"Sync/Atomic" Path issue TinyGo dev environment [SOLVED]

[nickaxgit]

Hi - I am working with a pi pico-w and have spent a week on a grand tour of all the available dev environments - Native C/Cmake, MicroPython, CircuitPython, Arduino C++, Every one of them has it's flaws and foibles - and whilst I can get bits and pieces working in each - none quite do what I want.

TinyGo looked like the answer - I have a few months of GO under my belt, and love the language

I had the TinyGo environment set up and working on my windows machine .. I was able to flash programs and get debug println's back on my serial monitor in VScode

I change nothing of significance - but now my environment seems utterly broken
Attempting to flash a trivial program (with no imports)

`package main

import (
//"machine"
//"tinygo.org/x/drivers/bmp280"
)

func main() {
println("Hello, World!")
}`

Yields:-

C:\goprojects\test>tinygo flash -target=pico-w test.go C:\Users\nicka\AppData\Local\tinygo\goroot-465c419cf1fae9c893cfd238017f6efa6802c8516bb2805bf155f6a51581dd40\src\syscall\syscall.go:5:2: cannot find package "sync/atomic" in any of: C:\Users\nicka\AppData\Local\tinygo\goroot-465c419cf1fae9c893cfd238017f6efa6802c8516bb2805bf155f6a51581dd40\src\vendor\sync\atomic (vendor tree) C:\Users\nicka\AppData\Local\tinygo\goroot-465c419cf1fae9c893cfd238017f6efa6802c8516bb2805bf155f6a51581dd40\src\sync\atomic (from $GOROOT) c:\program files\GO\src\sync\atomic (from $GOPATH)

I have restarted my machine, (uninstalled and) reinstalled TinyGo (with scoop), started a new 'hello world' project (this all went downhill fast when attempting to use a BMP280)

my GO version is
C:\goprojects\test>go version go version go1.22.4 windows/amd64

my go env is
C:\goprojects\test>go env set GO111MODULE=auto set GOARCH=amd64 set GOBIN= set GOCACHE=C:\Users\nicka\AppData\Local\go-build set GOENV=C:\Users\nicka\AppData\Roaming\go\env set GOEXE=.exe set GOEXPERIMENT= set GOFLAGS= set GOHOSTARCH=amd64 set GOHOSTOS=windows set GOINSECURE= set GOMODCACHE=c:\program files\GO\pkg\mod set GONOPROXY= set GONOSUMDB= set GOOS=windows set GOPATH=c:\program files\GO set GOPRIVATE= set GOPROXY=https://proxy.golang.org,direct set GOROOT=C:\Users\nicka\AppData\Local\tinygo\goroot-c515ebc90fac32df41f6de1d53e6dcb43f04408e4de142ff0976bc5c07de106a set GOSUMDB=sum.golang.org set GOTMPDIR= set GOTOOLCHAIN=auto set GOTOOLDIR=C:\Users\nicka\AppData\Local\tinygo\goroot-c515ebc90fac32df41f6de1d53e6dcb43f04408e4de142ff0976bc5c07de106a\pkg\tool\windows_amd64 set GOVCS= set GOVERSION=go1.22.4 set GCCGO=gccgo set GOAMD64=v1 set AR=ar set CC=gcc set CXX=C:\Program Files (x86)\GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain\10 2021.10\bin set CGO_ENABLED=0 set GOMOD= set GOWORK= set CGO_CFLAGS=-O2 -g set CGO_CPPFLAGS= set CGO_CXXFLAGS=-O2 -g set CGO_FFLAGS=-O2 -g set CGO_LDFLAGS=-O2 -g set PKG_CONFIG=pkg-config set GOGCCFLAGS=-m64 -fno-caret-diagnostics -Qunused-arguments -Wl,--no-gc-sections -fmessage-length=0 -ffile-prefix-map=C:\Users\nicka\AppData\Local\Temp\go-build1050829561=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches

I am just sick and weary of this - 9 Days now spent wrestling toolchains - I just want to write some code 😢

I would love to contribute to the project .. not sure how much I can bring, but one of the things I want to do is write/port a driver for the ArduCam SPI camera

I also want to use the HTTP Client to POST images .. so I can probably provide some useful feedback on the UX there

Any pointers would be appreciated

Nick

[nickaxgit]

OK .. me again ...

After more bludgeoning .. I spotted a small orange triangle on the right of my vscode terminal - I can't give you an actual screenshot, because it only happened the once

it was around here somewhere

There was an accompanying message

"The following extensions want to relaunch the terminal to contribute to its environment"

Git
and Go (or it might have been tinygo)

Once I allowed it - my problem evaporated and I am now able to flash again

Though I would post up for any other poor souls who run into it