Zephyr Build Crashes When Setting CMake Compile Defintions

[douglas.malnati]

Windows 11, NCS v2.3.0, VSCode

Hi,

If, in my CMakeLists.txt file, I do this, it works:

execute_process(COMMAND CMD /c echo hi OUTPUT_VARIABLE APP_BUILD_DATE ECHO_OUTPUT_VARIABLE)

add_compile_definitions(PP_BUILD_DATE=${APP_BUILD_DATE})

But if instead, I add 'A' to the start of the compile def, the whole build fails.

execute_process(COMMAND CMD /c echo hi OUTPUT_VARIABLE APP_BUILD_DATE ECHO_OUTPUT_VARIABLE)

add_compile_definitions(APP_BUILD_DATE=${APP_BUILD_DATE})

-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: C:/Users/dougl/git/nRF52/app/Traquito/build_feather
-- west build: building application
ninja: error: build.ninja:151: expected '=', got identifier
-DKERNEL -DNRF52840_XXAA -DUSE_PARTITION_MANAGER=0 -D_ANSI_SOURCE -D_FO...
^ near here
FATAL ERROR: command exited with status 1: 'c:\ncs\toolchains\v2.3.0\opt\bin\cmake.EXE' --build 'c:\Users\dougl\git\nRF52\app\Traquito\build_feather'

What do I need to do in order to use whatever definition names I want?

Thanks.

[Øyvind]

Hello, 

In VS code can you please run nRF Connect: Support information and provide the output? 

What project are you running is VS Code? What build configuration do you have for the project?

Please provide more information for me to reproduce. It will also be good if you could include full build log.

Thank you.

Kind regards,
Øyvind