Error: pio run -t nobuild -t upload

[Bighoneypot]

What kind of issue is this?

• PlatformIO IDE.
  [PlatformIO IDE for VSCode]

• Development Platform or Board.
  [env:nodemcuv2]
  platform = espressif8266
  board = nodemcuv2
  framework = arduino
  upload_speed = 3000000
  monitor_speed = 115200
  board_build.f_cpu = 160000000L
  upload_protocol = esptool

• Feature Request.
  New button to upload only sketch without rebuild project, for fast and easy use it

• PlatformIO Core.
  6.1.5

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Configuration

**Windows 10 PRO 22H2 build 19045.2251 **:

PlatformIO Version (6.1.5):

Description of problem

In my case is impossible command pio run -t nobuild -t upload

Error: Could not find LD Script

[Daiki51]

I am also encountering the same error.
I would like to add that the same thing happens when the host/remote is Ubuntu 22.

[mcspr]

Also looks like platformio/platform-espressif32#861

We try to call env.GetActualLDScript() to retrieve our flash size info
https://github.com/platformio/platformio-core/blob/48655ad728c25c6af67da913c36651e27fdd05ad/platformio/builder/tools/piomisc.py#L42-L84

Which is broken in nobuild case, since there is no env.BuildProgram() and LINKFLAGS is empty. As a workaround, one could do the same thing as suggested in the esp32 issue - populate it manually with the -Wl,-T...ld entry from the currently used board .json

platform-espressif8266/builder/main.py

Line 86 in 46d25a4

ldsizes = _parse_ld_sizes(env.GetActualLDScript())

platform-espressif8266/builder/main.py

Line 93 in 46d25a4

ldsizes = _parse_ld_sizes(env.GetActualLDScript())

platform-espressif8266/builder/main.py

Line 124 in 46d25a4

ldsizes = _parse_ld_sizes(env.GetActualLDScript())

Not really sure if nobuild is implemented correctly, though. Perhaps it should still invoke pre-requisite actions but somehow inhibit the PROGRAM .bin regeneration when scons thinks any of the targets need to be built i.e. somehow tell it that all of our dependencies for .bin are up-to-date

[Jason2866]

This one worked in my test for pio run -t nobuild -t upload

#
# The script sets the missing "LDSCRIPT_PATH" when using the command `pio run -t nobuild`
# Adopted from https://github.com/platformio/platform-espressif32/issues/861#issuecomment-1241871437
# Possible now to upload the firmware or the filesystem with (when builded already!):
#
# `pio run -t nobuild -t upload` and `pio run -t nobuild -t uploadfs`
#

Import("env")

import os
from SCons.Script import COMMAND_LINE_TARGETS

board_config = env.BoardConfig()
framework_dir = env.PioPlatform().get_package_dir("framework-arduinoespressif8266")
assert os.path.isdir(framework_dir)

if "nobuild" in COMMAND_LINE_TARGETS:
    env.Replace(
        LDSCRIPT_PATH=os.path.join(
            framework_dir,
            "tools",
            "sdk",
            "ld",
            board_config.get("build.arduino.ldscript"),
        )
    )
#    print("Set LDSCRIPT_PATH to: ", os.path.join(framework_dir,"tools","sdk","ld",board_config.get("build.arduino.ldscript")))