Can't use "make" in Nordic SDK for nRF52840

Wireless & IoT Bluetooth
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I have set up Nordic SDK for development with the SparkFun nRF52940 mini, followed all the instructions but somehow the “make” command in Visual Code doesn’t work. The command is not recognized at all. I’m using Windows 10, is there something I need to install to make the “make” command work? Is it easier to just develop for Nordic SDK in Linux? Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

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Hi Marius1992.

I hate to say it, but we don’t really support programming the nRF52840 with the nRF5 SDK. The only thing I can recommend is going through the tutorial again and reinstall everything in case you missed a step somewhere. If anyone else is able to assist, we welcome your input in this topic.

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I used ubuntu on Windows Services for Linux and a Windows command prompt. I installed the SDK and development environment in both. This is probably unnecessary and could be confusing but it’s working for me. I have a 2 step process:

  1. run “make dfu-package” from within ubuntu

  2. run the “adafruit-nrf…” command from Powershell or CMD. You have to copy the command and replace the $(SERI…) with COM5 (or whatever your COM port is).

This is exactly why Microsoft developed Windows Services for Linux because some things just aren’t designed for Windows