devtool ide-sdk appear to be not available therefore I get the scarthgap version of bitbake i.e. 2.8.0

[antoine-mecaoctet]

Describe the bug
When I try to generate sdk with Devtool : Configure VSCode SDK, i get the following error :

Your version of devtool does not seem to support the ide-sdk command.

I have check the version of bitbake which is 2.8.0 on scarthgap and devtool --help shows correctly the ide-sdk option. This feature was working before the update of january.

When i am looking at the commit of january, It appears that the function to detect the version of devtool have been changed so i can imagine that i am in the side effect of the 2.8.0 version that is the limit.

[deribaucourt]

Hello, it's nice to see people using this feature 😄

Yes, I did change the detection of ide-sdk in a2c780e "Refactor: Use bitbake version to detect devtool ide-sdk".
I wonder what version is detected in your case by our code. Could you provide us with the logs of the extension during a project scan?

1. Go to File->Preferences->Settings and set bitbake.loggingLevel to debug (info is also enough but less complete)
2. Run the command "Bitbake: Rescan Projects"
3. Go to Output->Bitbake and attach the logs to this issue
4. They should contain either "Bitbake version: x.y.z" or "Failed to find bitbake version". The extension accepts 2.8.0 or above to enable the ide-sdk feature.

In the meantime, you can workaround by installing the previous version of the extension or enter the devtool ide-sdk command into the Bitbake terminal profile.

Edit: silly me, I put a strict version comparison check instead of "greater or equal". I'll push a PR for that. You may use the .vsce generated by the CI until we publish the next release.

[antoine-mecaoctet]

Thanks you for your quick answer. I can confirm that this feature is really great for complex cmake project !! I did not get the version log you ask, there is two many lines on the output but i think that your edit is the reason for. I see the CI of the PR failed, maybe I should wait for cross reading complete ?

[deribaucourt]

@antoine-mecaoctet Thanks for your feedback!
I think the commit I pushed should work, we won't need your logs.
The CI fails because the Github runner's ubuntu version was updated and breaks poky

       08:48:44.286 [Debug] ERROR: User namespaces are not usable by BitBake, possibly due to AppArmor.
      See https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-24-04-lts-noble-numbat-release-notes/39890#unprivileged-user-namespace-restrictions for more information.

I'll fix it and then you can download a .vsce from there.

[deribaucourt]

And done, you can download, install and test the .vsix at https://github.com/yoctoproject/vscode-bitbake/actions/runs/13132220948?pr=393
(Under Artifacts->vscode-bitbake)