Intellisense not workingsz

[trampas]

I am using nRF Connect for VS Code V2024.7.13 and the intellisense does not work. 

[Sigurd Hellesvik]

Hi,

Does it work for any other files?

Regards,
Sigurd Hellesvik

[trampas]

No it does not work for any files.   I have read that the intellisense is linked to the compile_commands.json however I can not find this file in my project after building.  

As fast as things change at Nordic/Zephyr it might be that the compile_commands.json is no longer used or available. 

[Sigurd Hellesvik]

That is fair enough.
I will ask our VS Code team if they got an explanation for intellisense and our extension.

[Sigurd Hellesvik]

Here is what they say:

"Yes, the extension generally uses compile_commands.json. If that's not available it uses reasonable fallbacks. As mentioned above, the C/C++ extension has a command: Log Diagnostics, which dumps the provided configuration of the active file, so the user can check whether something is not as expected."

Is this helpful?

[trampas]

I could not find a "Log Diagnostics" in the C/C++ extension, nor mentions of it above.  

[trampas]

I found this logging setting and enabled it to be information: 

Then I got this message

loggingLevel has changed to: Information
  tag parsing file: D:\Projects\Remington\reach-handpiece-bootloader-wksp\handpiece-fw\reach_hp\build\zephyr\include\generated\devicetree_generated.h
    tag parsing error (this can be ignored unless symbols can't be found):
    line 12970 (col. 33): error: incorrectly formed universal character name
Shutting down IntelliSense server: D:\Projects\Remington\reach-handpiece-bootloader-wksp\zephyr\include\zephyr\sys\util_listify.h
Shutting down IntelliSense server: D:\Projects\Remington\reach-handpiece-bootloader-wksp\zephyr\include\zephyr\sys\util_loops.h
Shutting down IntelliSense server: D:\Projects\Remington\reach-handpiece-bootloader-wksp\zephyr\include\zephyr\sys\util_internal_util_inc.h
Shutting down IntelliSense server: D:\Projects\Remington\reach-handpiece-bootloader-wksp\zephyr\include\zephyr\sys\util_internal_is_eq.h
Error squiggles will be disabled in: file:///d%3A/Projects/Remington/reach-handpiece-bootloader-wksp/zephyr/include/zephyr/dt-bindings/dt-util.h
Error squiggles will be disabled in: file:///d%3A/Projects/Remington/reach-handpiece-bootloader-wksp/zephyr/include/zephyr/dt-bindings/adc/nrf-adc.h
Error squiggles will be disabled in: file:///d%3A/Projects/Remington/reach-handpiece-bootloader-wksp/zephyr/include/zephyr/sys/util_macro.h
Shutting down IntelliSense server: D:\Projects\Remington\reach-handpiece-bootloader-wksp\handpiece-fw\reach_hp\src\modules\analog.c
  tag parsing file: D:\Projects\Remington\reach-handpiece-bootloader-wksp\handpiece-fw\reach_hp\build\mcuboot\zephyr\include\generated\devicetree_generated.h
    tag parsing error (this can be ignored unless symbols can't be found):
    line 13327 (col. 33): error: incorrectly formed universal character name

Both of devicetree parsing errors appear to be in the same comment block. 

[trampas]

The parsing error appears to be the '\u' which is being read as a unicode sequence.  I am betting this is not unique to my system and as such is not the root cause of my problems. 

[trampas]

My project does of the compile_commands.json as part of the build.  

[trampas]

I think I found the issue.  The intellisense was configured wrong in VSCode. 





Once I selected nRF Connect for VS Code, then closed and open file again it worked.