Section [env]¶

Global scope [env]¶

Allows declaring global options which will be shared between all [env:NAME] sections in “platformio.ini” (Project Configuration File). It is very useful if the configuration file has a lot of local scopes [env:NAME] and they have common options.

For example:

[env]
platform = ststm32
framework = stm32cube
board = nucleo_l152re
lib_deps = Dep1, Dep2

[env:release]
build_flags = -D RELEASE
lib_deps =
    ${env.lib_deps}
    Dep3

[env:debug]
build_type = debug
build_flags = -D DEBUG
lib_deps = DepCustom

In this example we have 2 build environments release and debug. This is the same if you duplicate all options:

[env:release]
platform = ststm32
framework = stm32cube
board = nucleo_l152re
build_flags = -D RELEASE
lib_deps = Dep1, Dep2, Dep3

[env:debug]
platform = ststm32
framework = stm32cube
board = nucleo_l152re
build_type = debug
build_flags = -D DEBUG
lib_deps = DepCustom

Local scope [env:NAME]¶

A section with env: prefix is used to define a build environment with local options (available only for this environment). PlatformIO uses [env:NAME] environments for platformio run, platformio test, platformio debug, and other commands.

Each environment must have a unique NAME. The valid chars for NAME are letters a-z, numbers 0-9, special char _ (underscore). For example, [env:hello_world]. Multiple [env:NAME] environments with different NAME are allowed.

If you have more than one build environment and you need to process only a few of them, please check -e, --environment option for commands mentioned above.

Options¶