[Bug] Windows Set-up Fails with Missing Paths

[mschelasin]

Near identical issue to #8601 with added complication.

Following the setup instructions on https://docs.qmk.fm/#/newbs_getting_started?id=_1-download-software

The command qmk setup fails with:

INFO Found qmk_firmware at C:/Users/Martin/qmk_firmware.
INFO QMK Doctor is checking your environment.
INFO Detected Windows.
ERROR Can't find arm-none-eabi-gcc in your path.
ERROR Can't find avr-gcc in your path.
ERROR Can't find avrdude in your path.
<class 'FileNotFoundError'>
ERROR [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/msys64/mingw64/lib/python3.8/site-packages/milc.py", line 592, in call
return self.call()
File "C:/msys64/mingw64/lib/python3.8/site-packages/milc.py", line 597, in call
return self._entrypoint(self)
File "C:/Users/Martin/qmk_firmware/lib/python/qmk/cli/doctor.py", line 230, in doctor
bin_ok = check_binaries()
File "C:/Users/Martin/qmk_firmware/lib/python/qmk/cli/doctor.py", line 72, in check_binaries
if not is_executable(binary):
File "C:/Users/Martin/qmk_firmware/lib/python/qmk/cli/doctor.py", line 159, in is_executable
check = subprocess.run([command, version_arg], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, timeout=5, universal_newlines=True)
File "C:/msys64/mingw64/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 489, in run
with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as process:
File "C:/msys64/mingw64/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 854, in init
self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
File "C:/msys64/mingw64/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 1307, in _execute_child
hp, ht, pid, tid = _winapi.CreateProcess(executable, args,
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified
ERROR Your build environment is not setup completely.
*** Would you like to run util/qmk_install? [y/n] y
<class 'OSError'>
ERROR [WinError 193] %1 is not a valid Win32 application
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/msys64/mingw64/lib/python3.8/site-packages/milc.py", line 592, in call
return self.call()
File "C:/msys64/mingw64/lib/python3.8/site-packages/milc.py", line 597, in call
return self._entrypoint(self)
File "C:/msys64/mingw64/lib/python3.8/site-packages/qmk_cli/subcommands/setup.py", line 45, in setup
process = subprocess.run(['util/qmk_install.sh'])
File "C:/msys64/mingw64/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 489, in run
with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as process:
File "C:/msys64/mingw64/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 854, in init
self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
File "C:/msys64/mingw64/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 1307, in _execute_child
hp, ht, pid, tid = _winapi.CreateProcess(executable, args,
OSError: [WinError 193] %1 is not a valid Win32 application

Solution provided in comments of #8601 was to run $ python -m pip install -U qmk

which resulted in:

Requirement already up-to-date: qmk in c:/msys64/mingw64/lib/python3.8/site-packages (0.0.31)
Requirement already satisfied, skipping upgrade: colorama in c:/msys64/mingw64/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from qmk) (0.4.3)
Requirement already satisfied, skipping upgrade: argcomplete in c:/msys64/mingw64/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from qmk) (1.11.1)
Requirement already satisfied, skipping upgrade: hjson in c:/msys64/mingw64/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from qmk) (3.0.1)
Requirement already satisfied, skipping upgrade: nose2 in c:/msys64/mingw64/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from qmk) (0.9.2)
Requirement already satisfied, skipping upgrade: appdirs in c:/msys64/mingw64/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from qmk) (1.4.3)
Requirement already satisfied, skipping upgrade: flake8 in c:/msys64/mingw64/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from qmk) (3.7.9)
Requirement already satisfied, skipping upgrade: yapf in c:/msys64/mingw64/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from qmk) (0.29.0)
Requirement already satisfied, skipping upgrade: six>=1.7 in c:/msys64/mingw64/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from nose2->qmk) (1.14.0)
Requirement already satisfied, skipping upgrade: coverage>=4.4.1 in c:/msys64/mingw64/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from nose2->qmk) (5.0.4)
Requirement already satisfied, skipping upgrade: mccabe<0.7.0,>=0.6.0 in c:/msys64/mingw64/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from flake8->qmk) (0.6.1)
Requirement already satisfied, skipping upgrade: pyflakes<2.2.0,>=2.1.0 in c:/msys64/mingw64/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from flake8->qmk) (2.1.1)
Requirement already satisfied, skipping upgrade: entrypoints<0.4.0,>=0.3.0 in c:/msys64/mingw64/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from flake8->qmk) (0.3)
Requirement already satisfied, skipping upgrade: pycodestyle<2.6.0,>=2.5.0 in c:/msys64/mingw64/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from flake8->qmk) (2.5.0)

then $ cd $USERPROFILE/qmk_firmware

then $ git pull

resulting in:

Already up to date.

However, rerunning qmk setup still throws the same result.

System Information

• Keyboard:
• Operating system: Windows 10 Education
• AVR GCC version: throws command not found error when trying to determine
• ARM GCC version: throws command not found error when trying to determine
• QMK Firmware version: 0.8.95
• Any keyboard related software installed?
  • AutoHotKey
  • Karabiner
  • Other:

Additional Context

[SirTimmyTimbit]

Same error here.

Msys2 Python is 3.7. QMK is looking for 3.8. I think that's where the errors are coming from.

I'm not sure how to upgrade python inside msys2

[fauxpark]

There was a regression introduced in #8583, it should be fixed by #8678.