Wifi Provisioning example in ESP-IDF-V5.0 not flashing onto chip

[karunt]

I'm using the ESP_DevKitC-v4 board which has a ESP-WROOM-32D chip. Trying to flash the wifi-provision example (from ESP-IDF-V5.0) on it fails. Here is the list of errors I get:

from C:/Users/User1/ESP/frameworks/esp-idf-v5.0/components/esp_http_client/lib/http_header.c:16:
C:/Users/User1/ESP/frameworks/esp-idf-v5.0/components/esp_http_client/lib/http_header.c:31:26: error: expected '{' before '(' token
31 | STAILQ_HEAD(http_header, (http_header_item));
| ^
C:/Users/User1/ESP/frameworks/esp-idf-v5.0/components/esp_http_client/lib/http_header.c: In function 'http_header_init':
C:/Users/User1/ESP/frameworks/esp-idf-v5.0/components/esp_http_client/lib/http_header.c:38:5: error: 'struct http_heade
' has no member named 'stqh_first'
38 | STAILQ_INIT(header);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~
C:/Users/User1/ESP/frameworks/esp-idf-v5.0/components/esp_http_client/lib/http_header.c:38:5: error: 'struct http_heade
' has no member named 'stqh_last'
38 | STAILQ_INIT(header);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~
C:/Users/User1/ESP/frameworks/esp-idf-v5.0/components/esp_http_client/lib/http_header.c:38:5: error: 'struct http_heade
' has no member named 'stqh_first'
38 | STAILQ_INIT(header);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~
C:/Users/User1/ESP/frameworks/esp-idf-v5.0/components/esp_http_client/lib/http_header.c: In function 'http_header_get_item':
C:/Users/User1/ESP/frameworks/esp-idf-v5.0/components/esp_http_client/lib/http_header.c:55:5: error: 'struct http_heade
' has no member named 'stqh_first'
55 | STAILQ_FOREACH(item, header, next) {
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
C:/Users/User1/ESP/frameworks/esp-idf-v5.0/components/esp_http_client/lib/http_header.c: In function 'http_header_new_item':
C:/Users/User1/ESP/frameworks/esp-idf-v5.0/components/esp_http_client/lib/http_header.c:90:5: error: 'struct http_heade
' has no member named 'stqh_last'
90 | STAILQ_INSERT_TAIL(header, item, next);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
C:/Users/User1/ESP/frameworks/esp-idf-v5.0/components/esp_http_client/lib/http_header.c:90:5: error: 'struct http_heade
' has no member named 'stqh_last'
90 | STAILQ_INSERT_TAIL(header, item, next);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
C:/Users/User1/ESP/frameworks/esp-idf-v5.0/components/esp_http_client/lib/http_header.c: In function 'http_header_delet
':
C:/Users/User1/ESP/frameworks/esp-idf-v5.0/components/esp_http_client/lib/http_header.c:142:9: error: 'struct http_header' has no member named 'stqh_first'
142 | STAILQ_REMOVE(header, item, http_header_item, next);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
C:/Users/User1/ESP/frameworks/esp-idf-v5.0/components/esp_http_client/lib/http_header.c:142:9: error: 'struct http_header' has no member named 'stqh_first'
142 | STAILQ_REMOVE(header, item, http_header_item, next);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
C:/Users/User1/ESP/frameworks/esp-idf-v5.0/components/esp_http_client/lib/http_header.c:142:9: error: 'struct http_header' has no member named 'stqh_first'
142 | STAILQ_REMOVE(header, item, http_header_item, next);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
C:/Users/User1/ESP/frameworks/esp-idf-v5.0/components/esp_http_client/lib/http_header.c:142:9: error: 'struct http_header' has no member named 'stqh_last'
142 | STAILQ_REMOVE(header, item, http_header_item, next);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
C:/Users/User1/ESP/frameworks/esp-idf-v5.0/components/esp_http_client/lib/http_header.c:142:9: error: 'struct http_header' has no member named 'stqh_first'
142 | STAILQ_REMOVE(header, item, http_header_item, next);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
C:/Users/User1/ESP/frameworks/esp-idf-v5.0/components/esp_http_client/lib/http_header.c:142:9: error: 'struct http_header' has no member named 'stqh_first'
142 | STAILQ_REMOVE(header, item, http_header_item, next);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
C:/Users/User1/ESP/frameworks/esp-idf-v5.0/components/esp_http_client/lib/http_header.c:142:9: error: 'struct http_header' has no member named 'stqh_last'
142 | STAILQ_REMOVE(header, item, http_header_item, next);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
C:/Users/User1/ESP/frameworks/esp-idf-v5.0/components/esp_http_client/lib/http_header.c: In function 'http_header_generate_string':
C:/Users/User1/ESP/frameworks/esp-idf-v5.0/components/esp_http_client/lib/http_header.c:179:5: error: 'struct http_header' has no member named 'stqh_first'
179 | STAILQ_FOREACH(item, header, next) {
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
C:/Users/User1/ESP/frameworks/esp-idf-v5.0/components/esp_http_client/lib/http_header.c:207:5: error: 'struct http_header' has no member named 'stqh_first'
207 | STAILQ_FOREACH(item, header, next) {
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
C:/Users/User1/ESP/frameworks/esp-idf-v5.0/components/esp_http_client/lib/http_header.c: In function 'http_header_clean':
C:/Users/User1/ESP/frameworks/esp-idf-v5.0/components/esp_http_client/lib/http_header.c:223:38: error: 'struct http_header' has no member named 'stqh_first'
223 | http_header_item_handle_t item = STAILQ_FIRST(header), tmp;
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~
C:/Users/User1/ESP/frameworks/esp-idf-v5.0/components/esp_http_client/lib/http_header.c:231:5: error: 'struct http_header' has no member named 'stqh_first'
231 | STAILQ_INIT(header);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~
C:/Users/User1/ESP/frameworks/esp-idf-v5.0/components/esp_http_client/lib/http_header.c:231:5: error: 'struct http_header' has no member named 'stqh_last'
231 | STAILQ_INIT(header);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~
C:/Users/User1/ESP/frameworks/esp-idf-v5.0/components/esp_http_client/lib/http_header.c:231:5: error: 'struct http_header' has no member named 'stqh_first'
231 | STAILQ_INIT(header);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~
C:/Users/User1/ESP/frameworks/esp-idf-v5.0/components/esp_http_client/lib/http_header.c: In function 'http_header_count':
C:/Users/User1/ESP/frameworks/esp-idf-v5.0/components/esp_http_client/lib/http_header.c:239:5: error: 'struct http_header' has no member named 'stqh_first'
239 | STAILQ_FOREACH(item, header, next) {
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[3/364] Building C object esp-idf/esp_http_client/CMakeFiles/__idf_esp_http_client.dir/lib/http_auth.c.obj
[4/364] Building C object esp-idf/esp_http_server/CMakeFiles/__idf_esp_http_server.dir/src/httpd_txrx.c.obj
[5/364] Building C object esp-idf/esp_http_server/CMakeFiles/__idf_esp_http_server.dir/src/httpd_sess.c.obj
[6/364] Building C object esp-idf/esp_http_server/CMakeFiles/__idf_esp_http_server.dir/src/httpd_main.c.obj
[7/364] Building C object esp-idf/esp_http_server/CMakeFiles/__idf_esp_http_server.dir/src/httpd_parse.c.obj
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
ninja failed with exit code 1, output of the command is in the c:\users\User1\esp\frameworks\esp-idf-v5.0\examples\provisioning\wifi_prov_mgr\build\log\idf_py_stderr_output_38696 and c:\users\User1\esp\frameworks\esp-idf-v5.0\examples\provisioning\wifi_prov_mgr\build\log\idf_py_stdout_output_38696

