Espressif-IDE

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Espressif-IDE is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) based on Eclipse CDT for developing IoT Applications using the ESP-IDF. It’s a standalone and customized IDE built specifically for ESP-IDF. Espressif-IDE comes with the IDF Eclipse plugins, essential Eclipse CDT plugins, and other third-party plugins from the Eclipse platform to support building ESP-IDF applications.

The plug-in runs on macOS, Windows and Linux platforms.

Note

Espressif-IDE version 3.0 and later supports ESP-IDF version 5.x and above. For ESP-IDF version 4.x and earlier, please use Espressif-IDE version 2.12.1.

Features

• Auto-configuration of the build environment variables

• Integrated toolchain configuration

• New Project Wizards and getting started with ESP-IDF examples

• LSP-based editor for advanced editing, compiling, and syntax coloring features

• Pre-built function header and function definition navigation

• ESP-IDF and ESP-IDF tools installation and configuration directly from the IDE

• SDK configuration editor for project-specific settings

• Integrated CMake editor plug-in for editing CMake files such as CMakeLists.txt

• CMake-based build support

• Support for UART and JTAG flashing

• Customized ESP-IDF OpenOCD debugging with pre-built configuration and settings

• Integrated ESP-IDF serial monitor

• ESP-IDF terminal with the pre-configured ESP-IDF build environment

• Application size analysis editor for analyzing the static memory footprint of your application

• Supports heap profiling for memory analysis and finding memory leaks

• Supports GDB stub debugging and application-level tracing

• English and Chinese language support for the IDE

For more about this project please see https://github.com/espressif/idf-eclipse-plugin

Contents

• Prerequisites
• Installation
• Start a Project
• Connect Your Device
• Build the Project
• Configure Your Project
• Flash onto the Device
• Monitor the Output
• Debug Your Project
• Additional IDE Features
• Troubleshooting
• FAQs
• Downloads