Hello,

after updating to the latest vm version, i have started to experience problems .
i trued with same arduino version 1.6
latest vm pro
and VS 2015
I do think the problem is related with the program not able to find some file ( a path that gets changed after update), but of course i don't know for sure


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Searching for libraries ...
Library Include Paths (1)
Include Path 'C:\Users\gnkarn\Documents\Arduino\libraries\FastLED_GFX'
-gcc\1.20.0-26-gb404fb9\bin\xtensa-lx106-elf-g++" -D__ets__ -DICACHE_FLASH -U__STRICT_ANSI__ .0/tools/sdk/include" .0/tools/sdk/lwip/include" emcuv2\Release/core" -c -w -Os -g -mlongcalls -mtext-section-literals -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -falign-functions=4 -std=c++11 -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -w -x c++ -E -CC -DF_CPU=80000000L -DLWIP_OPEN_SRC -DARDUINO=10609 -DARDUINO_ESP8266_NODEMCU -DARDUINO_ARCH_ESP8266 -DARDUINO_BOARD="ESP8266_NODEMCU" -DESP8266 -I"C:\Users\gnkarn\Documents\Arduino\libraries\FastLED_GFX" -I"C:\Users\gnkarn\Documents\Arduino\libraries" .0\cores\esp8266" .0\variants\nodemcu" cuv2\Release\Funky_Control8266-jqm.cpp" -o "nul"
El sistema no puede encontrar el archivo especificado
     Preprocess: -gcc\1.20.0-26-gb404fb9\bin\xtensa-lx106-elf-g++" -D__ets__ -DICACHE_FLASH -U__STRICT_ANSI__ .0/tools/sdk/include" .0/tools/sdk/lwip/include" emcuv2\Release/core" -c -w -Os -g -mlongcalls -mtext-section-literals -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -falign-functions=4 -std=c++11 -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -w -x c++ -E -CC -DF_CPU=80000000L -DLWIP_OPEN_SRC -DARDUINO=10609 -DARDUINO_ESP8266_NODEMCU -DARDUINO_ARCH_ESP8266 -DARDUINO_BOARD="ESP8266_NODEMCU" -DESP8266 -I"C:\Users\gnkarn\Documents\Arduino\libraries\FastLED_GFX" -I"C:\Users\gnkarn\Documents\Arduino\libraries" .0\cores\esp8266" .0\variants\nodemcu" cuv2\Release\Funky_Control8266-jqm.cpp" -o "nul"
   Object reference not set to an instance of an object



     An error was encountered during the 'Deep Search' library discovery process.

appreciate your support as im stuck after  update.

tis

ok, now i have installed the arduino IDE version 1.8.1 , 
nothing significant changed .

it can't find a file, it uses a lot of temp, files that i have no control over , please take a look at the output.

Building project code ...
  Using previously compiled file: uv2\Release\Funky_Control8266-jqm.cpp.o
  Using previously compiled file: uv2\Release\SettingsServer.cpp.o

