unable to add SES project to VSC nRF Connect

[Allen]

Hello,

I have an SES project that I would like to migrate to the nRF Connect plugin, in Visual Studio Code. When I try to "Add an existing application" and select the directory containing the emProject file, I get an error stating that "the directory does not contain application source".

I have watched the YouTube video and it looks like this should work. Am I missing a step to prepare for the import?

Thanks

[Allen]

I asked if there was a plan to support old style projects in the new nrf connect SDK, in the last SDK webinar. I was told to look at the migrating to nrf connect YouTube video. 

does this mean there is no plan?

[Jørgen Holmefjord]

Hi,

This video should show how to move from SES to VS Code.

Not sure what you mean by "old style projects". Like I said, both SES and VS Code will use the CMake and config files (Kconfig/devicetree/etc) from the sample/application directory during the project configuration and build process. If you open the project in VS Code, it should build similar to the SES version, but note that if you have made temporary changes to the configs in the build directory (for instance through the "Configure nRF Connect SDK Project" in SES), these will be lost when building with VS Code. These configs must be moved to permanent (prj.conf file) if you want them to be applied to VS code project.

Best regards,
Jørgen

[Allen]

Well, I watched this video and it must be addressing a different issue. The SES projects do not have a prj.conf or CMakeLists files. There is an emProject file but the importer does not recognize this file. Is there a way to generate those files from an emProject?

[Jørgen Holmefjord]

Are you migrating for an older nRF Connect SDK project to a newer SDK version, or are you trying to migrate from an nRF5 SDK SES project to nRF Connect? The latter is not trivial, as APIs and modules/libraries are not the same, and the build/configuration system is completely different. We do not have any migration guides for this, you will have to rewrite your project using the nRF Connect SDK methods.

[Allen]

Is it possible to use some of the nrf connect plugins with old SDK 17 project? New debugger, RTT console, serial terminal… ? I use VSC now with the old projects. I build using the SES build script. Have difficulties getting the Cortex debugger configured correctly. 

[Jørgen Holmefjord]

No, I'm not aware of any ways to use the extensions for anything else than a nRF Connect SDK project.

You might be able to create a dummy project to use the terminals, etc, but I do not think it is possible to use the debugger as this would flash the dummy project to the board before starting debugging.