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Migrating to Visual Micro from Visual Studio Code
Nov 16th, 2018 at 4:04pm
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hello,

I've got an arduino project that I've been building with Visual Studio code. It's composed of a library project and the sketch project, both in the standard arduino locations (documents/arduino/libraries and documents/arduino respectively).

The library references several other libraries, many of them from adafruit, which also live in the libraries folder. The library I made conforms to the arduino standard and has a library.properties file, src directory, and a .h file for the library itself. My source code is organized into sub-directories of the the src directory. You can see this project in my github repository: https://github.com/SirkleZero/workshop-climate-lib

My sketch is located at documents/arduino and is pretty straight forward. It references my custom library that I've made and has some simple functionality. You can find my sketch project in this github repository: https://github.com/SirkleZero/workshop-climate-controller

Background on the project structure aside, I'd like to use Visual Studio / Visual Micro since I use Visual Studio professionally and am much more comfortable with it's features. Unfortunately, I'm having a great deal of difficulty getting my project to compile in Visual Micro. For clarity sake, compiling with the native arduino ide and with Visual Studio Code work perfectly fine.

Here's what I've tried:
  1. Open my ino file with visual micro, and create a project from it when I'm asked. This compiles awesome!
  2. Next, to be able to edit my library files in the same IDE, add my custom library by clicking on Add Library, picking my library, and checking the Create Shared Project option. This also compiles perfectly fine, but obviously doesn't have any intellisense. As a side note, when it adds my files to the shared library project I loose my nice folder structure under src, and see my files all at the root of the project. Kinda sucky, but it works.
  3. Finally, to get intellisense working, I create a reference in my sketch project to my shared library project, and this is where things fall apart. Intellisense works perfectly fine, however I can no longer compile the project. For example, I get the following error: "Adafruit_SSD1306.h: No such file or directory" on my line where I'm including that library, "#include <Adafruit_SSD1306.h>"


I'm stumped by this last bit, where things stop compiling. I've attached the verbose build output, but I'm struggling to find where it's falling down.

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
  
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Re: Migrating to Visual Micro from Visual Studio Code
Reply #1 - Nov 16th, 2018 at 7:40pm
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Hi

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As a side note, when it adds my files to the shared library project I loose my nice folder structure under src, and see my files all at the root of the project. Kinda sucky, but it works.


Visual studio has a small icon above the solution explorer called "Show all files". The button toggles between physical file/folder view and collective view. You are currently in "Collective View" pls click the button.



Which board do you have?
  
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Reply #2 - Nov 16th, 2018 at 11:29pm
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Current board is an Adafruit Feather M0 WiFi.

thanks for the tip on the Collective View feature, I missed that!
  
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Reply #3 - Nov 17th, 2018 at 6:11pm
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Thanks for the report, I missed your build output in your first post which shows your board. 

The issue is that deep search is failing to scan shared libraries. Therefore is not automatically discovering and resolving library #includes referenced in the cpp code.

As a workaround before the next release you can force libraries to be discovered by adding an #include for them in the  sketch.ino or a cpp file of the main project

For example this .ino code allows your lib to compile.

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//.ino code
#include <ArduinoHttpClient.h>
#include <AdafruitIO_WiFi.h>
#include <AdafruitIO_MQTT.h>
#include <AdafruitIO.h>
#include <Adafruit_ILI9341.h>
#include <SD.h>
#include <ArduinoJson.hpp>
#include <ArduinoJson.h>
#include <Adafruit_Sensor.h>
#include <ArduinoHttpClient.h>
#include <Adafruit_BME280.h>
#include <SPI.h>
#include <Wire.h>
#include <Adafruit_GFX.h>
#include <Adafruit_SSD1306.h>
#include <RH_RF69.h>
#include <RHReliableDatagram.h>
#include <workshop-climate-lib.h>

void setup()
{


}

// Add the main program code into the continuous loop() function
void loop()
{


}

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Reply #4 - Nov 18th, 2018 at 3:58pm
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As a workaround before the next release you can force libraries to be discovered by adding an #include for them in the  sketch.ino or a cpp file of the main project


That will work for now, I'll give it a shot tonight!

Did I find a defect by chance? I thought I was going a bit crazy there for a moment! If so, this was on Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition.
  
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Reply #5 - Nov 19th, 2018 at 1:03pm
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Sorry forgot to update this thread to say there is an interim release with a fix in the latest thread here

https://www.visualmicro.com/forums/YaBB.pl?board=VS_ARDUINO_EXT_RELEASES

Yes, it was a bug when accessing other libraries that are not shared lib projects from within the code of a shared lib project if the "other libs" were not also used within the main sketch/project code.

A useful reports thanks!
  
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Reply #6 - Nov 24th, 2018 at 11:12pm
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Sorry I made a mistake. The change was not in 1811.17 it is now in the "work in progress" section 1811.24

The update discovers external lib references in shared libs that are not referenced from project code, also support debug of shared library cpp code.
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