Unable to build sample application on Windows

RE: Unable to build sample application on Windows

Øyvind — Thu, 12 May 2022 07:08:59 GMT

Thanks for testing and you valuable feedback! This is most likely due to the anti-virus causing the issue. Another customer saw the same issue here.

RE: Unable to build sample application on Windows

D0023 — Wed, 11 May 2022 22:14:35 GMT

Hello Øyvind,

I was able to get it to work.

It looks like there is some type of race condition, probably between west and git. I used SDK 1.7.0, because it prints out more information while installing.

Here is the output when running ncsmgr init-ncs, from a Bash prompt:

NCS repositories are not yet cloned here. To do so run the following command:

ncsmgr init-ncs

501@c-DF0V MINGW64 /c/nordic/ncs/v1.7.0
$ ncsmgr init-ncs
Checking out NCS v1.7.0 ...=== Initializing in C:\nordic\ncs\v1.7.0
--- Cloning manifest repository from https://github.com/nrfconnect/sdk-nrf, rev. v1.7.0
Cloning into 'C:\nordic\ncs\v1.7.0\.west\manifest-tmp'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 114292, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (86/86), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (62/62), done.
remote: Total 114292 (delta 31), reused 46 (delta 23), pack-reused 114206
Receiving objects: 100% (114292/114292), 65.74 MiB | 6.44 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (84710/84710), done.
Note: switching to 'd29f1ddec99b81a66af93b7f0882a7bd0dfa30ee'.

You are in 'detached HEAD' state. You can look around, make experimental
changes and commit them, and you can discard any commits you make in this
state without impacting any branches by switching back to a branch.

If you want to create a new branch to retain commits you create, you may
do so (now or later) by using -c with the switch command. Example:

  git switch -c <new-branch-name>

Or undo this operation with:

  git switch -

Turn off this advice by setting config variable advice.detachedHead to false

Updating files: 100% (4788/4788), done.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "shutil.py", line 788, in move
PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied: 'C:\\nordic\\ncs\\v1.7.0\\.west\\manifest-tmp' -> 'C:\\nordic\\ncs\\v1.7.0\\nrf'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main
  File "runpy.py", line 86, in _run_code
  File "C:\nordic\ncs\v1.7.0\toolchain\opt\bin\Scripts\west.exe\__main__.py", line 7, in <module>
  File "C:\nordic\ncs\v1.7.0\toolchain\opt\bin\Lib\site-packages\west\app\main.py", line 779, in main
    app.run(argv or sys.argv[1:])
  File "C:\nordic\ncs\v1.7.0\toolchain\opt\bin\Lib\site-packages\west\app\main.py", line 106, in run
    self.run_command(argv)
  File "C:\nordic\ncs\v1.7.0\toolchain\opt\bin\Lib\site-packages\west\app\main.py", line 336, in run_command
    cmd.run(args, unknown, self.topdir, manifest=self.manifest)
  File "C:\nordic\ncs\v1.7.0\toolchain\opt\bin\Lib\site-packages\west\commands.py", line 132, in run
    self.do_run(args, unknown)
  File "C:\nordic\ncs\v1.7.0\toolchain\opt\bin\Lib\site-packages\west\app\project.py", line 198, in do_run
    topdir = self.bootstrap(args)
  File "C:\nordic\ncs\v1.7.0\toolchain\opt\bin\Lib\site-packages\west\app\project.py", line 305, in bootstrap
    shutil.move(os.fspath(tempdir), os.fspath(manifest_abspath))
  File "shutil.py", line 800, in move
  File "shutil.py", line 737, in rmtree
  File "shutil.py", line 610, in _rmtree_unsafe
  File "shutil.py", line 610, in _rmtree_unsafe
  File "shutil.py", line 610, in _rmtree_unsafe
  File "shutil.py", line 615, in _rmtree_unsafe
  File "shutil.py", line 613, in _rmtree_unsafe
PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied: 'C:\\nordic\\ncs\\v1.7.0\\.west\\manifest-tmp\\.git\\objects\\pack\\pack-7e558cb519128fd6fa01f63f6a7fb2fc16c13469.idx'
HEAD is now at d29f1ddec ncs: v1.7.0
/C/nordic/ncs/v1.7.0
done
Updating repos ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\nordic\ncs\v1.7.0\toolchain\opt\bin\Lib\site-packages\west\manifest.py", line 172, in _mpath
    path = cp.get('manifest', 'path')
  File "configparser.py", line 781, in get
  File "configparser.py", line 1149, in _unify_values
configparser.NoSectionError: No section: 'manifest'

