I’m revisiting this today. The ESP-IDF v5 is still not working properly for me. I installed v5 the Visual Studio and tried to load cmake & build. Saw this error:
Running CMake: 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
-- Building ESP-IDF components for target esp32
-- Checking Python dependencies...
Python requirements are satisfied.
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
CMake Error at C:/SysGCC/esp32/esp-idf/v5.0/tools/cmake/build.cmake:519 (message):
C:\SysGCC\esp32\esp-idf\v5.0\python-env\Scripts\python.exe: Error while
finding module specification for 'idf_component_manager.prepare_components'
(ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'idf_component_manager')
Call Stack (most recent call first):
C:/SysGCC/esp32/esp-idf/v5.0/tools/cmake/project.cmake:440 (idf_build_process)
CMakeLists.txt:12 (project)
So I tried from commandline in WSL:
0 $ . /mnt/c/SysGCC/esp32/esp-idf/v5.0/export.sh
Resetting IDF_PATH from '/mnt/c/SysGCC/esp32/esp-idf/v4.4.2' to '/mnt/c/SysGCC/esp32/esp-idf/v5.0'
Detecting the Python interpreter
Checking "python3" ...
Python 3.8.10
"python3" has been detected
Checking Python compatibility
Checking other ESP-IDF version.
WARNING: No IDF variables to remove from environment found. Deactivation of previous esp-idf version was not successful.
Adding ESP-IDF tools to PATH...
ERROR: tool xtensa-esp-elf-gdb has no installed versions. Please run '/mnt/c/SysGCC/esp32/esp-idf/v5.0/install.sh' to install it.
ERROR: tool riscv32-esp-elf-gdb has no installed versions. Please run '/mnt/c/SysGCC/esp32/esp-idf/v5.0/install.sh' to install it.
ERROR: tool xtensa-esp32-elf has no installed versions. Please run '/mnt/c/SysGCC/esp32/esp-idf/v5.0/install.sh' to install it.
An unsupported version of tool xtensa-esp32-elf was found in PATH: esp-2021r2-patch3-8.4.0.
ERROR: tool xtensa-esp32s2-elf has no installed versions. Please run '/mnt/c/SysGCC/esp32/esp-idf/v5.0/install.sh' to install it.
An unsupported version of tool xtensa-esp32s2-elf was found in PATH: esp-2021r2-patch3-8.4.0.
ERROR: tool xtensa-esp32s3-elf has no installed versions. Please run '/mnt/c/SysGCC/esp32/esp-idf/v5.0/install.sh' to install it.
An unsupported version of tool xtensa-esp32s3-elf was found in PATH: esp-2021r2-patch3-8.4.0.
ERROR: tool riscv32-esp-elf has no installed versions. Please run '/mnt/c/SysGCC/esp32/esp-idf/v5.0/install.sh' to install it.
An unsupported version of tool riscv32-esp-elf was found in PATH: esp-2021r2-patch3-8.4.0.
ERROR: tool esp32ulp-elf has no installed versions. Please run '/mnt/c/SysGCC/esp32/esp-idf/v5.0/install.sh' to install it.
An unsupported version of tool esp32ulp-elf was found in PATH: 2.28.51.
Using a supported version of tool cmake found in PATH: 3.16.3.
However the recommended version is 3.24.0.
ERROR: tool openocd-esp32 has no installed versions. Please run '/mnt/c/SysGCC/esp32/esp-idf/v5.0/install.sh' to install it.
An unsupported version of tool openocd-esp32 was found in PATH: v0.11.0-esp32-20220411.
ERROR: tool esp-rom-elfs has no installed versions. Please run '/mnt/c/SysGCC/esp32/esp-idf/v5.0/install.sh' to install it.
So ok, I close that session and started a new WSL and tried to run /mnt/c/SysGCC/esp32/esp-idf/v5.0/install.sh
I saw this error:
0 $ /mnt/c/SysGCC/esp32/esp-idf/v5.0/install.sh
Detecting the Python interpreter
Checking "python3" ...
