Lib_extra_dirs not working?

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This is the [first] error message:

In file included from src/createAllTasks.cpp:2:0:
include/main.h:6:66: fatal error: wifiConfig.h: No such file or directory
********************************************************************
* Looking for wifiConfig.h dependency? Check our library registry!
*
* CLI  > platformio lib search "header:wifiConfig.h"
* Web  > https://platformio.org/lib/search?query=header:wifiConfig.h
*
********************************************************************

In platformio.ini I have among others:

lib_extra_dirs = ../WiFi_Specs

The directory structure is:

.../WS_WebRadio/Web_Radio_04_Tasks/<project files>
.../WS_WebRadio/WiFi_Specs/<project files>

Questions:

  1. The last time I used similar: “lib_extra_dirs = …/WiFi_Specs”
    it worked fine. Why not now?
  2. Why is platformio looking for:
    “https://platformio.org/lib/search?query=header:wifiConfig.h”?

Actually there are only two dots in: dot dot/WiFi_Specs; this editor produces three.

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lib_extra_dirs expects

A list with extra directories/storages where

You seem to have the non-found include header WiFi_Specs library, but then lib_extra_dirs needs the path to the folder in which the library folder is stored so that it can recognize WiFi_Specs as a dependent library. So, lib_extra_dirs = .. might be better. I think however it would be cleaner to create an extra directory so that nothing else in the WS_WebRadio folder is accidentally picked up as a library, then point to that.

As for ‘why it worked fine before’, I don’t know without the other project files or project structure

Every time PlatformIO encounters a missing include header, it will auto-generate the URL of this form, helping you to find the library. Most of the time people e.g. just #include <Adafruit_GFX.h> without declaring it as a library in lib_deps, so PlatformIO providing them with a search link that will find the library containing Adafruit_GFX.h with the install instructions is a convenient thing.

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OK, thank you.[Do I have 20 characters now?]