Problems getting started with MCUXpresso SDK: can't compile hello world

morix — Fri, 10 May 2024 09:27:33 GMT

Hello everybody. I am moving my first steps in developing firmware for Cortex-M7 in i.MX8MP processor...

Following the guides, I built, downloaded and installed a MCUXpresso SDK for my EVKIT:

Now I am trying to build the hello_world example coming with the SDK but I am receiving errors that I cannot understand.

Basically this is what I did:

1) downloaded and installed MCUXpresso SDK to folder /home/morix/MCUXpresso;

2) downloaded and installed GNU ARM toolchain to folder /home/morix/arm-gnu-toolchain-13.2.Rel1-x86_64-arm-none-eabi (toolchain was taken from https://developer.arm.com/-/media/Files/downloads/gnu/13.2.rel1/binrel/arm-gnu-toolchain-13.2.rel1-x86_64-arm-none-eabi.tar.xz?rev=e434b9ea4afc4ed7998329566b764309&hash=CA590209F5774EE1C96E6450E14A3E26)

3) export ARMGCC_DIR=/home/morix/arm-gnu-toolchain-13.2.Rel1-x86_64-aarch64-none-elf

4) export PATH=$PATH:/home/morix/arm-gnu-toolchain-13.2.Rel1-x86_64-aarch64-none-elf/bin

5) cd /home/morix/MCUXpresso/boards/evkmimx8mp/demo_apps/hello_world/armgcc

6) ./build_debug.sh

This is what I obtain:

-- TOOLCHAIN_DIR: /home/morix/arm-gnu-toolchain-13.2.Rel1-x86_64-arm-none-eabi
CMake Error at /home/morix/MCUXpresso/tools/cmake_toolchain_files/armgcc.cmake:58 (add_link_options):
Unknown CMake command "add_link_options".
Call Stack (most recent call first):
/usr/share/cmake-3.10/Modules/CMakeDetermineSystem.cmake:91 (include)
CMakeLists.txt:18 (ENABLE_LANGUAGE)

CMake Error: CMake was unable to find a build program corresponding to "Unix Makefiles". CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM is not set. You probably need to sel
ect a different build tool.
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

I am sorry for the (maybe) dumb question, but I am stuck at this point and cannot go further (probably I am missing something "big"... but consider that everything is new to me since I am the very first attempt to work on M7).

Thanks.

Re: Problems getting started with MCUXpresso SDK: can't compile hello world

morix — Fri, 10 May 2024 09:50:12 GMT

Ok, found the solution. The problem simply was an outdated version of cmake on my PC... add_link_options was added to cmake starting from 3.13...

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