nRFGo Studio port to MacOSX and Linux

[Bernard P]

Hi,

Using the nRFGo Studio software, I noticed this is actually running using the Qt framework that makes porting application between Windows, MacOSX and Linux really easy. As frameworks like AVR or MSP are being better supported on platforms other than windows, it would be wonderful to have a software such as nRFGo studio work on those platforms as well.

So, is there any plans going for distributing the software on other platforms? If not, would you consider doing so?

I would so much love add make the .xml translation into the .h in my project's Makefile, without having to go do it in my windows virtual machine.

[Christopher Mason]

I would just like to second that having Mac support for Nordic devices like nRF51822 would be really helpful. Lots of people like me are doing BLE development to talk to iPhones and Macs. In particular a Mac port of the Master Control Panel would be excellent.

In the hope it would be helpful to others, I have a custom Makefile setup [1] that uses the Mac JLink tools to flash the chip (including the softdevice). The mac tools are definitely second class, though.

[1] http://hg.cmason.com/nrf/

[ovrebekk]

Hi

Unfortunately this is not on the roadmap as of today.

We have had this on the 'nice to have' list for a while, and one of the reasons for picking Qt in the first place was the multi platform support, but we haven't yet had the resources to implement it across the platforms.

Best regards Torbjørn

[Bernard P]

I don't know for the Master Control Panel, but at least for the nRFGo, it does not seems to use any particular Windows API, as it does only browse files, calculate stuff and generate files. Maybe someone should try to just load the project under Linux and hit "build", it may work out of the box, accidently! :-)

[Ole Morten]

Actually, that was one of the first thoughts I had when I started in Nordic, so I tried, but unfortunately it isn't that simple. nRFgo Studio also has some hardware parts to talk to the nRFgo motherboard and to the J-Link programmers used for the nRF51 series, and those parts break. It is therefore unfortunately not likely that this will happen any time soon.

(I posted this without signing in first, so I removed it and posted it again.)

[Bernard P]

so I guess our only hope as users is that a Nordic engineer strips down all platform specific features and compiles a OSX and Linux versions on his spare time, to get a portable nRFGo-Light to use! At least, having the tool to generate services.h and services.c would be so awesome! Thank you for your answers