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I am attempting to reset my broken IDF configuration on Windows 11. Steps I have performed for removal:

• uninstall vscode IDF extension

• delete vscode IDF extension settings in user settings.json

• remove $HOME/.espressif and $HOME/esp directories

Upon "express" reinstallation, IDF is still non-functional. Builds fail with no errors, menuconfig will not open, etc.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

IDF Doctor:

---------------------------------------------- ESP-IDF Extension for Visual Studio Code report ---------------------------------------------
OS win32 x64 10.0.22621
System environment variable IDF_PYTHON_ENV_PATH
undefined
System environment variable PATH
C:\Program Files\Python311\Scripts\;C:\Program Files\Python311\;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\WINDOWS\System32\OpenSSH\;C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2022b\bin;C:\Program Files\dotnet\;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;C:<HOMEPATH>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;C:<HOMEPATH>\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin;C:<HOMEPATH>\.dotnet\tools;C:<HOMEPATH>\AppData\Local\GitHubDesktop\bin
System environment variable PYTHON
undefined
Visual Studio Code version 1.74.3
Visual Studio Code language en
Visual Studio Code shell C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
ESP-IDF Extension version 1.5.1
Workspace folder c:\Repos\bluetooth-test3
---------------------------------------------------- Extension configuration settings ------------------------------------------------------
ESP-ADF Path (idf.espAdfPath) ${env:ADF_PATH}
ESP-IDF Path (idf.espIdfPath) c:<HOMEPATH>\esp\esp-idf\
ESP-MDF Path (idf.espMdfPath) ${env:MDF_PATH}
ESP-Matter Path (idf.espMatterPath) ${env:ESP_MATTER_PATH}
Custom extra paths (idf.customExtraPaths) C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\tools\xtensa-esp-elf-gdb\11.2_20220823\xtensa-esp-elf-gdb\bin;C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\tools\riscv32-esp-elf-gdb\11.2_20220823\riscv32-esp-elf-gdb\bin;C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\tools\xtensa-esp32-elf\esp-2022r1-11.2.0\xtensa-esp32-elf\bin;C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\tools\xtensa-esp32s2-elf\esp-2022r1-11.2.0\xtensa-esp32s2-elf\bin;C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\tools\xtensa-esp32s3-elf\esp-2022r1-11.2.0\xtensa-esp32s3-elf\bin;C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\tools\riscv32-esp-elf\esp-2022r1-11.2.0\riscv32-esp-elf\bin;C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\tools\esp32ulp-elf\2.35_20220830\esp32ulp-elf\bin;C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\tools\cmake\3.24.0\bin;C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\tools\openocd-esp32\v0.11.0-esp32-20221026\openocd-esp32\bin;C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\tools\ninja\1.10.2;C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\tools\idf-exe\1.0.3;C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\tools\ccache\4.6.2\ccache-4.6.2-windows-x86_64;C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\tools\dfu-util\0.9\dfu-util-0.9-win64
Custom extra vars (idf.customExtraVars) {"OPENOCD_SCRIPTS":"C:\\Users\\someUser\\.espressif\\tools\\openocd-esp32\\v0.11.0-esp32-20221026/openocd-esp32/share/openocd/scripts","IDF_CCACHE_ENABLE":"1"}
Virtual env Python Path (idf.pythonBinPath) C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\python_env\idf5.0_py3.8_env\Scripts\python.exe
Serial port (idf.port) COM5
OpenOCD Configs (idf.openOcdConfigs) board/esp32c3-builtin.cfg
ESP-IDF Tools Path (idf.toolsPath) C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\idf-tools\
Git Path (idf.gitPath) C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\idf-tools\tools\idf-git\2.30.1\cmd\git.exe
-------------------------------------------------------- Configurations access -------------------------------------------------------------
Access to ESP-ADF Path (idf.espAdfPath) false
Access to ESP-IDF Path (idf.espIdfPath) true
Access to ESP-MDF Path (idf.espMdfPath) false
Access to ESP-Matter Path (idf.espMatterPath) false
Access to ESP-IDF Custom extra paths
Access to C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\tools\xtensa-esp-elf-gdb\11.2_20220823\xtensa-esp-elf-gdb\bin: false
Access to C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\tools\riscv32-esp-elf-gdb\11.2_20220823\riscv32-esp-elf-gdb\bin: false
Access to C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\tools\xtensa-esp32-elf\esp-2022r1-11.2.0\xtensa-esp32-elf\bin: false
Access to C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\tools\xtensa-esp32s2-elf\esp-2022r1-11.2.0\xtensa-esp32s2-elf\bin: false
Access to C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\tools\xtensa-esp32s3-elf\esp-2022r1-11.2.0\xtensa-esp32s3-elf\bin: false
