Error building vcpkg to install pc-ble-driver

[mmercier]

I am trying to install the pc-ble-driver onto my PC so that I can get the dll and lib files necessary to read/write from a nRF52840 Dongle programmatically. I am following the instructions on the github site, and have come to an issue when attempting to build the vcpkg. When running the command, I get a very long readout in the cmd window, with several sections in red. These describe errors, and most have to do with an error in argument types.

For reference, this is a Windows 10 64bit PC, and I have Visual Studio 19 installed with the C++ desktop workload option.

If it would be easier, is there any way I could simply download the library files without attempting to acquire all of the software packages needed to build the driver from source? I do not need to do any fancy development, I am just looking for basic read/write functions over a Bluetooth connection, so if there is somewhere I could simply download the libraries, that would be a lot easier than the whole build process, I would think.

Thanks.

[Mttrinh]

Hi,

If it would be easier, is there any way I could simply download the library files without attempting to acquire all of the software packages needed to build the driver from source?

There is a small guide on how to use a precompiled pc-ble-driver library here posted by Sigurd. I suggest you have a look at that.

[mmercier]

I am not having issues with using the driver, my issue is with obtaining the driver in the first place. The instructions on the pc-ble-driver are all for how to build the driver from source. I am trying to know if there is somewhere I can just download the .lib and .dll files that are already made, rather than trying to figure out how to make them myself. Is there somewhere I can get them? Thanks.

[Mttrinh]

Hi,

You can get them from here. Download the nrf-ble-driver-4.1.1 zip file, you will find the .lib and .dll files inside. 

Hope this is what you are looking for :)