"Unresolved reference" everywhere

When opening elm source files, I get an Unresolved reference error on every function.

I had a small existing elm 0.19 project. Elm is installed and all dependencies are installed and listed in elm.json. Running elm make or elm reactor from the command line gives no errors.

• I went File > New > Project from existing sources.... Picked the directory containing my elm.json
• It gave me a message “no elm toolchain configured”. I entered the path of my elm binary
• It gave me a message “no elm.json”. I picked the right elm.json
• It didn’t give any more messages, but every reference in every src file is marked as unresolved (including builtins like |> and >>) See the screen shot bleow.

Am I configuring something wrong? Or is this a bug? I’m on Windows with

elm version 0.19.0 npm version 6.1.0 intellij version:

IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2.6
Build #IU-172.4574.11, built on November 13, 2017
Licensed to Quinn Freedman
Subscription is active until August 25, 2019
For educational use only.
JRE: 1.8.0_152-release-915-b12 amd64
JVM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o
Windows 10 10.0

[QuinnFreedman]

Here’s a shot of my now working external dependencies. I’m not sure why PHP is there though…

[klazuka]

@rogererens wrote:

So maybe the bottom line is that after creating the project, one should run the elm program before starting to edit.

Yes, this is 100% the case. The IntelliJ plugin does not install any packages for you. All it does is read your elm.json file and expect that all dependencies can be found in the place that the Elm compiler wants them.

I have some work planned in the future to improve error handling when attaching an elm.json file. Right now it just silently ignores any dependencies that should be installed but aren’t.