Spark Dev compiler has timed out or encountered an error

Troubleshooting
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Hi all.

I’m trying to replicate this instructable I found that I thought would be fun to cut my teeth on. My cores arrived and I was preparing them by attmepting to flash them with the supplied files on step 10. However I can’t seem to be able to verify and compile the code. I keep getting the error that the compiler has timed out or encountered an error seen in the screen shot below:

Can anyone tell me what I’m doing wrong?

Thanks

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Could you try to remove the blanks from your project path?

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I’ve just been struggling with this unhelpful message. It turned out to be resolved by fixing what showed up on a port of the code in the Arduino IDE to be linker errors (I had missed out the class names on a couple of methods, leaving them as bare functions). YMMV.

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I’ve been coming across this problem as well (2 years later). My workaround is to compile using the CLI. E.g.

particle compile photon MyProject/ --saveTo MyProject.bin

At least this way you get the compiler errors to show up in the shell.