Basic question - make axtls not compiling

[philor]

I'm new to this and have just received an ESP32 board. It's marked Wroom-32.

I have the Github esp32 directory but I'm stumped at the very first step.

I've installed the listed dependencies but after moving to the /ports/unix directory and entering "make axtls" make fails with the following:

Use make V=1 or set BUILD_VERBOSE in your environment to increase build verbosity.
You cloned without --recursive, fetching submodules for you.
(cd ../..; git submodule update --init --recursive)
fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
Makefile:293: recipe for target '../../lib/axtls/README' failed
make: *** [../../lib/axtls/README] Error 128

Could I be missing other dependencies or have I overlooked something that should be obvious?

[pythoncoder]

Are you aware that daily builds are available here http://micropython.org/download#esp32?

[Capstan]

I've installed the listed dependencies

Use make V=1 or set BUILD_VERBOSE in your environment to increase build verbosity.
You cloned without --recursive, fetching submodules for you.
(cd ../..; git submodule update --init --recursive)

I installed the build environment on a fresh Ubuntu machine a couple of weeks ago and it is a pain, but I did finally succeed. One reason I want to be able to do this is so that I can embed into the firmware various modules I write (called 'freezing' in the Micropython world).

Did you install the Espressif toolchain components and set your environment variables to point to it?

Did you do the recursive clone as the error message advised?

[philor]

Thank you Capstan for your reply.

No to both questions. I'm starting to go cold on Micropython now that I have my ESP32 board working within the Arduino IDE, although I might persist just to see if I can get Micropython working.