Hi,

Thanks for the output but it's best read from a .txt file. Can you please copy the output to a .txt and attach to a post here

"C:/Users/[YOUR_USER_NAME]/Documents/Arduinohardware" means "myDocuments\Arduino\Hardware" and that's the best place for it.

Which versions of visual micro do you have installed? Tools>extensions and Updates>Installed>Arduino IDE

Thanks

Thanks. 

There have been huge changes in the tools discovery design of the arduino world in the past 18 months. In the past few months there have also been many different tool versions released (for each tool chain) which have tested the tool discovery system to the full.

In the past month visual micro has added a lot of resilience in this area so it's worth updating. The release notes are always on the top menu of visualmicro.com if you like to ensure there is something of interest before upgrading.

Look forward to hearing if the update resolves the issue.

Hi

Thanks for updating it's always important. 

In the visual micro board manager can you see the esp8266 hardware?

If you can then click Rescan and try compile again, otherwise let me know.

The errors will be intellisense errors because you have not yet has a successful compile. It is possible to filter the error list for "build only" ignoring intellisense. That can be less confusing.

I am running both esp32 and 8266 with so we have some mismatch of something.

Can we first of all make sure the esp32 is installed in the sketchBook\Hardware folder and not the ide hardware folder.

After doing that please build and attach the output as a .txt so that I can see the settings again.

Thanks

Hi,

We can now see in the output that the tool chain has been discovered correctly. The compile failure from before is resolved.

The output now shows as you say an issue with a libraries however it's not right that you have hard coded any paths at all and that will cause confusion and make it impossible to diagnose issues.

Please remove all paths and then make another output. 

It might also help if you ziped and emailed your code to me so I can see what you have included in the project. When you email please include link to this post. info[at]visualmicro.com

Thanks

Excellent thanks.

It says it can't find SSD1306.h

Which library is that in and what is its location.

Is it in a lib below:-

C:\Users\Nigel\Documents\Arduino\libraries

Maybe the easiest thing is to open the arduino ide and switch on file>preferences>verbose compile. Then build and right click select all the build output then copy into a .txt. That will show me where your libs are.

The arduino ide verbose output will show us the problem (as mentioned above)

Thanks

Can you please post verbose output from the arduino ide as described previously that will help

but also post or email the changes you made to the time library so that you ended up with TimeArd.h as an include

Thanks

Hi,
Arduino compile attached.
I've included the time library where the TimeArd.h file comes from, I think it was a library I got from somewhere...

re the path - that was while I was trying to fix the missing includes. I'll remove it now.

ok will email now.
The thing is, before installing the ESP32 code everything compiled and worked correctly, it all went wrong after I installed the ESP32 code (which worked via the Arduino IDE). I have removed the ESP32 code but now can't compile.

I'll send the libraries in a zip by email.

I think I found the problem why the libraries aren't loading.
In the library.properties file there is a setting
architectures=

If the setting is architecture=* the library loads
If it is anything else (esp8266 or esp32) it does not load and compile fails.

I changed both the SSD1306 and ArduinoOTA settings to * and I can now compile. 

Previously they were:
architectures=esp8266
and
architectures=esp8266,esp32


Over to you...

Hmm, must be a recent update I use OTA all the time however I use the ota that is supplied in the esp8266 core,

I'll update for no architectures that could be causing intellisense to fail.

I'll look at it later thanks for useful info

In the Arduino IDE it fails to compile still but in Visual Studio it's fine. Note I have changed the architectures settings in the two libraries that were failing.

For some reason the attach file isn't available on the posting.. I'll email you 2 outputs; 1. the Arduino output, 2 the Visual studio output.

Yes, big improvement, along with the latest vm build.
I removed the libraries and it all compiles.

I then reset the SSD1306 architectures value to what it was originally, architectures=esp8266,esp32 and did a refresh.
The library had disappeared again. Back to architectures=* and it works.

I still have all the intellisense errors though.

Thanks for your help

I just tried no architecture and it defaults to * so that's confusing.

I also set up a lib with 3 architectures (avr,sam,esp8266). The lib showed and compiled for all three but when I selected a different platform such as "samd" the lib did not show in the list and was reported as missing by the compiler.

So that worked well in my test and we need to look at your config a little more.

It is not clear from your last post with the intellisense errors which board you had selected? esp32 or esp8266?

Thanks

No it's not normal at all.

Now that you are working I need to see a verbose output from both visual micro and the arduino ide again

If you have changed your code to make it work then please also resend.

With this info I should be able see the intellisense issue. 

Thanks

ps: you could also switch intellisense errors back on but change the selector from "current project" to "Open documents". that way you will get intellisense for your own code.

Thanks. I think you should look into the error that you have building in the arduino ide.

I haven't looked but I suspect that you have defined a class or variables from the WiFiClientSecure in the WiFi library in your project. 

You will see the errors they were the ones I was seeing earlier when I tried the code you sent previously. In my case I could see the same error in both visual micro and arduino ide.

I think once you have code that compiles we will be able to resolve the intellisense issue which might be giving up due to duplicate source or paths. In which case I will add some warnings to future releases.

The fact that it compiles now in visual micro but not the arduino ide can be understood/addressed when you have it working fully.

well done. actually I get a lot of users who don't know how to include/exclude files and complain that some files are missed but that it works correctly in the arduino ide. 

There is a tools>option to control if visual micro automatically attempts to add missing files from the project folder when a project is opened using "file>open>arduino project". To be safe it is always best to work the way the arduino ide works in the main project folder. Do as you please in sub folders that arduino doesn't know about. This gives us simple arduino for single folder projects and more advanced when additional folders are used. There isn't a perfect solution as yet

I don't get any intellisense errors at all with your project. I have re-looked at your build output and see that you have attempted to install esp8266 core below the arduino ide folder and you also have it installed correctly in the downloaded contributions folder.

Delete C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\esp8266. Furthermore if you have added any C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\Tools then delete them too. This type of configuration is for older arduino ides or tool chains. The esp tools you have chosen are supposed to be installed using board manager.

Or delete the entire arduino ide folder and install a clean version, then never add any files to it

Then you will have finally removed everything you have added and things will work again.

Great

I'll try to replicate the 87 errors but if you change the left hand combo box from Current Project to Open Documents they will go for now.

Always install libraries and new hardware into documents\arduino\libraries and documents\arduino\hardware. They are the official arduino locations for custom libs and hardware. You can create the folders if they do not exist. They will never exist by default. This also allows you to change ide without loosing the config.