Failed Install When Opening Project in VSCode

[a-thansen]

Was trying to open a project in VS Code w./ platformIO, expecting it to install.

However, I receive the following error messages:

Error:   error: subprocess-exited-with-error
  
  python setup.py bdist_wheel did not run successfully.
  exit code: 1
  
  [425 lines of output]
  running bdist_wheel
  running build
  running build_py
  creating build
  creating build\lib
  creating build\lib\platformio
  copying platformio\app.py -> build\lib\platformio
  copying platformio\cache.py -> build\lib\platformio
  copying platformio\cli.py -> build\lib\platformio
  copying platformio\compat.py -> build\lib\platformio
  copying platformio\exception.py -> build\lib\platformio
  copying platformio\fs.py -> build\lib\platformio
  copying platformio\http.py -> build\lib\platformio
  copying platformio\maintenance....

Error: Could not start PIO Home server: Timeout error
	at Timeout._onTimeout (c:\Users\Anastasia T Hansen\.vscode\extensions\platformio.platformio-ide-3.1.1-win32-x64\node_modules\platformio-node-helpers\dist\index.js:1:10444)
	at listOnTimeout (node:internal/timers:559:17)
	at process.processTimers (node:internal/timers:502:7)...

This is what the output terminal says:

Installing PlatformIO IDE...
It may take a few minutes depending on your connection speed
Please do not close this window and do not open other folders until this process is completed.

Debugging information is available via VSCode > Help > Toggle Developer Tools > Console.
Failed to install PlatformIO IDE.

My system specs are:

• Windows 10

The visual studio code specs:

Version: 1.78.2 (user setup)
Commit: b3e4e68a0bc097f0ae7907b217c1119af9e03435
Date: 2023-05-10T14:39:26.248Z
Electron: 22.5.2
Chromium: 108.0.5359.215
Node.js: 16.17.1
V8: 10.8.168.25-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19044
Sandboxed: Yes

PlatformIO v3.1.1

Please help, thank you!!!
I've already tried to enable long windows paths, does not seem to work though.

[a-thansen]

message.txt
Full error message.

[a-thansen]

Installing Python 3 and changing the path link using the Windows Installer, resolved the issue! I used GPEdit to enable long paths but that did not resolve it on its own.

[FuzzyLitchi]

I'd like to add that following the instructions from platformio/platformio-core#4652 did not resolve the issue, just to make it clear. (I was assisting in getting platformIO to work on her machine)

[ivankravets]

Please re-test with the pre-release version. Navigate to the PlatformIO IDE extension in the VSCode and "Switch to the Pre-Release". Does it work now?

[FuzzyLitchi]

The issue was already resolved, by installing python using the windows installer. The previous message by a-thasen has a typo, it's supposed to say "Installing Python 3 and [thereby] changing the maximum path length using the windows installer resolved the issue." This behavior is documented here

It's not clear to me exactly what the Python installation executable does, or which change fixed the error. Therefore, it is not trivial to return the system to a state where we get the same error, so we cannot test if the pre-release would fix the issue. If you would like to test it yourself, I think a stock windows 10 installation should be sufficient to reproduce the issue.