[FATAL] v0.83.1 breaks client

[jakobjung10]

Version 0.83.1 breaks the editor-clients in VSCode (possibly other editors, too).

Affected extensions:

• VHDL LS
• VHDL by HGB

BR,
Jakob

[Xcodo]

I can also see the same issue.

It looks like the source is the packaging of the files. There is a sub-folder missing in the zip file. Comparing with the last release:

├───vhdl_ls-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc_0.83.0
│   └───vhdl_ls-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
│       ├───bin
│       └───vhdl_libraries
│           ├───ieee2008
│           ├───std
│           ├───synopsys
│           └───vital2000
├───vhdl_ls-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc_0.83.1
│   ├───bin
│   └───vhdl_libraries
│       ├───ieee2008
│       ├───std
│       ├───synopsys
│       └───vital2000

[ALL-SPACE-Jukka]

I believe that I've figured out the cause of this, as explained in my comment on the VS Code extension repo VHDL-LS/rust_hdl_vscode#103 (comment). TL;DR the problem is that the path of the executable inside the latest release's .zip is missing a directory in its path. The executable still exists on your machine, it's just in the wrong place.

Until this is fixed, you can work around the problem (in VS code at least) by switching your VHDL LS extension's "language server" setting from embedded to user to use a user-defined path, and you then change the "language server user path" setting to the path shown in your error message, but with the vhdl_ls-x86_64... directory removed.

My config is working currently and is as follows:

    "vhdlls.languageServer": "user",
    "vhdlls.languageServerUserPath": "<path>/.vscode/extensions/hbohlin.vhdl-ls-0.7.0/server/vhdl_ls/0.83.1/bin/vhdl_ls",

(I'm on Linux, so you'll have to change the forward slashes to backslashes on Windows).

Once the problem is corrected, you will need to switch the "language server" setting back to embedded.

[Xcodo]

I have used the same fix and this is also working on Windows:

"vhdlls.languageServerUserPath": "<path>\\.vscode\\extensions\\hbohlin.vhdl-ls-0.7.0\\server\\vhdl_ls\\0.83.1\\bin\\vhdl_ls.exe",
"vhdlls.languageServer": "user"

[Schottkyc137]

I think this is fixed now. Would it be possible for someone to verify?

[JHertz5]

@Schottkyc137 I've done a test by deleting the 0.83.1 directory to force VHDL LS to re-download the executable, and it is working for me 🥳 Thanks very much!

[Xcodo]

Also for me. But clients which have already downloaded 0.83.1 will still fail until a newer version is available. I suggest releasing a 0.83.2 version to force clients to update.