Getting blinky to build with SES

[Bret Foreman]

I'm trying to get blinky to build using SES. It would be great if I could start with an example that builds and work from there, but apparently you guys don't have such a thing. So I copied the blinky project to a new folder and tried a build. Just as with the original blinky, I get an error concerning the .text and .rodata tags in the flash_placement.xml file:

So I remove those lines from the flash_placement and try to build again. It fails with a whole new set of errors:

[Naeem Maroof]

Hi Bret,

Thank you for contacting DevZone at NordicSemi.

Sorry to hear that you are struggling to build a basic example.

Nordic provides a whole set of examples for different use-cases. This snapshot just shows some of the examples that are peripheral examples in the SDK example folder.

Next, I am opening blinky project for pca10040 board.

And simply by pressing f7 (build) you can see the successful compilation. Here I am also showing the version of SES I am using.

It is also worth noting that nRF5 SDK v17 have used SES 5.42a for test and verification.

Moreover, Nordic's current SDK is "NRF Connect SDK" also called nCS, and the latest version is 2.2.0. It is very easy to getting started with nCS using VS Code and that is the recommended way by Nordic.

With Regards,

Naeem

[Bret Foreman]

I should mention, also, that the GUI programmer doesn't work with this DK either. It appears to load the hex file, but the board won't advertise. I can load the same hex file with the command line loader and everything works. I suspect the bug that causes the GUI loader to fail is also baked into VS Code and that's why it won't work. But I have no evidence either way.