Unable to launch debug in VSCode ESP-IDF ext with system-installed openocd

[xgaroux]

Hi! I am facing the following problem:

I have installed ESP-IDF extension for VSCode with downloading all tools. It successfully installed, but in last step on checking tools was some error with openocd not found. I checked - it exist in .espressif/tools/openocd-esp32/v0.10.0-esp32-20191114 directory (I use Linux). This is first sign about some troubles.. But problem in other and previous fact is consequence of it:

I have already installed openocd in my system for other work purposes. It installed globally in system. So main problem is that when I start debug session ESP-IDF extension tries to launch system openocd version but not openocd-esp32. I tried add OPENOCD_BIN path variable in extension settings "Custom Extra Vars" section but have no result.

Could somebody help me to with it? How I can "tell" ESP-IDF extension to use its own openocd but not system version?

Thanks in advance, Michael.

[ESP_bignacio]

Can you make sure that openOCD bin folder is in Custom Extra Paths ? Should be something like (/home/username/.espressif/tools/openocd-esp32/v0.10.0-esp32-20191114/bin)

Are you using PlatformIO ? If so try to disable it and try again to see if it works.

[xgaroux]

My Custom Extra Paths look like this:

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/home/user/.espressif/python_env/idf4.1_py3.8_env/bin:/usr/bin:/home/user/.espressif/tools/xtensa-esp32-elf/esp-2020r2-8.2.0/xtensa-esp32-elf/bin:/home/user/.espressif/tools/xtensa-esp32s2-elf/esp-2020r2-8.2.0/xtensa-esp32s2-elf/bin:/home/user/.espressif/tools/esp32ulp-elf/2.28.51-esp-20191205/esp32ulp-elf-binutils/bin:/home/user/.espressif/tools/esp32s2ulp-elf/2.28.51-esp-20191205/esp32s2ulp-elf-binutils/bin:/home/user/.espressif/tools/openocd-esp32/v0.10.0-esp32-20191114/openocd-esp32/bin

When I write answer I noticed that directory "/usr/bin" appears early than "/home/user/.espressif/tools/openocd-esp32/v0.10.0-esp32-20191114/openocd-esp32/bin". So first founded "openocd" binary was taken from /usr/bin. When I moved /usr/bin in the end of path string (after openocd-esp32 path) - problem was solved!

Also answer for second part of question - I don't use PlatformIO.

Thank you for answer! As is often the case, an outside perspective helps to identify the problem

But it should be noted that this Custom Extra Paths string was generated by VSCode ESP-IDF extension itself. I don't touch it before now. May be it should be checked in extension to change order of path string elements?

[ESP_bignacio]

Thank you for your feedback. We were adding in the extension to find system python but we are remaking the extension setup and we removed this from path.