Alexa_gadget sample app still broken

[Mike Hibbett]

There have been several tickets raised on this subject.

Yesterday I installed the latest sdk, v1.4.99-dev1, on a clean windows 10 installation, with nanopb 0.4.2 and still the build process fails with the well know  error

Error starting process src\gadgets\CMakeFiles\protobuf_generation_BASE-aa7d0b8.bat

Can some explain under what setup this sample builds. Windows? Linux? SES? Command line?

I assume it must have passed some basic build test before being included in the public release, so there must just be a step missing in the instructions.

Thanks, Mike.

[Mike Hibbett]

So the Getting started Assistant app has been deprecated, FYI

However, this time I did a full uninstall of nrf connect, and deleted the directories followed by installing via "Getting started app" Oh wow, that was a complicated install process!

After completed that installation process, builds did not work, but that was easily resolved - a couple of environment variables had not been included in the installation process. With those added, I could build the Alexa app using west. So thanks for your help Edvin, you can close this ticket now and I will experiment with building within SES (which I want to do, for easy debugging. But I can live with building by west if it comes to it.

Regards,

Mike.

[Edvin]

Hello Mike, 

I am glad it worked out. Yes. The getting started assistant is deprecated, but the method used there still works with the later nRF Connect SDK versions. It is just a guide for a manual installation rather than doing everything in the background (and yes. It is quite tedious). 

Although I haven't used SES with NCS alot, but you should be able to compile projects that you have "generated" for west in Segger Embedded Studio. 

Best regards,

Edvin