Linking it all together ...
-gcc\1.20.0-26-gb404fb9-2/bin/xtensa-lx106-elf-gcc" -g -w -Os -nostdlib -Wl,--no-check-sections -u call_user_start -Wl,-static .0/tools/sdk/lib" .0/tools/sdk/ld" "-Teagle.flash.4m1m.ld" -Wl,--gc-sections -Wl,-wrap,system_restart_local -Wl,-wrap,register_chipv6_phy -o cuv2\Release/Funky_Control8266-jqm.ino.elf" -Wl,--start-group cuv2\Release\Funky_Control8266-jqm.cpp.o" cuv2\Release\WebSockets\WebSockets.cpp.o" cuv2\Release\WebSockets\WebSocketsClient.cpp.o" cuv2\Release\WebSockets\WebSocketsServer.cpp.o" cuv2\Release\WebSockets\libb64\cdecode.c.o" cuv2\Release\WebSockets\libb64\cencode.c.o" cuv2\Release\WebSockets\libsha1\libsha1.c.o" cuv2\Release\Hash\Hash.cpp.o" cuv2\Release\Hash\sha1\sha1.c.o" cuv2\Release\ESP8266WiFi\ESP8266WiFi.cpp.o" cuv2\Release\ESP8266WiFi\ESP8266WiFiAP.cpp.o" cuv2\Release\ESP8266WiFi\ESP8266WiFiGeneric.cpp.o" cuv2\Release\ESP8266WiFi\ESP8266WiFiMulti.cpp.o" cuv2\Release\ESP8266WiFi\ESP8266WiFiScan.cpp.o" cuv2\Release\ESP8266WiFi\ESP8266WiFiSTA.cpp.o" cuv2\Release\ESP8266WiFi\WiFiClient.cpp.o" cuv2\Release\ESP8266WiFi\WiFiClientSecure.cpp.o" cuv2\Release\ESP8266WiFi\WiFiServer.cpp.o" cuv2\Release\ESP8266WiFi\WiFiUdp.cpp.o" cuv2\Release\ESP8266WebServer\ESP8266WebServer.cpp.o" cuv2\Release\ESP8266WebServer\Parsing.cpp.o" cuv2\Release\ESP8266HTTPUpdateServer\ESP8266HTTPUpdateServer.cpp.o" cuv2\Release\DNSServer\DNSServer.cpp.o" cuv2\Release\ArduinoOTA\ArduinoOTA.cpp.o" cuv2\Release\EEPROM\EEPROM.cpp.o" cuv2\Release\ESP8266mDNS\ESP8266mDNS.cpp.o" cuv2\Release\ESP8266SSDP\ESP8266SSDP.cpp.o" cuv2\Release\FastLED\bitswap.cpp.o" cuv2\Release\FastLED\colorpalettes.cpp.o" cuv2\Release\FastLED\colorutils.cpp.o" cuv2\Release\FastLED\FastLED.cpp.o" cuv2\Release\FastLED\hsv2rgb.cpp.o" cuv2\Release\FastLED\lib8tion.cpp.o" cuv2\Release\FastLED\noise.cpp.o" cuv2\Release\FastLED\power_mgt.cpp.o" cuv2\Release\FastLED\wiring.cpp.o" cuv2\Release\FastLED_GFX\glcdfont.c.o" cuv2\Release\FastLED_GFX\FastLED_GFX.cpp.o" cuv2\Release\WiFiManager-master\WiFiManager.cpp.o" cuv2\Release\SettingsServer.cpp.o" cuv2\Release/core.a" -lm -lgcc -lhal -lphy -lpp -lnet80211 -lwpa -lcrypto -lmain -lwps -laxtls -lsmartconfig -lmesh -lwpa2 -llwip_gcc -lstdc++ -Wl,--end-group emcuv2\Release"
## recipe.objcopy.hex.pattern
"{runtime.tools.esptool.path}/esptool.exe" -eo /bootloaders/eboot/eboot.elf" -bo cuv2\Release/Funky_Control8266-jqm.ino.bin" -bm dio -bf 40 -bz 4M -bs .text -bp 4096 -ec -eo cuv2\Release/Funky_Control8266-jqm.ino.elf" -bs .irom0.text -bs .text -bs .data -bs .rodata -bc -ec
	Process: "{runtime.tools.esptool.path}\esptool.exe" -eo /bootloaders/eboot/eboot.elf" -bo cuv2\Release/Funky_Control8266-jqm.ino.bin" -bm dio -bf 40 -bz 4M -bs .text -bp 4096 -ec -eo cuv2\Release/Funky_Control8266-jqm.ino.elf" -bs .irom0.text -bs .text -bs .data -bs .rodata -bc -ec 

El sistema no puede encontrar el archivo especificado

Program Funky_Control8266-jqm size: 389.828 bytes (used 37% of a 1.044.464 byte maximum) (5,09 secs)
Minimum Memory Usage: 49072 bytes (60% of a 81920 byte maximum)

1)
Open the visual micro explorer and click the board manager tab. Then click rescan or restart the ide. does that work?

