Getting ESP xiao_esp32s3 up and running / mcuboot error

[tyalie]

Hey. I've been trying to get started with zephyr on the XIAO ESP32S3 board and I've run into issues building the hello_world sample as instructed by the corresponding documentation. It fails during linking stage while building the mcuboot image, due to mcuboot_assert_handler being undefined.

I've tried building it with: west build -p always -b xiao_esp32s3 --sysbuild samples/hello_world as it is done in the manual.

I've attached the full build log below, but the following error occurs for me:

FAILED: zephyr/zephyr_pre0.elf zephyr/zephyr_pre0.map /home/elizabeth/Documents/Projects/personal/canon-calc/zephyr/build/mcuboot/zephyr/zephyr_pre0.map 
: && /home/elizabeth/.local/opt/zephyr-sdk-0.16.3/xtensa-espressif_esp32s3_zephyr-elf/bin/xtensa-espressif_esp32s3_zephyr-elf-gcc  -gdwarf-4 zephyr/CMakeFiles/zephyr_pre0.dir/misc/empty_file.c.obj -o zephyr/zephyr_pre0.elf  zephyr/CMakeFiles/offsets.dir/./arch/xtensa/core/offsets/offsets.c.obj  -fuse-ld=bfd  -T  zephyr/linker_zephyr_pre0.cmd  -Wl,-Map=/home/elizabeth/Documents/Projects/personal/canon-calc/zephyr/build/mcuboot/zephyr/zephyr_pre0.map  -Wl,--whole-archive  app/libapp.a  zephyr/libzephyr.a  zephyr/arch/common/libarch__common.a  zephyr/arch/arch/xtensa/core/libarch__xtensa__core.a  zephyr/lib/libc/minimal/liblib__libc__minimal.a  zephyr/lib/libc/common/liblib__libc__common.a  zephyr/subsys/random/libsubsys__random.a  zephyr/drivers/interrupt_controller/libdrivers__interrupt_controller.a  zephyr/drivers/clock_control/libdrivers__clock_control.a  zephyr/drivers/console/libdrivers__console.a  zephyr/drivers/entropy/libdrivers__entropy.a  zephyr/drivers/flash/libdrivers__flash.a  zephyr/drivers/gpio/libdrivers__gpio.a  zephyr/drivers/pinctrl/libdrivers__pinctrl.a  zephyr/drivers/serial/libdrivers__serial.a  zephyr/drivers/timer/libdrivers__timer.a  modules/mcuboot/libmcuboot_util.a  -Wl,--no-whole-archive  zephyr/kernel/libkernel.a  -L"/home/elizabeth/.local/opt/zephyr-sdk-0.16.3/xtensa-espressif_esp32s3_zephyr-elf/bin/../lib/gcc/xtensa-espressif_esp32s3_zephyr-elf/12.2.0"  -L/home/elizabeth/Documents/Projects/personal/canon-calc/zephyr/build/mcuboot/zephyr  -lgcc  zephyr/arch/common/libisr_tables.a  -lgcc  -Wl,--gc-sections  -Wl,--build-id=none  -Wl,--sort-common=descending  -Wl,--sort-section=alignment  -Wl,-u,_OffsetAbsSyms  -Wl,-u,_ConfigAbsSyms  -nostdlib  -static  -Wl,-X  -Wl,-N  -Wl,--orphan-handling=warn  -Wl,-no-pie  -T/home/elizabeth/Documents/Projects/personal/canon-calc/modules/hal/espressif/zephyr/esp32s3/src/linker/esp32s3.rom.alias.ld  -T/home/elizabeth/Documents/Projects/personal/canon-calc/modules/hal/espressif/zephyr/esp32s3/../../components/esp_rom/esp32s3/ld/esp32s3.rom.ld  -T/home/elizabeth/Documents/Projects/personal/canon-calc/modules/hal/espressif/zephyr/esp32s3/../../components/esp_rom/esp32s3/ld/esp32s3.rom.api.ld  -T/home/elizabeth/Documents/Projects/personal/canon-calc/modules/hal/espressif/zephyr/esp32s3/../../components/esp_rom/esp32s3/ld/esp32s3.rom.libgcc.ld  -T/home/elizabeth/Documents/Projects/personal/canon-calc/modules/hal/espressif/zephyr/esp32s3/../../components/esp_rom/esp32s3/ld/esp32s3.rom.newlib.ld  -T/home/elizabeth/Documents/Projects/personal/canon-calc/modules/hal/espressif/zephyr/esp32s3/../../components/esp_rom/esp32s3/ld/esp32s3.rom.version.ld  -T/home/elizabeth/Documents/Projects/personal/canon-calc/modules/hal/espressif/zephyr/esp32s3/../../components/soc/esp32s3/ld/esp32s3.peripherals.ld  -Wl,--wrap=k_calloc  -Wl,--wrap=k_malloc && cd /home/elizabeth/Documents/Projects/personal/canon-calc/zephyr/build/mcuboot/zephyr && /usr/bin/cmake -E true
/home/elizabeth/.local/opt/zephyr-sdk-0.16.3/xtensa-espressif_esp32s3_zephyr-elf/bin/../lib/gcc/xtensa-espressif_esp32s3_zephyr-elf/12.2.0/../../../../xtensa-espressif_esp32s3_zephyr-elf/bin/ld.bfd: modules/mcuboot/libmcuboot_util.a(bootutil_public.c.obj):(.literal.boot_write_swap_info+0x8): undefined reference to `mcuboot_assert_handler'
/home/elizabeth/.local/opt/zephyr-sdk-0.16.3/xtensa-espressif_esp32s3_zephyr-elf/bin/../lib/gcc/xtensa-espressif_esp32s3_zephyr-elf/12.2.0/../../../../xtensa-espressif_esp32s3_zephyr-elf/bin/ld.bfd: modules/mcuboot/libmcuboot_util.a(bootutil_public.c.obj): in function `boot_write_swap_info':
/home/elizabeth/Documents/Projects/personal/canon-calc/bootloader/mcuboot/boot/bootutil/src/bootutil_public.c:385: undefined reference to `mcuboot_assert_handler'
/home/elizabeth/.local/opt/zephyr-sdk-0.16.3/xtensa-espressif_esp32s3_zephyr-elf/bin/../lib/gcc/xtensa-espressif_esp32s3_zephyr-elf/12.2.0/../../../../xtensa-espressif_esp32s3_zephyr-elf/bin/ld.bfd: /home/elizabeth/Documents/Projects/personal/canon-calc/bootloader/mcuboot/boot/bootutil/src/bootutil_public.c:385: undefined reference to `mcuboot_assert_handler'

I was also able to find a few other interesting things: esp32s3_devkitm builds without issues and the file which would actually define the function ( mcuboot/boot/espressif/port/esp_mcuboot.c) doesn't get imported in either of them. This issue seems to persist since the introduction of the xiao_esp32s3.

LOG: build.log

[tyalie]

Okay I found the issue: mcuboot doesn't include a configuration file for the xiao_esp32s3. As such it broke apart during build.