importing existing ADF projects using new IDF plugin for eclipse

[bs-eng]

Hello!

I have been programming on a project in ESP-ADF for the last few years. So far I was able to take the project with after upgrading to a higher version of ADF/IDF.

Now I updated to version ADFV2.4.1 which includes by default IDFv4.4.2
I order to do so I needed to throw out my complete eclipse and ADF/IDF setup as something went very wrong with the upgrade as usual. So I decided for a clean install. (yes, I removed also (hopefully)all hidden setup/config files of eclipse as well as of espressif SDK).

My install:
Operating System: windows 10
Java Runtime Version: 14.0.2+12-46
Eclipse Version: 4.24.0.v20220607-0700
Eclipse CDT Version: 10.7.0.202204131742
IDF Eclipse Plugin Version: 2.6.0.202208110735
fatal: not a git repository: ../.git/modules/esp-idf
WARNING: Git version unavailable, reading from source
ESP-IDF v4.4.2
Python set for IDF_PYTHON_ENV: Python 3.8.3rc1

(Git is installed and running fine - I dont know why the plugin does not recognize it when listing installed tools - bt this is not the point of this posting.)

First test: create new IDF project from an example project, build and run it.
=> I chose hello-world and it compiles and runs just fine.

Second test: import an ADF example project
=> I chose the pipeline_bt_sink example

import gives the first issues already: every subfolder is recognized as a seperate nested project => as this is not the case I choose to import only the top level project
then setting launch target => does not work because eclipse does not show any launch targets in the drop down list (as was the case with the IDF example project before)
so I create a new launch target => that does not get listed/recognized (meaning the drop down never shows it)
Third test: create and ADF example project
=> I chose again the pipeline_bt_sink example

copy the example project into a folder of name pipeline_bt_sink
create new IDF project and choosing as location the folder pipeline_bt_sink
launch target is populated
build works
flash/run works fine
when checking what the software does on the board, I notice that no subfolders have been compiled/included in the project
upon second build there a plenty of errors about not found symbols and missing include paths

I noticed that when using the "List installed tools" command in the menu, it tells me that not all tools are installed. However they are and IDF examples compile just fine. Here is the list of installed tools when executing the command manually in an ESP-IDF enabled shell (Win10):

xtensa-esp32-elf: Toolchain for Xtensa (ESP32) based on GCC
esp-2021r2-patch3-8.4.0 (recommended, installed)
xtensa-esp32s2-elf: Toolchain for Xtensa (ESP32-S2) based on GCC
esp-2021r2-patch3-8.4.0 (recommended, installed)
xtensa-esp32s3-elf: Toolchain for Xtensa (ESP32-S3) based on GCC
esp-2021r2-patch3-8.4.0 (recommended, installed)
xtensa-clang: LLVM for Xtensa (ESP32, ESP32-S2) based on clang (optional)
12.0.1-d9341b81fc (recommended, installed)
riscv32-esp-elf: Toolchain for 32-bit RISC-V based on GCC
esp-2021r2-patch3-8.4.0 (recommended, installed)
esp32ulp-elf: Toolchain for ESP32 ULP coprocessor
2.28.51-esp-20191205 (recommended, installed)
esp32s2ulp-elf: Toolchain for ESP32-S2 and ESP32-S3 ULP coprocessors
2.28.51-esp-20191205 (recommended, installed)
cmake: CMake build system
3.23.1 (recommended, installed)
openocd-esp32: OpenOCD for ESP32
v0.11.0-esp32-20220706 (recommended, installed)
ninja: Ninja build system
1.10.2 (recommended, installed)
idf-exe: IDF wrapper tool for Windows
1.0.3 (recommended, installed)
ccache: Ccache (compiler cache)
4.3 (recommended, installed)
dfu-util: dfu-util (Device Firmware Upgrade Utilities)
0.9 (recommended, installed)
Additionally I noticed that automatically all IDF components are copied into the project as empty folders upon build. So there appears a new folder "esp_idf_components" in the project which contains all idf components folders (without the actual code and include files).

Question
Is this a bug in the espressif plugin or are ADF projects somehow not supported or am I missing something?
What would be the (new) recommended way to import existing code as a project?

Thanks!
JR

[bs-eng]

Hi all!
Just wanted to follow up with the solution on this:
Please see this post on github: https://github.com/espressif/idf-eclips ... issues/594

Cheers
JR