Setup for Nordic development

Note: The following explains the setup on MacOS

brew install cmake
brew install ninja
brew install gperf
brew install ccache
brew install dfu-util
brew install dtc 
brew install python3

Following along with the nRF Connect SDK will lead to this.

sudo cp ~/Downloads/gcc-arm-none-eabi-8-2019-q3-update-mac.tar.bz2 /opt
/opt cd /opt 
/opt sudo tar -xjvf gcc-arm-none-eabi-8-2019-q3-update-mac.tar.bz2
/opt sudo mv gcc-arm-none-eabi-8-2019-q3-update gnuarmemb

Verify toolchain installation. 

cd /opt 

tree -L 2 gnuarmemb
gnuarmemb
├── arm-none-eabi
│   ├── bin
│   ├── include
│   ├── lib
│   └── share
├── bin
│   ├── arm-none-eabi-addr2line
│   ├── arm-none-eabi-ar
│   ├── arm-none-eabi-as
│   ├── arm-none-eabi-c++
│   ├── arm-none-eabi-c++filt
│   ├── arm-none-eabi-cpp
│   ├── arm-none-eabi-elfedit
│   ├── arm-none-eabi-g++
│   ├── arm-none-eabi-gcc
│   ├── arm-none-eabi-gcc-8.3.1
│   ├── arm-none-eabi-gcc-ar
│   ├── arm-none-eabi-gcc-nm
│   ├── arm-none-eabi-gcc-ranlib
│   ├── arm-none-eabi-gcov
│   ├── arm-none-eabi-gcov-dump
│   ├── arm-none-eabi-gcov-tool
│   ├── arm-none-eabi-gdb
│   ├── arm-none-eabi-gdb-add-index
│   ├── arm-none-eabi-gdb-add-index-py
│   ├── arm-none-eabi-gdb-py
│   ├── arm-none-eabi-gprof
│   ├── arm-none-eabi-ld
│   ├── arm-none-eabi-ld.bfd
│   ├── arm-none-eabi-nm
│   ├── arm-none-eabi-objcopy
│   ├── arm-none-eabi-objdump
│   ├── arm-none-eabi-ranlib
│   ├── arm-none-eabi-readelf
│   ├── arm-none-eabi-size
│   ├── arm-none-eabi-strings
│   └── arm-none-eabi-strip
├── lib
│   ├── gcc
│   ├── libcc1.0.so
│   └── libcc1.so -> libcc1.0.so
└── share
├── doc
└── gcc-arm-none-eabi

11 directories, 33 files
➜ /opt

Click `Verify all`
log window shows this

Address if anything is unsuccessful. One common pitfall is extracting the toolchain in /opt but not renaming it to `gnuarmemb`.

Clone the nRF Connect SDK

pip3 install west

verify west is installed

➜ ls -l /usr/local/bin/west 
-rwxr-xr-x 1 user admin 231 Apr 24 05:25 /usr/local/bin/west
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