How to set up the software development environment ESP-IDF for ESP32

This blog will be divided into two parts:

1. Configure ESP32 software development environment on Ubuntu
2. Configure ESP32 software development environment on Windows

1 Configure ESP32 software development environment on Ubuntu

We recommend that you use Ubuntu environment to set up the ESP-IDF compilation environment. Compiling on Ubuntu is faster. The steps for setting up an environment on Ubuntu18.04 are as follows :

Step 1： Install Prerequisites

sudo apt-get install git wget flex bison gperf python3 python3-pip python3-setuptools cmake ninja-build ccache libffi-dev libssl-dev dfu-util libusb-1.0-0

Step 2： Get ESP-IDF

mkdir -p ~/esp

cd ~/esp

git clone -b release/v4.3 --recursive https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf.git

cd esp-idf

git submodule update --init -f --recursive

Step 3： Set up the tools

cd ~/esp/esp-idf

./install.sh

Step 4： Set up the environment variables

cd esp-idf 

pwd

export IDF_PATH=$(pwd)

. ./export.sh

Step 5：Start a Project

cd ~/esp-idf/examples/get-started/hello_world

idf.py menuconfig

idf.py build

idf.py flash monitor

2 Configure ESP32 software development environment on Windows

If you are using a Windows environment, we recommend that you use the Quick Setup Tool to install the ESP-IDF build environment with one click. Also, when selecting the ESP-IDF version, please select the latest release/v4.3 version.

Please use this：