west build is invalid choice

[Greg Strange]

Hi,

I have installed the nRF Connect SDK v2.0.0 with Visual Studio and can now successfully, build, flash and run the nrf9160 at_client sample application. But when I try to build it from the command line west says that 'build' is an invalid choice. When building from the command line, I select "Open Terminal" from the nRF Connect SDK line in the toolchain manager. Then when I try to build, I get this:

at_client [master●] % west build -b nrf9160dk_nrf9160_ns

usage: west [-h] [-z ZEPHYR_BASE] [-v] [-V] <command> ...

west: error: argument <command>: invalid choice: 'build' (choose from 'init', 'update', 'list', 'manifest', 'diff', 'status', 'forall', 'help', 'config', 'topdir', 'selfupdate')

Any ideas why this is happening?

Thanks

Greg

[Greg Strange]

Solved it. If I run:

    export ZEPHYR_BASE=/opt/nordic/ncs/v2.0.0/zephyr

and then run west build it works. Interesting, if I try to specify the ZEPHYR_BASE on the west command line with -z it does not work. Anyway, I would think that the ZEPHYR_BASE would have been set up by the Open Terminal command.

[franchan]

A late addition to use west from the command line:

source <(nrfutil toolchain-manager env --as-script --ncs-version v2.6.0)
source <PATH-TO-NRF-CONNECT-SDK-v2.6.0>/zephyr/zephyr-env.sh

This way ZEPHYR_BASE and PATH (<...>zephyr/scripts is added) are set correctly.