Python 3.8.10
"python3" has been detected
Checking Python compatibility
Installing ESP-IDF tools
Current system platform: linux-amd64
Selected targets are: esp32s2, esp32c3, esp32c2, esp32, esp32s3, esp32h2
Installing tools: xtensa-esp-elf-gdb, riscv32-esp-elf-gdb, xtensa-esp32-elf, xtensa-esp32s2-elf, xtensa-esp32s3-elf, riscv32-esp-elf, esp32ulp-elf, openocd-esp32, esp-rom-elfs
Skipping xtensa-esp-elf-gdb@11.2_20220823 (already installed)
Skipping riscv32-esp-elf-gdb@11.2_20220823 (already installed)
Skipping xtensa-esp32-elf@esp-2022r1-11.2.0 (already installed)
Skipping xtensa-esp32s2-elf@esp-2022r1-11.2.0 (already installed)
Skipping xtensa-esp32s3-elf@esp-2022r1-11.2.0 (already installed)
Skipping riscv32-esp-elf@esp-2022r1-11.2.0 (already installed)
Skipping esp32ulp-elf@2.35_20220830 (already installed)
Skipping openocd-esp32@v0.11.0-esp32-20221026 (already installed)
Skipping esp-rom-elfs@20220823 (already installed)
Installing Python environment and packages
Creating a new Python environment in /home/gojimmypi/.espressif/python_env/idf5.0_py3.8_env
The virtual environment was not created successfully because ensurepip is not
available. On Debian/Ubuntu systems, you need to install the python3-venv
package using the following command.
apt install python3.8-venv
You may need to use sudo with that command. After installing the python3-venv
package, recreate your virtual environment.
Failing command: ['/home/gojimmypi/.espressif/python_env/idf5.0_py3.8_env/bin/python3', '-Im', 'ensurepip', '--upgrade', '--default-pip']
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/mnt/c/SysGCC/esp32/esp-idf/v5.0/tools/idf_tools.py", line 2610, in <module>
main(sys.argv[1:])
File "/mnt/c/SysGCC/esp32/esp-idf/v5.0/tools/idf_tools.py", line 2602, in main
action_func(args)
File "/mnt/c/SysGCC/esp32/esp-idf/v5.0/tools/idf_tools.py", line 2022, in action_install_python_env
subprocess.check_call([sys.executable, '-m', 'venv',
File "/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 364, in check_call
raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['/usr/bin/python3', '-m', 'venv', '--clear', '/home/gojimmypi/.espressif/python_env/idf5.0_py3.8_env']' returned non-zero exit status 1.
so ok, I ran apt install python3.8-venv
0 $ sudo apt-get install python3.8-venv
[sudo] password for gojimmypi:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
gstreamer1.0-plugins-base libc-ares2 libcdparanoia0 libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 liblua5.2-0 libopus0 liborc-0.4-0
libqt5multimedia5 libqt5multimedia5-plugins libqt5multimediagsttools5 libqt5multimediawidgets5 libsbc1 libsmi2ldbl libsnappy1v5
libspandsp2 libspeexdsp1 libssh-gcrypt-4 libtheora0 libvisual-0.4-0 libwireshark-data libwireshark13 libwiretap10 libwsutil11
wireshark-common wireshark-qt
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
libpython3.8 libpython3.8-dev libpython3.8-minimal libpython3.8-stdlib python3.8 python3.8-dev python3.8-minimal
Suggested packages:
python3.8-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
python3.8-venv
The following packages will be upgraded:
libpython3.8 libpython3.8-dev libpython3.8-minimal libpython3.8-stdlib python3.8 python3.8-dev python3.8-minimal
7 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 123 not upgraded.
Need to get 10.8 MB of archives.
After this operation, 37.9 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Ign:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 python3.8-dev amd64 3.8.10-0ubuntu1~20.04.5
Ign:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 python3.8 amd64 3.8.10-0ubuntu1~20.04.5
Ign:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 libpython3.8-dev amd64 3.8.10-0ubuntu1~20.04.5
Ign:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 libpython3.8 amd64 3.8.10-0ubuntu1~20.04.5
Ign:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 libpython3.8-stdlib amd64 3.8.10-0ubuntu1~20.04.5
Ign:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 python3.8-minimal amd64 3.8.10-0ubuntu1~20.04.5
Ign:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 libpython3.8-minimal amd64 3.8.10-0ubuntu1~20.04.5
Ign:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/universe amd64 python3.8-venv amd64 3.8.10-0ubuntu1~20.04.5
Err:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 python3.8-dev amd64 3.8.10-0ubuntu1~20.04.5
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.38 80]
Err:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 python3.8 amd64 3.8.10-0ubuntu1~20.04.5
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.38 80]
Err:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 libpython3.8-dev amd64 3.8.10-0ubuntu1~20.04.5
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.38 80]
Err:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 libpython3.8 amd64 3.8.10-0ubuntu1~20.04.5
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.38 80]
Err:5 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 libpython3.8-stdlib amd64 3.8.10-0ubuntu1~20.04.5
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.38 80]
