c_cpp_preferences.json does not generate

[boundmaidlea]

I am new to Arduino, and was annoyed with the Arduino IDE's poor ui customization, so i wanted to try this extension instead. I have read through countless different issues, issue comments, faqs, stackoverflow pages etc. for the last 3h and i am pretty dull by now so i'll probably forget some important details - sorry in advance.

The initial issue was that vsc gives me a wiggly line and a problem entry for each native Arduino function/variable.
I have found issues about that here, but they were closed with #1141, so i looked in the .vscode folder and c_cpp_preferences.json was not there.

I have tried the entry in the command palette and the keybind multiple times, but it doesn't do anything. I have tried to manually add that file but didn't get it to work, so i need the file that i should get from the extension.

The c_cpp_preferences.json file i am currently using makes the initial problem go away, but i still get an error about

cannot open source file "pins_arduino.h" (dependency of "C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\arduino\avr\cores\arduino\Arduino.h")

While i am pretty confident i have identified the problem, as the file not getting generated, i do not have any clue about the cause of this problem.

Side note: I also came across https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-arduino/wiki/FAQ which just links to two removed sites and hasn't been changed since 2017 so i ignored it, even though it seemed to relate to my prolem at first... should probably be removed?

I don't really know what information could otherwise be helpful.

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[boundmaidlea]

well there is not really any more information i can give, especially as i haven't used vscode-arduino since, since i am unable to use it.

[Bludator]

I have the same issue with arduino-cli on win11:

My setup:

VSCode:

Version: 1.70.1 (system setup)
Commit: 6d9b74a70ca9c7733b29f0456fd8195364076dda
Date: 2022-08-10T06:08:33.642Z
Electron: 18.3.5
Chromium: 100.0.4896.160
Node.js: 16.13.2
V8: 10.0.139.17-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22000

Extensions:

vsciot-vscode.vscode-arduino: v0.4.12
ms-vscode.cpptools: v1.11.5

Arduino-cli:

arduino-cli.exe  Version: 0.26.0 Commit: fc2ea723 Date: 2022-08-10T14:33:37Z

My config:

relevant options from settings.json:

"arduino.path": "C:\\myPath\\arduino-cli_0.26.0_Windows_64bit",
"arduino.useArduinoCli": true,
"arduino.logLevel": "verbose"

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I created new folder where I ran the VSCode, Inside, I create directory and file blink/blink.ino where I copy&paste code from: arduino docs. When I try to upload it I am prompted to select board type etc. which I did and it results in arduino.json:

{
    "board": "arduino:avr:uno",
    "sketch": "blink/blink.ino",
    "port": "COM5"
}

No config is generated and when I run upload/verify I get

[Warning] Failed to generate IntelliSense configuration.

[gcampbell-msft]

I think we should have enough information to try and reproduce this and investigate. Marking this is investigating.

[supsm]

Same issue here, it works fine with arduino ide, just not with the cli. When I try to verify, upload, or do anything, this is what it outputs:

[Starting] Verifying sketch 'src/test.ino'
Please see the build logs in output path: C:\path\build
[Warning] Failed to generate IntelliSense configuration.
[Error] Verifying sketch 'src/test.ino': Exit with code=1

The output folder is not created, and when I create it manually it is empty

arduino.json:

{
    "port": "COM3",
    "configuration": "cpu=atmega328",
    "board": "arduino:avr:nano",
    "programmer": "avrisp",
    "sketch": "src/test.ino",
    "output": "build"
}

vs code:

1.72.2
d045a5eda657f4d7b676dedbfa7aab8207f8a075
x64

extension version: v0.4.12
arduino-cli: 0.28.0 Windows 64bit
OS: windows 11

[asclepiadae]

Very frustrating issue...

Because the Arduino IDE is broken with 2.x I manually adjusted the path and switched to CLI - but the IntelliSense configuration fails.

Really seems like this breaks Arduino within VSCode for the time being...

[VirensCn]

me too，i use arduino-cli，all version is lastest