Platformio not really compiling, getting error

PlatformIO IDE
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Greetings,
I am at a loss on how to resolve this message. It is probably something really basic, but the solution is eluding me.

I get the following message, it started out of the blue and I think it was soon after an update.

Linking .pio\build\megaatmega2560\firmware.elf
Building .pio\build\megaatmega2560\firmware.hex
Checking size .pio\build\megaatmega2560\firmware.elf
Advanced Memory Usage is available via “PlatformIO Home > Project Inspect”
RAM: [ ] 0.1% (used 9 bytes from 8192 bytes)
Flash: [ ] 0.3% (used 662 bytes from 253952 bytes)
==================================================== [SUCCESS] Took 3.12 seconds ====================================================

Processing env1 ()

Error: Please specify platform for ‘env1’ environment
The terminal process “C:\Users\ia-dell.platformio\penv\Scripts\platformio.exe ‘run’” terminated with exit code: 1.

Terminal will be reused by tasks, press any key to close it.

Any direction would be greatly appreciated!

Sincerely,

Israel

2

Hi there
I’m also very new to this. But could you post your code and the platformio.ini file.
That way some of the experts here will have a better idea of what the error could be.
Thank you

3

The compiling seems to run just fine, are just building or are you also trying to upload? In this case it’s entirely possible that a badly configured environment only shows up after compiling, but as @meathome2017 already said there is no way at telling more without at least the platformio.ini.

4

I did a search for the plarformio.ini file and noticed that there about 10 of them. I noticed the ones I created trying to create a new project to attempt to figure this out has a small platformio.ini file in the 400-500 bytes byte size. others were about 25kb. I used one of the larger projects and it compiled. to get rid of the unknown project files do I just delete the files and associated folders thru file manager or is there an option in platformio to remove projects and their files?

5

Seems like you have a malformed platformio.ini without a platform = .. linelike

[env:env1]
board = uno 
framework = arduino
; no platform = atmelavr line

What exact platformio.ini produces the error?