Building the ESP32 port on a Windows machine

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cyrano1960
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Building the ESP32 port on a Windows machine

Post by cyrano1960 » Sat Jul 30, 2022 12:30 pm

Hello there, until now I am building the micropython firmware on a Windows machine running WSL, but many of my students asked me, why they can´t do this on the Windows system itself, although the ESP-IDF system on Windows works quite well (or at least reasonably well). The first problem I ran into was building the mpy-cross, but I guess that could be solved by installing it via pip, or am I wrong?

So my question: does anyone know a viable way to build Micropython on Windows? If it really should not work, then I would also be very grateful for a short explanation of why it can't work.

Many thanks and greetings, Cyrano

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