nRF Connect SDK Tutorial Part 1 - Cannot open own project

[JonasForssell]

ncs version 1.6

SES

Windows 10

I have installed ncs completely using standard tools.

Now I am following the tutorial Part 1.

The project hello_world is created on C:/my_projects/hello_world but I cannot select that folder using the three dots as indicated in the tutorial.

The folder contents are according to the tutorial. src folder is there. The files required are there.

The field does not change and stays by the default "peripheral_lbs".  Very annoying.

This was not a problem for my OSX installation. 

Anyone have had the same problem?

Thanks

/Jonas

[Sigurd Hellesvik]

Hi Jonas

I get the same error if I have an empty CMakeLists.txt, and sample.yaml is missing, but it could be something else in your case.

To be sure that the project has everything it needs, I would recommend just copying an existing sample to start.
When I make a new project, I usually just copy the "ncs/zephyr/samples/hello_world" sample, since it is very minimal.

Regards,

Sigurd Hellesvik

[JonasForssell]

Thank you for the pointers.

I will try that copy approach and see what happens.

[JonasForssell]

Indeed. The missing sample.yaml was the issue.

I do not believe this is mensioned as a prerequisite in the tutorial and it worked anyway on my OSx machine. Interesting.

Adding that file finally made the project appear in the folder.

Next up is an error when the project is being created.

"create_nordic_project.py" failed.

I get this error also when just plainly copying an existing hello_world sample into a fresh directory and opening the project.

I'll search around and see if I can find something on this but it feels like a path issue. The exact same project can be opened in the standard path so...

[Sigurd Hellesvik]

Hi

The create_nordic_project.py is a general error, and can have different causes.

There should be a longer error message available, which should be more telling to what the cause for the error could be.

Regards,
Sigurd Hellesvik

[JonasForssell]

Thanks for your help.

The issue is a path problem. It seems that SES (or ncs?) assumes that the project is stored on a C: drive while I had tried to create this new project on a network drive. 

This meant that some of the files were not created in the right place which lead to errors further down the line.

/Jonas