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I recently downloaded and installed ESP-IDF 3.2.2 running under Windows 10. All went well and the getting started examples build using the ESP-IDF command prompt window. I really want to run in the Eclipse IDE, but the instructions for the Eclipse IDE on Windows did not come close to working with this version of ESP-IDF. The instructions say to set a PATH to C:\msys32\..... But that didn't exist in my install after running the Windows installer. The install script did create a C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64 directory ..... should this be used instead?

The instructions state:
Previous versions of ESP-IDF used the Legacy GNU Make Build System and MSYS2 Unix compatibility environment. This is no longer required, ESP-IDF can be used from the Windows Command Prompt.

OK. So can Eclipse now be configured to use Windows commands the same as ESP-IDF? And how?

I'm also getting errors trying to run python. I tried adding the installed version on the search path, but then I get errors not finding the .py file for python ${IDF_PATH}/tools/windows/eclipse_make.py. I know this file exists and the path looks right, so something is wrong with my configuration there as well.

I think a major update to the Eclipse instructions is required. If someone has figured this out, please let me know.

Thanks, Max

I went ahead and downloaded a Git to get the MSYS2 environment and configured Eclipse according to the existing Eclipse instructions using msys32. I set the IDF_PATH to the ESP-IDF distribution I have installed . So it's all working so far (debugger not configured yet) but a full build runs considerably slower in Eclipse that from the ESP-IDF command window. Incremental builds as I'm developing my programs should be faster and I can always open up the ESP-IDF Command Prompt when a full build is needed.

In all fairness to Espressif, I found that they did state that the CMake environment for Eclipse would be supported in a later release and you should continue to use the legacy msys2 environment in Eclipse. Plus there was a warning that depending on your install, the builds might run slower.
I have set up Eclipse version 2019-09 and it's working fine with the msys32 window for menuconfig. I've also used JTAG debug mode with a ESP-PROG board and that is also working well.
I'm looking forward to improvements with the next release, but development is proceeding OK with my existing setup.