Apple M1 macOS Monterey 12.3.1 / Zephyr Tools unsupported

jbgreer

I have 2 questions:
1) Is nRF development supported on the Apple M1 devices (yet)? I know at one point portions of Nordic’s nRF tooling weren’t, but I don’t know if that has changed. I say yet, because I have to belief Nordic will eventually be compelled to support it.
2) In particular is the Visual Studio Code Circuit Dojo Extension supported on M1 / Monterrey 12.3.1? I’m getting an “Unsupported architecture for Zephyr Tools” message and trying to sus out whether it’s my installation or a general problem.

Thanks.

jaredwolff

Hey jbgreer

Yea, the tools aren’t compiled for M1 Macs. I don’t have one here which it makes it hard to test.

You can build zephyr-tools-monitor (https://github.com/circuitdojo/zephyr-tools-monitor) and my fork of newtmgr (https://github.com/circuitdojo/mynewt-newtmgr) to get those tools. You’ll have to replace them in the ~/.zephyrtools folder accordingly.

As for the toolchain, that may be tough since I don’t see aarch64 targets for the toolchain: https://developer.arm.com/tools-and-software/open-source-software/developer-tools/gnu-toolchain/gnu-rm/downloads

If things change, I’ll try to update to accommodate for M1 Macs for sure.