NCS Open Thread Project fails to compile in SES, but compiles with west

RE: NCS Open Thread Project fails to compile in SES, but compiles with west

Charlie — Tue, 25 May 2021 09:33:11 GMT

Hi Sören,

I see, so you already start from the CLI example. Fro my understanding, you have two requests:

1) simple application that sends UDP packages based on OT stack(Thread devices only use UDP by far).

2) running the above application on nRF52840 Dongle.

The suggestions for them are:

1) You can use UDP APIs provide by OT protocol, but CoAP as an application protocol based on UDP designed for resource-limited devices is a better start point, that's the reason we provide CoAP client/sever examples directly. If you do want to know how to use the UDP socket, you can refer to CoAP implementation.

2) I have checked with our development team, we do have a plan to add support for nRF52840 Dongle in a future release, but not in a short time. The nRF52840 Dongle needs to use USB peripheral instead of UART on nRF52840DK. It also does not have an external flash on board, so you may have issues with your application code growth. I strongly suggest you start with the nRF52840DK board for your development.

Best regards,

Charlie

RE: NCS Open Thread Project fails to compile in SES, but compiles with west

SoerenBirth — Mon, 24 May 2021 11:10:17 GMT

Hi Charlie,

thank for your recommendation, but the CLI project is a (in my understanding) a ncs project.

The CLI project is located in "..\v1.5.1\nrf\samples\openthread\cli".

Best regards,

Sören

Btw: Is there a ready to build configured project, where i can use the "Open Thread" API on the nrf52840 Dongle? Or could you provide anything like this? Cause i really struggeling to find a proper configuration, to start my development.

RE: NCS Open Thread Project fails to compile in SES, but compiles with west

Charlie — Fri, 21 May 2021 21:44:59 GMT

Hi SoerenBirth,

Please be aware that Zephyr project samples are not supported by SES by default. West is the default building management tool for Zephyr samples. Only samples in NCS nrf folder and the supported boards as mentioned on NCS document can use SES to build and debug. From this error report, I guess the SES did not find the path of mbedtls library, because the CMakeList.txt file structure in NCS project sample is different from the Zephyr one. I strongly suggest you modify from an NCS OpenThread sample if you prefer to use SES as your debug tool.

Best regards,

Charlie