ESP32 Forum

Hello

i have a Raspberry PI 4 4GB RAM - on Buster.
i have installed the Arduino ide which works fine so far.

i wished to add the esp32 Board so i went to the Board Manager search and found it but when i did install i got a error

Tool xtensa-esp32-elf-gcc is not available for your operating system.
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.Exception: Tool xtensa-esp32-elf-gcc is not available for your operating system.
at cc.arduino.contributions.packages.ui.ContributionManagerUI.lambda$onInstallPressed$2(ContributionManagerUI.java:175)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Caused by: java.lang.Exception: Tool xtensa-esp32-elf-gcc is not available for your operating system.
at cc.arduino.contributions.packages.ContributionInstaller.install(ContributionInstaller.java:85)
at cc.arduino.contributions.packages.ui.ContributionManagerUI.lambda$onInstallPressed$2(ContributionManagerUI.java:172)
... 1 more

any idea how to solve it?

have a nice day
vinc

Hi vinc,

Unfortunately we haven't released any toolchains with ARM architecture support yet. This is planned for a future update of the toolchain.

Angus

@angus
thanks for your feedback, any timeline for this?
i can't do anything with my newly arrived esp32 Lora Device.
have a nice day
vinc

I would also be interested in ARM support. I can work with esp-idf v3.3 because I can compile a toolchain with crosstool-ng, but on v4.0 the install and export scripts fail.

Is there a timeline for ARM support?

This is interesting, but it appears there is still no package for linux-arm64:
A little digging into `idf_tools.py` confirms that there is a Linux-aarch64 target for my platform, but when trying to download the toolchain it is missing (there is linux-armel but no linux-arm64 in tools/tools.json).

[EDIT]
It looks like the armel version works for arm64 as well; still, the install scripts look for a linux-arm64 target that is not present. Can I specify to use the armel version?

Binaries for 64-bit raspberry pi os "buster":https://github.com/koendv/xtensa-esp32-elf-raspberrypi

I have the same problem for Debian 12.1 for arm64.
ERROR: tool xtensa-esp32-elf does not have versions compatible with platform linux-arm64
If someone can point me to the updated files, I'd appreciate it. I'll try the raspberry-pi solution in the mean-time.

For a debian 12.1 arm64 environment, I downloaded the raspberry-pi fix and tried the installation. This is the response:
sudo apt install ./xtensa-esp32-elf_8.2.0-2020r2_arm64.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'xtensa-esp32-elf' instead of './xtensa-esp32-elf_8.2.0-2020r2_arm64.deb'
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
xtensa-esp32-elf : Depends: python but it is not installable
Depends: python-click but it is not installable
Depends: python-cryptography but it is not installable
Depends: python-dev but it is not installable
Depends: python-future but it is not installable
Depends: python-pip but it is not installable
Depends: python-pyelftools but it is not installable
Depends: python-pyparsing but it is not installable
Depends: python-serial but it is not installable
Depends: python-setuptools but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I think we've been providing arm64 binaries in our standard installation process for ages now... does the procedure at https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp ... setup.html not work for you?