Error in moving a custom project from Keil to SES.

[Silvano]

Hello, 

I am a hardware engineer and not very familiar with software or firmware other than the very basics.
I need to migrate a custom firmware project from Keil to Segger Embedded Studio. The project uses SDK 15.3 and a NRF52832 as a CPU. 
I was following a Nordic blog about migration a project in the situation but I am running into trouble. 
This project complies and flashes using Keil and is fine, but I want to use SES to do the same thing. I am unable to finish compiling the project in SES.

I get these errors

 

I tried searching for solutions online and found it has to do with a flash placement file which I do not think I have. 
I also searched for how to generate or make one of these and I am having trouble understanding what I need to do as I have no experience with this kind of thing.

I apologize for my inexperience and I feel like this is a simple problem that I just don't understand.

How do I make flash placement or solve this compile problem. Can I import something from Keil that will work as the same thing?

[Amanda Hsieh]

Hi Silvano, 

We have a blog-post explaining how to import the Keil project to SEGGER Embedded Studio.

https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/b/blog/posts/segger-embedded-studio-a-cross-platform-ide

If using SDK v14.1.0 or later, there is official support for SES and I would advice using the native SES-projects instead of the import function.

Flash placement is also explained in the blog-post above.

Be sure to let me know if you have any more questions.

-Amanda H.

[Silvano]

Hello Amanda, 

I am working with a custom project for a custom device, not working in the SDK, it is using components/libraries of SDK 14.2 and has softdevice S132 v5.1. I can not use a SES project from the SDK as a basis for this project as it is already written in Keil. Which is why I blocked out the project name.

That is the blog post I followed when I imported my project from Keil to SES, I tried the flash placement included and I still have the same errors.

I don't really understand how to generate this file when in the post it says to generate it using notepad. I am totally unfamiliar with how to make this and do not understand what I need to do.
How do I do this?

[Amanda Hsieh]

Hi Silvano, 

You can download the flash_placement.xm from that blog and use the text editor like notepad to modify. 

If you open an SDK example, you will see the SES project refers to the flash_placement.xm ("Section Placement File" under "Linker" in the project options). 

This post might help.

-Amanda H.