Err:6 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 python3.8-minimal amd64 3.8.10-0ubuntu1~20.04.5
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.38 80]
Err:7 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 libpython3.8-minimal amd64 3.8.10-0ubuntu1~20.04.5
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.38 80]
Err:8 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/universe amd64 python3.8-venv amd64 3.8.10-0ubuntu1~20.04.5
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.38 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/python3.8/python3.8-dev_3.8.10-0ubuntu1~20.04.5_amd64.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.38 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/python3.8/python3.8_3.8.10-0ubuntu1~20.04.5_amd64.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.38 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/python3.8/libpython3.8-dev_3.8.10-0ubuntu1~20.04.5_amd64.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.38 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/python3.8/libpython3.8_3.8.10-0ubuntu1~20.04.5_amd64.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.38 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/python3.8/libpython3.8-stdlib_3.8.10-0ubuntu1~20.04.5_amd64.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.38 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/python3.8/python3.8-minimal_3.8.10-0ubuntu1~20.04.5_amd64.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.38 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/python3.8/libpython3.8-minimal_3.8.10-0ubuntu1~20.04.5_amd64.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.38 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/python3.8/python3.8-venv_3.8.10-0ubuntu1~20.04.5_amd64.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.38 80]
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
Ran apt-get update && apt-get upgrade, and tried again to run /mnt/c/SysGCC/esp32/esp-idf/v5.0/install.sh
It seemed to be successful, so I tried to build:
-- Building ESP-IDF components for target esp32
CMake Error at /mnt/c/SysGCC/esp32/esp-idf/v5.0/tools/cmake/build.cmake:519 (message):
usage: __main__.py [-h] [--project_dir PROJECT_DIR]
[--interface_version {0,1}]
{prepare_dependencies,inject_requirements,inject_requrements}
...
__main__.py: error: argument --interface_version: invalid int value: ''
Call Stack (most recent call first):
/mnt/c/SysGCC/esp32/esp-idf/v4.4.2/tools/cmake/project.cmake:384 (idf_build_process)
CMakeLists.txt:59 (project)
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
After all this, I tried to load a know-working project in v4.4.2 and simply change to v5. I see this error in Visual Studio:
ESP-IDF path changed from C:\SysGCC\esp32\esp-idf\v4.4.2 to C:\SysGCC\esp32\esp-idf\v5.0. Deleting C:\workspace\wolfssl-bandi13\IDE\Espressif\ESP-IDF\examples\wolfssl_benchmark\build\VisualGDB\Debug...
Running CMake: 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 -DIDF_TARGET=esp32
-- Found Git: C:/Program Files/Git/cmd/git.exe (found version "2.38.1.windows.1")
-- The C compiler identification is GNU 8.4.0
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 8.4.0
-- The ASM compiler identification is GNU
-- Found assembler: C:/SysGCC/esp32/tools/xtensa-esp32-elf/esp-2021r2-patch3/xtensa-esp32-elf/bin/xtensa-esp32-elf-gcc.exe
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working C compiler: C:/SysGCC/esp32/tools/xtensa-esp32-elf/esp-2021r2-patch3/xtensa-esp32-elf/bin/xtensa-esp32-elf-gcc.exe - skipped
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: C:/SysGCC/esp32/tools/xtensa-esp32-elf/esp-2021r2-patch3/xtensa-esp32-elf/bin/xtensa-esp32-elf-g++.exe - skipped
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
-- Building ESP-IDF components for target esp32
-- Checking Python dependencies...
Python requirements are satisfied.
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
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
CMake Error at C:/SysGCC/esp32/esp-idf/v5.0/tools/cmake/build.cmake:519 (message):
C:\SysGCC\esp32\esp-idf\v5.0\python-env\Scripts\python.exe: Error while
finding module specification for 'idf_component_manager.prepare_components'
(ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'idf_component_manager')
Call Stack (most recent call first):
C:/SysGCC/esp32/esp-idf/v5.0/tools/cmake/project.cmake:440 (idf_build_process)
CMakeLists.txt:12 (project)
See also "C:/workspace/wolfssl-bandi13/IDE/Espressif/ESP-IDF/examples/wolfssl_benchmark/build/VisualGDB/Debug/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
System.Exception: CMake exited with code 1
at e43.l(n b, Object a)
========== Project Configuration Summary ==========
VisualGDB_wolfssl_benchmark configured in 00:08
========== Configuration: 1 Succeeded, 0 Failed, 0 Skipped ==========
I’ve otherwise had great success with prior versions of the ESP-IDF in VisualGDB.
I’m using Visual Studio 2019 16.11.21 and VisualGDB 5.6R9 (build 4769)
Please advise the exact steps that are needed to properly install Espressif ESP-IDF v5 support. Thank you.