Additionally, you may try to install the following packages: ncurses-term, libncurses-dev. I'm not sure if this helps but it worth a try.

The list of packages here https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/latest/get-started/linux-setup.html#install-prerequisites have been updated recently with libraries required for RPI3. According to the last known issue, rpi-update had to been run as well. cry_viem, can you please provide the ...

Hi Carlos,

you set EXTRA_COMPONENT_DIRS here https://github.com/littlevgl/lv_port_es ... eLists.txt for idf.py but you don't set it for make.

The install script downloads the toolchain as well (binutils, openocd, xtensa). You can copy files from ~/.espressif/dist between computers and then the install script will recreate the other directories and files in ~/.espressif without downloading. I don't recomment to copy the whole ~/.espressif ...

Unfortunately, there is no Chinese mirror at the time. The releases page (https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/releases) contains also links to ZIP files from dl.espressif.com which should be much faster for you: This archive can also be downloaded from Espressif's download server: https://dl.espres...

Hello timothyp.

I think you still don't have everything downloaded. Please go to the IDF directory and run .

Hello Ivo! This has been already fixed. Please update to the latest version of the IDF branch. The issue occurs because it cannot run git describe --tags in your IDF directory and parse the result. What is the output if you run this manually? Another possible root cause could be if IDF_PATH is not s...

I would recommend to use the Windows tools installer and consequently, the windows command line to setup IDF for use of Visual Studio Code.

And please use IDF version v4.0 for now as there are a couple of issues in the master branch we have already fixed internally but are not yet published.

The second one is because the download server was down. Please try it again.

The fix is here: https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/is ... -548549611