Error Compiling in Linux

[Alaa-Aim]

@vortigont Hi, hope you have a lovely day, I'm using Linux now (Mint 21.2 Cinnamon ) when I run the code to compile, I get the error as below,
'CONFIGURATION: https://docs.platformio.org/page/boards/espressif32/wemos_d1_mini32.html
PLATFORM: Espressif 32 (6.3.2) > WEMOS D1 MINI ESP32
HARDWARE: ESP32 240MHz, 320KB RAM, 4MB Flash
DEBUG: Current (cmsis-dap) External (cmsis-dap, esp-bridge, esp-prog, iot-bus-jtag, jlink, minimodule, olimex-arm-usb-ocd, olimex-arm-usb-ocd-h, olimex-arm-usb-tiny-h, olimex-jtag-tiny, tumpa)
PACKAGES:

• framework-arduinoespressif32 @ 3.20009.0 (2.0.9)
• tool-esptoolpy @ 1.40501.0 (4.5.1)
• toolchain-xtensa-esp32 @ 8.4.0+2021r2-patch5
  ffatal: Not a valid object name HEAD
  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/aim/Documents/ESPEM New/flags.py", line 13, in
  subprocess.check_output(["git", "describe", "--abbrev=4", "--always", "--tags", "--long"])
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/subprocess.py", line 421, in check_output
  return run(*popenargs, stdout=PIPE, timeout=timeout, check=True,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/subprocess.py", line 526, in run
  raise CalledProcessError(retcode, process.args,
  subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['git', 'describe', '--abbrev=4', '--always', '--tags', '--long']' returned non-zero exit status 128.
  OSError: 'python flags.py' exited 1:
  File "/home/aim/.platformio/penv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/platformio/builder/main.py", line 175:
  env.SConscript("$BUILD_SCRIPT")
  File "/home/aim/.platformio/packages/tool-scons/scons-local-4.5.2/SCons/Script/SConscript.py", line 598:
  return _SConscript(self.fs, *files, **subst_kw)
  File "/home/aim/.platformio/packages/tool-scons/scons-local-4.5.2/SCons/Script/SConscript.py", line 285:
  exec(compile(scriptdata, scriptname, 'exec'), call_stack[-1].globals)
  File "/home/aim/.platformio/platforms/espressif32/builder/main.py", line 312:
  target_elf = env.BuildProgram()
  File "/home/aim/.platformio/packages/tool-scons/scons-local-4.5.2/SCons/Util/envs.py", line 242:
  return self.method(*nargs, **kwargs)
  File "/home/aim/.platformio/penv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/platformio/builder/tools/piobuild.py", line 62:
  env.ProcessProjectDeps()
  File "/home/aim/.platformio/packages/tool-scons/scons-local-4.5.2/SCons/Util/envs.py", line 242:
  return self.method(*nargs, **kwargs)
  File "/home/aim/.platformio/penv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/platformio/builder/tools/piobuild.py", line 147:
  plb = env.ConfigureProjectLibBuilder()
  File "/home/aim/.platformio/packages/tool-scons/scons-local-4.5.2/SCons/Util/envs.py", line 242:
  return self.method(*nargs, **kwargs)
  File "/home/aim/.platformio/penv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/platformio/builder/tools/piolib.py", line 1167:
  project = ProjectAsLibBuilder(env, "$PROJECT_DIR")
  File "/home/aim/.platformio/penv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/platformio/builder/tools/piolib.py", line 886:
  super().init(env, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/aim/.platformio/penv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/platformio/builder/tools/piolib.py", line 153:
  self.process_extra_options()
  File "/home/aim/.platformio/penv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/platformio/builder/tools/piolib.py", line 952:
  self.env.ProcessFlags(self.build_flags)
  File "/home/aim/.platformio/packages/tool-scons/scons-local-4.5.2/SCons/Util/envs.py", line 242:
  return self.method(*nargs, **kwargs)
  File "/home/aim/.platformio/penv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/platformio/builder/tools/piobuild.py", line 228:
  env.Append(**env.ParseFlagsExtended(flags))
  File "/home/aim/.platformio/packages/tool-scons/scons-local-4.5.2/SCons/Util/envs.py", line 242:
  return self.method(*nargs, **kwargs)
  File "/home/aim/.platformio/penv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/platformio/builder/tools/piobuild.py", line 190:
  for key, value in env.ParseFlags(str(raw)).items():
  File "/home/aim/.platformio/packages/tool-scons/scons-local-4.5.2/SCons/Environment.py", line 1035:
  do_parse(arg)
  File "/home/aim/.platformio/packages/tool-scons/scons-local-4.5.2/SCons/Environment.py", line 887:
  arg = self.backtick(arg[1:])
  File "/home/aim/.platformio/packages/tool-scons/scons-local-4.5.2/SCons/Environment.py", line 798:
  raise OSError("'%s' exited %d" % (command, status))
  ========================== [FAILED] Took 0.71 seconds ==========================

Environment Status Duration

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espem FAILED 00:00:00.707
==================== 1 failed, 0 succeeded in 00:00:00.707 ====================''

[vortigont]

Hi! Thanks for your warm greeting!
Pls, make sure you have installed git and you are running build from git cloned repo of espem, not just unpacked zip archive

[Alaa-Aim]

@vortigont , many thanks, I'm still new user for Linux, bear with me