjprog’.

Now things work.

Best regards,

Per

RE: nRF9160 development on MacOS

pemar13 — Wed, 22 May 2019 14:26:50 GMT

Super!

RE: nRF9160 development on MacOS

Sigurd — Wed, 22 May 2019 14:05:21 GMT

Hi,

Nothing to worry about. We have released v4.0.0 now, so I recommend using that tag.

cd ncs/nrf
git checkout master
git pull
git checkout v0.4.0
west update

We have also update the docs with support for macOS. See this link.

RE: nRF9160 development on MacOS

pemar13 — Wed, 22 May 2019 14:01:21 GMT

Hi Sigurd!

I'm sorry that my feedback to your comments are so late. I am currently mostly working from within Windows, so the MAC issue doesn't have the highest priority at the moment, but I will get back to you after reinstalling everything A.S.A.P.

Best regards,

Per

RE: nRF9160 development on MacOS

Sigurd — Tue, 07 May 2019 13:10:45 GMT

Hi,

[quote user="pemar13"]Thank you for checking about macOS support. Since it is one of your great advantages, I hope its just a temporary miss.[/quote]

Yes, it's just a matter of adding the installation instructions for the toolchain for macOS.

[quote user="pemar13"]I could of course perform the installation all over again, but I would like to know that the listed steps I have taken should be sufficient. Is there a particular order in which things should be done?[/quote]

I don't think the order of things should matter for this. Could you try with latest code(master) on the nRF Connect SDK ?

RE: nRF9160 development on MacOS

pemar13 — Mon, 06 May 2019 07:58:32 GMT

Hi!

Sorry for the delay in answering.

Thank you for checking about macOS support. Since it is one of your great advantages, I hope its just a temporary miss.

Yes, I can run nrfjprog in a normal terminal window. It reports 6.44g.

I could of course perform the installation all over again, but I would like to know that the listed steps I have taken should be sufficient. Is there a particular order in which things should be done?

Best regards,

Per

RE: nRF9160 development on MacOS

Sigurd — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 09:08:09 GMT

Hi,

[quote userid="75503" url="~/f/nordic-q-a/46634/nrf9160-development-on-macos"]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)?[/quote]

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.

[quote userid="75503" url="~/f/nordic-q-a/46634/nrf9160-development-on-macos"]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).[/quote]

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.

[quote userid="75503" url="~/f/nordic-q-a/46634/nrf9160-development-on-macos"]made sure the path is accessible from the terminal window I run in[/quote]

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