I never had this issue when I was using ESP-IDF versions 3 or 4. Wondering if this has got anything to do with how my ESP-IDF is set up. I've installed ESP-IDF in

C:/Users/User1/ESP

, which then includes folders

tools

and

frameworks

, among others. For user environment variables, I've defined IDF_TOOLS_PATH to be

C:/Users/User1/ESP

. I've also added

C:/Users/User1/ESP/tools

to the system environment variable "Path". When I start a new ESP-IDF powershell, it sets IDF-PATH to

C:/Users/User1/ESP/frameworks/esp-idf-v5.0

. Anything that's incorrect about this set up that might be causing the errors shown above?

I also get the following message (not an error though) when the code performs build step for bootloader:

Bootloader binary size 0x6710 bytes. 0x8f0 bytes (8%) free.

Does this indicate some sort of memory shortage which might be causing the error above and preventing the program from successfully flashing onto the chip? I would think not, but I'm no expert in this arena.

Any idea what the issue might be or how to resolve it? I'm at a loss. Thank you.

[mbratch]

It's a compiling problem, not a flashing problem.

It looks like when you moved to ESP-IDF v5 you didn't install your environment correctly. It's difficult to tell what's wrong without knowing your environment in detail, and knowing how you installed it and configured it.

[karunt]

Issue resolved. Re-installed ESP-IDF with VSCode and it works as expected now.