[PaulMartinsen]

I hit this problem too, on (Help → About VisualGDB) version 5.6R9 (build 4769) , purchased on 11 Feb this year. I was pleased to find there is already solution.

However, I’m not sure how I’m supposed to find the latest version of VisualGDB in general?

• Visual Studio doesn’t report any updates are available for this add-in,
• Your e-commerce emails don’t provide any download links,
• Your download page supplies version 5.6.109.4777, the same version used by the OP, with this problem
• This page has a direct link to version 5.6.109.4807, though that doesn’t seem to be the latest version either as builds 4808, 4809, and perhaps others, also are available.

Would you mind clarifying how we are supposed to learn about updates and where the latest version, now and in the future, can be obtained please?

Ah, it looks like a number larger than the latest build might return the latest build. Is this the recommended approach?

 

[PaulMartinsen]

I suspect the problem is that IDF_TOOLS_PATH isn’t treated consistently. Whether by Espressif’s tools or VisualGBD I’m not sure. But I noticed that running install.bat created a python environment at the path set by IDF_TOOLS_PATH, but that wasn’t where VisualGDB was looking for it during the configuration phase. Removing the Espressif toolset and running the install.bat from VisualGDB toolchain location resolved the problem at the expense of expanding the user’s profile folder by nearly 3GB.

[PaulMartinsen]

Hi,

I’m receiving the following error when trying to use the v5 toolchain with VisualGDB:

-- Building ESP-IDF components for target esp32
-- Checking Python dependencies...
ERROR: C:\Users\Paul\.espressif\python_env\idf5.0_py3.8_env\Scripts\python.exe doesn't exist! Please run the install script or "idf_tools.py install-python-env" in order to create it
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "Software/EmbeddedProject3/EmbeddedProject3/build/VisualGDB/Debug/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
CMake Error at C:/Programming/Languages/VisualGDBTools/ESP32/v5/esp-idf/v5.0/tools/cmake/build.cmake:342 (message):
Some Python dependencies must be installed. Check above message for
details.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
C:/Programming/Languages/VisualGDBTools/ESP32/v5/esp-idf/v5.0/tools/cmake/build.cmake:480 (__build_check_python)
C:/Programming/Languages/VisualGDBTools/ESP32/v5/esp-idf/v5.0/tools/cmake/project.cmake:440 (idf_build_process)
CMakeLists.txt:6 (project)

System.Exception: CMake exited with code 1
at e43.l(n b, Object a)

This error occurs immediately after creating a new ESP32 project using the v5 toolchain, which would make it a “configuration phase” problem.

I got to this by:

1. installing the trial from https://sysprogs.com/getfile/1914/VisualGDB-5.6r8-trial.msi, which setup and downloaded the 4.4.1 version of the IDF tools. That worked fine.
2. Then I installed the v5 tools using this link: https://sysprogs.com/getfile/1959/esp32-gcc11.2.0-r2.exe. Which is when I first received the error.
3. Above, you said that https://visualgdb.com/download/?build=5.6.109.4769 was needed for v5, so I installed that but it didn’t resolve the problem.
4. Running C:\Programming\Languages\VisualGDBTools\ESP32\v5\esp-idf\v5.0\install.bat (suggested in the error message) succeeds but doesn’t resolve the problem either.

I’m a bit lost at this point. Any suggestions?

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