SDK randomly can no longer find ENV variable?

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Hello everyone,

Today out of the blue it can no longer find the ENV variable when I go to compile a project, was working fine a couple days ago. This is the error I'm getting:

CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:20 (message):
SDK Path not found; set ENV value PLAYDATE_SDK_PATH

I'm on a Mac, building via command line. I checked the .zprofile file and it still has the var set in there, same as when it was working the other day:

export PLAYDATE_SDK_PATH=Developer/PlaydateSDK

Any ideas on what might be going on? We did have a power outage last night and that's the first time my computer has had a hard reset since I started this project, possible that affected it somehow?

Thanks in advance,
Jeebs

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Try changing it to your full path: export PLAYDATE_SDK_PATH="/Users/<your home folder>/Developer/PlaydateSDK". That should certainly fix it up.

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Thanks willco, still not working though, any other ideas?

Thanks,
Aaron

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Did you source the file before trying it again? Did you make sure the SDK is still installed at that location? Are you on the Mac or?

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yeah I tried running "source .zprofile" but it didn't seem to do anything. SDK is still in the same location, & yes on a Mac

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Something seems off, maybe the easiest thing would be to reinstall the SDK and try again?

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ok I'll give that a shot, thanks :+1:

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still getting the same error, deleted the PlaydateSDK folder and then reinstalled, not sure if there is a way to more completely uninstall it maybe?

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it's weird, I can type "env" in the terminal and it shows me the var:

PLAYDATE_SDK_PATH=/Developer/PlaydateSDK

so it's in there, but for whatever reason now Playdate can't find it. Also this was running perfectly just a couple days ago, no changes to the code at any time during those couple days

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How are you building? Are you building at the command line?

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yeah command line, running these commands:

mkdir build

cd build

cmake ..

make

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The path listed in your last post, PLAYDATE_SDK_PATH=/Developer/PlaydateSDK, isn't right. Double check your .zprofile path is correct and expanded...IIRC it won't expand relative paths to home.

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That got it, thanks! It's weird bc it had been working on that path for a couple weeks now. I think it had to do with the reset closing the terminal window & sourcing the .zprofile, I didn't source the .zprofile the first time around.

For anyone seeing this in future, the solution seemed to be:

  1. updating the path to be the full path in the .zprofile file
  2. run "source .zprofile" in your home directory

should work after that