IAR examples for Connect SDK?

[jro2team]

The Connect SDK page claims "nRF Connect SDK is IDE agnostic, which means you can use your own IDE if you prefer." Having downloaded it, though, I can find no option to open an example project in the IAR IDE, make sure my target has a matching SoftDevice, compile, and run. I find myself in a spiral of nRF Connect Desktop wants me to install Toolchain Manager which wants me to install nRF Connect SDK which only has an option to start VSCode which says I need to install multiple other packages ... at which point I gave up.

This sort of thing is available in SDK 17.1.0. Although that's marked as being "in maintenance mode", I could download it, unzip it, open one of the many code samples, compile it*, and run it.

TL;DR - where are the IAR IDE examples for nRF Connect SDK?

*OK, compile it after fixing a couple of obvious errors

[Einar Thorsrud]

Hi,

There is no support for IAR in the nRF Connect SDK. It is correct that the nRF Connect SDK is not tied to a specific IDE (though we recommend and support nRF Connect for VS Code). However, it is not toolchain agnostic, and IAR is not only an IDE, but also an integrated toolchain. And that is not supported in the nRF Connect SDK.

I do not think it is realistic to use IAR for nRF Connect SDK development unless you have a very strong desire to use it and a lot of time and resources to put into it.