Hi.

Yes, I completely understand. That’s fair.

I’m still hopeful that I can get this working. 🙂

I have it working using idf.py, and this text seems to indicate it should be possible:

Any project that can be built via ESP-IDF tools, can also be built with VisualGDB

I’ve opened Espressif idf-installer issue #142 in the hope that someone has an idea for a solution.

I’ve made some progress on getting the emitted VisualGDB cmake command to complete without errors, at least from a command prompt.

For one, I needed to add 2 CMake config variables in the Build Settings GUI:

IDF_TARGET = esp32c3
CCACHE_ENABLE = 1

Next, I needed to add these environment variables:

SET IDF_CCACHE_ENABLE=1
SET IDF_PATH=C:\SysGCC\esp32\esp-idf\v5.0
SET IDF_PYTHON_ENV_PATH=C:\Espressif\python_env\idf5.0_py3.8_env
SET IDF_TOOLS_PATH=C:\Espressif
SET ESP_IDF_VERSION=5.0

And last, I needed to add these to the Path:

C:\Espressif\tools\xtensa-esp-elf-gdb\11.2_20220529\xtensa-esp-elf-gdb\bin;
C:\Espressif\tools\riscv32-esp-elf-gdb\11.2_20220529\riscv32-esp-elf-gdb\bin;
C:\Espressif\tools\xtensa-esp32-elf\esp-2022r1-RC1-11.2.0\xtensa-esp32-elf\bin;
C:\Espressif\tools\xtensa-esp32s2-elf\esp-2022r1-RC1-11.2.0\xtensa-esp32s2-elf\bin;
C:\Espressif\tools\xtensa-esp32s3-elf\esp-2022r1-RC1-11.2.0\xtensa-esp32s3-elf\bin;
C:\Espressif\tools\riscv32-esp-elf\esp-2022r1-RC1-11.2.0\riscv32-esp-elf\bin;
C:\Espressif\tools\esp32ulp-elf\2.28.51-esp-20191205\esp32ulp-elf-binutils\bin;
C:\Espressif\tools\esp32s2ulp-elf\2.28.51-esp-20191205\esp32s2ulp-elf-binutils\bin;
C:\Espressif\tools\openocd-esp32\v0.11.0-esp32-20220411\openocd-esp32\bin;
C:\Espressif\tools\ninja\1.10.2\;C:\Espressif\tools\idf-exe\1.0.3\;
C:\Espressif\tools\ccache\4.3\ccache-4.3-windows-64;
C:\Espressif\tools\dfu-util\0.9\dfu-util-0.9-win64;
C:\Espressif\python_env\idf5.0_py3.8_env\Scripts;
C:\SysGCC\esp32\esp-idf\v5.0\tools;C:\Python36\;
C:\Python36\Scripts;

What is the best method for modifying the path and environment variables for CMake in VisualGDB? I saw the documentation, but I don’t know exactly where to apply that. Before I go pecking them all in, is that the “User Variables” at the bottom of the config page?

btw – I tried simply adding a called to export.bat in the “before build”… but it does exactly that: before the build, but not before cmake.

Thank you.

Hi,

Hopefully Espressif will have an official release of ESP-IDF V5 soon.

Manually editing the toolchain.xml and bsp.xml was marginally successful, but there’s a new error related to kconfiglib.that I’ve been unable to resolve.

Although there’s a line:

    Requirement already up-to-date: kconfiglib

There’s still an error:

  ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'kconfiglib'

Full log:

