VS studio not building samples

RE: VS studio not building samples

Øyvind — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 10:01:14 GMT

[quote user="melt777"]Thanks for all you help and patience with this Oyvind[/quote]

No problem at all, this is what we're here for.

[quote user="melt777"]fter much installing and reinstalling (everytime to a different path) I can now build and flash successfully[/quote]

Happy to hear you were able to finally build and flash successfully. May I ask what the final path is?

[quote user="melt777"]just one question on the below selection which should I choose (I have not selected anything this time and all is working before I selected Json.[/quote]

This is the VS Code environment's Intellisense, I'm afraid I can't answer how this works as I do not have much knowledge to it. In my personal experience I often ignore these messages and close them.

[quote user="melt777"]2nd question I see the encircled option are not the same, the top is compile and the on the nrf SDK is Build. I was using the top one hence my compile problem.[/quote]

That explains the issue. The top one is from the CMake Tools extension, which seems to be more visible when you have the menu on the right hand side. You should use the one under the nRF Connect extension.

But this is great feedback which I have forwarded to our VS Code extension team, to see if they can improve in any way.

RE: VS studio not building samples

melt — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 09:28:52 GMT

Thanks for all you help and patience with this Oyvind. After much installing and reinstalling (everytime to a different path) I can now build and flash successfully

just one question on the below selection which should I choose (I have not selected anything this time and all is working before I selected Json.

2nd question I see the encircled option are not the same, the top is compile and the on the nrf SDK is Build. I was using the top one hence my compile problem.

Thanks again for the help

RE: VS studio not building samples

Øyvind — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 07:56:11 GMT

From the support information that you provided I can't see any issues. All tools are correctly installed from what I can see. You should be able to build a project in VS Code.

[quote user="melt777"]Build process work 100% but it look like its saying there is no compiler installed or associated with the project.[/quote]

Do you mean that the project built without issues? Are you able to flash your device with the project?

In VS Code are you able to see the output from when building the project? This can be found in the built-in terminal in VS Code. Go to Terminal --> New terminal. Then click on the Terminal tab to see output when building.

RE: VS studio not building samples

melt — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 06:20:03 GMT

Dont now if this will help, It appears to be a cmake problem and under the extension the following warning

RE: VS studio not building samples

melt — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 13:13:49 GMT

Thanks for coming back Oyvind. I have reinstalled it again this morning this time version 1.8 with the same results.

Build process work 100% but it look like its saying there is no compiler installed or associated with the project.

below the logs

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RE: VS studio not building samples

Øyvind — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 11:10:28 GMT

Can you please run the Generate support information command one more time after reinstalling the nRF Connect SDK? Make sure to start VS code from the Toolchain Manager to verify functionality.

RE: VS studio not building samples

melt — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 16:09:35 GMT

After checking the above, I decided to delete the NCS folder completely. I then reinstalled it from nrf connect but this time I did it from the zip file and did it to a custom folder. it looks slightly different

before it had .vscode and now it has .west.

After adding a simple example "hello world" the first build started correctly but failed with include files not found. I then restarted VS and get the following error when compiling

RE: VS studio not building samples

melt — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 14:34:43 GMT

That caught my eye as well, the non configured tools. Yes, I did it all from nRf connect SDK, I have done this 3 times uninstall and start with clean installations

Is the below the connect SDK folder you asking about?

RE: VS studio not building samples

Øyvind — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 13:03:42 GMT

[quote user="oys"] From the output I can see that the path is not configured correctly in VS Code. [/quote]

Did you open VS Code from the Toolchain Manager as demonstrated in the Hackster.io webinar? If so, this should configure the VS Code extension with correct settings.

From the support information you provided, we can see that none of the tools from the toolchain is configured

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    "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\SEGGER\\JLink\\JLink.exe": "7.58b",
    "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Nordic Semiconductor\\nrf-command-line-tools\\bin\\nrfjprog.exe": "10.15.3",
    "cmake": "Not found",
    "west": "Not found",
    "C:\\Users\\meltb\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\WindowsApps\\python.exe": null,
    "ninja": "Not found",
    "gperf": "Not found",
    "dtc": "Not found",
    "gnuarmemb": "Not found",
    "gn": "Not found",
    "C:\\Program Files\\Git\\cmd\\git.exe": "2.27.0.windows.1"
  },

From my installation is looks like this

 "tools": {
    "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\SEGGER\\JLink\\JLink.exe": "7.58b",
    "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Nordic Semiconductor\\nrf-command-line-tools\\bin\\nrfjprog.exe": "10.15.0",
    "c:\\NordicSemi\\v1.9.0\\toolchain\\opt\\bin\\cmake.exe": "3.20.5",
    "c:\\NordicSemi\\v1.9.0\\toolchain\\opt\\bin\\Scripts\\west.exe": "0.12.0",
    "c:\\NordicSemi\\v1.9.0\\toolchain\\opt\\bin\\python.exe": "3.8.2",
    "c:\\NordicSemi\\v1.9.0\\toolchain\\opt\\bin\\ninja.exe": "1.9.0",
    "c:\\NordicSemi\\v1.9.0\\toolchain\\opt\\bin\\gperf.exe": "3.1",
    "c:\\NordicSemi\\v1.9.0\\toolchain\\opt\\bin\\dtc.exe": "1.4.7",
    "c:\\NordicSemi\\v1.9.0\\toolchain\\opt\\bin\\arm-none-eabi-gcc.exe": "9-2019-q4-major",
    "c:\\NordicSemi\\v1.9.0\\toolchain\\opt\\bin\\gn.exe": "1975",
    "c:\\NordicSemi\\v1.9.0\\toolchain\\mingw64\\bin\\git.exe": "2.26.2.windows.1"
  },

Can you please provide the path of the nRF Connect SDK folder and the content of this folder?

RE: VS studio not building samples

melt — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 11:58:35 GMT

Then nrf Connect SDK has loaded the vs Studio tool chains and installed the extensions as per default.

I cant see why it would not be working

RE: VS studio not building samples

Øyvind — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 11:49:27 GMT

Please note that nRF Connect SDK is not the same as nRF5 SDK.

The VS Code extension only supports the nRF Connect SDK.

RE: VS studio not building samples

melt — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 10:51:46 GMT

Yes I used nRF connect which installed it to the default \ncs folder under \user directory. My actual nordic SDK and softdevices lies on a different drive E:\aacrs\02_12\nordic\SDK\nRF5_SDK_17.1.0. this is also the drive I use for Segger.

I keep my custom projects within the \example folder of \nrf_SDK17.1

RE: VS studio not building samples

Øyvind — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 10:30:29 GMT

Thanks for providing this information. From the output I can see that the path is not configured correctly in VS Code.

To what path did you install the nRF Connect SDK (NCS) to? Have you installed NCS using the Toolchain Manager?

Thanks.

-Øyvind

RE: VS studio not building samples

melt — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 10:21:30 GMT

hi Oyvind

yes tool chain path is correct

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RE: VS studio not building samples

Øyvind — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 10:02:03 GMT

Hello,

Can you please provide the output from running the following from the VS code command pallette:

Have you verified that the toolchain path is correct

Kind regards,
Øyvind