Need to switch to VS studio code from keil, don't want to switch to zephyr RTOS Any way to work with old SDK's with VS studio. It throws cmake error each time i try to build

[girish7]

I have been developing my code on NRF52840 based on nrfsdk v1.7. Since keil free version has a limit of 32kb i am moving my code to VS code. VS by default adds 2.0 latest sdk. But i dont want to use Zephyr rtos. When i try to manually set the sdk to 1.7 the softwares throws error for cmake files. I tried making cmake files and editing json files to work with 1.7. Is there a instruction set for this particular problem?

[Marte Myrvold]

Hi,

The nRF Connect for VS Code extension is made for the nRF Connect SDK, and it does not have support for nRF5 SDK. For nRF5 SDK you can either use SEGGER Embedded Studio (SES) or make. For SES you can follow the guide here: Getting started with nRF5 SDK and SES (nRF51 & nRF52 Series). The best guides for using gcc and make are in nRF5 SDK for Thread and Zigbee documentation. The tools and how to do things are the same as in the regular nRF5 SDK, so you can follow these guides and just ignore the parts about downloading the Thread and Zigbee SDK etc. These guides can be found here: Installing the toolchain, Building examples and Running examples.

Best regards,

Marte

[girish7]

Thanks for the input. will start looking into zephyr rtos now.