QUERY · ISSUE

Error when building nRF PCA10059 (nRF52840 dongle)

openby scttnlsnopened 2020-04-05updated 2020-04-20

port-nrf

From within the ports/nrf directory I'm running:

make BOARD=pca10059

And getting the following error:

Use make V=1 or set BUILD_VERBOSE in your environment to increase build verbosity.
mkdir -p build-pca10059/genhdr
Create build-pca10059/genhdr/pins.h
GEN build-pca10059/genhdr/mpversion.h
GEN build-pca10059/genhdr/moduledefs.h
make: *** No rule to make target 'lib/tinyusb/src/portable/nordic/nrf5x/hal_nrf5x.c', needed by 'build-pca10059/genhdr/qstr.i.last'.  Stop.

Building other targets (i.e. pca10028) works fine. Any ideas?

CANDIDATE · ISSUE

[nrf] Add board support for nRF52840 dongle (pca10059)

closedby uhrheberopened 2018-10-11updated 2019-10-10

port-nrf

Please add support for the nRF52840 dongle pca10059.
Documentation here: https://www.nordicsemi.com/eng/Products/nRF52840-Dongle

I'm willing to do it, but I'm new to Micropython, so I don't have all the information I need.
Is there already an implementation that has Repl over native USB?
That would be the biggest change.
Changing the pin assignments from pca10056 shouldn't be too complicated.

Assessment

S Sonnet · high

Both issues concern the nRF52840 dongle (pca10059), but they are distinct problems. The candidate (#4231) is a feature request to add board support for pca10059 in the first place. The query (#5866) reports a build failure that presupposes board support already exists but has an incomplete TinyUSB HAL dependency. The query's build error is likely a consequence of partial/incomplete board support added (possibly in response to #4231), but the feature request itself does not resolve the missing hal_nrf5x.c Makefile dependency.

Suggested action

Keep both open. Link #5866 to #4231 as context — the build error may be a symptom of incomplete board support added while implementing #4231. The fix for #5866 is a Makefile/submodule dependency correction, not closing it as a duplicate of the feature request.

Error when building nRF PCA10059 (nRF52840 dongle)

[nrf] Add board support for nRF52840 dongle (pca10059)

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