Zephyr Tools Setup Never Completes

latkinso42

I have Python3.12 and Git in my system path from previous development on MS Windows 10. The Zephyr Tools: Init seems to complete ok (no output as I remember). Zephyr Tools: Setup went for hours. I even turn of MS Windows Defender/AntiVirus. No output is seen. What am I missing?

jaredwolff

latkinso42 I believe you’ll need to install python 3.10. Can you share the output from the Setup command?

latkinso42

I assume the setup is version specific and not version minimal since I already have python 3.12 which is more recent than 3.10. If so, do you recommend (A) using pyenv to manage versions on MSWindows and if so will Zephyr Tools setup know how to use that, or (B) install python on WSL and if so how does VS Code integrate with that?

jaredwolff

What version of the extension do you have installed?

Zephyr Tools: Setup should be run first. Can you show me the log?

Zephyr Tools: Init is not a silently running task. There is lots of output.

What other extensions do you have installed? If you have python ones you’ll have to disable them when working on Zephyr.

latkinso42

The Circuit Dojo Zephyr SDK Tools is version 0.5.12. VS Code prompted me to run Zephyr Tools: Init before I was prompted to run Zephyr Tools: Setup. The “init” showed no output (that I remember), and Setup never did either. I had Python 3.12.2 installed (not through VS Code) for independent development long ago and again not through VS Code or Homebrew; same with git. Perhaps I should remove VS Code, etc (if I can figure out how to do that) and start fresh. Please advise.

latkinso42

latkinso42
This is a picture of VSCode trying to run Zephyr Tools Setup. No Output. Runs forever. (sign) I did copy and rename my Python (V3.12.2) to Pyhton3 and it is found by any cmd prompt terminal window. Then I restarted VSCode. Same thing.

jaredwolff

@latkinso42 when you run Zephyr Tools: Setup what is the output?

jaredwolff

latkinso42

It should pop up Output and show progress

It should look something like this when done:

git version 2.53.0
[SETUP] git installed
[SETUP] Checking python3...
[SETUP] Found python3: Python 3.14
[SETUP] Python 3.14 meets requirements (>= 3.10)
[SETUP] Using Python: python3
[SETUP] Existing virtual environment found at /home/jared/.zephyrtools/env
[SETUP] Removing old virtual environment...
[SETUP] Old virtual environment removed
python3 -m venv "/home/jared/.zephyrtools/env"
[SETUP] virtual python environment created
Collecting west
  Using cached west-1.5.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (19 kB)
Collecting colorama (from west)
  Using cached colorama-0.4.6-py2.py3-none-any.whl.metadata (17 kB)
Collecting PyYAML>=5.1 (from west)
  Using cached pyyaml-6.0.3-cp314-cp314-manylinux2014_x86_64.manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl.metadata (2.4 kB)
Collecting pykwalify (from west)
  Using cached pykwalify-1.8.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.3 kB)
Collecting packaging (from west)
  Using cached packaging-26.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (3.3 kB)
Collecting docopt>=0.6.2 (from pykwalify->west)
  Using cached docopt-0.6.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting python-dateutil>=2.8.0 (from pykwalify->west)
  Using cached python_dateutil-2.9.0.post0-py2.py3-none-any.whl.metadata (8.4 kB)
Collecting ruamel.yaml>=0.16.0 (from pykwalify->west)
  Using cached ruamel_yaml-0.19.1-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (16 kB)
Collecting six>=1.5 (from python-dateutil>=2.8.0->pykwalify->west)
  Using cached six-1.17.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl.metadata (1.7 kB)
Using cached west-1.5.0-py3-none-any.whl (106 kB)
Using cached pyyaml-6.0.3-cp314-cp314-manylinux2014_x86_64.manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl (794 kB)
Using cached colorama-0.4.6-py2.py3-none-any.whl (25 kB)
Using cached packaging-26.0-py3-none-any.whl (74 kB)
Using cached pykwalify-1.8.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (24 kB)
Using cached python_dateutil-2.9.0.post0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (229 kB)
Using cached ruamel_yaml-0.19.1-py3-none-any.whl (118 kB)
Using cached six-1.17.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (11 kB)
Installing collected packages: docopt, six, ruamel.yaml, PyYAML, packaging, colorama, python-dateutil, pykwalify, west

Successfully installed PyYAML-6.0.3 colorama-0.4.6 docopt-0.6.2 packaging-26.0 pykwalify-1.8.0 python-dateutil-2.9.0.post0 ruamel.yaml-0.19.1 six-1.17.0 west-1.5.0

