Cannot Build Any PIO Project for Arduino

Hello,

I have been using the Arduino IDE for a while and wanted to switch to PlatformIO on VS Code to control my Elegoo Mega2560 arduino. However, after reading and watching numerous tutorials, I am still not able to build (let alone upload) my project. I took a simple blinking code that works fine when I try it on the Arduino IDE. However, every time I try building the PlatformIO project, I get this error:
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I have tried modifying the code, creating new projects from scratch, and uninstalling/reinstalling PIO entirely, but nothing works. It is very frustrating that I cannot run anything and I have no idea why. From what I understand, Java should not even be necessary to run PIO. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards

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