JLinkARM DLL load failed on M1 Mac

[XavierN]

Hello,

We are trying to setup the building environment for a nrf9160 device. We use the nrf Connect Desktop Toolchain for installing the environment and then we download and install the nrf Command Line Tools and install "NRF Tools" and "J-LINK for M1"

Still when trying to flash the board through the programmer we get the following error:

ERROR: JLinkARM DLL load failed. Try again. If it keeps failing, please
ERROR: reinstall latest JLinkARM from Segger webpage.

We know that the programmer and board work fine because we can flash them when connected to a Linux laptop using the same tools. This is on a MacBook Prop featuring M1 Pro CPU running MacOS Monterrey 12.0.1

Could you guide us setting this up? Thank you.

Xavier

[XavierN]

Some more data to this, if I use the command line and adjust the environment variables correctly i can build and flash the image to the board through the commands:

west build

west flash

But that doesn't work on flashing from vscode giving the aforementioned error, it seems an environment configuration issue.

[Elfving]

Hey Xavier!

I'm looking into it, but I will have to get back to you.

Best regards,

Elfving

[XavierN]

I am having the same problem in VS Code and Intellij CLion but as I said in a shell i can flash with west, very strange problem. Let me know if I can give you more info.

Thank you.

Xavier

[XavierN]

Hello, any news regarding this one?

[Elfving]

Hi Xavier! Sorry about the delay!

It seems you would need the intel version of everything, not the M1 version. Our M1 support is sadly limited at the moment. Check this response from Vidar for more info.

Best regards,

Elfving

[XavierN]

Ok I moved the Nordic folder in Applications to bin and Installed again the Command Line Tools and the J-Link but this time the x86 one and everything works perfect. Awesome! I would just please ask you to either not include the M1 package yet or to have a very clear pop up or similar explaining that it won't work, many hours went to try to debug this

Thank you for the help!