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I am currently facing this Error:

  Using rustc version: rustc 1.62.0-nightly (e85edd9a8 2022-04-28)

     Compiling frame-support v4.0.0-dev (https://github.com/paritytech/substrate.git?branch=polkadot-v0.9.19#174735ea)
  error: cannot find macro `vec` in this scope
    --> /home/creestl/.cargo/git/checkouts/substrate-7e08433d4c370a21/174735e/frame/support/src/traits/storage.rs:77:17
     |
  77 |         let mut res = vec![];
     |                       ^^^
     |
     = note: consider importing one of these items:
             codec::alloc::vec
             crate::sp_std::vec
             scale_info::prelude::vec
             sp_std::vec

(it says that std macro is used when building for no-std)
The frame-support import in my Cargo.toml looks like this:

frame-support = { version = "4.0.0-dev", default-features = false, git = "https://github.com/paritytech/substrate.git", branch = "polkadot-v0.9.19" }

***snip***

[features]
default = ["std"]
std = [
    "parity-scale-codec/std",
    "scale-info/std",
    "frame-support/std",
    "frame-system/std",
    "frame-benchmarking/std",
]

So I did not modify any code of that pallet. It is not some kind of custom pallet. This code above is from substrate-node-template.

To build a node I use cargo build --release command.

I know that runtime builds in no-std. But I haven't had such error with that pallet before.

[UPD] I get the same error with finality-grandpa as well

error: cannot find macro `format` in this scope
    --> /home/creestl/.cargo/git/checkouts/substrate-7e08433d4c370a21/174735e/primitives/finality-grandpa/src/lib.rs:43:2
     |
  43 |     app_crypto!(ed25519, GRANDPA);
     |     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
     |
     = note: consider importing one of these items:
             alloc::format
             scale_info::prelude::format
     = note: this error originates in the macro `$crate::app_crypto_public_common_if_std` (in Nightly builds, run with -Z macro-backtrace for more info)

Please assist. I've been trying to fix this for several days now.

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  • What did you modify about your project? Did you make sure to add the std feature to any imported crates?
    – Shawn Tabrizi
    Apr 30, 2022 at 12:55
  • Basically, I'm trying to implement PoW (smth like Kulupu's but more simple) on top of node template. I've added primitives, difficulty pallets and one more pallet with my custom Sha256 PoW logic. I doublechecked that each crate's std is listed in [features]
    – CREESTL
    Apr 30, 2022 at 14:03
  • The error here is almost certainly due to some missing feature stuff. I would start with the base node-template, and make changes one by one, checking each time it compiles.
    – Shawn Tabrizi
    Apr 30, 2022 at 14:09
  • That would be the best solution, but it would take me too much time to go back to the start and do the same steps once again:( That's why I'm trying to fix it the other way.
    – CREESTL
    Apr 30, 2022 at 14:14
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    Strange, I am getting the same error: cannot find macro 'format' in this scope when doing a cargo check in my runtime folder. this started after I added a new pallet to my runtime, and updated the versions in the cargo.toml in the runtime. definitely a dependency problem, still trying to figure it out..... May 2, 2022 at 6:27

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I fixed it. First let me explain how I got this error. I cloned Kulupu's difficulty pallet. And it required Kulupu's primitives as one of the dependencies. So I cloned them as well so the Cargo.toml dependencies section of my primitives crate looked like this:

[dependencies]
parity-scale-codec = { package = "parity-scale-codec", version = "3.0.0", default-features = false, features = ["derive"] }
sp-core = { version = "6.0.0", default-features = false, git = "https://github.com/paritytech/substrate.git", branch = "polkadot-v0.9.19" }
sp-api = { version = "4.0.0-dev", git = "https://github.com/paritytech/substrate.git", branch = "polkadot-v0.9.19" } 

But building the runtime failed with this wasm32 kind of error. First to fix this error I added the following to the Cargo.toml of my primitives crate:

getrandom = {version = "0.2", features= ["js"] }

So it's dependencies section looked like this:

[dependencies]
parity-scale-codec = { package = "parity-scale-codec", version = "3.0.0", default-features = false, features = ["derive"] }
sp-core = { version = "6.0.0", default-features = false, git = "https://github.com/paritytech/substrate.git", branch = "polkadot-v0.9.19" }
sp-api = { version = "4.0.0-dev", git = "https://github.com/paritytech/substrate.git", branch = "polkadot-v0.9.19" }
getrandom = {version = "0.2", features= ["js"] }

Then I tried to build runtime again. At this point I got the std macros bug described in my question above.

The solution was pretty simple (even though I spent a week figuring it out):

  • Deleted all unused dependencies from the Cargo.toml of my primitives crate. That fixed the wasm32 error and thus made the getrandom = {version = "0.2", features= ["js"] } line useless as well. To be more specific, the sp-api = { version = "4.0.0-dev", git = "https://github.com/paritytech/substrate.git", branch = "polkadot-v0.9.19" } line was causing some inner conflict. So I could have deleted only this one, but I decided to get rid of everything that was unused. After that the runtime built fine. Final contents of Cargo.toml of my primitives crate:
***snip***

[dependencies]
sp-core = { version = "6.0.0", default-features = false, git = "https://github.com/paritytech/substrate.git", branch = "polkadot-v0.9.19" }

[features]
default = ["std"]
std = [
    "sp-core/std", 
]

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