ESP-IDF 5 Issue FYI - "Please use idf.py only in an ESP-IDF shell environment."

[nicklasb]

I will create a new topic for that, basically I meant this topic just for the exact purpose of the subject. Self-hijacked it…

It was created here:

Complex ESP-IDF dependencies seem to break pio build script - TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable:

Hi! Thanks for a great product! I have an issue where I have ESP-IDF components with their own dependencies seemingly causing problems for Platformio. The reason I think that may be the case, is that it doesn’t seem to break in running idf.py build in the same folder. ESP-IDF doesn’t seem to mind the current config. It doesn’t compile without errors there, but that is not the problem. Abbreviated, the error is: TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable: for cg in target_compile_groups: I…