[notice] A new release of pip is available: 25.3 -> 26.0.1
[notice] To update, run: pip install --upgrade pip
[SETUP] west installed
[SETUP] Starting processing: zephyr-tools
[SETUP] URL: https://github.com/circuitdojo/zephyr-tools-cli/releases/download/v0.1.9/zephyr-tools-v0.1.9-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz
[SETUP] Expected MD5: 492949a0a50ef64b95ccf5c890b82b5e
[SETUP] Initial copytopath: /home/jared/.zephyrtools/zephyr-tools
[SETUP] Cleared and recreated target directory: /home/jared/.zephyrtools/zephyr-tools
[SETUP] Extracting /home/jared/.zephyrtools/downloads/zephyr-tools-v0.1.9-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz to /home/jared/.zephyrtools/zephyr-tools
[SETUP] Added to PATH: /home/jared/.zephyrtools/zephyr-tools
[SETUP] Successfully completed: zephyr-tools
[SETUP] Starting processing: newtmgr
[SETUP] URL: https://docs.jaredwolff.com/files/newtmgr/linux/newtmgr.zip
[SETUP] Expected MD5: 9900ec263d39264787903688cdefeed1
[SETUP] Initial copytopath: /home/jared/.zephyrtools/newtmgr
[SETUP] Cleared and recreated target directory: /home/jared/.zephyrtools/newtmgr
[SETUP] Extracting /home/jared/.zephyrtools/downloads/newtmgr.zip to /home/jared/.zephyrtools/newtmgr
[SETUP] Added to PATH: /home/jared/.zephyrtools/newtmgr
[SETUP] Successfully completed: newtmgr
[SETUP] Starting processing: ninja
[SETUP] URL: https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/releases/download/v1.10.2/ninja-linux.zip
[SETUP] Expected MD5: 817e12e06e2463aeb5cb4e1d19ced606
[SETUP] Initial copytopath: /home/jared/.zephyrtools/ninja
[SETUP] Cleared and recreated target directory: /home/jared/.zephyrtools/ninja
[SETUP] Extracting /home/jared/.zephyrtools/downloads/ninja-linux.zip to /home/jared/.zephyrtools/ninja
[SETUP] Added to PATH: /home/jared/.zephyrtools/ninja
[SETUP] Successfully completed: ninja
[SETUP] Starting processing: cmake
[SETUP] URL: https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/releases/download/v3.22.0/cmake-3.22.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
[SETUP] Expected MD5: 5537bbc683e364e5408a393a737f53a1
[SETUP] Initial copytopath: /home/jared/.zephyrtools/cmake
[SETUP] Cleared and recreated target directory: /home/jared/.zephyrtools/cmake
[SETUP] Extracting /home/jared/.zephyrtools/downloads/cmake-3.22.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz to /home/jared/.zephyrtools/cmake
[SETUP] Added to PATH: /home/jared/.zephyrtools/cmake/cmake-3.22.0-linux-x86_64/bin
[SETUP] Successfully completed: cmake
[SETUP] Starting processing: probe-rs
[SETUP] URL: https://github.com/probe-rs/probe-rs/releases/download/v0.29.1/probe-rs-tools-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz
[SETUP] Expected MD5: 01be4d05d6b7ced308f43a0c55865f03
[SETUP] Initial copytopath: /home/jared/.zephyrtools/probe-rs
[SETUP] Cleared and recreated target directory: /home/jared/.zephyrtools/probe-rs
[SETUP] Extracting /home/jared/.zephyrtools/downloads/probe-rs-tools-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz to /home/jared/.zephyrtools/probe-rs
[SETUP] Added to PATH: /home/jared/.zephyrtools/probe-rs/probe-rs-tools-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/
[SETUP] Successfully completed: probe-rs
[SETUP] Installing zephyr-sdk-0.16.4 toolchain...
[SETUP] Starting processing: toolchain
[SETUP] URL: https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/sdk-ng/releases/download/v0.16.4/zephyr-sdk-0.16.4_linux-x86_64_minimal.tar.xz
[SETUP] Expected MD5: 5f10ac5111476d4e069b52f07aa3f4d5
[SETUP] Initial copytopath: /home/jared/.zephyrtools/toolchain
[SETUP] Cleared and recreated target directory: /home/jared/.zephyrtools/toolchain
[SETUP] Extracting /home/jared/.zephyrtools/downloads/zephyr-sdk-0.16.4_linux-x86_64_minimal.tar.xz to /home/jared/.zephyrtools/toolchain
[SETUP] Added to PATH: /home/jared/.zephyrtools/toolchain/zephyr-sdk-0.16.4/arm-zephyr-eabi/bin
[SETUP] Set ZEPHYR_TOOLCHAIN_VARIANT: zephyr
[SETUP] Set ZEPHYR_SDK_INSTALL_DIR: /home/jared/.zephyrtools/toolchain/zephyr-sdk-0.16.4
[SETUP] Successfully completed: toolchain
[SETUP] Starting processing: toolchain
[SETUP] URL: https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/sdk-ng/releases/download/v0.16.4/toolchain_linux-x86_64_arm-zephyr-eabi.tar.xz
[SETUP] Expected MD5: 4386d940c085670fc54480eb7eaebff8
[SETUP] Initial copytopath: /home/jared/.zephyrtools/toolchain
[SETUP] Updated copytopath with subfolder: /home/jared/.zephyrtools/toolchain/zephyr-sdk-0.16.4
[SETUP] Preserving existing target directory: /home/jared/.zephyrtools/toolchain/zephyr-sdk-0.16.4
[SETUP] Extracting /home/jared/.zephyrtools/downloads/toolchain_linux-x86_64_arm-zephyr-eabi.tar.xz to /home/jared/.zephyrtools/toolchain/zephyr-sdk-0.16.4
[SETUP] Added to PATH: /home/jared/.zephyrtools/toolchain/zephyr-sdk-0.16.4
[SETUP] Successfully completed: toolchain
[SETUP] Zephyr setup complete!

Do you have a firewall that’s blocking the download? It needs to fetch binaries from Github, etc.

latkinso42

VS Code indicated trouble with probe-rs. I installed it via power shell. Disabled Defender & Anti Virus (again) and restarted VS Code. The Setup continued to run without output until I saw near top center a choice to choose the toolchain (I selected the latest). Then the output begin to show and things cleared up. I am at the build stage now. Thanks for your patience. Looking for to the journey and building an IOT app that will talk to my AWS server! Cheers!

jaredwolff

Awesome! Glad you’re on your way @latkinso42