fail to create a new Freestanding Application under NRF Connect

RE: fail to create a new Freestanding Application under NRF Connect

Alexandre Desgagne — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 16:54:01 GMT

I had the same issue and this workaround works!

RE: fail to create a new Freestanding Application under NRF Connect

DougMortime — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 05:25:02 GMT

Hello,

I had a similar issue, the way I solved it was by going to the home page and then making sure your tool chain is actually selected and not left blank. To get there, simply press nrf Connect on the sidebar if you're using VSCode and then under applications press open welcome page. Then select the tool chain, such as 1.8.0, for both options then close the page and now it should work fine.

Regards,

RE: fail to create a new Freestanding Application under NRF Connect

Sergio Bezz — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 14:01:08 GMT

Of course the directory was non existing before the attempt to create the application, and the tool has writing rights to the provided directory path.
Nevertheless, I have found a walk-around to the issue on VS: instead of invoking "Create a new Application from sample" from the "Welcome" tab (on the left of the screen), I 1st do "Open welcome page" and once the "Welcome to RF connect" page is opened, I click on "Getting Started >> Create a new Application from sample", this time it works !

RE: fail to create a new Freestanding Application under NRF Connect

Øyvind — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 08:15:39 GMT

[quote user="SwagWalker"]Created empty folder called C:\Nordic Apps[/quote]

Can you try to use a folder without the space? E.g. C:\NordicApps or C:\NCS

I added a folder C:\Nordic Apps and added a new application to this. This would generate an empty folder, and the following output when trying to add build configuration:

> Executing task: nRF Connect: Generate config nrf9160dk_nrf9160_ns for c:\Nordic Apps\blinky <

Building blinky
west build --build-dir c:\Nordic Apps\blinky\build c:\Nordic Apps\blinky --pristine --board nrf9160dk_nrf9160_ns -- -DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS:BOOL=On -DNCS_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION:STRING="NONE"

ERROR: source directory Apps\blinky\build does not exist
FATAL ERROR: refusing to proceed without --force due to above error
The terminal process terminated with exit code: 1.

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RE: fail to create a new Freestanding Application under NRF Connect

SwagWalker — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 22:33:36 GMT

There is nothing in C:\Nordic Apps, its empty. To me, this bug/error seems like a race condition or out of order check for file name. Why would it say it already exits if it just created the file? It should create the file, put the example project files in the just created file, then do a check.

Steps:

1. Created empty folder called C:\Nordic Apps

2. Using my file locations above, give application name random name, blink123

3. Hit "Create Application"

4. Application creates blink123 file in my C:\Nordic Apps folder, but it is empty.

5. Error shown

RE: fail to create a new Freestanding Application under NRF Connect

Øyvind — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 08:35:14 GMT

What folders are in C:\Nordic Apps ?

Here is my setup:

I have a folder called blinky already in the Application location:

Even if I rename the folder, and add an empty folder named blinky it will give same error. Giving the application name blinky will generate a folder named blinky.

RE: fail to create a new Freestanding Application under NRF Connect

SwagWalker — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 19:22:26 GMT

Same issue using visual studio code. Always attempts to copy the hello world example and fails with the error. No change if I install sdk 1.8.0. Downloaded latest versions of everything needed per the video, no change. When it errors out, it creates the folder, but its empty. I can delete the empty folder it attempts to create, but it fails the same way every time.

RE: fail to create a new Freestanding Application under NRF Connect

Øyvind — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 08:39:29 GMT

Hello,

Can you please share the steps that you used? Please provide a screenshot of your setup. Are you using the VS Code extension or SES?

Make sure that the folder you are trying to generate your application in is empty.

Have a look at our VS Code extension playlist on YouTube

Kind regards,
Øyvind