Eclipse Plugin for ESP-IDF

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ESP-IDF Eclipse Plugin brings developers an easy-to-use Eclipse-based development environment for developing ESP32 based IoT applications.

It provides better tooling capabilities, which simplifies and enhances standard Eclipse CDT for developing and debugging ESP32 IoT applications. It offers advanced editing, compiling, flashing and debugging features with the addition of Installing the tools, SDK configuration and CMake editors. The plug-in runs on Windows, macOS and GNU/Linux.

It supports ESP-IDF CMake based projects (4.x and above)

Current Status
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We have recently released 1.0.1 to the public. Check here

Getting Started
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The IDF Eclipse Plugin is available from the Eclipse Marketplace. To get started, users need to download the Eclipse CDT from the Eclipse downloads page. The Eclipse CDT can be installed with the new Eclipse installer, or the CDT package can be downloaded directly. Once that’s set up, the Marketplace client can be used to search for and install the ESP-IDF Eclipse Plugin.

You can also install the IDF Eclipse Plugin into the existing Eclipse CDT using the plugin update site URL https://dl.espressif.com/dl/idf-eclipse-plugin/updates/latest/

You can find the detailed instructions here

Espressif believes in the open-source approach and we have made code open for the plugin as well https://github.com/espressif/idf-eclipse-plugin. We really welcome any kind of contribution that one can provide.

Key Features
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Eclipse CDT with IDF Eclipse Plugin supports end-to-end workflow to develop ESP32 IoT applications. Here are some of the features.

IDF Tools installation: It installs xtensa-esp32-elf, xtensa-esp32s2-elf, esp32ulp-elf, esp32s2ulp-elf, openocd-esp32, CMake and Ninja build tools
Auto-configuration of Eclipse CDT build environment variables such as PATH, IDF_PATH, OPENOCD_SCRIPTS and IDF_PYTHON_ENV_PATH
Auto-configuration of Core build toolchains and CMake toolchain which is used in resolved headers and indexing
New ESP-IDF project wizard and templates to get started
Compiling and Flashing an application to the board
Viewing Serial monitor output
JTAG GDB Hardware debugging
OpenOCD debugging using Eclipse GNU MCU Plugin
Predefined debug launch configuration files to quickly get started with debugging
Importing an existing IDF project and converting to the Eclipse-based CMake project
CMake Editor Plug-in is integrated with IDF plugins for editing CMake files such as CMakeLists.txt
Easy to use Eclipse-based GUI for SDK Configuration Editor which will simulate the behaviour of idf.py menuconfig
Customized flash target — supports esp32 and esp32s2 chips