nRF52840 Dongle Programming Tutorial, SES Project/Options menu disable

[david224]

I am trying to setup (Nordic Edition) SES 5.10d for an example to download to the nRF52840 Dongle.

The tutorial* helpfully discusses how to avoid overwriting the MBR and bootloader on the Dongle.

In SES, the Project/Options menu item is disabled, and I cannot find how to enable it, to set :

Update the Preprocessor Definitions:  

```

BOARD_PCA10059

BSP_DEFINES_ONLY

CONFIG_GPIO_AS_PINRESET

FLOAT_ABI_HARD

INITIALIZE_USER_SECTIONS

NO_VTOR_CONFIG

NRF52840_XXAA

```

Adjust the linker configuration:  

```

Linker/Section Placement Macros

FLASH_PH_START=0X0

FLASH_PH_SIZE=0X100000

RAM_PH_START=0X20000000

RAM_PH_SIZE=0X40000

FLASH_START=0X1000

FLASH_SIZE=0XDF000

RAM_START==X20000008

RAM_SIZE=0X3FFF8

```

Any guidance?

* devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../nrf52840-dongle-programming-tutorial

[Einar Thorsrud]

Hi,

The instructions in the tutorial are valid for the nRF5 SDK. If you are using the nRF Connect SDK the Options menu will not be enabled, so I assume that is the case?

With nRF connect SDK the general concept is stil valid (the app must start at 0x1000 instead of 0, and leave place for the USB bootloader at the end of the flash), but everything related to how you build your application is completely different and not covered by the tutorial. I most cases the only thing you have to do to build a NCS project for the nRF52840 dongle is to select that the board is nrf52840dongle_nrf52840.