#include errors detected. Consider updating your compile_commands.json or includePath. Squiggles are disabled for this translation unit

[Benedito821]

Hello! I am facing problems when trying to build my project(I use ubuntu 18). I see these errors:

1. #include errors detected. Consider updating your compile_commands.json or includePath. Squiggles are disabled for this translation unit (/home/.../.../...).
2. cannot open source file "freertos/FreeRTOS.h"
3. cannot open source file "freertos/task.h"
4. cannot open source file "gpio.h"

I found here on the forum the same issue but there was not a solution.

I will show at once my c_cpp_properties.json file:
{
"configurations": [
{
"name": "Linux",
"includePath": [
"${workspaceFolder}/**",
],
"defines": [],
"compilerPath": "/usr/bin/gcc",
"cStandard": "gnu11",
"cppStandard": "gnu++14",
"intelliSenseMode": "linux-gcc-x64",
"compileCommands": "${workspaceFolder}/build/bootloader/compile_commands.json"
}
],
"version": 4
}

my settings_json file :
{
"idf.port": "/dev/ttyUSB0",
"idf.flashType": "UART",
"C_Cpp.errorSquiggles": "Enabled"
}

I am stucked on this and cannot build my project
All the files exist on my disk. I tried to add new paths in includePath but nothing changed. I don't know what to do.

[sean-mcmanus]

There errors you're showing are not related to building -- they're just IntelliSense errors. It sounds like your compile_commands.json doesn't have the include directories set correctly? If you can't build you need to adjust your build system to add the include directories. Then if the build system generates the compile_commands.json correctly then the IntelliSense errors should ago away. Otherwise, you could try removing the compileCommands and just adding the include directory to the includePath.

[sean-mcmanus]

What error? Are you using this command?

[Benedito821]

I used this command. It listed all paths to files used in the project. The weird thing is that I also saw in this list paths to files that are complaining about "cannot open this file" in text editor. Now my project builds, although the errors persist.

[sean-mcmanus]

It shows the paths to files that can't be found in the "Includes" list? I'm not sure what is going wrong then.

[Benedito821]

yes. I reinstalled my extension. And now the folders are really missing. I added the path for the file FreeRTOS.h to the c_cpp_properties.json file . I did a C/C++:Log Diagnostics and the path appeared in Translation Unit Configurations . But there are still errors (cannot open source file).

[sean-mcmanus]

It seems like you need to add the path to freertos and not FreeRTOS.h.