Nic Burkinshaw

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6 years, 4 months ago.

Does .mbedignore still work?

Hi,

Back in April 2018 I tried the mbed-os-example-lorawan example using .mbedignore from this note: https://os.mbed.com/blog/entry/Reducing-memory-usage-by-tuning-RTOS-con/ and it worked for me.

Now that I have revisited the same example using mbed-cli 1.7.2 with mbed-os 5.9.5 it no longer works - can someone please suggest a fix?

When I compile with .mbedignore containing:

mbed-os/rtos/*
mbed-os/features/cellular/
mbed-os/features/FEATURE_CLIENT/*
mbed-os/features/FEATURE_COMMON_PAL/*
mbed-os/features/FEATURE_UVISOR/*
mbed-os/features/frameworks/*
mbed-os/features/net/*
mbed-os/features/netsocket/*
mbed-os/features/nvstore/*
mbed-os/features/storage/*

mbed compile -m DISCO_L072CZ_LRWAN1 -t GCC_ARM I see:

...
Compile [  6.6%]: DeviceKey.cpp
[Fatal Error] DeviceKey.cpp@20,10: nvstore.h: No such file or directory
[ERROR] '_queue.SimpleQueue' object has no attribute 'queue'
[mbed] ERROR: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python37-32\python.exe" returned error code 1.
[mbed] ERROR: Command "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python37-32\python.exe -u C:\Users\nicbk\stmicro\mbed-os-example-lorawan\mbed-os\tools\make.py -t GCC_ARM -m DISCO_L072CZ_LRWAN1 --profile ./release.json --source . --build .\BUILD\DISCO_L072CZ_LRWAN1\GCC_ARM -c" in "C:\Users\nicbk\stmicro\mbed-os-example-lorawan"
...

Even just trying .mbedignore containing only:

mbed-os/features/cellular/

shows a similar error during compile:

...
Compile [ 68.7%]: OnboardCellularInterface.cpp
[Fatal Error] OnboardCellularInterface.h@19,10: EasyCellularConnection.h: No such file or directory
[ERROR] '_queue.SimpleQueue' object has no attribute 'queue'
[mbed] ERROR: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python37-32\python.exe" returned error code 1.
[mbed] ERROR: Command "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python37-32\python.exe -u C:\Users\nicbk\stmicro\mbed-os-example-lorawan\mbed-os\tools\make.py -t GCC_ARM -m DISCO_L072CZ_LRWAN1 --profile ./release.json --source . --build .\BUILD\DISCO_L072CZ_LRWAN1\GCC_ARM -c" in "C:\Users\nicbk\stmicro\mbed-os-example-lorawan"

Thanks!

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Last updated: 12 Apr 2018
mbed OS 5, memory, performance

Hi Nic,

I was able to reproduce the errors you are seeing with the mbed-os-example-lorawan and the .mbedignore file you mentioned above. I'm using Mbed CLI version 1.7.5 and Mbed OS version 5.9.5. I'm looking into it. Thanks!

- Jenny, team Mbed

posted by Jenny Plunkett 15 Aug 2018

Hi Jenny, any update on this? Thanks!

posted by Nic Burkinshaw 23 Aug 2018

This is still causing me issues, all suggestions gratefully received...

posted by Nic Burkinshaw 30 Aug 2018

1 Answer

Jenny Plunkett
6 years, 3 months ago.

Hi Nic,

So the mbed-os-example-lorawan actually uses the Mbed OS events library (https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os-example-lorawan/blob/master/main.cpp#L21) so you'll need to make sure the events folder is not included in your .mbedignore file. It also uses a few folders within the mbed-os/features/frameworks/* directory so you need to make sure you are not excluding those from compilation either.

Here's the .mbedignore file I used to successfully compile the mbed-os-example-lorawan program (with the command: mbed compile -m DISCO_L072CZ_LRWAN1 -t GCC_ARM --clean):

mbed-os/rtos/*
mbed-os/features/cellular/
mbed-os/features/FEATURE_UVISOR/*
mbed-os/features/frameworks/greentea-client/*
mbed-os/features/frameworks/mbed-client-randlib/*
mbed-os/features/frameworks/mbed-coap/*
mbed-os/features/frameworks/unity/*
mbed-os/features/frameworks/utest/*
mbed-os/features/nanostack/*
mbed-os/features/netsocket/*
mbed-os/features/nvstore/*
mbed-os/features/storage/*
mbed-os/features/device_key/*

I am using Mbed OS version 5.9.6 and Mbed CLI version 1.8.0.

Please let me know if you have any questions!

- Jenny, team Mbed

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Accepted Answer

Hi Jenny, Thanks very much for the detective work. I tried your suggestion and it failed to compile, missing 'nsapi.h' - I think my problem was caused by an mbed-os update that did not fully work. Another mbed update --clean --clean-deps sorted it and now everything compiles fine.

posted by Nic Burkinshaw 05 Sep 2018

Glad it's working for you now Nic!

- Jenny, team Mbed

posted by Jenny Plunkett 05 Sep 2018

I am relatively new to this. I was trying to run the "mbed-os-example-lorawan" on STM32L073RZ controller using VScode and platformIO. I can not find the program even running on the board after flashing. Just placed a printf() command in the beginning and does not really print anything. Later I noticed the SRAM size of the controller is 20K which could be an issue, as suggested by (https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os-example-lorawan). Then I tried to optimise the memory by removing RTOS using the above .mbedignore configuration. The code doesnt really seem to make use of RTOS features. Unfortunately, the DATA and PROGRAM size never seems to change after all the attempts. Could you please help this?

posted by Azeemsha Thacham Poyil 04 Oct 2019