nRF toolchain support for MacOS M1 with VS Code

RE: nRF toolchain support for MacOS M1 with VS Code

Amanda Hsieh — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 20:27:13 GMT

Thanks for the feedback. I would forward it to the team.

RE: nRF toolchain support for MacOS M1 with VS Code

billsalt — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 18:01:36 GMT

I"m not really thrilled with putting the burden on the customer. Instead of taking the time, I contacted a colleague who had recently (1-2 months ago) tried a clean install. Below are his results. I'd suggest the software team still has work to do; this is far from seamless.

I bought a clean macbook air M2. I followed Nordic's manual installation instructions exactly, because Toolchain Manager had not worked recently. It's all much better, but not perfect:

1. guiconfig requires tkinter, you have to use brew to install it, not pip3

2. because you get python 3.11, some python scripts may fail. I debugged certs generation with Pycharm (solution: downgrade anytree from 2.9.0 to 2.8.0)

3. JLinkExe 7.88j (universal) still exhibits a couple of quirks with nrfjprog.dll

4. --sectorerase does not appear to work with nrfjprog --program, so click the 'full erase then flash' button

5. somewhere the bindings in VS Code debugging actions (like restart) can change to do things like reload the image - not desired, not set, when did it happen?

6. nRF Connect Extension pack can go wrong, things like remembering kconfig fragments you removed: solution is restart VS Code, delete all build folders and check settings for options that had been silently inserted

7. Undocumented environment variables can have funny values (like $srctree in VS Code)

RE: nRF toolchain support for MacOS M1 with VS Code

Amanda Hsieh — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 12:31:26 GMT

Our tools now support Mac M1.

If this is not the case, please open a new ticket and we will help you figure it out.

RE: nRF toolchain support for MacOS M1 with VS Code

billsalt — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 00:04:23 GMT

Did this ever get resolved?

RE: nRF toolchain support for MacOS M1 with VS Code

Amanda Hsieh — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 16:25:31 GMT

Hi,

Our official releases are unfortunately still not updated for complete M1 support. I think you ask because this case. You could install an universal version of JLink from https://www.segger.com/downloads/jlink/ (see this post) and then follow my colleague, Kenneth's instruction in that case.

-Amanda H.

RE: nRF toolchain support for MacOS M1 with VS Code

billsalt — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 17:06:28 GMT

Did this ever get resolved? Is the M1 now supported with the nCS tools?

Bill

RE: nRF toolchain support for MacOS M1 with VS Code

Amanda Hsieh — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 06:58:33 GMT

Hi,

We are working on getting native M1 support, but I do not the schedule. If you have questions regarding the roadmap or releases, please contact your regional sales manager.

Regards,
Amanda