I'm trying to run GDB from the "latest" esp-idf command line build environment:

xtensa-esp32-elf-gdb.exe

I can't even get the program to tell me its version. Am I doing it wrong? Is there an older version of GDB available that I could download that might work better?

Thanks ESP_igrr, My apologies. The path variable was exactly the problem. At some point, "PATH=" got prefixed to the path variable. That would have been the second "PATH=" that I reported. I have verified that that was what was tying the Espressif batch files in knots. I have been trying to get a JT...

Above I mentioned "esp-idf-tools-setup-2.0.exe"... I should have said "esp-idf-tools-setup-2.1.exe". I did some looking. In 2010, Raymond Chen (Microsoft) stated that the size limit on the whole environment is 32K Unicode characters. There is apparently no particular limit on the path variable, othe...

I am on Windows 8.1 and I'm attempting to install ESP-IDF 4.0-beta1. After running "esp-idf-tools-setup-2.0.exe" to completion, a DOS command window with the appropriate environment appeared on the Windows desktop. There was no shortcut for this window on the desktop, but I did find the shortcut her...

I'm trying to install the beta on Windows 8.1. I ran esp-idf-tools-setup-2.1.exe with the windows defender exclusions selected. The installer hangs when it attempts to register the exclusions. (I then ran the installer without the exclusions selected, but with the option to create a shortcut on the ...