Platformio-vscode-ide: Build run forever (vscode insiders 1.22.0)

[jbeaudoin11]

Temporary solution

This is a known bug in VSCode 1.22 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/47350

Please downgrade to VSCode 1.21 using https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_21 and "Download" links

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Hi !

Every time i try to build in vscode insiders 1.22.0 the build is just running forever like it's frozen :

I can't even ctrl+c to end it.. it doesn't response..
Tried with the latest stable build of vscode 1.21.1 and it works as expected.

Version 1.22.0-insider
Commit 9160e85b1ab0333dfe697032f90da494f1f81fd4
Date 2018-03-16T06:17:01.718Z
Shell 1.7.9
Renderer 58.0.3029.110
Node 7.9.0
Architecture x64

[chenjingyuanku]

I have the same problem as you。

[jbeaudoin11]

Actually it's every task.. not just build.
But yeah it's pretty annoying i need to use vs code 1.21 instead

[Super169]

I have the same issue with vscode 1.22.1, it has generated a wrong command for build & upload

If I enter "platformio run" in terminal, it can build the project correctly. So the installation of platformio is correct.

But when I press Ctrl-Alt-B, it will generate the command as "< source path >\platformio.exe run", which cannot build the project.

[jbeaudoin11]

Yeah i noticed that !

[ivankravets]

So, the issue is linked with VSCode. Let's wait for their comments on that. See https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/47350#issuecomment-379400211

[cyberman54]

same issue here.

[ivankravets]

See updated comment https://github.com/platformio/platformio-vscode-ide/issues/97#issue-306200533 for a temporary solution.

[dbaeumer]

@ivankravets Sorry for that. I investigated and I know what broke it. See https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/47350#issuecomment-379661343

I will work on a fix and will add the fix to our next recovery build. There is something in the Platform IO extension you can do to work around this bug which brings the fix faster to your customers. Simply make the path to the platformio.exe absolute (only needed under Windows). Then the findExecutable code used to find a executable on a Path under Windows is not executed (under Linux and Mac the code never executed since the OS finds an executable on the path). On line https://github.com/platformio/platformio-vscode-ide/blob/develop/src/tasks.js#L261 path.join platformio.exe with the install location of Platform IO which on my machine is C:\Users\dirkb\.platformio\penv\Scripts

I apologize for the swirl that this is causing.

[dbaeumer]

Alternatively the users of the Platform IO extension could add the path to the 'Scripts' to their path environment variable.

I started to debug why this is broken and the problem is that I when VS Code tries to find the executable the C:\Users\dirkb\.platformio\penv\Scripts is not on the PATH in my system (e.g. the renderer) but it is in the terminal. Need to understand why this is the case.

[dbaeumer]

I delivered a fix to master which will be included in the next insider build. I will also propose the fix to be included in the next recovery build.

[dbaeumer]

We decided to include the fix into the recovery build. However I still recommend that the Platfrom IO extension makes the path absolute since it might take a couple of days before the recovery build is released.

[ivankravets]

Please upgrade to v0.14.1. The temporary workaround was added.

[dbaeumer]

@ivankravets thanks for releasing a workaround. Appreciated!

[ivankravets]

@dbaeumer Thank you too! We can't wait for a new Tasks API when it will be released. I saw it in Insider version.