Mesh nrfutil installation

[Sama]

Hello everyone,

I am going to run the mesh DFU example. I found that I must use Python2, not 3 to work correctly. I follow the instruction suggested in this post.

https://github.com/NordicSemiconductor/pc-nrfutil/tree/0_5_3

There are some problems with the installation of this customised version of nrfutil.

I installed Python 2.7.18 in which pip is installed automatically. Then I downloaded the nrfutil file and cloned in the python folder. then I followed the steps mentioned in the GitHub. I faced this error while I am installing py2exe.

 

I tryed again with downloading py2exe source compatible with python 2.7 and run pip install py2exe. I faced this error.

It seems that it is impossible to use python2.7 anymore and there is no way to use mesh_nrfutil tool with higher versions of python.

It is annoying to deal with incompatibility software issues...

In addition, there is no requirements.txt in the python folder and I had to run this in the nrfutil folder. I do not know that was correct or not.

Could you please advice me?

Regards,

Sama

[Hung Bui]

Hi Sama, 

Are you installing nrfutil to do mesh DFU ? 

If you are, you would need to install this branch , not the v0.5.3

Please post your full log when you receive the error, not the screenshot. 
I just tried to install nrfutil here and even though this function: 

python setup.py py2exe

Wouldn't work on windows 64 bits. But this: 

python setup.py install

Worked. I can find nrfutil.exe inside C:\Python27\Scripts and can use the tool.

Please make sure you called:

pip install http://sourceforge.net/projects/py2exe/files/latest/download?source=files

To install py2exe. 

[Sama]

Hi Hung,

Thanks for your reply.

It seems that the VC compiler was necessary to install py2exe. Actually, I install the VC compiler at fires and then install py2exe. it was installed correctly.

I am facing several issues I posted as a new ticket. I appreciate it if you help me to solve that.

https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/71842/dfu-over-mesh-by-using-nrf52840-dk-and-dongle

Thanks,

Sama