It happened to me a few times that the Xilinx SDK did not properly update the Board Support Package (BSP). In fact, I found that the BSP is corrupt in some way. But luckily, it is easy to rebuild it.

The symptom

• xparameters.h does not contain the necessary macros for a new component. I added an AXI GPIO block to the block design. That should create the macro XPAR_AXI_GPIO_0_DEVICE_ID in xparameters.h but it was simply missing.
• It turns out that in the BSP Settings, the GPIO driver is missing:

  

• If you select the proper driver manually, you get this error message:
  [Common 17-55] ‘set_property’ expects at least one object.

  

• After clicking OK, the driver is set back to “none”.

The Solution

Rebuild the BSP project from scratch.

• Remember the exact name of the BSP project.
• Right-click the BSP project and click on “Delete”. Also check the box which removes the files from disk.
• Create a new BSP project. Make sure to enter the exact same project name as before: