tool-rp2040tools seems to be a required dependency instead of optional (elf2uf2 is required during build)

[fsievers]

When using platform-raspberrypi in a CI build with GitLab-CI (this would be the case with other CIs), the build with pio run … or pio ci … is unable to build the uf2 firmware file. The problem is, that elf2uf2 is not found because it's part of the optional dependency tool-rp2040tools.

Here is a minimal example .gitlab-ci.yml:

image: python:3.8

stages:
  - build

before_script:
  - "pip install -U platformio"

job:
  stage: build
  script: "pio run -e pico"

In the build stage when running pio run -e pico (with env:pico using platform=raspberrypi), the output from the CI is as follow:

…
Linking .pio/build/raspberrypi/firmware.elf
Generating UF2 image
elf2uf2 ".pio/build/raspberrypi/firmware.elf" ".pio/build/raspberrypi/firmware.uf2"
sh: 1: elf2uf2: not found
*** Error 127
Checking size .pio/build/raspberrypi/firmware.elf
…

One way to workaround this is to change the before_script to the following:

before_script:
  - "pip install -U platformio"
  - "pio platform install https://github.com/platformio/platform-raspberrypi.git --with-package=uploader" # we need rp2040tools to get elf2uf2

The problem is, that the pio run … command does not install optional dependencies, but the tool-rp2040tools seems to be a required dependency for platform-raspberrypi.

[valeros]

Thanks for pointing it out, should be fixed in the dev branch.

[fsievers]

Thank you for your fast response. I can confirm that the problem is fixed in the development branch. 👍