Importing Zephyr (sysbuild) Project into CLion — Any Success?

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to import a Zephyr (sysbuild) project into CLion, but I can’t seem to get it working.

CMake Project

According to the documentation, to use sysbuild directly with CMake you need to:

• Set the sysbuild project as the source directory.
• Provide -DAPP_DIR=<path-to-sample> as an extra CMake argument, or set the APP_DIR environment variable.

APP_DIR should point to the main Zephyr application managed by sysbuild.

However, this setup doesn’t seem to be possible with CLion’s CMake profiles — there’s no obvious way to point CLion’s CMake configuration to use a separate sysbuild source folder while passing APP_DIR.

West Project

The project is located outside the Zephyr source tree, so we couldn’t try the West-based approach. CLion also doesn’t seem to recognize it as a Zephyr/West project automatically.

Has anyone managed to get a sysbuild-based Zephyr project working in CLion?
Any tips or workarounds would be greatly appreciated!