Problem installing Espressif IDF using VSC, VMWare & Windows 10

[GvTardy]

Hello to everyone reading my call for help.

Since days I am trying to setup Espressif IDF. Instread of coading I am struggling since days with paths and not found files....
Somehow I end up with similar but different trouble each time I install the Espressif extension.

I am running Windows10 (recently installed) in VMWare.

After trying all sorts of things I uninstalled
- visual studio code
- visual studio builder
- python
and deleted all the path variable as well as
- Users/GvT/.espressif
- Users/GvT/esp-idf
- Users/.vscode
- Users/AppData/Programs/Python
- Users/AppData/Programs/Microsoft/VSC...

So I should have a fairly cleaned up system...

Now I tried to install everything in the following order:
-> Visual Studio Code
-> Visual Studio Builder
-> Espressif esp-idf-tool-setup-online-2.9.exe
-> at the end of this installation I select open cmd und powershell
-> both shells execute, but no folder-locations are added to %path%

So I added all the folders listed in the command window manually to the environment variable path.

-> in the command window I execute install.bat, it runs and states that I can now run export.bat, what I did.

Opening Visual Studio Code I select the Espressif IDF extension and select install.

When complete I press F1 and select ESP-IDF: configure....
I now can choose
- Express
- Advanced
- Use existing...

I choose Existing and get a confirmation that everything worked alright.

I select CMD as default terminal.
Typing python --version I get:
no python found....
I choose to download it (even if it is installed unter .espressif/tools/...
Now I get the error that idf.py is not found, even if the path to python/scipts is within the environment path variable.
Some #inlclude files are also marked with squiggly lines, e.g freertos/FreerRTOS.h

When pressing compile I get an error:

ninja: error: loading 'build.ninja': the system cannot find the file specified.

in the VSC terminal I change folder to Users/GvT/ESP-IDF and type
pip install -r requirements.txt
=> now the requirements are installed.

the above mentioned ninja error persists...

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When I execute
Visual Studio Builder as administrator, path variable had been set.
PowerShell scripts are not permitted

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Is there an easier, safer way to install the Espressif IDF extension? Where am I missing the necessary click?

I hope someone can help me here, I am stuck!

Many greetings to all!
GvT

[GvTardy]

Hi to everyone,

some more hours spent, trying to install everything using administrator rights... still no success..

Path to the requested file should be set but is not accepted by VSC (I rebooted...)

I am running out of ideas.
I would really appreciate if someone could hint me to a detailed installation description.
Is it just me or are others having similar issues?
GvT

[nickbits]

Try running install.bat from the esp-idf folder manually. I was having the same issue when I tried to reinstall it after it had been working fine for a while.