Errors when compling a basic sketch in PlatformIO

skylab · July 14, 2020, 5:21pm

I have arduino ver 1.8.13 installed, and the latest plaformIO, i added board support for esp8266 and esp32, i created a project and selected the NodeMCU 12E board, the project was created and i opened the main.cpp and just compiled it… and i get the following error.

main.cpp:1:10: fatal error: Arduino.h: No such file or directory

however if i right click on arduino.h and goto definition , it displays the header file.
here is my platformIO.ini

[env:nodemcuv2]
platform = espressif8266
board = nodemcuv2
framework = arduino

any guidance would be appreciated…

maxgerhardt · July 14, 2020, 5:25pm

You can try and reinstall the Arduino-ESP8266 framework by removing C:\Users\<user>\.platformio\packages\framework-arduinoespressif8266 and rebuilding the project (auto-downloads).

If that compiles now you should Rebuild the IntelliSense.

If none of that worked I’d need to see the output of the “Verbose Build” project task.

skylab · July 14, 2020, 5:26pm

will try and report back, thank you.

skylab · July 14, 2020, 5:54pm

ok nothing seems to have worked, i’ve rebuilt the intellisense, still the same error , the verbose log is included below.

> Executing task: C:\Users\Brandon St.Rose\.platformio\penv\Scripts\platformio.exe run --verbose <

Processing nodemcuv2 (platform: espressif8266; board: nodemcuv2; framework: arduino)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

CONFIGURATION: https://docs.platformio.org/page/boards/espressif8266/nodemcuv2.html
PLATFORM: Espressif 8266 2.6.0 > NodeMCU 1.0 (ESP-12E Module)
HARDWARE: ESP8266 80MHz, 80KB RAM, 4MB Flash
PACKAGES:
 - framework-arduinoespressif8266 3.20702.0 (2.7.2)
 - tool-esptool 1.413.0 (4.13)
 - tool-esptoolpy 1.20800.0 (2.8.0)
 - toolchain-xtensa 2.40802.200502 (4.8.2)
LDF: Library Dependency Finder -> http://bit.ly/configure-pio-ldf
LDF Modes: Finder ~ chain, Compatibility ~ soft
Found 30 compatible libraries
Scanning dependencies...
No dependencies
Building in release mode
<lambda>(["checkprogsize"], [".pio\build\nodemcuv2\firmware.elf"])
MethodWrapper(["checkprogsize"], [".pio\build\nodemcuv2\firmware.elf"])
Advanced Memory Usage is available via "PlatformIO Home > Project Inspect"
RAM:   [===       ]  32.7% (used 26776 bytes from 81920 bytes)
Flash: [==        ]  24.6% (used 256688 bytes from 1044464 bytes)
.pio\build\nodemcuv2\firmware.elf  :

section                                     size         addr

.data                                       1248   1073643520

.noinit                                        4   1073644768

.text                                        232   1074790400

.irom0.text                               228400   1075843088

.text1                                     26120   1074790632

.rodata                                      688   1073644784

.bss                                       24840   1073645472

.comment                                    5065            0

.xtensa.info                                  56            0

.xt.prop._ZNSt14_Function_baseD2Ev            48            0

.xt.prop._ZSt4swapISt9_Any_dataEvRT_S2_       36            0

.xt.lit._ZNKSt8functionIFbvEEclEv              8            0

.xt.lit._ZNSt8functionIFbvEEaSERKS1_           0            0

.xt.lit.5                                      8            0

.xt.prop._ZNKSt8functionIFbvEEclEv            60            0

.xt.prop._ZNSt8functionIFbvEEaSERKS1_         60            0

.xt.prop.5                                   108            0

.debug_frame                               18368            0

.debug_info                               238964            0

.debug_abbrev                              38685            0

.debug_loc                                119469            0

.debug_aranges                              5016            0

.debug_ranges                               7088            0

.debug_line                               111161            0

.debug_str                                 59558            0

Total                                     885290
============================================================================================== [SUCCESS] Took 1.30 seconds ==============================================================================================

maxgerhardt · July 14, 2020, 7:01pm

The compilation was succesful. Where do you see any errors? Can you provide a screenshot (Ctrl+PrintScrn + Paste here)

skylab · July 14, 2020, 7:24pm

maxgerhardt · July 14, 2020, 7:27pm

This doesn’t look like a build process which is kicked off when using the “Build” / “Upload” buttons in PlatformIO but something custom… What did you click so that this output appears?

skylab · July 14, 2020, 7:28pm

i right clicked in the window with the code and selected run code.

maxgerhardt · July 14, 2020, 7:32pm

I don’t get a “Run Code” option when I right-click in my Window, but “Build and Debug Active File”

Maybe you have some extension installed which makes this option appear? In any case, your logs hows that it attempts to invoke the system’s GCC compiler which is wrong. It doesn’t know anything about the PlatformIO build system and attempts to build it itself, which it can’t.

The build and upload process must be triggered through the buttons from the PlatformIO extension, not the menu you have. If you need to ‘run’ the code you need to execute ‘Upload’ to push the code to the microcontroller for it to run it.

The build log shows already that your PlatformIO installation was able to successfully compile the project, so there isn’t actually a problem .

skylab · July 14, 2020, 7:48pm

This is what i get when i use the Build and debug option.
i’m thinking i will completely remove vscode and reinstall along with PlatformIO
and try the process again…
I thank you very much for helping me…