Need help with nRF5-SDK-13 and Eclipse Mars,2 Release 4.5.2

[Sid Gilbrech]

I'm starting a new project using Nordic's nRF52840, I have the Preview-DK. My development environment is a MacBook Pro Running Parallels running windows 10. I have downloaded all of the GNU tools and the SDK-13 and have been successful in building some of the examples and loading them on the DK and seeing them run using the command line method. So now following the tutorial "Development with GCC and Eclipse" I'm stuck trying to import makefile project with existing code. Eclipse shows me a blank window like its done nothing till I quit Eclipse where it generates a .settings folder, a .cproject file and a .project file in the target gcc directory. Can anyone give me an idea how to fix this non functional IDE?

[Hung Bui]

If you simply build using "make" in command line would it built ? My another suggestion is to use Segger Embedded Studio, it's also a cross platform IDE and will be supported in our next SDK. Here is the tutorial.

[Sid Gilbrech]

If I build using make on the command line the code will build successfully, I can then download it to the nRF52840 Preview DK and watch it run. I'm just not sure why the combination of nRF5-SDK-13 and Eclipse Mars 4.5.2 is not able to work together in importing a makefile project, it could be a windows 32/64 bit issue running 32 bit tools. Just wondered if anyone else ran into these problems. I have looked into using SES and it makes sense for debugging it would be a great IDE so I'll try SES out and follow the tutorial although it doesn't look like there is currently much support for the nRF52840 environment. When is the next release of the SDK and will support be in place for my setup?

[Hung Bui]

@Sid: I'm not sure it will be official in our SDK very soon. But we will try to update the blog post to include nRF52840.