Marlin not compiling (6 replies)

Hi guys I downloaded Marlin.bugfix-2.0x a few days ago to use a new SKR v1.3 board, however it doesn't want to compile and upload. I also installed Atom, Platform.io and git. What happens is when I try to compile and upload Atom reports "Can not find Platformio project. (make sure it contains platformio.ini) or words to that effect. Platformio.ini is there in the marlin folder of course. Now because of this I have been using Marlin from the Bigtreetech folder and this compiles and uploads ok, but of course this is probably an older version and they do recommend downloading the latest version.I have now downloaded it a couple of times with the same result. The other thing that happens after trying to compile and upload is it seems to knock out communication with the COM port., i.e. is no longer recognized by windows. And then even the Bigtreetech Marlin will not then compile and upload , reports that it can't find the upload port. The only way I can find out of this is to copy firmware.bin from the Bigtreetech folder, paste it to the sd card on the pc insert it in the board reset the board. Then upload the Bigtree Marlin to the board again , which then over rights the firmware.bin as normal with FIRMWARE.CUR and date and time.

As i'm pretty new to this I'm not sure if its a bug in Marlin or not.

Rod

Edit oh I downloaded Marlin from Github.