Access to C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\tools\riscv32-esp-elf\esp-2022r1-11.2.0\riscv32-esp-elf\bin: false
Access to C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\tools\esp32ulp-elf\2.35_20220830\esp32ulp-elf\bin: false
Access to C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\tools\cmake\3.24.0\bin: false
Access to C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\tools\openocd-esp32\v0.11.0-esp32-20221026\openocd-esp32\bin: false
Access to C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\tools\ninja\1.10.2: false
Access to C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\tools\idf-exe\1.0.3: false
Access to C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\tools\ccache\4.6.2\ccache-4.6.2-windows-x86_64: false
Access to C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\tools\dfu-util\0.9\dfu-util-0.9-win64: false
Access to Virtual env Python Path (idf.pythonBinPath) false
Access to CMake in environment PATH undefined
Access to Ninja in environment PATH undefined
Access to ESP-IDF Tools Path (idf.toolsPath) true
-------------------------------------------------------- Configurations has spaces -------------------------------------------------------------
Spaces in system environment Path true
Spaces in ESP-ADF Path (idf.espAdfPath) false
Spaces in ESP-IDF Path (idf.espIdfPath) false
Spaces in ESP-MDF Path (idf.espMdfPath) false
Spaces in ESP-Matter Path (idf.espMatterPath) false
Spaces in ESP-IDF Custom extra paths
Spaces in C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\tools\xtensa-esp-elf-gdb\11.2_20220823\xtensa-esp-elf-gdb\bin: false
Spaces in C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\tools\riscv32-esp-elf-gdb\11.2_20220823\riscv32-esp-elf-gdb\bin: false
Spaces in C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\tools\xtensa-esp32-elf\esp-2022r1-11.2.0\xtensa-esp32-elf\bin: false
Spaces in C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\tools\xtensa-esp32s2-elf\esp-2022r1-11.2.0\xtensa-esp32s2-elf\bin: false
Spaces in C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\tools\xtensa-esp32s3-elf\esp-2022r1-11.2.0\xtensa-esp32s3-elf\bin: false
Spaces in C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\tools\riscv32-esp-elf\esp-2022r1-11.2.0\riscv32-esp-elf\bin: false
Spaces in C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\tools\esp32ulp-elf\2.35_20220830\esp32ulp-elf\bin: false
Spaces in C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\tools\cmake\3.24.0\bin: false
Spaces in C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\tools\openocd-esp32\v0.11.0-esp32-20221026\openocd-esp32\bin: false
Spaces in C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\tools\ninja\1.10.2: false
Spaces in C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\tools\idf-exe\1.0.3: false
Spaces in C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\tools\ccache\4.6.2\ccache-4.6.2-windows-x86_64: false
Spaces in C:<HOMEPATH>\.espressif\tools\dfu-util\0.9\dfu-util-0.9-win64: false
Spaces in Virtual env Python Path (idf.pythonBinPath) false
Spaces in ESP-IDF Tools Path (idf.toolsPath) false
----------------------------------------------------------- Executables Versions -----------------------------------------------------------
Git version 2.30.1.windows.1
ESP-IDF version 5.0
Python version Not found
Python's pip version Not found
-------------------------------------------------- Python packages in idf.pythonBinPath ----------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------- Check ESP-IDF python requirements.txt -------------------------------------------------
Check ESP-IDF Python packages undefined
---------------------------------------------------- Check extension requirements.txt ------------------------------------------------------
Check Extension Python packages undefined
---------------------------------------------------- Check ESP-IDF debug adapter requirements.txt ------------------------------------------
Check Debug AdapterPython packages undefined
----------------------------------------------------------- Latest error -----------------------------------------------------------------
Latest error at Unknown error in ESP-IDF doctor command
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System environment variable IDF_PYTHON_ENV_PATH
undefined

System environment variable PYTHON
undefined

Those paths undefined. Looks like script can not find Python, because you installed it separately.

>Configurations has spaces
<HOMEPATH>

Perhaps your windows user name looks like: COOL USER.
Haven't experienced this, but it might be a problem.

You can try to:
a) Perform a windows refresh - this will overwrite all your data and reset system settings;
b) Create a new windows user. But there might be your unresolved PATH issue.
Do not use SPACE in windows user name.