Keil uVision V5 Legacy Nordic Project Compile Errors

[adnankhalid]

Hello,

I am trying to compile a legacy Nordic Project for evaluation purposes and I am getting some compile errors. The details are as follows:

Project: https://github.com/NordicPlayground/nrf52-ble-image-transfer-demo

Keil: uVision V5.38.0.0 MDK-Lite

ARM Compiler: V5.06 Update 6 (Build 750)

Nordic SDK: v16.0.0.

Nordic SoftDevice: S132 v7.0.1

Keil nRF_DeviceFamilyPack: 8.44.1

Other settings:

The compile errors I am getting as as follows:

linking...
.\_build\nrf52832_xxaa.axf: Error: L6218E: Undefined symbol nrf_drv_ppi_init (referred from main.o).
.\_build\nrf52832_xxaa.axf: Error: L6218E: Undefined symbol nrfx_ppi_channel_alloc (referred from main.o).
.\_build\nrf52832_xxaa.axf: Error: L6218E: Undefined symbol nrfx_ppi_channel_assign (referred from main.o).
.\_build\nrf52832_xxaa.axf: Error: L6218E: Undefined symbol nrfx_ppi_channel_enable (referred from main.o).
.\_build\nrf52832_xxaa.axf: Error: L6218E: Undefined symbol nrfx_saadc_buffer_convert (referred from main.o).
.\_build\nrf52832_xxaa.axf: Error: L6218E: Undefined symbol nrfx_saadc_channel_init (referred from main.o).
.\_build\nrf52832_xxaa.axf: Error: L6218E: Undefined symbol nrfx_saadc_init (referred from main.o).
.\_build\nrf52832_xxaa.axf: Error: L6218E: Undefined symbol nrfx_saadc_sample_task_get (referred from main.o).
.\_build\nrf52832_xxaa.axf: Error: L6218E: Undefined symbol nrfx_timer_enable (referred from main.o).
.\_build\nrf52832_xxaa.axf: Error: L6218E: Undefined symbol nrfx_timer_extended_compare (referred from main.o).
.\_build\nrf52832_xxaa.axf: Error: L6218E: Undefined symbol nrfx_timer_init (referred from main.o).
Not enough information to list image symbols.
Not enough information to list load addresses in the image map.

I removed the default ..\nRF5SDK160098a08e2\modules\nrfx\mdk folder from the C/C++ include table and replaced it with ..\Arm\Packs\NordicSemiconductor\nRF_DeviceFamilyPack\8.44.1\Device\Include folder

I noticed that in the apply_old_config.h file all of the drivers seem to be disabled even though in the sdk_config.h file, the necessary drivers are enabled.

I am sure I am doing something wrong in the file structures or some configurations.

Please advise.

Thanks,

Adnan

[Simonr]

Okay, can you try making sure the relative paths in your project (both to driver/library files and DeviceFamilyPack) are long enough with the same amount of "..\..\" that it is to the root of your path. It could be an issue with the Device Family Pack you're using as well, as we had some issues with them in some of the later SDK versions on the nRF5 SDK side. If you're not able to figure out the issue from editing the paths I would suggest trying out SEGGER Embedded Studios to see if you can build/flash the project there.

Best regards,

Simon

[adnankhalid]

Hello Simon,

Thank you for the follow up. I took your advise and switched to Segger Embedded Studio over the weekend. I managed to get the project setup and had to modify the common include paths and paths in the .emProject file but now the project compiles and am able to download it onto the nRF52 DK eval board. So thank you for your guidance on this issue.

The issue I am now having is that I get the following error on the J-Link RTT Viewer:

00> <error> app: ERROR 8 [NRF_ERROR_INVALID_STATE] at C:\Nordic\sdk\nRF5SDK160098a08e2\examples\nrf52-ble-image-transfer-demo-master_segger\main.c:463
00> PC at: 0x0002786D
00> <error> app: End of error report

The line number points to the following function:

/**@brief Function for the SoftDevice initialization.
*
* @details This function initializes the SoftDevice and the BLE event interrupt.
*/
static void ble_stack_init(void)
{
ret_code_t err_code;

err_code = nrf_sdh_enable_request();
APP_ERROR_CHECK(err_code);

// Configure the BLE stack using the default settings.
// Fetch the start address of the application RAM.
uint32_t ram_start = 0;
err_code = nrf_sdh_ble_default_cfg_set(APP_BLE_CONN_CFG_TAG, &ram_start);
APP_ERROR_CHECK(err_code);

// Enable BLE stack.
err_code = nrf_sdh_ble_enable(&ram_start);
APP_ERROR_CHECK(err_code);

// Register a handler for BLE events.
NRF_SDH_BLE_OBSERVER(m_ble_observer, APP_BLE_OBSERVER_PRIO, ble_evt_handler, NULL);
}

I am wondering if the SoftDevice needs to be configured as I have not done anything with respect to that.

Please advise and thanks!

Adnan