ESP32 Development

[besterm]

Just curious if anyone has used the PBP for developing ESP32 firmware.  Ideally it would be nice to code, build, program, and maybe JTAG debug (Segger J-Link) on this platform.  My preferred development platform is Espressif's IDF SDK (not Arduino).  Curious to see if there are any other firmware engineers out there. 

[besterm]

Just curious if anyone has used the PBP for developing ESP32 firmware.  Ideally it would be nice to code, build, program, and maybe JTAG debug (Segger J-Link) on this platform.  My preferred development platform is Espressif's IDF SDK (not Arduino).  Curious to see if there are any other firmware engineers out there. 

I was able to build the xtensa toolchain on the pinebook pro and use the IDF SDK (4.2) to build projects.  This is going to be my ESP32 dev machine.

[fxk8y]

I'm currently working nix expressions to build the toolchain automatically, if this works (think I'm at 80%) it will be upstreamed

[besterm]

I'm currently working nix expressions to build the toolchain automatically, if this works (think I'm at 80%) it will be upstreamed

FYI - The toolchain took overnight to build for me on the PBP.

[besterm]

OK.  I have settled in on using codeblocks IDE for developing ESP32 IDF project code.  Whenever I want to build the project, I just switch over to my bash shell and do a quick "make" command from within the project folder.  If I want to program my ESP32 board, I just have to use the command "make flash".  Debug serial output can be monitored with the "make monitor" command.  I haven't tried to use OCD/GDB on the pinebook pro yet.