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- Tue Mar 31, 2015 4:33 am #13097 You have to unzip it inside a folder inside hardware: like <My Documents>/hardware/esp8266. The board and tool then show up, as well as the examples.

- Tue Mar 31, 2015 1:28 pm #13128 That was a surprisingly easy fix. I moved them to:
<my documents>\Arduino\hardware\arduino-esp8266-master\esp8266\
<my documents>\Arduino\hardware\arduino-esp8266-master\tools\
and now it works as described.

I guess I got confused because Arduino doesn't use a sub-folder for 'their own' platform hardware:
<program files>\Arduino\hardware\arduino\
<program files>\Arduino\hardware\tools\

[edit:] wait, no, after actually trying to compile and upload something, now I get the _dso_handle thing like this post: viewtopic.php?p=13056
The workaround suggested also doesn't work, that leads back to java errors.

Code: Select alljava.lang.NullPointerException
   at cc.arduino.packages.uploaders.SerialUploader.uploadUsingProgrammer(SerialUploader.java:252)
   at cc.arduino.packages.uploaders.SerialUploader.uploadUsingPreferences(SerialUploader.java:78)
   at processing.app.debug.Compiler.upload(Compiler.java:158)
   at processing.app.Sketch.upload(Sketch.java:1260)
   at processing.app.Sketch.exportApplet(Sketch.java:1202)
   at processing.app.Sketch.exportApplet(Sketch.java:1174)
   at processing.app.Editor$DefaultExportHandler.run(Editor.java:2471)
   at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)


- Tue Mar 31, 2015 2:55 pm #13137 The java errors are not related to __dso_handle. You likely haven't selected "esptool" in tools>programmer menu.

- Tue Mar 31, 2015 4:15 pm #13144 Hmm, I thought I did. I might re-try at a later time, I'll leave "well enough" alone for now.