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main
  File "runpy.py", line 86, in _run_code
  File "C:\nordic\ncs\v1.7.0\toolchain\opt\bin\Scripts\west.exe\__main__.py", line 7, in <module>
  File "C:\nordic\ncs\v1.7.0\toolchain\opt\bin\Lib\site-packages\west\app\main.py", line 779, in main
    app.run(argv or sys.argv[1:])
  File "C:\nordic\ncs\v1.7.0\toolchain\opt\bin\Lib\site-packages\west\app\main.py", line 106, in run
    self.run_command(argv)
  File "C:\nordic\ncs\v1.7.0\toolchain\opt\bin\Lib\site-packages\west\app\main.py", line 336, in run_command
    cmd.run(args, unknown, self.topdir, manifest=self.manifest)
  File "C:\nordic\ncs\v1.7.0\toolchain\opt\bin\Lib\site-packages\west\commands.py", line 132, in run
    self.do_run(args, unknown)
  File "C:\nordic\ncs\v1.7.0\toolchain\opt\bin\Lib\site-packages\west\app\project.py", line 801, in do_run
    self.update_all()
  File "C:\nordic\ncs\v1.7.0\toolchain\opt\bin\Lib\site-packages\west\app\project.py", line 855, in update_all
    self.manifest = Manifest.from_file(
  File "C:\nordic\ncs\v1.7.0\toolchain\opt\bin\Lib\site-packages\west\manifest.py", line 1104, in from_file
    (mpath, mname) = _mpath(topdir=topdir)
  File "C:\nordic\ncs\v1.7.0\toolchain\opt\bin\Lib\site-packages\west\manifest.py", line 177, in _mpath
    raise MalformedConfig('no "manifest.path" config option is set') from e
west.manifest.MalformedConfig: no "manifest.path" config option is set
done
usage: west [-h] [-z ZEPHYR_BASE] [-v] [-V] <command> ...
west: error: argument <command>: invalid choice: 'zephyr-export' (choose from 'init', 'update', 'list', 'manifest', 'diff', 'status', 'forall', 'help', 'config', 'topdir', 'selfupdate')

See line 63:

PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied: 'C:\\nordic\\ncs\\v1.7.0\\.west\\manifest-tmp\\.git\\objects\\pack\\pack-7e558cb519128fd6fa01f63f6a7fb2fc16c13469.idx'

My Windows user has full control of the entire c:\nordic tree. No other process is accessing that directory tree.

If I add 3 seconds delay in ncsmgr_init-ncs.sh, like this:

pushd "${baseDir}/.." >/dev/null

log -n "Checking out NCS ${ncs_tag} ..."

if [ "$1" = "--just-update" ]; then
    cd nrf
    git fetch origin
else
    west init -m https://github.com/nrfconnect/sdk-nrf --mr "${ncs_tag}"
    cd nrf
fi

sleep 3

git checkout "${ncs_tag}"
cd -

everything works Ok. Here is the output (I interrupted it when it started cloning zephyr - if I left it it would continue and clone all NCS remaining repositories):

501@c-DF0V MINGW64 /c/nordic/ncs/v1.7.0
$ ncsmgr init-ncs
Checking out NCS v1.7.0 ...=== Initializing in C:\nordic\ncs\v1.7.0
--- Cloning manifest repository from https://github.com/nrfconnect/sdk-nrf, rev. v1.7.0
Cloning into 'C:\nordic\ncs\v1.7.0\.west\manifest-tmp'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 114292, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (86/86), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (63/63), done.
remote: Total 114292 (delta 31), reused 44 (delta 22), pack-reused 114206
Receiving objects: 100% (114292/114292), 65.72 MiB | 6.85 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (84732/84732), done.
Note: switching to 'd29f1ddec99b81a66af93b7f0882a7bd0dfa30ee'.

You are in 'detached HEAD' state. You can look around, make experimental
changes and commit them, and you can discard any commits you make in this
state without impacting any branches by switching back to a branch.

If you want to create a new branch to retain commits you create, you may
do so (now or later) by using -c with the switch command. Example:

  git switch -c <new-branch-name>

Or undo this operation with:

  git switch -

Turn off this advice by setting config variable advice.detachedHead to false

Updating files: 100% (4788/4788), done.
--- setting manifest.path to nrf
=== Initialized. Now run "west update" inside C:\nordic\ncs\v1.7.0.
HEAD is now at d29f1ddec ncs: v1.7.0
/C/nordic/ncs/v1.7.0
done
Updating repos ...
=== updating zephyr (zephyr):
--- zephyr: initializing
Initialized empty Git repository in C:/nordic/ncs/v1.7.0/zephyr/.git/
--- zephyr: fetching, need revision v2.6.99-ncs1
remote: Enumerating objects: 643744, done.

