ESP8266 Community Forum

- Fri Feb 19, 2016 8:23 am #41445 Hi all!

I've a question about ESP8266 development. It's passed some time from when ESP8266 was relased and I want to ask if someone have developed some SDK, boards, tutorial, basic samples to write code and develope for ESP in C, something that is reliable and working. Since as I read from datasheet there is a 80Mhz CPU, with only 20% used from WiFi, there is enough processing power to develope something. Can someone share me your informations or where to look?

Thank you!

- Fri Feb 19, 2016 9:49 am #41456 Hi Yaro,

Development in C for ESP8266 comes in several flavors.. To start with, if you like to use pure C I would recommend My Espressif DevKit for Windows + Eclipse IDE, for C++ try ESP8266 Arduino. Both for me are reliable and working. For more options look among PLATFORMS that is also the home of couple of programming languages.

Krzysztof

- Sat Feb 20, 2016 6:42 am #41496 Thanks for your link. I've tried it but I'm not so comfortable with Eclipse. I've found Visual Studio with VisualGDB and something like VisualMicro, can you tell me which limitation/differences there is from My Espressif DevKit?

- Sat Feb 20, 2016 8:38 am #41501 VisualGDB is an extension for Microsoft Visual Studio and let you program in C like My Espressif DevKit does. The VisualGDB together with toolchain is maintained and sold by http://sysprogs.com/

Visual Micro is also an extension for Visual Studio (and for Atmel Studio) maintained and sold by http://www.visualmicro.com/ that allows developing Arduino projects in C++ using the toolchain prepared by ESP8266 Arduino team.

I am not using VisualGDB or Visual Micro to provide limitation/differences. To really find out I would install trial versions of the above s/w and check respective forums what are the issues and how they are supported.

Krzysztof