Using VS Code to compile for Pico question.

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matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 9805	Posted: 11:26am 01 Feb 2025       I installed everything manually on W11 based on the instructions in the first "getting started" manual  for the Pico. It was a major pain to get working and now I won't touch the environment for fear of breaking it. Subsequently they have gone this automated root and I have tried it on a different computer and failed completely. Unfortunately the old manual is too big to attach. Remind me of your email by PM and I'll send it to you. Overall, I despise the whole Pico dev environment. CMAKE is awful. VSCode is difficult and if you try and use different environments (e.g. both platformIO and Pico) things go horribly wrong. The Raspberry Pi people seem to think that developing at the command line is OK (under Linux) and anything else is bizarre.