pioarduino/platform-espressif32

Potential conflict with ESP-IDF env vars

kjkent opened this issue · 4 comments

kjkent commented

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION

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As I sometimes use ESP-IDF outside of platformio and pioarduino, I have the following environment variables set as I want to keep as many dotfiles/dotfolders outside of $HOME:

  • `IDF_PATH='/home/kjkent/.local/share/esp/idf/v5.5/idf'
  • `IDF_TOOLS_PATH='/home/kjkent/.local/share/esp/tools'

Since switching to pioarduino from platformio's espressif32 platform, I've encountered the bug described in #208 (configuration and build failures including idf_tools.py installation failed, xtensa-esp32-elf-g++: not found). I had tried the suggestions in that issue; mainly deleting the contents of PLATFORMIO_CORE_DIR, PLATFORMIO_PACKAGES_DIR

Perhaps this is related to the existing environment host environment; so, I unset IDF_PATH and IDF_TOOLS_PATH and restarted VS Code (I am using PlatformIO IDE), and the toolchain installation completed successfully, including tool-esptoolpy.

TO REPRODUCE

  1. With the environment variables IDF_PATH=$HOME/<path> and IDF_TOOLS_PATH=$HOME/<path> exported, launch VS Code from a terminal using code. If VS Code is launched from its .desktop file, it inherits the systemd user activation environment, and so would need dbus-update-activation-environment --systemd --all following env var export to be picked up by VS Code.

  2. Create a new project in PlatformIO IDE, with the following platformio.ini:

[env:freenove_esp32_s3_wroom]
platform = https://github.com/pioarduino/platform-espressif32/releases/download/55.03.30-2/platform-espressif32.zip
framework = arduino

  1. Attempt to build a project. In my case, I was attempting to build https://github.com/s60sc/ESP32-CAM_MJPEG2SD

  2. Failures in installing the toolchain are observed, with tool-esptoolpy failing to install.

  3. Restart VS Code without IDF_TOOLS_PATH and IDF_PATH in environment

  4. Toolchain installs successfully on PlatformIO startup.

EXPECTED BEHAVIOUR

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PlatformIO / pioarduino checks for and unsets these environment variables within its scripts to avoid conflict with ESP-IDF installations and associated environment variables.

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ADDITIONAL CONTEXT

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Machine specs:

OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Kernel: Linux 6.16.1-zen1-1-zen
Shell: fish 4.0.2
WM: Hyprland 0.50.1 (Wayland)
Terminal: WezTerm 20250730-195751-6a493f88
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (12) @ 4.21 GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti [Discrete]
Locale: en_GB.UTF-8

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Jason2866 commented

fixed in branch develop

kjkent commented

@Jason2866 that was fast! :D

Jason2866 commented

it is fixed since #236

kjkent commented

@Jason2866 whoops, apologies for not spotting that! I'll close this now.