2)
Does it work from within the arduino ide?

other problem i see after update , is that Teensy does not appear any more   as an option for hardware

this is was i did, found that there were two folders named similar :
one 1.20.0-26-gb404fb9, which was empty
and one 1.20.0-26-gb404fb9-2
which had folders 

so i just copied the files form one to other ,
and that made the trick 

i think that the installation process somehow modified the folders ,  there are no other explanations .

as you suggested , probably deleting all , and installing again would have made it also , but now we have better idea of what happens .

tis

Thanks for the update.

I can assure you the install can't change any files, visual studio does not give it permission. You will see that a Visual Studio .vsix extension file is just a zip with a different extension. Visual Studio unpacks the zip but does not run any code.

What happened was that you always had the two folders caused by installing and update the esp core with early versions of the Arduino Board Manager. Later versions of both arduino and visual studio use the version numbers from disk more strictly than before. This is important for reliability but an annoying result is that a few users of early arduino 1.6 versions, like yourself, will encounter this issue and need to clean up the downloaded packages folder (like you have done).

it claims for some functions to be declared ( is a file order problem in arduino die ) , but shouldn't be a problem on VM 

The file order of .ino files is important. 

Why not zip your project and email to info[at]visualmicro.com.

Also switch on "vMicro>compiler>show build properties" and the "verbose" option then build and email the output as a .TXT file to info[at]visualmicro.com. Include a link to this post in the email.

Well done to get it working but I think we still need to understand what was going wrong.

Here is some information and some answers that might help us get closer or make it easier to observe the problem if it happens again...

I am not so sure your solution should change/fix anything. Arduino 1.6/1.8 and "Visual micro" should be identical for esp boards. It should only have an affect for users of standard arduino avr boards such as the Uno.

The long message is only because you have "Verbose" enabled on the vMicro>Compiler menu.

The Teensy boards are the only boards that install into the arduino ide folder. So if you change Ide then you have to reinstall.

Your project was building better than yesterday. The compiler tools were found correctly.

The problem this time was that the final tool used in the link could not be found. When you see these braces in the output, {tool name}, this means a tool location has not been resolved. In this case it is the esptool.exe location that can not be found.

Process: "{runtime.tools.esptool.path}\esptool.exe"

If the tool can not be found we ask windows to run an invalid file name. "{runtime.tools.esptool.path}\esptool.exe"

Windows then returns an error in your language which is why you were seeing a non-english error message.

Summary

When you have time please download the latest arduino ide from arduino.cc. Use the "admin install zip" and unpack into a new folder on your pc. Then in the visual micro <configuration manager> set the arduino 1.6/1.8 location to the folder where the arduino.exe you unzipped is located.

This will give us a clean arduino ide install. Then try visual micro with Arduino 1.6/1.8.

Thanks

i have started to receive this message :
Uploading 'Funky_Control8266-jqm' to 'NodeMCU 1.0 (ESP-12E Module)' using 'COM4'
Uploader started for board NodeMCU 1.0 (ESP-12E Module)
Upload method will be: bootloader
Uploading via Bootloader 
{runtime.tools.esptool.path}\esptool.exe -vv -cd nodemcu -cb 115200 -cp "COM4" -ca 0x00000 -cf IN
El sistema no puede encontrar el archivo especificado

it is similar to a problem we talked in the past, after that i did a clean install of IDE,. 
also i tested to upload using OTA, and it seams to work , no errors during compile or upload , but , the program itself do not get updated !! ,  the program running after upload is the same as before , 
so im lost here , 
appreciate your help as always .

gus

it seams the problem is how to setup this env variables
"{runtime.tools.esptool.path}\

i have tried  everything on the VM configuration , with no success .