better error message for compiling unknown platforms

[tsuf239]

I tried this:

I wanted to test wing code the awscdk target, I didn't have it installed on my machine. I ran: wing test -t @winglang/platform-awscdk path-to-file

This happened:

I expected this:

Wing cli to display a friendly error such as "seems like "platform-name" isn't installed, try running npm i -g <package name>?" *I assume that the same error is displayed even for mistyped or unexisting platforms, please take that in account @hasanaburayyan do you have an idea for a friendly error message to display?

Is there a workaround?

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Anything else?

Dear contributor, you are welcome to assign yourself to the task! before you start, please verify that you have the exact wording for the error message and that edge cases are all covered :)

Wing Version

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[revitalbarletz]

@srinumadhavv let me know what do you think about this issue!

[srinumadhavv]

@Chriscbr @revitalbarletz Seems the error comes from here but its still picking up the old change as per the description any headsup at where to start looking at ?

[tsuf239]

found a duplication to this issue- https://github.com/winglang/wing/issues/6147 and it seems like it was closed by @hasanaburayyan in #6176 I think we can close this one :) @srinumadhavv please let us know if you need help choosing another issue