Building pc-ble-driver for ARM based architecture

[mayank_patel]

Hello,

I want "nrfutil" CLI tool (To perform DFU OTA of BLE) for one of my device which is based on i.MX6ULL ARM based processor 32bit.

I found that using "pip install nrfutil" command we can directly install the nrfutil package, but it generated pc-ble-driver's shared library files only for x86_64 ARCH.

I want pc-ble-driver for the ARM based architecture (arm7l) running in my custom board.

I have gone through lots of articles & forum questions related to this, but not found any concrete answer.

Can anyone suggest me the guide on how to compile/build pc-ble-driver from the source (for the ARM architecture) ?

OR do i need to build the driver first for x86_32bit ARCH and then cross compile for the ARM based ARCH ?

Thanks,

Mayank

[Stian Røed Hafskjold]

Hi, have you seen my answer in this thread: https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/47329/connection-3b-armv8-and-nrf-52840-dongle/188449#188449

You will probably not find a concrete answer anywhere, because it's not really supported. However, I was able to compile the pc-ble-driver on a Raspberry Pi which is ARM based. There's a step by step guide in my answer, so try it out and let me know where it fails. In other words, you probably need to build and install some of the necessary dependencies manually from source.