I am trying to run a series of examples with the VS Code Extension. The problem I have is with Cmake instructions. I am trying to go through the examples in the Espressif ESP Jumpstart repository. https://github.com/espressif/esp-jumpstart There are 7 incremental steps to the project. 1_hello_world ...

I opened an issue on the vscode-esp-idf-extension repository. I got the following and it worked for me.

there are some bugs in the current marketplace version.
Can you try this vsix installer? https://nightly.link/espressif/vscode-e ... 375661.zip

I started a new topic for my problem under Discussion Forum / IDEs for ESP-IDF

Visual Studio Code ESP-IDF Extension - errors when installed
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I tried to install the ESP-IDF extension in VS Code. It stopped on an error. It seemed to be a path problem with Git. Right now I am stuck. I can't seem to continue the install or re-install from scratch. I need some help. The following is what I got from running ESP-IDF Doctor. --------------------...

Now I am really stuck. I can't get VS Code to complete the install. I can't get it to re-install. Uninstall only changes the status to uninstalled, and changes the button option to Install. So when I click the Install button it briefly (half a second) shows installing, then states the application is...

The path was set for Git/cmd but not for Git/bin.
Now to figure out how to continue the install.

Do you have installed all the prerequisites ? It seems the error is raised for missing Git (haven't checked that script, just the log sounds like executing "git describe" failed to run for missing git executable). OK. You are right. I went fumbled my way into Developer: Toggle Developer Tools and i...

I installed Git before I updated Visual Studio Code. Maybe a path problem?

I tried to install the Espressif ESP-IDF Extension for Visual Studio Code. It was going well, until the following. Can someone tell me what I should do? I am not a programmer, I am hardware developer. Previously I have only done limited work with the Arduino IDE. VSC and the ESP-IDF is totally new t...

This is in relation to the ESP-NOW Chat App video on You Tube and code on Github. There is no way to open an issue in the project on Github so I am posting it here and leaving a comment at the You Tube video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpqz00_IzTc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpqz00_IzTc In ...