ESP32 Forum

Hello,

I checked out my new ESP32-WROOM yesterday and it didn't go smooth.
I installed VSCode Espressif IDF extension and properly set it up with ESP-IDF V4.2, Python 3.9, git, cmake. but things didn't work for me out of the box since I got the compilation error: I believed it's something with my environment, so I went to this forum and checked out the posts.
I tried walking through the video someone posted in this forum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IuZ-E8 ... nnel=YuriR, it worked when using ESP-IDF command prompt, the "blink" example project compiled properly. However, when I created the "blink" project from "ESP-IDF: Show Example Projects" and creating a new "blink" project through it, when compiling, I still get the same error I got at the first place in VSCode: which caused the build to fail.

Do you have any idea what went wrong with VSCode?

Thank you,
Matan

Hey Matan. Can you provide the steps you used to get this error?

Did you make sure to build the project after creating the project with ESP-IDF: Build your project.

Maybe you are trying to build from a container folder instead of the project folder itself ? In Visual Studio Code, open <my_project_path>/blink instead of <my_project_path> ?

Hi, I did use the espressif extension build action. As can be seen in the compiler error it builds from inside the project folder rather than its container: I believe it has to do with the paths visual studio code uses. However, I changed the workspace according to the instructions in the mentioned video, and I saw it changing since the VSCode console changed from powershell to cmd running the exports.bat script.

I figured out the problem was that the path was C:\...\Google Drive which has a space, the Espressif extension has a bug in which a space in the project dir won't be parsed correctly. Moved it to a dir with no space and it was solved.

Thanks Matani! I was having the same problem and there was indeed a space in my path that was causing my trouble...