esp-idf tool installation fails due to ERROR: MSys/Minggw is not supported (VSC-1020)

[stsgil]

OS

Windows

Operating System version

Windows 10

Visual Studio Code version

1.74.1

ESP-IDF version

5.0

Python version

3.10.9

Doctor command output

Don't know, nothing happens when I run this command

Extension

esp_idf_vsc_ext.log

Description

ESP-IDF tool installation fails with, because I guess it finds MinGW64 through my git bash, which is not supported?

This is my Nth attempt at installing this stuff. Before I had MSYS installed, I was able to successfully configure/install everything, but when I tried to build my project, I got the same error.
Potentially something is wrong with my environment variable setup / I need msys after all? But in the readme for this extension, msys is not listed in the pre-requisites for Windows, I feel like you could at least provide some references to IDF documentation for those, who have no experience with this whole infrastructure.

Debug Message

ERROR: MSys/Mingw is not supported. Please follow the getting started guide of the documentation to set up a supported environment
Command failed: "C:\Users\Stas\.espressif\tools\idf-python\3.8.7\python.exe" "C:\Users\Stas\esp\esp-idf\tools\idf_tools.py" install-python-env

Other Steps to Reproduce

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I have checked existing issues, online documentation and the Troubleshooting Guide

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[stsgil]

Sorry if i sound a bit emotional. To add:
esp-idf docs say "please install idf through the IDE extension" (https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/latest/esp32/get-started/index.html)
I also tried installing the esp-idf using the online installer 2.17 and then option "use existing idf" in the extension setup wizard, but I had a similar error, it failed to build mconf-idf because "no MSYS2"

[stsgil]

I had some stale path variables in my vscode extension settings and i probably provided wrong IDF_PATH and IDF_TOOLS_PATH

[kongzhongfeima]

same error

[johnosbb]

same error installing on Windows

[brianignacio5]

This error is triggered in ESP-IDF idf.py here: https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/blob/master/tools/idf_tools.py#L3240

It seems there is an environment variable MSYSTEM in your setup that is being detected as MSys/Mingw

[MartyMcFlyInTheSky]

Uninstall MSYS2 and restart your computer. This env variable is set under C:\msys64\msys2_shell.cmd which is (I believe) executed for bootstrapping. Also don't use bash to execute the setup app (in case you somehow don't install it from vscode IDE), since bash always has MSYSTEM set to MINGW64.

[henryfung3a27]

On Windows, setting the VSCode default terminal profile to anything other than Git Bash solved for me. i.e. in VSCode settings.json, comment out

  // "terminal.integrated.defaultProfile.windows": "Git Bash",