Debug session fails to run Zephyr blinky sample in VSCode with nRF Connect

RE: Debug session fails to run Zephyr blinky sample in VSCode with nRF Connect

Marte Myrvold — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 11:57:55 GMT

Hi,

The version with this fix was released today, and it is available on the VS Code marketplace now.

Best regards,

Marte

RE: Debug session fails to run Zephyr blinky sample in VSCode with nRF Connect

ParkerMcD — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 15:21:33 GMT

Awesome thank you for the help! I will test this out shortly.

RE: Debug session fails to run Zephyr blinky sample in VSCode with nRF Connect

Marte Myrvold — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 11:13:08 GMT

Hi Mark,

Thank you for sharing your solution so others can find it!

It was found that this is a bug in the current version of the VS Code extension, where the extension is only looking for the JLink executable in the "Program Files (x85)" directory, and is therefore unable to find the executable when it is installed in "Program Files". This will be fixed in the next release of the extension.

Another solution in the meantime is to create a symlink between the two directories:

mklink /d "C:\Program Files (x86)\SEGGER\JLink" "C:\Program Files\SEGGER\JLink"

Best regards,

Marte

RE: Debug session fails to run Zephyr blinky sample in VSCode with nRF Connect

markuckermann — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 09:28:37 GMT

I was able to fix the same problem on Windows 10 by adding the directory of the .exe (C:\Program Files\SEGGER\JLink for my system) to the system path and restarting VsCode.

Maybe it will help others.

Best regards,
Mark

RE: Debug session fails to run Zephyr blinky sample in VSCode with nRF Connect

ParkerMcD — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 15:09:07 GMT

Great! I'm making a private ticket now.

Cheers,

Parker

RE: Debug session fails to run Zephyr blinky sample in VSCode with nRF Connect

Dee Roberts — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 08:12:49 GMT

Hi Parker,

Thanks for your patience whilst we look into this. We'd like to gather a bit more information about your environment so that we can more easily reproduce this problem. To that end, we've created a build that more accurately detects the installed tools in the Generate Support Information command.

Since this is a private build, I can't upload it directly to this issue, but I can do so if you create a new private ticket. You can do so by clicking the "Support +" button at the top of the page, and then selecting "Private Support Ticket". You might need to add some more information to your DevZone profile for this option to be available.

Best regards,

Dee

VS Code Team

RE: Debug session fails to run Zephyr blinky sample in VSCode with nRF Connect

ParkerMcD — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 17:54:19 GMT

Ok thank you!

RE: Debug session fails to run Zephyr blinky sample in VSCode with nRF Connect

Marte Myrvold — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 08:06:31 GMT

Hi Parker,

Thank you for providing this information. I have reported it internally, and our developers will investigate it.

Best regards,

Marte

RE: Debug session fails to run Zephyr blinky sample in VSCode with nRF Connect

ParkerMcD — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 20:30:33 GMT

Hi Marte,

I agree it's likely an environment issue.

Here is my support information:

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I followed the online tutorial for installing nRF Code in VS Code (nRF Connect for VS Code) which included installing the toolchain manger, the latest nRF Connect SDK, then nRF command line tools, segger tools, installing VS Code and finally the nRF VS Code extensions.

I installed JLink to the default location of: C:\Program Files\SEGGER\JLink

Cheers,

Parker

RE: Debug session fails to run Zephyr blinky sample in VSCode with nRF Connect

Marte Myrvold — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 07:52:08 GMT

Hi Parker,

It looks like an environment issue.

Could you use the "Generate Support Information" command (Ctrl + P -> nRF Connect: Generate Support Information) and provide details of your environment?

Did you use the Toolchain Manager, or did you install it manually?

Is JLink installed in a default or custom location?

Best regards,

Marte

RE: Debug session fails to run Zephyr blinky sample in VSCode with nRF Connect

ParkerMcD — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 16:05:47 GMT

Hi Marte,

Thanks for the response.

I unchecked the "Enable debug options" for both Blinky and hello_world samples and tried both methods of starting a debug session (pressing debug under nRF Connect action menu and pressing F5). Pressing the debug button under the action menu fails in the exact same way as my original post, while pressing F5 starts to run but then fails compilation because: "zephyr.h: No such file or directory".

It's like the toolchain is setup differently for building before debugging/flashing vs. when compiling/flashing directly from the nRF connect action menu.

Thanks,

Parker

RE: Debug session fails to run Zephyr blinky sample in VSCode with nRF Connect

Marte Myrvold — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 11:14:37 GMT

Hi Parker,

There is an issue where enabling debug options when generating the build configuration will cause debugging to not work in some cases. This seems to happen with simple examples, such as the Blinky example. Samples that use threads still seem to work with "Enable debug options" checked. Please try to generate the build configuration with "Enable debug options" unchecked.

You can also try a workaround where you start debugging by Run -> Start Debugging (or pressing F5) instead of starting by clicking the "Debug Application" icon within the nRF Connect for VS Code plugin.

See the reply from Einar in this comment for more information.

Please let me know if you are still having this problem after unchecking "Enable debug options" and/or trying the workaround.

Best regards,

Marte