nRF Connect SDK flashing on windows

[diedeboef]

Hi!

I am trying to flash some Zigbee related code to experiment with creating DIY smart devices (specifically Zigbee and matter ones) using my Arduino nano 33 BLE. One problem I'm having though is that supposedly windows doesn't support the "Bossac Runner" something tinyGO doesn't seem to experience when utilising bossac...   I wanted to hear why this bossac runner couldn't run or if anyone has alternate methods of achieving the flashing of zephyr compiled builds. right now rocksetta's gitpod has helped me a bit already however he seems to use the nrf52 SDK rather than the Connect SDK which I prefer to use as ill be using nrf53 based devices in the future. Most of my research shows that the Zephyr utilities do not allow flashing on WSL yet... docker is another option would this work? I think this is mostly a device-specific issue and I could possibly switch to the dev kit in the near future. I haven't used segger embedded yet, most of my work went through CLI work using west. Thanks for any suggestions!

I'm currently looking into: https://github.com/coderbyheart/fw-nrfconnect-nrf-docker to use with docker in VScode

I am aware of the LD code that has to be changed when using certain modes of flashing

Related links:

https://developer.nordicsemi.com/nRF_Connect_SDK/doc/latest/zephyr/boards/arm/arduino_nano_33_ble/doc/index.html

developer.nordicsemi.com/.../gs_programming.html

https://developer.nordicsemi.com/nRF_Connect_SDK/doc/latest/zephyr/getting_started/index.html  install dependencies > WINDOWS

tinygo.org/.../

[Øyvind]

Hello, 

I'm not familiar with TinyGo, and can not answer on that. Regarding bossac runner, this sounds like a qustion for the Zephyr Community. In the Arduino Nano 33 BLE board page, it states:

This board requires the Arduino variant of bossac. You will not be able to flash with the bossac included with the zephyr-sdk, or using shumatech’s mainline build.

You can get this variant of bossac with one of two ways:

Building the binary from the Arduino source tree

Downloading the Arduino IDE

Install the board support package within the IDE

Change your IDE preferences to provide verbose logging

Build and flash a sample application, and read the logs to figure out where Arduino stored bossac.

Once you have a path to bossac, you can pass it as an argument to west:

west flash --bossac="<path to the arduino version of bossac>"

 

I'm currently looking into: https://github.com/coderbyheart/fw-nrfconnect-nrf-docker to use with docker in VScode

 This is not official Nordic product, I will need to refer to Markus Tacker (he/him) and his blog post on the same topic for any help with Docker.