ESP32 – IDF Sdk

This article describes how to set the Espressif development environment for the ESP32.

From the link to the resources for the soc

https://www.espressif.com/en/products/hardware/esp32/resources

we access the guide for compiling the firmware on the Windows, OSX and Linux platforms

http://esp-idf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/get-started/index.html

In this article we use Linux Debian 9 as operating system, configured as described previously  here

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We  use the IDF github. On Debian 9, with the user used to connect to the system, we create  the Esp32 folder under the user’s Home and  the espressif folder inside it

Install the prerequisites

Download the cross compiler

Create the esp folder and unpack the toolchain

Add the bin folder of the cross compiler to the PATH

Add the user used for the operations to the dialout group

Clone the IDF repository from  $HOME/Esp32/espressif

Add the IDF_PATH environment variable

Create the project folder under $HOME/Esp32/espressif and copy an example from di IDF examples

Run the configuration

Access Serial flasher config -> and set the connection parameters; in our case we leave the default

idf-serial_flasher-engSave the configuration and build the firmware

To upload the firmware on the device run

To upload only the application run

while to build only the application run

To run the program monitor run

hello_world-engHere are the other examples available with sdk

https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/tree/f586f5e/examples

The following link contains the references of the IDF API

http://esp-idf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api-reference/index.html

You can also generate documentation from the github source. Go into  ~/Esp32/espressif/esp-idf/docs/en

Install the prerequisites

Generate documentantion in html format

make-html-eng

The documentation is available under  _build / html.

In the next article we will configure Eclipse as IDE  to build our applications

ESP32 -IDF Sdk with Eclipse