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Update 4-4-2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some of you may have heard of the Jantje Arduino plugin for Eclipse. He has released V3 recently and that supports the ESP8266. You can now download a version for either Windows, Linux and Mac Osx. If you are used to Eclipse you should have no problem using it. And it works like a charm. I use them for programming the nodeMCU’s and the 4Mbytes version is supported. No need to make it more complicated than it is.<\/p>\n

Here is the link to Jantje’s plugin site :\u00a0http:\/\/www.baeyens.it\/eclipse\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Update\u00a0 13-12-2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

For those wanting to develop for the ESP8266 under Windows & Eclipse follow the instructions on this<\/a> link. Works like a charm.<\/p>\n

Update 30-10-2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thanks to Zarya, some small bugs \/ modifications are fixed. The installation should be straight forward now:<\/p>\n

Building the toolchain<\/strong><\/p>\n

I followed this excellent link: Building the toolchain<\/a><\/p>\n

If you are unfamiliar with Ubuntu I would get some basic done before continuing. Understand at least how to open a terminal program and how to get root priviliges as some steps need to be performed as “root”. Most of the work consists of copying the instructions and pasting them in the terminal program (CTRL+SHIFT+V).The build process takes about 22 minutes on my laptop.<\/p>\n

Installing the ESP tool did not work for me so I downloaded the files from GITHUB (the link is in the text) and built it myself:<\/p>\n

\r\ndownload the zip file\r\nunpack it (I unpacked it in the \/opt\/Espressif folder)\r\ngo to the folder\r\ntype \"make clean <RETURN>\"\r\ntype \"make <RETURN>\"\r\nboth without the quotation marks\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Building the AT example<\/strong><\/p>\n
This is the code that allows you to use the ESP8266 module as an interface to WiFi through serial AT commands.<\/p>\n
The make fails generating the bin files (flash files). The cause is that the make file points to \/usr\/bin\/esptool and I installed in \/opt\/Espressif\/esptool. For this case I will make a copy of esptool itself to \/usr\/bin.<\/p>\n
now got to the ~\/esp_sources\/at folder and type make<RETURN> there are now 2 bin files in the subfolder “firmware”.<\/p>\n
Installing Eclipse<\/strong><\/p>\n
As I also compile Arduino projects in Eclipse I prefere Jantje’s eclipse plugin for Arduino. I used the latest overnight build from here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
I just download it and unpack it in my home folder. But any folder in your environment will work. Eclipse also needs a JRE (Java Runtime Environment). As I did not have installed yet, I simply download the latest version, unpack it and store it in the eclipseArduino folder. Not the ideal way but it works fine :).<\/p>\n
EclipseArduino may be started now. Eclipse will ask for a workspace where all eclipse projects will be stored. Just create one where you like. I always put it in Documents.<\/p>\n
We are almost done.<\/p>\n
Import the AT example project in eclipse<\/strong><\/p>\n
First we create a project. for example AT_example<\/p>\n
steps:<\/p>\n