Space in path causes error

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Hello,

I’ve recently bought an arduino but I really wasn’t happy about the default IDE,
so I searched and found PlatformIO (installed on Visual Studio Code).

When I initialize, it works, but when I try to build I get following errormessage:
(I try to build it with the keyboard shortcut (ctrl + alt + b)).

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It’s definitly because there is a space in my name but I don’t know how and where to fix this.
I also get some warnings about a space in the output window:

Warning: the task ‘PlatformIO: Build’ is a shell command and either the command name or one of its arguments has unescaped spaces. To ensure correct command line quoting please merge args into the command.

I get one of these for every built-in command there is.
Anyone that can help?

Thanks in advance!

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Thanks a lot! I’ve just fixed it!

Please run pio upgrade command in Terminal and Rebuild Project Index (Ctrl+P > PlatformIO: Rebuild…)

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Somehow those quotes don’t help to escape whitespaces, so exceptions persists.

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My current solution is to use PowerShell whitespace escaping:

...
"command": "C:\\Users\\Yegor` Bobrovski\\.platformio\\penv\\Scripts\\platformio.exe",
"isShellCommand": true,
...

But platformio overrides my changes on every index rebuild.

Well, another solution is to leave only

"command": "platformio.exe"

and add its location folder to PATH.

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Honestly I didn’t test it because I couldn’t find the time until now. Escaping the " characters doesn’t work for me either.
Instead of escaping the " character I use the following: what seems to work for me:

...
"command": "&'C:\\Users\\Jeroen Claessens\\.platformio\\penv\\Scripts\\platformio.exe'",
"isShellCommand": false,
...

@ivankravets I created a pull request so please take a look into it:

I noticed that I needed to sign a contribution agreement, which I did after I filed the request.

Thanks.

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@Milquour @jclaessens97 could you try upcoming 0.5.0 beta?

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Just sharing another note about spaces in the path. If there are doublespaces in the path, that will also cause trouble upon compiling:

Error: Nothing to build. Please put your source code files to 'c:\Users\Rob\Documents\PlatformIO\Projects\1.0 Folder with double spaces\Smokey\src' folder

The compiler converts double spaces to single and then cant find the source files.

Cheers

rob

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Hi,
I’m facing with the same problem after installed VSCode and PlatformIO plug-in. I’m tring to open a new project for esp32 devKit.

PIO Core Call Error: "The current working directory C:\Users\pippo will be used for the project.\r\n\r\n
The next files/directories have been created in C:\Users\pippo\r\n
include - Put project header files here\r\n
lib - Put here project specific (private) libraries\r\n
src - Put project source files here\r\nplatformio.ini - Project Configuration File\r\n\n\n
Error: Processing esp32dev (platform: espressif32; board: esp32dev; framework: espidf)\r\n
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n
Verbose mode can be enabled via -v, --verbose option\r\nCONFIGURATION: https://docs.platformio.org/page/boards/espressif32/esp32dev.html\r\nPLATFORM: Espressif 32 1.12.1 > Espressif ESP32 Dev Module\r\nHARDWARE: ESP32 240MHz, 320KB RAM, 4MB Flash\r\nDEBUG: Current (esp-prog) External (esp-prog, iot-bus-jtag, jlink, minimodule, olimex-arm-usb-ocd, olimex-arm-usb-ocd-h, olimex-arm-usb-tiny-h, olimex-jtag-tiny, tumpa)\r\nPACKAGES: \r\n

  • framework-espidf 3.40000.200303 (4.0.0) \r\n
  • tool-cmake 3.16.5 \r\n
  • tool-esptoolpy 1.20600.0 (2.6.0) \r\n
  • tool-idf 1.0.1 \r\n
  • tool-mconf 1.4060000.20190628 (406.0.0) \r\n
  • tool-ninja 1.9.0 \r\n
  • toolchain-esp32ulp 1.22851.190618 (2.28.51) \r\n
  • toolchain-xtensa32 2.80200.200226 (8.2.0)\r\n
    Installing ESP-IDF’s Python dependencies\r\n
    “c:\users\pluto” it is not recognized as an internal or external command, \ r \ n
    an executable program or batch file.\r\n
    *** Error 1\r\n
    Error: Detected a whitespace character in project paths.\r\n
    ========================== [FAILED] Took 1.33 seconds =========================="
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Are there any whitespaces or latin characters in your username? Where have you saved the project to?

A short-term workaround might be to use the core_dir parameter to instruct platformio to use another directory (i.e. C:\PIO) to store all the platform files, and workspace_dir to have the project build cache and library files stored in another folder (i.e. C:\PIO-build)… but it would be better to fix this properly as this would only be a bandaid at best.

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Hi,
yes the directory has a white space in the username (it is “C:\Users\pippo pippo\…”) and this causes the problem.
So can you tell me where I must put these parameters? Because the project isn’t created, the error shows up immediately when I press the “finish” button in the “Quick Access > +New Project”.

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Is possible to install the ESP-IDF’s Python dependencies manually? and how?

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No whitespaces in project paths is a limitation from ESP-IDF build system. You can add the following line to your platformio.ini:

[platformio]
core_dir = C:\\.PIO

[env:test]
platform = ...
framework = ...
board = ...
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This issue appear when I try to create a new project: after pressed “Finish” in the project wizard.
So I can’t add the line that you suggest, because the file doesn’t exist yet.