How to update Windows MSYS2 environment

[mikekgr]

Dear Sirs,
in my Windows 10 computer I have Windows all-in-one toolchain & MSYS installed as well as ESP-IDF,
My problem is, I am not sure how to update the toolchain & MSYS. Today when I visited:
https://esp-idf.readthedocs.io/en/lates ... setup.html
I saw that a new toolchain & MSYS is released { https://dl.espressif.com/dl/esp32_win32 ... 170918.zip }. Obviously this is newer that my installed version.

So what steps I have to follow in order to update my installed version to the latest released?

Thanks and Best Regards,
Mike Kranidis

[ESP_Angus]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for pointing out this shortcoming in the documentation.

Probably the easiest thing you can do is to download the new full precompiled environment, and copy the "C:\msys32\home" directory from your old environment into the new one.

Alternatively for this upgrade, you can just download the new version of the toolchain from here:
http://esp-idf.readthedocs.io/en/latest ... -toolchain
then delete the old toolchain from C:\msys32\opt and unzip this new version in place of it.

Angus

[mikekgr]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for pointing out this shortcoming in the documentation.

Probably the easiest thing you can do is to download the new full precompiled environment, and copy the "C:\msys32\home" directory from your old environment into the new one.

Alternatively for this upgrade, you can just download the new version of the toolchain from here:
http://esp-idf.readthedocs.io/en/latest ... -toolchain
then delete the old toolchain from C:\msys32\opt and unzip this new version in place of it.

Angus

Thanks a lot. To be honest I already did your first suggestion ( I copy over me "home" dir ) but I was not sure that I did the proper.

Best Regards,
Mike Kranidis

[ESP_Angus]

OK, good to hear Mike. We're going to update the documentation with some suggestions about upgrading from previous environments.