Dart-code: Could not find a Flutter SDK. Please ensure flutter is installed and in your PATH (you may need to restart).

[astannard]

Running windows 10,
I downloaded the flutter SDK and ran doctor, the doctor states all is good.
When trying to run the dart code Flutter: New Project command it gives the following error:
Could not find a Flutter SDK. Please ensure flutter is installed and in your PATH (you may need to restart).

I can confirm flutter is on my path, and I have restarted. After digging through your repo I also tried adding a FLUTTER_ROOT to my environment variables but this made no difference.

flutter is working from the command line

[PromoFaux]

Can confirm

[FBloembergen]

Have the same problem. Running on mac, doctor states all is fine.

[DanTup]

Sorry about this - I believe you're hitting #624 and/or #630. Please upgrade to v2.9.2 and try again and let me know if you see the same issues.

Note: Windows seems bad about updating PATHs, so if you've added to your path and launch Code from explorer without rebooting, it's possible it won't be given to us, so if you still see issues with v2.9.2 after restarting Code, try a reboot (sorry!).

[DanTup]

Note: With the fixes, you should only need flutter in your path, you shouldn't need FLUTTER_ROOT or any VS Code settings set explicitly. Let me know how it goes!

[PromoFaux]

🎉

[FBloembergen]

Fixed it for me @DanTup !

[PromoFaux]

Launching lib\main.dart on Pixel XL in debug mode...
Exited (sigterm)

But that's another issue, I've probably got something set up wrong

[DanTup]

Excellent, thanks for confirming!

@PromoFaux Feel free to raise another issue (or grab me in Gitter and we can try to debug. It's worth also trying to run with flutter run from the terminal to see whether it gives any more info (I think there's a --verbose flag that may help).

[wilk3ns]

Same here on Ubuntu 17.10! Path is set, dart extension version is 2.9.2 but couldn't find SDK!

[DanTup]

@wilk3ns Can you confirm which SDK the message mentions (Dart or Flutter)? Can you try launching code from the terminal (code) immediately after running flutter to show it on PATH?

As a quick fix, you can set the dart.flutterSdkPath path to your Flutter SDK.

In an upcoming version we'll provide some logging of the search paths, but it's most likely that the PATH being sent to Code is stale and doesn't include flutter. You should try rebooting if you haven't already.

[DanTup]

Another option to debug this is to clone this repo, open it in VS Code, put a breakpoint in the findSdks function in utils.ts and then press F5 and try to open a Flutter project (or run Flutter: Create New). You can then examine process.env.PATH and see exactly what PATH has been passed into Code.

[astannard]

All working now thanks!! Great tool thank you!

[DanTup]

Good to hear!

For vNext I'm gonna update the error message to have a "Locate SDK" button that will let you just browser to the SDK in a folder picker. This should make it easier for people than figuring out why their PATH updates aren't working (it seems to be a bit of a minefield). See #628.

[DanTup]

For anyone still having path issues, please try v2.10.0 Beta 1 of Dart Code and it should now allow you to easily select the SDK folder from the error message.

[wilk3ns]

@DanTup Thanks! launching code directly after adding path looks to be working. Was able to create project and deploy. But unfortunately no other command is available in command palette but "Flutter: New Project"

[DanTup]

@wilk3ns Many of the Flutter commands only appear when Dart Code thinks you have a Flutter project open. We don't currently look in sub-folders so it needs to be a root (either the main open folder, or you can add a sub-folder as an additional root with File -> Add Folder to Workspace).

You can tell when Dart Code thinks you have a flutter project open as the active device will be shown in the bottom right corner of the status bar.

LMK if you have issues!

[wilk3ns]

@DanTup thank you for quick response! now i figured out path somehow failed to be saved in bashrc, added manually and now it works every time. And adding folder fixed command issue as well

[rayjadore]

flutter commands dont work on my ubuntu terminals have tried to confugure .bashrc and .zshrc but to no avail

[DanTup]

@rayjadore If you're getting the message about the SDK not being found, please click the "View Log" button and review the places being searched. It's possible that how you're setting PATH is not a way that's visible to Code.

If you're seeing something different, please open a new issue with more details.

[Wellvergton]

Following what @DanTup said works on Ubuntu 18.04.

[locomuco]

same issue still happening on:

ubuntu 19.04
vscode 1.37.1
dart/flutter 3.3.0

workaround:
add to user settings.json

"dart.flutterSdkPath": " 'path to sdk' /flutter/bin"

[DanTup]

This issue is very old, so I'm not sure what exactly is still happening. There is a bug in the current live version that stops the "Locate SDK" button saving correctly - that's fixed for vNext. If you're having issues other than that, please open a new issue with specific details and I'll take a look. Thanks!