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Get Started

At the begining it is necessary to set up a development enviroment. Programming gateways are supported on every popular operating systems like Windows, Linux or MAC OS. This document was prepared in reference to Windows.

ESP-IDF framework

The main tool is ESP-IDF framework provided by Espressif. To get more information about installation, visit manufacturer’s 
website: Get Started - ESP32 -  — ESP-IDF Programming Guide latest documentation.

Manual Installation of ESP-IDF: Standard Setup of Toolchain for Windows - ESP32 -  — ESP-IDF Programming Guide latest documentation.

During the ESP-IDF installation you might be asked for install Eclipse additionally.

After successful process it is necessary to add new enviroment variables.

Variables names:

  • IDF_PATH - paste the path of the directory with ESP-IDF framework
  • IDF_TOOLS_PATH - paste the path of the directory with ESP-IDF tools

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Finally you can run ESP-IDF CMD and start to manage your project. There should be an icon on the desktop or easy access to ESP-IDF.

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