nRF Connect SDK Quick Setup Failure

[Jev]

Hi,

I am having an issue with setting up the nRF Connect for VS Code

I have installed the following apps step-by-step as mentioned in the Nordic Installation Guide:

• nRF Command Line Tools 10.21.0
• nRF Connect 4.0.1
• VS Code 1.78.0
• nRF Connect SDK 2.3.0 incl. toolchain. 
• SEGGER JLink 7.80

When trying to setup nRF Connect SDK it gives me an error message: 

       Invalid toolchain installation.

• jlink is required but not found. Please ensure that SEGGER J-Link Software and Documentation Pack is installed

Looks like it doesn't see the toolchain in the folder. Toolchain and the SDK is in the folder. I have even tried full uninstallation and tried to install a fresh copy, but with no luck.

In the Environment Variables I have got the following:

User Variables for Jev

Path 

• C:\Users\Jev\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin
• C:\Program Files\SEGGER\JLink
• ... other non-related paths

System Variables

Path 

• C:\Program Files\Nordic Semiconductor\nrf-command-line-tools\bin\

An interesting fact is that I have got exactly the same configuration on another laptop and have no issues at all. This PC that fails had a previously installed nRF SDK that failed to use SEGGER J-Link for programming and nRF Connect was completely reinstalled. 

Thanks,
Jev

[haakonsh]

Can you run "nrfjprog --version" in a terminal and share the output? I'd like to verify that the command line tools and J-Link driver has been installed correctly.

[Jev]

nrfjprog version: 10.21.0 external
JLinkARM.dll version: 7.88a

I have currently updated J-Link to the latest, previously it was 7.80c

[haakonsh]

Then I think you need to downgrade the j-link driver to 7.80c. The nRF Command Line Tools version tracks a specific J-link version. If that does not work I'd try uninstalling the 64-bit version of nRF Command Line Tools and install the 32-bit version instead.

[Jev]

Tried several times incl. downgrading and installing everything from fresh. I believe it might be due to some files left from previous installations that causing this issue. 

Here is the output after downgrade:

nrfjprog version: 10.21.0 external
JLinkARM.dll version: 7.80c

[haakonsh]

That is the correct versions at least, but have you tried the 32-bit version of the command line tools installer?