Yes I downloaded and uncompressed from that link. I tried it multiple times and no luck.
I am sure I did not corrupt as I ran only the "Getting Started" procedure.

Anyway, I have switched to ubuntu for development and the environment is working as expected.

kannhild@kanm5428 MINGW32 ~/esp/hello_world $ which python /mingw32/bin/python kannhild@kanm5428 MINGW32 ~/esp/hello_world $ python -V Python 2.7.14 kannhild@kanm5428 MINGW32 ~/esp/hello_world $ echo $PATH /mingw32/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/c/Windows/System32:/c/Windows:/c/Windows/System32/W...

Using Windows. I followed the default toolchain setup. During make flash for "hello_world" project I get a python error: kannhild@kanm5428 MINGW32 ~/esp/hello_world $ make flash ImportError: No module named site I tried to fix this by setting the PYTHONPATH, but ran into further issues with not find...