Arduino CLI couldn't find the library

[DRSDavidSoft]

Hi there,

This might be a trivial question, but I'm unable to install the library using arduino-cli and the sketch.yaml file.

I have tried the following:

• mathieucarbou/ESPAsyncWebServer (3.2.2)
• mathieucarbou/ESPAsyncWebServer @ 3.2.2

Which gives me:

Can't open sketch: error loading sketch project file: invalid library directive: mathieucarbou/ESPAsyncWebServer (3.2.2)

And ESPAsyncWebServer (3.2.2) which gives me:

Downloading library [email protected]
Library [email protected] not found
Error initializing instance: Library 'ESPAsyncWebServer' not found

Before this, I used to either uncompress the zip file or directly clone the git repo to the libraries directory.

I was wondering if you might have some clues regarding the cli, as the IDE I believe allows users to search for and install the fork.

Thanks!

[mathieucarbou]

Yes this is normal. Arduino are syncing the tags each night. PlatformIO is better at managing dependencies and Vscode is a better IDE.
For now, as a workaround, you can point to the GitHub directly and use: unsafe install like this example:

https://github.com/mathieucarbou/ESPAsyncWebServer/blob/main/.github/workflows/ci.yml#L58

[DRSDavidSoft]

Thank you, also I guess with the deprecation of the Arduino for VS Code extension (microsoft/vscode-arduino#1757) I have to finally migrate to PlatformIO, I see the package and dependency management as a whole is quite better as well!

[DRSDavidSoft]

Excellent CI workflow, it's quite useful to incorporate it into my build system. Thanks for the info! 👍🏻