ESP8266 Community Forum

- Wed Oct 07, 2015 1:40 am #30756

Is there a Windows compiler that will compile the LUA. I tried some online compilers, but could not get them to work.....

Its not trivial, but possible. Try search "lua cross compiler"

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- Sun Oct 11, 2015 11:34 am #31104 [quote=
May be conflict with file, has some name on disk[/quote]

Yes, I see that. But still while re-saving (on disk) an edited file, there could be a warning that the same file exists, and an option to rename it?

- Tue Oct 20, 2015 7:22 am #31823 Hi!

Please, see my new project IOT MANAGER

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- Thu Oct 22, 2015 12:37 pm #32050 Hi, Newbie here

All this is new territory for me but I am looking for a new IDE I can cope with as I am disappointed with the Arduino IDE though it has been an easy way into programming the Arduino and ESP8266 boards. I keep seeing the mention of LUA , NodeMCU and MOD-Wifi- thingy wotsit boards . I'm not sure what firmware/version I have all I do know is, I have vanilla flavoured boards as bought from China/HongKong/Phillipines etc and so my question has to be ... can I write/re-write my sketches and upload them to the ESP8266-12 boards that I have using ESPlorer.

I have tried several IDE and I am usually lost as soon as I start with settings, environment and talk of tool chains (whatever they are!!) and all the deeper C language requirements. Can anyone say whether this would be do-able for a beginner? My sketches work but I know they are wasteful of space and inefficient but I can live with that for the moment.

I really must move on from the Arduino IDE