Adding external components on VSCode

[FranciscoNoble]

How do I add components from outside ESP Registry? I have some components on Github that I would like to add to my project but I just don't know how. With Registry it's a matter of executing the add-dependency and re-build the project, but that doesn't seem to apply to other components...

Example of external component: https://github.com/PiotrTopa/esp32-I2Cdev

I followed the steps on the readme but it simply doens't work.

[chegewara]

Hi,
it didnt work is not enough to provide any help.
What didnt work, maybe some logs?


Here is another way to do it like with components from registry, but instead registry you can use github repo:
https://docs.espressif.com/projects/idf ... pendencies

Or local path on disk.

[FranciscoNoble]

Sorry if I was too vague, what I meant was that nothing happend. I cloned the repo into ./components and nothing changed, if I tried to #include it wouldn't find the dependency.

I'll surley take a look on your link, even though I took a somewhat deep look into the docs I didn't find this section, hope that's the answer!

[MicroController]

Did you add the component to REQUIRES in main's CMakeLists.txt?

[chegewara]

Did you add the component to REQUIRES in main's CMakeLists.txt?

You dont have to.
Main is "special" kind of component which is using all esp-idf and additional components by default.
Only time you have to add some extras in main's CMakeList is when component is not in project/components subfolder.