ESP8266 Community Forum

- Tue Jan 13, 2015 11:44 am #7205

i woudn't bother with anything recommended by the wiki, its all dead info.

Says who?

well your instructions aren't bad (most of the new wiki is useless i find, the old one is better oddly enough) although a bit dated now - we don't need esptool, only esptool.py and we don't need patches for the sdk now as 094 and 095b1 don't require them. personally i don't like installing unprivileged user code in /opt (or uppercase, shiver!) and it just seems a bit too manual compared to the esp-open-sdk which does similar but all in a single make command.

we've just removed all that gen_misc.sh crap from nodemcu, its not found its way back upstream to AT yet though.

- Tue Jan 13, 2015 11:55 am #7206 Hi Guys,

Hope ur having a good day

.. the Makefile

Here is what the makefile looks like :

http://pastebin.com/pgXyabj2

It's the same makefile that comes with the git package.

This makefile sits in

/opt/Espressif/ESP8266_SDK/at_v0.20_on_SDKv0.9.3

Since I have not had any training in "making" on Linux I am quite clueless as to where to begin so I can move around this "Nothing to be done for FORCE" error.

What I have been doing to get to here ..

Here is the command structure I have used.

http://pastebin.com/7W1Lt6cn

Thanks

ps as an aside if anyone knows of a good u-tube video on C, GCC, knowing how the heck to choose which dependencies to install and likely / possible errors faced when making / compiling etc, i'd be interested. I did have a google and a search on u-tube and no obvious overview appeared (that wouldn't leave my head spannerd).

- Tue Jan 13, 2015 4:13 pm #7226

...personally i don't like installing unprivileged user code in /opt

Agree with sej7278, i don't like installing code in /opt too.
Because of that created debian packages to install toolchain on standard debian location. If someone like this way instructions to install debian packages are here http://g-lab.ca/esp8266-debian-cross-tools-package/. Deinstalling is simple as

sudo apt-get remove --purge <package_name>

If you don't prefer to add PPA on your system, download sources xtensa-lx106_0ubuntu1ppa0ubuntu9.tar.gz from https://launchpad.net/~germia/+archive/ ... /+packages and build on your machine. Credit for sources goes to jcmvbkbc, my work is only on creating debian packages. Compiling with cross tools on standard location is simple as:

make CROSS_COMPILE=xtensa-lx106-elf-


koliqi

- Tue Jan 13, 2015 5:31 pm #7235 nice work @koliqi ! making deb packages was my next thought too, now i can just grab your sources and try it on debian.

p.s. you only need the xt-* symlinks for the espressif firmware, nodemcu got fixed to use the xtensa tools on linux.