Depedencies issue for adafruit/Adafruit MQTT Library

[ico2k2developer]

When compiling for espressif8266 esp01_1m using the said library, a dependency library called WiFi101 is downloaded, and then the compilation gives errors in files coming from the said dependency.

A workaround is going in PROJECTDIR\.pio\libdeps\esp01_1m\Adafruit MQTT Library and inside the library.properties file, remove WiFi101 from the requirements. Then, you have to delete the WiFi101 folder in PROJECTDIR\.pio\libdeps\esp01_1m. Now those compilation errors are gone and the project can be built.

WiFi101 is not listed in the official depedencies on the repository of the Adafruit MQTT Library and my understanding is that it is needed for compiling on certain boards... but with this one board it is unnecessary and creates compiling issues.

[tyeth]

Just to note you can use the lib_ignore field in platformIO.ini to ignore WiFi101 and other such libraries.

https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Wippersnapper_Arduino/blob/9c44317ad5a72c667455b987685b1853b758d8ac/platformio.ini#L111-L113