thing52 SDK compiling with GCC in Ubuntu

[Frankie211]

I am trying to compile firmware with GCC in ubuntu. The GNU directory is in C:\Program Files (x86)\GNU Tools ARM Embedded\4.9 2015q3. I changed Makefile.posix to make sure that the GNU_INSTALL_ROOT variable points to my GNU Tools for ARM Embedded Processors directory. But I still got compiling error. Any help is appreciated.

 

d:\Nordic Thingy52\Nordic-Thingy52-FW-master\project\pca20020_s132\armgcc>make -j
make: *** No rule to make target `_build/Nordic', needed by `nrf52832_xxaa_s132'. Stop.

[Jared]

Hi,

Did you run the setup_sdk.sh file in the repo? 

regards

Jared 

[Frankie211]

log1:

frankie@Lenovo-Frankie:/mnt/d/Nordic Thingy52/thingysdkv210$ ./setup_sdk.sh

micro-ecc not found! Let's pull it from HEAD.
Cloning into 'external/sdk13/external/micro-ecc/micro-ecc'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 48, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (48/48), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (37/37), done.
remote: Total 1143 (delta 21), reused 28 (delta 9), pack-reused 1095
Receiving objects: 100% (1143/1143), 687.07 KiB | 1010.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (664/664), done.
/mnt/d/Nordic Thingy52/thingysdkv210/external/sdk13/external/micro-ecc/nrf52_armgcc/armgcc /mnt/d/Nordic Thingy52/thingysdkv210
/bin/sh: 1: /usr/local/gcc-arm-none-eabi-4_9-2015q3/bin/arm-none-eabi-gcc: not found
Cannot find: "/usr/local/gcc-arm-none-eabi-4_9-2015q3/bin/arm-none-eabi-gcc".
Please set values in: "/mnt/d/Nordic Thingy52/thingysdkv210/external/sdk13/components/toolchain/gcc/Makefile.posix"
according to the actual configuration of your system.
../../../../components/toolchain/gcc/Makefile.common:25: *** Cannot continue. Stop.

log2:

franklie@Lenovo-Frankie:/mnt/d/Nordic Thingy52/thingysdkv210$ ./setup_sdk.sh
/mnt/d/Nordic Thingy52/thingysdkv210/external/sdk13/external/micro-ecc/nrf52_armgcc/armgcc /mnt/d/Nordic Thingy52/thingysdkv210
mkdir _build
Compiling file: uECC.c
Creating library: ../../nrf52_armgcc/armgcc/micro_ecc_lib_nrf52.a
/usr/bin/arm-none-eabi-ar: creating ../../nrf52_armgcc/armgcc/micro_ecc_lib_nrf52.a
Done
/mnt/d/Nordic Thingy52/thingysdkv210
/mnt/d/Nordic Thingy52/thingysdkv210/external/sdk13/external/micro-ecc/nrf52_keil/armgcc /mnt/d/Nordic Thingy52/thingysdkv210
mkdir _build
Compiling file: uECC.c
Creating library: ../../nrf52_keil/armgcc/micro_ecc_lib_nrf52.lib
/usr/bin/arm-none-eabi-ar: creating ../../nrf52_keil/armgcc/micro_ecc_lib_nrf52.lib
Done
/mnt/d/Nordic Thingy52/thingysdkv210

log3:

frankie@Lenovo-Frankie:/mnt/d/Nordic Thingy52/thingysdkv210/project/pca20020_s132/armgcc$ make -j
rm -rf _build
echo Makefile
Makefile
make: *** No rule to make target '_build/Nordic', needed by 'nrf52832_xxaa_s132'. Stop.
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
mkdir _build

[Jared]

Hi,

Could you type the following and verify that the path to the GNU ARM toolchain is set correctly:

arm-none-eabi-gcc --version

It will return the version of the compiler if the executable is found.

Could you also try to remove any whitespaces from your path and replace it with for example an underscore? Nordic Thingy52\.. -> Nordic_Thingy52\..

regards
Jared 

[ephimee]

I have the same error message and solved it.

My error message:

user@linux7:/sdk/external/micro-ecc/nrf52hf_keil/armgcc$ make
make: /usr/local/gcc-arm-none-eabi-7-2018-q2-update/bin/arm-none-eabi-gcc: Command not found
Cannot find: '/usr/local/gcc-arm-none-eabi-7-2018-q2-update/bin/arm-none-eabi-gcc'.
Please set values in: "/home/user/Downloads/software/nRF5_SDK/nRF5_SDK_16.0.0_98a08e2/components/toolchain/gcc/Makefile.posix"
according to the actual configuration of your system.
../../../../components/toolchain/gcc/Makefile.common:129: *** Cannot continue. Stop.

Make a backup:

cp -p /home/user/Downloads/software/nRF5_SDK/nRF5_SDK_16.0.0_98a08e2/components/toolchain/gcc/Makefile.posix /home/user/Downloads/software/nRF5_SDK/nRF5_SDK_16.0.0_98a08e2/components/toolchain/gcc/Makefile.posix.backup

Take a look at the file:

cat /home/user/Downloads/software/nRF5_SDK/nRF5_SDK_16.0.0_98a08e2/components/toolchain/gcc/Makefile.posix
GNU_INSTALL_ROOT ?= /usr/local/gcc-arm-none-eabi-7-2018-q2-update/bin/
GNU_VERSION ?= 7.3.1
GNU_PREFIX ?= arm-none-eabi

Checked the version (thanks Jared):

arm-none-eabi-gcc --version
arm-none-eabi-gcc (15:6.3.1+svn253039-1build1) 6.3.1 20170620

Checked location of executable:

which arm-none-eabi-gcc
/usr/bin/arm-none-eabi-gcc

Update Makefile.posix:

cat /home/user/Downloads/software/nRF5_SDK/nRF5_SDK_16.0.0_98a08e2/components/toolchain/gcc/Makefile.posix
GNU_INSTALL_ROOT ?= /usr/bin/
GNU_VERSION ?= 6.3.1
GNU_PREFIX ?= arm-none-eabi

Make:

user@linux7:/sdk/external/micro-ecc/nrf52nf_armgcc/armgcc$ make
mkdir _build
cd _build && mkdir micro_ecc_lib
Compiling file: uECC.c
Creating library: ../../nrf52nf_armgcc/armgcc/micro_ecc_lib_nrf52.a
/usr/bin/arm-none-eabi-ar: creating ../../nrf52nf_armgcc/armgcc/micro_ecc_lib_nrf52.a
Done