Getting started with nRF51 development on Mac OS X

RE: Getting started with nRF51 development on Mac OS X

Eirik Midttun — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 07:39:22 GMT

Thanks for heads up! I added a warning at the top for now to avoid more people being misled.

RE: Getting started with nRF51 development on Mac OS X

Ryan — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 21:59:28 GMT

It would be great if this post were updated as nrfjprog has been ported to Mac OS (devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../). I'm just getting started using this toolchain and feel like I very nearly went down an old and more painful road. Considering that the previous comment is only a handful of months old as well it appears like I'm not the only one.

RE: Getting started with nRF51 development on Mac OS X

Lola — Sun, 30 Apr 2017 19:13:22 GMT

This is working great! although there are many modifications had to be made in the new s132. Also for some reason you said we should drag the s132 hex file into the _build folder then you : loadbin s110_nrf51822_7.0.0_softdevice.bin instead of using the .hex file for some reason. I did it with the hex and it worked.

RE: Getting started with nRF51 development on Mac OS X

Carlos Villavicencio — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 23:11:28 GMT

I think it would important to include some tasks to flash the softdevice because erase-all cleans everything.

This is my code:

flash-softdevice-jlink: flash-softdevice.jlink
    $(JLINK) flash-softdevice.jlink

flash-softdevice.jlink:
    printf "loadbin ../../../../../../components/softdevice/s130/hex/s130_nrf51_2.0.0_softdevice.hex 0\nr\ng\nexit\n" > flash-softdevice.jlink

RE: Getting started with nRF51 development on Mac OS X

hawk — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 08:51:33 GMT

Great! I want to continue to write code on my mac!

Next step , it had better to use vim as editor.

RE: Getting started with nRF51 development on Mac OS X

gap — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 13:51:22 GMT

Thanks for this guide.

Here are some updates for compiling with the latest SDK (9.0.0):

The location of makefile.posix has changed from:

(SDK location)/nrf51822/Source/templates/gcc/Makefile.posix

to:

(SDK location)/components/toolchain/gcc/Makefile.posix

For the compilation example, the path and filenames have changed a little:

old:

cd <SDK location>/nrf51822/Board/pca10001/s110/ble_app_hrs/gcc
make -f ble_app_hrs.Makefile all

new (just one makefile in the folder):

cd <SDK location>/examples/ble_peripheral/ble_app_hrs/pca10028/s110/armgcc
make -f Makefile all

RE: Getting started with nRF51 development on Mac OS X

Eirik Midttun — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 11:01:46 GMT

@patrick: The site you posted to was not launched when I first wrote this blog post. I have updated the link in the post. I also removed the comment that a login is required; it no longer is :)

RE: Getting started with nRF51 development on Mac OS X

patrick — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 20:51:53 GMT

I have been going through the example. A quicker link to the SDK.

http://developer.nordicsemi.com

I was confused when it was not in the download section and spent a good amount of time looking through the IOT sdk.

RE: Getting started with nRF51 development on Mac OS X

Shlomo Zippel — Tue, 12 May 2015 00:09:04 GMT

I just played around with getting SDK v.8 samples to work on mac. A few notes that might save you some time:

There is no need to specify the flash start address when flashing samples build with SoftDevice support. The .hex file contains the correct offsets (based on the sections defined in the custom linker scripts) and LinkExe ignores the start address
$(OUTPUT_FILENAME) isn't defined when Makefile.posix is imported into the various example Makefiles. I added hardcoded OUTPUT_FILENAME := nrf51422_xxac to the posix makefile just to get the examples working without changing every makefile individually.

@kerem - it looks like you copied the entire line including the shell prompt. Try dropping the gcc em$ from the command you're trying to run.

RE: Getting started with nRF51 development on Mac OS X

kerem — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 01:04:53 GMT

I am having problems with compiling the samples using gcc for arm 4.9 on os x 10.9 and nrf51 sdk 8.0. I am getting errors such as:

clang: error: unknown argument: '-f'

clang: error: no such file or directory: 'em$'

clang: error: no such file or directory: 'make'

Is there a more recent guide for simply compiling any of the examples on os x? Should I just go for the virtualbox/win7/keil setup as that's more relevant to the current documentation?

I don't have the development board but only a nrf5188 beacon, I'm trying to build one of the examples and flash it on the beacon using nRF Master Control Panel application on Android.

RE: Getting started with nRF51 development on Mac OS X

Jim Credland — Sun, 01 Feb 2015 16:02:03 GMT

This is great stuff. Thank you! I also found some links which helped set up Xcode as the editor, with some Makefile integration and indexing of the nordic headers.

hiltmon.com/.../

Was the key one.

RE: Getting started with nRF51 development on Mac OS X

Antonio — Sat, 13 Sep 2014 20:52:54 GMT

Great!!! I have been wanting to stop using windows on my mac!

RE: Getting started with nRF51 development on Mac OS X

Frederik — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 10:36:39 GMT

Most of these instructions are also applicable for linux development, flashing & debugging too, if anybody has problems with that.

RE: Getting started with nRF51 development on Mac OS X

Janek Mann — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 16:23:10 GMT

A nice summary!

RE: Getting started with nRF51 development on Mac OS X

sprhawk — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 13:44:06 GMT

Great !

I have my own scripts here:

github.com/.../nrf51822-macosx-build-scripts

and a demo:

github.com/.../nrf51822-first-fw