Error during Build process nRF5340

[Ali Ahmadi]

Hello,

I made a new project at SEGGER for nRF5340 and in the first step before do any development I face with the attached error!  The file it asked doesn´t exist !!
Could you please guide me.

[Øivind]

Hi,

Are you able to run sample applications without issues?

How did you setup your new project? The easiest way to start new projects is by modifying one of the basic sample applications, like zephyr/samples/hello_world.

[Ali Ahmadi]

Hi,
I tested all of the methods of setup a new project. The problem of the basic samples are the project explorer is very crowded and a long list of project. I prefer to have an organized and clean project explorer to organize the modules of my project according to what I want. The other problem is I can not add other libraries to that. The libraries I want to add is: 
C:\Users\ali.ahmadi\ncs\v1.5.0\modules\lib\openthread\third_party\NordicSemiconductor\nrfx\hal
and when I define the library it shows an error of it can not find the library and when I try to put the address of the library in the preprocessing list, in this mode I do not have access to preprocessing tab in the option of the solution!!

In the attached photo I show all of the steps to make a new project without using basic samples:

[Øivind]

Have you added your files to the target sources in the CMakeLists.txt file, as described under CMake Details in the Application Development guide?

[Ali Ahmadi]

I added my files to CMakeLists.txt of the project location and follower by add them in the project explorer and rebuild the project and I faced the errors the same as before. After I added my own files, the libraries of Zephyr lose their location address !! . I attached all of the processes as photos. 

[Øivind]

Ok, can you go to the options of your project, and show me the options under "Code"? It should look like this:

It could also be useful to see the options under Tools->Options->nRF Connect. Those should look like this:

[Ali Ahmadi]

I attached the screenshots.

[Øivind]

Are you using "open nRF connect SDK project", and enabling "clean build directory"? If not, can you try that now that you've added the files to the CMakeLists.txt?
You can use the "..." next to the project drop-down to select any project folder, not just default samples. For example if you copy a sample, and change its name.
Then the changes you made to the CMakeLists.txt should let it find your files. You can look at the CMakeLists.txt of larger samples to see how they easily include a large amount of files.

[Ali Ahmadi]

I found the solution. I followed the steps according to your first Hello-world and I added my files to Cmake according to the attached photo and and at the end, Project>Run Cmake ...

[Øivind]

Yeah, you need to do "Project>Run Cmake" (or re-open the project) when you make changes to configuration files, overlays or CMakeLists.txt.

Great to hear that it's working now!