Adapting ble_app_blinky_c to work with nRF52840 Dongle

[gfmoore]

Using this \nRF5_SDK_17.0.2_d674dde\examples\ble_peripheral\ble_app_blinky and nRF5_SDK_17.0.2_d674dde\examples\ble_central\ble_app_blinky_c

As described in \examples\ble_central\ble_app_blinky_c 

I am using win 10, VS Code and a Dongle!!!

The \examples\ble_peripheral\ble_app_blinky works fine and I can use the Android app BlinkyTest to flash the dongle (using nrfutil, not nrfjprog) to test it and it works ok, so I assume I have a working toolchain.

Basically I want to make one dongle (the server, aka ble_app_blinky) turn the light on and off on the other dongle (the client akak ble_app_blinky_c)  (and for the server to recognise that a button was pressed on the client dongle). At least that is how I read the documentation says it should work.

I realise that I will have to make adjustments to at least main.c to re-assign the leds and buttons, but first I need to get the thing to build.

Because you don't have a dongle version of the examples\ble_central\ble_app_blinky_c I am trying to adapt it to work with the dongle pca10059. To do this I have copied over the code from the pca10056 folder. I have adjusted the Makefile and c_cpp_properties.json which tells the compiler where to look for the include files. (I am a bit of a noob with C, but I'm getting there).

So my first problem is that I am getting problems with intellisense telling me that in main.c

90  NRF_BLE_SCAN_DEF(m_scan);

and some other stuff isn't defined.        

So if I go to the definition I locate nrf_ble_scan.h   I have referenced this in my include files

However, at about line 137 I am getting a strange error where it is saying it doesn't like a "const"!!!

typedef struct

{

    ble_gap_scan_params_t const * p_scan_param;    

And at this point I'm stuck.

I'm assuming that ble_gap_scan_params_t

 is defined somewhere, but the IDE is telling me that it is defined in 17 out of 20 files. I'm thinking I'm on a lost trail here.

Any ideas please.

By the way any thoughts on what else I might need to look at (like removing any Segger stuff) that I should consider?

Of course the ideal solution for me would be for Nordic to provide an actual version for the dongle!!!!! I mean, you sell it after all

Thanks

Gordon.

[gfmoore]

Well, would you believe it. I went and built it anyway just for a laugh and it compiled with no errors, so I flashed it and man it works. 

However, I'd still like to know what is causing the red squiggle problems! 

[JONATHAN LL]

Nice to see that you figured it out. As for the red squiggles that is probably a vs code linker problem and not a actual issue, if you can open the project in SES then the "problem" might be solved.

Regards,
Jonathan

[gfmoore]

Not really "figured out" et. I'd really like to stick with VS Code and I think I'm very close. Why do you think it is a VS Code linker issue. I'm not getting any errors with the linker as the thing builds. The VS Code linker is just the

GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain/10 2020-q4-major

toolchain one isn't it?

The issue seems to be with configuring includes or defines I think. I'm only a newbie at this stuff. More a Javascript guy.