Executing pre-build actions
Run "pip3 install --upgrade kconfiglib" in directory "C:\Users\gojimmypi\source\repos\EmbeddedProject23" on local computer
pip3 install --upgrade kconfiglib
Requirement already up-to-date: kconfiglib in c:\users\gojimmypi\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages (14.1.0)
WARNING: You are using pip version 19.2.3, however version 22.2.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'python -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.
Run "C:\Users\gojimmypi\AppData\Local\VisualGDB\CMake\bin\cmake.exe ../../.. -G "Ninja" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=DEBUG -DCMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM=c:/SysGCC/esp32/tools/ninja/1.10.2/ninja.exe -DESP_PLATFORM=1 -DCCACHE_ENABLE=0" in directory "C:\Users\gojimmypi\source\repos\EmbeddedProject23/build/VisualGDB/Debug" on local computer
C:\Users\gojimmypi\AppData\Local\VisualGDB\CMake\bin\cmake.exe ../../.. -G "Ninja" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=DEBUG -DCMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM=c:/SysGCC/esp32/tools/ninja/1.10.2/ninja.exe -DESP_PLATFORM=1 -DCCACHE_ENABLE=0
-- Project is not inside a git repository, or git repository has no commits; will not use 'git describe' to determine PROJECT_VER.
-- Building ESP-IDF components for target esp32
-- Checking Python dependencies...
Python requirements are satisfied.
Skipping the download of C:\Users\gojimmypi\.espressif\espidf.constraints.v5.0.txt because it was downloaded recently. If you believe that this is causing you trouble then remove it manually and re-run your install script.
Constraint file: C:\Users\gojimmypi\.espressif\espidf.constraints.v5.0.txt
Requirement files:
- C:\SysGCC\esp32\esp-idf\v5.0\tools\requirements\requirements.core.txt
Python being checked: C:\Users\gojimmypi\.espressif\python_env\idf5.0_py3.8_env\Scripts\python.exe
-- Project sdkconfig file C:/Users/gojimmypi/source/repos/EmbeddedProject23/sdkconfig
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/SysGCC/esp32/esp-idf/v5.0/tools/kconfig_new/confgen.py", line 23, in <module>
import gen_kconfig_doc
File "C:\SysGCC\esp32\esp-idf\v5.0\tools\kconfig_new\gen_kconfig_doc.py", line 27, in <module>
import kconfiglib
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'kconfiglib'
CMake Error at C:/SysGCC/esp32/esp-idf/v5.0/tools/cmake/kconfig.cmake:176 (message):
Failed to run confgen.py
(python;C:/SysGCC/esp32/esp-idf/v5.0/tools/kconfig_new/confgen.py;--list-separator=semicolon;--kconfig;C:/SysGCC/esp32/esp-idf/v5.0/Kconfig;--sdkconfig-rename;C:/SysGCC/esp32/esp-idf/v5.0/sdkconfig.rename;--config;C:/Users/gojimmypi/source/repos/EmbeddedProject23/sdkconfig;--env-file;C:/Users/gojimmypi/source/repos/EmbeddedProject23/build/VisualGDB/Debug/config.env).
Error 1
Call Stack (most recent call first):
C:/SysGCC/esp32/esp-idf/v5.0/tools/cmake/build.cmake:596 (__kconfig_generate_config)
C:/SysGCC/esp32/esp-idf/v5.0/tools/cmake/project.cmake:434 (idf_build_process)
CMakeLists.txt:8 (project)


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "C:/Users/gojimmypi/source/repos/EmbeddedProject23/build/VisualGDB/Debug/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
-------------------------------------------------------------
Command exited with code 1
Executable: C:\Users\gojimmypi\AppData\Local\VisualGDB\CMake\bin\cmake.exe
Arguments: ../../.. -G "Ninja" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=DEBUG -DCMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM=c:/SysGCC/esp32/tools/ninja/1.10.2/ninja.exe -DESP_PLATFORM=1 -DCCACHE_ENABLE=0
Directory: C:\Users\gojimmypi\source\repos\EmbeddedProject23/build/VisualGDB/Debug
Command-line action failed

========== Project Build Summary ==========
EmbeddedProject23 built in 00:14
========== Build: 0 Succeeded, 1 Failed, 0 Skipped ==========

Hello!

Just a little heads-up that ESP-IDF V5 is in release beta.  😎

https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/releases

https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/v5.0-beta1/esp32/

Hopefully final release any day now.

Cheers

Heads up there’s finally an ESP-IDF 5.0 Release Candidate! Woohoo!  😎

Release ESP-IDF Pre-release v5.0-rc1 · espressif/esp-idf · GitHub

Tada! ESP-IDF Version 5.0 is released 🙂

https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/releases/tag/v5.0