Arduino: Folder of SoftwareSerial are empty in Windows 10

[lrmoreno007]

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Platform

• Hardware: [NodeMCU v.1]
• Core Version: [latest git]
• Development Env: [Arduino IDE]
• Operating System: [Windows 10 1809]

Settings in IDE

• Module: [Nodemcu]
• lwip Variant: [v2 Higher Bandwidth]
• Reset Method: [nodemcu]
• Flash Frequency: [40Mhz]
• CPU Frequency: [80Mhz]
• Upload Using: [OTA]

Problem Description

Folder esp8266com\esp8266\libraries\SoftwareSerial are empty in Windows 10.

I receive the following message in Arduino IDE:
Librería inválida encontrada en C:\Users\XXXXXX\Documents\Arduino\hardware\esp8266com\esp8266\libraries\SoftwareSerial: no headers files (.h) found in C:\Users\XXXXXX\Documents\Arduino\hardware\esp8266com\esp8266\libraries\SoftwareSerial

I inspect the github repository and found that the folder is called: "SoftwareSerial @ 23ae000" and isn't empty.

[Pablo2048]

It's because the SoftwareSerial is git submodule see https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino/issues/3880 and https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino/issues/3596

[devyte]

Note: need to update git install doc

[lrmoreno007]

@Pablo2048 Thanks!! it's solved with: git submodule update --init --recursive

I update:
https://github.com/lrmoreno007/ESP-Easy-Updater-for-Windows

@devyte yes, update doc is needed.

And excuse me, I did a search for this topic only in opened issues.

[phrxmd]

I also got bitten by this. Here's a pull request with a fix for the documentation: #5602.