How to compile Smart Beacon on Linux

[StephanHoffmann]

Hello all,

I successfully compiled and tested several examples for the nRF51822 Evaluation Kit on my Linux Box using gcc.

To do the same with my Smart Beacon Kit I downloaded nRF51822-BK-FW, which unfortunately seems to be available only for Windows. I tried to install it on a Windows box and then moved the source tree to Linux, but make terminates:

...nrf51_beacon/ble_app_beacon/pca20006/s110/armgcc $ make
makefile:13: ../../../../../../components/toolchain/gcc/Makefile.posix: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target '../../../../../../components/toolchain/gcc/Makefile.posix'.  Stop.

I thought of merging the Smart Beacon source into the SDK from the Evaluation Kit, but the directory layout does not seem to be compatible.

Can anybody give me a hint on how to compile the Smart Beacon software on my Linux?

Kind regards

Stephan

[Stian Røed Hafskjold]

Doesn't seem like the makefile included in the armgcc folder for the Smart Beacon Kit firmware has been tested at all. It had several errors.

I tried to fix the errors, and you can download the fixed makefile here.

There are still some gcc specific errors in the source code. You need to typecast BEACON_CONFIG_NAME to (uint8_t*) in line 443 in main.c. And you need to put BCS_UUID_BASE in braces in line 448 in ble_bcs.c

Now it should compile!

[StephanHoffmann]

Thank you for your answer, now it works!