ESP8266 Community Forum

- Mon Jan 12, 2015 4:06 pm #7126 I still try to setup the windows toolchain (with Visual studio), based on: ESP8266 Windows Compiler Setups from the Wiki,
but i can not find the modified esptool-py.py
Where it says:"You need the modified Python tool to flash the chip, esptool-py.py. This version is enhanced to reset the chip and bring it into firmware update mode automatically by using DTR", there is no link...


Also, where would i get an ESPMAKE ?

thx,
Edo

- Mon Jan 12, 2015 6:16 pm #7143 Uh-oh. I forgot to upload it .
I have uploaded it to the Termie project, here: https://github.com/peteben/ESP-Termie.

Sorry about that.

For ESPmake, just create a file called ESPMAKE.CMD and put in the following lines:

Code: Select all@echo off   
  call E:\ESP8266\vars.cmd 
  make %1 %2 %3 %4 %5   


Or whatever you need to setup when calling make.

Pete

- Tue Jan 13, 2015 4:42 am #7178 Hi!

Thank you!

About the espmake, for some reason i thought it was a different version of make. Perhaps if you write ESPMAKE.CMD in the article, i don't make that mistake. After all it was almost midnight, and my ESP8266 still not working, can not upload firmware.

I downloaded VS2013, but then when i tried to load your solution file, it died out complaining about missing project files. (they are missing, no doubt)
I was phased out at that moment, since i had VS2010 on the machione that complained about a 'neqwer format' of solution file.

I am assuming, since the old flash loader tool i have (exe), with some really old firmware i found, i can get the module to respond to AT commands, even if it's mostly 'error', or freezing, that my wiring is right. Running from external power-supply.

Thanks again!

- Tue Jan 13, 2015 1:39 pm #7214 I will try to make that part of the instructions clearer.

I added the missing project file, so please try again.

Sorry about that!