Setting up Bare Metal Development Toolchain for ESP32
(Tutorial in the making!...)
The Espressif Internet Development Framework (ESP-IDF) is core development tool-chain for the ESP32 chip. It includes the compiler, programming tools and various software components that enable software development on the chip. In this tutorial we will look at setting it up and describing in brief, the structure of the framework.
Windows ESP-IDF Setup
The setup on other operating systems should be easier than Windows. I did set it up on Ubuntu and it was easier, so lets get started.
Step 1: Download the pre-compiled MYSYS2 environment for ESP32
There are other ways to accomplish this like compiling the environment itself but I would rather recommend doing this. So download it from the link below.
https://dl.espressif.com/dl/esp32_win32_msys2_environment_and_toolchain-20160816.zip
Step2: Extract the tool-chain to the C: drive
This will create a folder called msys32 as shown.
