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 · PULL REQUEST

Update ports/nrf/README.md

closedby cHemingwayopened 2021-01-24updated 2021-01-30

port-nrf

Add make submodules to commands when building for the first time.
Otherwise, on a first time build, the submodules have not been checked out and a lot of fatal error: nrfx.h: No such file or directory errors are generated.

Assessment

S Sonnet · medium

Both involve nRF port build failures due to missing dependencies (submodules not initialized), but the errors differ: the query is missing hal_nrf5x.c from TinyUSB (specific to PCA10059/USB-capable boards), while the PR fixes missing nrfx.h by documenting make submodules. The candidate's make submodules fix could resolve the query's issue if TinyUSB wasn't initialized, but the query's problem may also be a board-specific Makefile issue rather than an uninitialized submodule. The PR doesn't reference the issue and addresses a different error signature.

Suggested action

Leave open. Link PR #6794 as potentially related context. Investigate whether `make submodules` resolves the missing hal_nrf5x.c error for PCA10059; if so, close as resolved by that PR, otherwise treat as a separate board-specific build issue in ports/nrf/Makefile or the TinyUSB integration.

Error when building nRF PCA10059 (nRF52840 dongle)

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