Comments on: Easy Raspberry Pi Pico Microcontroller C / C++ Programming on Windows

By: Daniel Jankins

Daniel Jankins — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 14:33:14 +0000

Thank you for writing this.
Have you tried to get the debug probe running under wsl?

By: Marco Prata

Marco Prata — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 01:59:20 +0000

Great Guide!
I have one issue though:
When i try to compile anything in Windows i get this message: “Unable to determine what CMake generator to use. Please install or configure a preferred generator, or update settings.json, your Kit configuration or PATH variable. Error: No usable generator found.”
However if i run VScode in WSL, it complies just fine.
I can find alot (too many) examples of this error, but not in the context of WSL.
Can you help me?
Tks

By: Gordon Macdonald

Gordon Macdonald — Tue, 30 May 2023 04:52:52 +0000

In reply to Sven.

This guy covers it well.
https://learnembeddedsystems.co.uk/pico-usb-serial-code

By: Sven

Sven — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 14:57:51 +0000

Thanks for this great tutorial! You saved me a lot of time and frustration! *thumbs up*

But unfortunately, I am still struggeling to connect the serial console within Visual Studio Code to the Raspberry PI Pico. Do you have any idea or hint? In addition, I am also interested in debugging the Pico within Visual Studio Code using a Pico Debugger Probe.
Have you tried this already?

Best regards, Sven

By: Roberto Bozzolo

Roberto Bozzolo — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 15:30:37 +0000

Having a guide on creating a new project would be helpful: I tried to make some test code in pico/tests/myBlink folder but I’m getting a compile error stating that VS code is not able to find pico/stdlib.h file!
I just started using VS code and I would appreciate some guidance on this kind of errors.

Also, both in building blink example and my modified code I get the following linking error:

The C compiler
“/usr/bin/arm-none-eabi-gcc”
is not able to compile a simple test program.

It fails with the following output:
(bla bla)
Linking C executable (…) /usr/lib/gcc/arm-none-eabi/9.2.1/../../../arm-none-eabi/lib/libc.a(lib_a-exit.o): in function `exit’:
(…) undefined reference to `_exit’

By: Andreas Kircher

Andreas Kircher — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 22:42:07 +0000

I did not expect an easy success, especially seeing all the steps you have to take. But my board blinked at the end !

Thanks a lot.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 21:46:41 +0000

Thank you for putting this together, I was able to follow and build examples (with some adjustment “/project/”).

May I request a follow-up article? I would like to set up this environment in a new directory (eg ~/proj/) but when I attempt this VS code goes back to vanilla, and I am having a lot of trouble to build the same environment “from scratch”

By: James

James — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 22:26:18 +0000

I needed to upgrade cmake to a version > 3.10 (which is the latest one in ubuntu 18) because the current pico-sdk requires at least 3.12. Newer cmake versions can be found here: https://apt.kitware.com/

By: Michael McKnight

Michael McKnight — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 08:15:20 +0000

Just some trouble shooting notes:

In the c_cpp_properties.json you may need to better define the compiler path, I had to set it to “/usr/bin/arm-none-eabi-gcc”

Also if you are using the raspberry pi pico W, you need to add some settings in order to properly access the sketches:
Go to “\pico\pico-examples\pico_sdk_import.cmake” and add the following to the top of the file :
set(PICO_BOARD pico_w)
set(WIFI_SSID “Name of your WIFI network”)
set(WIFI_PASSWORD “Your wifi password”)

There are other settings to define if you want to use the examples that interact with a webpage I think. I don’t think it HAS to be that specific cmake file but that is how I did it and it managed to compile and run properly on my pico W.

By: Adrian Neill

Adrian Neill — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 10:20:33 +0000

In reply to ALIREZA DABAGH. I agree Alireza, the project subfolder shouldn't be there, as every other tutorial for setting up pico's puts a pico folder directly in your ~ home folder. no projecy sub.