Platformio-vscode-ide: Platformio extension missing from Vscodium and code-oss

[LaBus3]

Last checked on 4:39:24 PM July 18, 2020 GMT. Available and working on mainstream vscode builds.

Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS

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[nicoduck]

This is still the case. Installaing PlatformIO manually from brings up more errors, some cpp dependencies cannot be found.

[ghost]

It seems like platformio-vscode-ide depends on some extension called ms-vscode.cpptool which is not available in the OSS version, but only in the proprietary Microsoft release. This is very unfortunate and should be resolved so Code OSS users can install PlatformIO.

[ghost]

For completeness, this is the message shown when trying to install the extension on Code OSS manually:

Cannot activate the 'PlatformIO IDE' extension because it depends on an unknown 'ms-vscode.cpptools' extension .

[ghost]

Can someone please remove the stale label and reopen this issue, thanks!

As for a workaround that seems to work for me:

• Install the extension from file
• Open ~/.vscode-oss/extensions/platformio.platformio-ide-2.1.0/package.json
• At the end of the file remove ms-vscode.cpptools from extensionDependencies
• Restart Code and select the PlatfromIO extension to activate it

[clwillingham]

can confirm, removing ms-vscode.cpptools from extensionDependencies works. would this break anything? looking at git blame suggests it was added for the PIO Unified debugger. could anyone who uses this feature test whether that feature still needs that file?
[EDIT]
nevermind, spoke to soon, stuff breaks when you try to create a project. It would seem that ms-vscode.cpptools is required after all.

[miguelpduarte]

I am also facing this issue right now. When searching or using the ext install command directly, the extension is not found.