Arduino IDE is being passed a bad option at build time

[ss32]

EDIT: See the reply below. This is a versioning issue and the extension expects IDE <= 1.18

A bad (non-existing) argument is being passed to the arduino binary when trying to compile. I cannot find a single reference to this failure anywhere else online.

Arduino IDE 2.0.4-nightly-20230205

The code builds in the Arduino IDE.

/tmp/.mount_arduin87Xwqz/arduino-ide: bad option: --board
[Warning] Failed to generate IntelliSense configuration.
[Error] Analyzing sketch 'OLED_LoRa_Receive/OLED_LoRa_Receive.ino': Exit with code=9

The only reference I can find is on arduino.ts:538, which is the this.useArduinoCli() block, and I'm not using the CLI per my settings; VS Code should be using the IDE.

The arduino binary that gets called is arduino-ide_nightly-20230205_Linux_64bit.AppImage

[ss32]

For completeness I checked the latest stable, 2.0.3 and --board is missing as an argument there as well

Arduino IDE 2.0.3
Starting backend process. PID: 971301
Using browser-only version of superagent in non-browser environment
arduino-ide [workspace-directories] [options]

Options:
  --version                          Show version number               [boolean]
  --port, -p                         The port the backend server listens on.
                                                           [number] [default: 0]
  --hostname, -h                     The allowed hostname for connections.
                                                 [string] [default: "localhost"]
  --ssl                              Use SSL (HTTPS), cert and certkey must also
                                     be set           [boolean] [default: false]
  --cert                             Path to SSL certificate.           [string]
  --certkey                          Path to SSL certificate key.       [string]
  --app-project-path                 Sets the application project directory
                   [default: "/tmp/arduino-ide_2.0.3_Linux_64bit/resources/app"]
  --proxy-url                        Sets the proxy URL for outgoing requests.
                                                                        [string]
  --proxy-authorization              Sets the proxy authorization header for
                                     outgoing requests.                 [string]
  --strict-ssl                       Determines whether SSL is strictly set for
                                     outgoing requests.                [boolean]
  --log-level                        Sets the default log level
                   [choices: "fatal", "error", "warn", "info", "debug", "trace"]
  --log-config                       Path to the JSON file specifying the
                                     configuration of various loggers   [string]
  --root-dir                         DEPRECATED: Sets the workspace directory.
  --plugins                          Provides further refinement for the
                                     plugins. Example:
                                     --plugins=local-dir:path/to/your/plugins
                                                                        [string]
  --plugin-max-session-logs-folders  The maximum number of plugin logs sessions
                                     folders to retain. Example:
                                     --plugin-max-session-logs-folders=5
                                                          [number] [default: 10]
  --uncompressed-plugins-in-place    Whether user plugins that are stored on
                                     disk as uncompressed directories should be
                                     run in place or copied to temporary folder.
                                                      [boolean] [default: false]
  --extensionTestsPath                                                  [string]
  --pluginHostTerminateTimeout       Timeout in milliseconds to wait for the
                                     plugin host process to terminate before
                                     killing it. Use 0 for no timeout.
                                                       [number] [default: 10000]
  --pluginHostStopTimeout            Timeout in milliseconds to wait for the
                                     plugin host process to stop internal
                                     services. Use 0 for no timeout.
                                                        [number] [default: 4000]
  --vscode-api-version               Overrides the version returned by VSCode
                                     API 'vscode.version'. Example:
                                     --vscode-api-version=<Wanted Version>.
                                     Default [1.53.2]                   [string]
  --help                             Show help                         [boolean]

Edit: It seems this argument was removed with IDE v2. The old v1.18 IDE has the --board argument available.

[ss32]

Confirmed that pointing arduino.path to the older bash script that calls the Java build works without errors.

[benmcmorran]

Thanks for the feedback. As you discovered, only the legacy IDE is currently supported. Additionally, we plan to drop support for the legacy IDE entirely in the next release of this extension and recommend that all users move to Arduino CLI as soon as possible. The recent v0.5.0 release of the extension includes a bundled copy of Arduino CLI that should ease this migration.