ESP32 Forum

Hi all,

I'm a newbie to C and embedded programming, so forgive me for asking any dumb questions. However, I've got an ESP32 from Adafruit and am trying to get the toolchain set up for Windows 8.1. I'm following this tutorial from Hackaday:

https://hackaday.com/2016/10/04/how-to- ... ore-225197

As well as this Linux tutorial:

https://ritazh.com/get-started-with-esp ... .2oseufjv7

I've got the msys32 toolchain working, the esp-idf and esp-idf-template repos cloned, and the environment variables loaded (I think) while running the msys32 setup. I'm able to run `make menuconfig` but am lost on what to set the path and the port to on Windows (COM3, for example?). When I try to run make within the template project folder, I get this error:
I'm assuming this is an error in my config and that it's not finding the c++ compiler needed.

Any advice?

Thanks!

Howdy,
What I'd recommend you do is follow this set of documentation:

https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/bl ... -setup.rst

It is part of a broader set of docs found here:

https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/tree/master/docs

which are themselves part of the ESP-IDF project on Github. ESP-IDF can be thought of as the official software that runs on the ESP32 and provides the environment on which we build our custom applications. This documentation is about the most official we can have. In my opinion, it also serves as our reference base against which we can ask questions and improve upon. If you study these docs and give what they suggest a try then if you have questions, the community here will be delighted to try and assist. Be sure that if you report, you include as much detail as possible. As a rule of thumb, I spend 3x the amount of time writing a forum post as I would hope a cursory reader might spend reading and thinking about it.

Hi Kolban,

Sorry, for the delayed response, I just saw this reply. I will give that a shot and report back.

Thank you!