By adding sleep 3, I was able to install SDK 1.9.1. Without the sleep 3, SDK 1.9.1 does not print any errors, even though it fails to install. It would be good if at least the install process does not silently ignore the error so the user can see that something failed, right away.

RE: Unable to build sample application on Windows

D0023 — Wed, 11 May 2022 17:03:17 GMT

Yes, the machine is a company PC and it does have anti-virus running. I have admin rights. During the installation, everything seemed to install Ok - no errors, no admin escalation requests.

I see that in your configuration there are few differences compared to mine:

- under workspace -> folders, it looks like the SDK is listed there, while in mine it is not

- your sdks element is populated mine is empty

- your configuration has (what looks like env. variable) "${nrf-connect.sdk} while mine does not have such variable

- in my configuration HOMEDRIVE is set to H: - but I do not have this drive available at the moment

I do not know if any of these maybe the issue.

I use this machine for all my development work, and I have not had any issues.

RE: Unable to build sample application on Windows

Øyvind — Wed, 11 May 2022 16:14:48 GMT

Thanks for providing this information. I'm not able to see any reason for why this should fail. Do you have any anti-virus running or similar? Is this a corporate computer with any limits on your user? Asking to verify that nothing is blocked.

Comparing to my output, there isn't many differences that I can see in regards to the environment.

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RE: Unable to build sample application on Windows

D0023 — Wed, 11 May 2022 15:45:02 GMT

Hello Øyvind,

Here is the support information from:

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RE: Unable to build sample application on Windows

Øyvind — Wed, 11 May 2022 15:27:47 GMT

Thanks for testing. Could you please try to run the following command in the VS Code Command Palette: nrf Connect: Generate Support Information and provide the information here as a .txt file or using Insert --> Code.

RE: Unable to build sample application on Windows

D0023 — Wed, 11 May 2022 13:29:31 GMT

I tried it - from the Toolchain Manager, I opened Bash window and then I executed ncsmgr init-ncs:

NCS repositories are not yet cloned here. To do so run the following command:

ncsmgr init-ncs

501@c-DF0V MINGW64 /c/nordic/ncs/v1.9.1
$ ncsmgr init-ncs
Checking out NCS v1.9.1 ...FATAL ERROR: already initialized in C:\nordic\ncs\v1.9.1, aborting.
Note:
In your environment, ZEPHYR_BASE is set to:
C:/nordic/ncs/v1.9.1/zephyr

This forces west to search for a workspace there.
Try unsetting ZEPHYR_BASE and re-running this command.
HEAD is now at 126fad0e2 manifest: update manifest file with 1.9.1 tags
/C/nordic/ncs/v1.9.1
done
Updating repos ...
done
usage: west [-h] [-z ZEPHYR_BASE] [-v] [-V] <command> ...

It is says that the NCS repositories are not cloned yet, but after I tried to run init-ncs it says that is is already initialized?!

RE: Unable to build sample application on Windows

D0023 — Wed, 11 May 2022 13:21:07 GMT

Hello Øyvind,

Yes, I tried but it fails:

501@c-DF0V MINGW64 /c/nordic/myapps/lpuart-test
$ west init
FATAL ERROR: already initialized in C:\nordic\ncs\v1.9.1, aborting.
Note:
In your environment, ZEPHYR_BASE is set to:
C:/nordic/ncs/v1.9.1/zephyr

This forces west to search for a workspace there.
Try unsetting ZEPHYR_BASE and re-running this command.

I also tried unsetting ZEPHYR_BASE as it recommended. I unset it in the terminal window. Then west init worked and completed Ok. I opened VS Code again, but the problem is still there. I also tried updating the Quick Configuration - set the SDK to be the one that west init downloaded in my sample application folder. Still the same error.

What else can I try?

Yesterday, I also tried removing everything (SDK and all supporting software that I installed), including cleaning all user directories that were created. Then re-installing again. No luck - the error is still there.

Thank you,

RE: Unable to build sample application on Windows

Øyvind — Wed, 11 May 2022 13:09:50 GMT

A small correction, open Command prompt or git bash from the Toolchain Manager and try running

ncsmgr init-ncs

RE: Unable to build sample application on Windows

Øyvind — Wed, 11 May 2022 12:40:43 GMT

Hello D.

This is a strange behavior.

[quote user=""]That post mentions about invoking "west init". I tried to invoke west, but it complains the Python is not found.[/quote]

Did you try this within the Command Prompt or Git bash from the Toolchain Manager dropdown menu?

Kind regards,
Øyvind