solved issues in Windows 10, VS code 1.63.2 with platformio core 5.2.4 and home 3.4.0

[robeweber]

Hi, if anybody has a problem with building this project in the stated environment, you can possibly benefit from my 16hour investigation into my problem:

I have used this project in january 2021 with zero problems. But last week I tried to compile and load paxcounter to the TTGO T-Beam v1.0 with the latest git version.

At first I was not able to compile due to an abort message when trying to access de hal configuration for the TTGO T-Beam named ttgobeam10.h

The compiler said that it can not find the definition in $PROJECTSRC_DIR\hal\ttgobeam10.h
I have searched long and wide and could not find a solution. Then it dawned on me that in build.py sits the declaration (line 23): srcdir = env.get("PROJECTSRC_DIR")
When debugging, I found that this should be variable name PROJECT_SRC_DIR instead. So change line 23 to:
srcdir = env.get("PROJECT_SRC_DIR")

But that was not all my trouble. Then I received warnings about definitions of the display dependencies (deblibs).

I realized an the end (last night) that esptool is not installed within VS Code and platformio. That took the longest to investigate.
Solution is simple: in a terminal (within VS Code) execute the following command: pip install esptool

And voila, the code compiles without errors and produces a bin file.

Just in case anybody has the same mindblowing problem. Can save you hours of debugging.

cyberman54: great code by-the-way. Thanks for writing it.

[Max-Plastix]

I see the tip code now uses PROJECT_SRC_DIR -- fresh pull & build on Windows worked fine. PlatformIO auto-installed esptool here.