January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
458 pages
10h 35m
English
Content preview from Hands-On Embedded Programming with C++17
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Setting up Sming
The Sming-based ESP8266 development environment can be used on Linux, Windows, and macOS. You want to preferably use the development branch of Sming, however, which is where using it on Linux (or in a Linux VM, or Windows 10's Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)) is the easiest way, and definitely recommended. On Linux installing in the /opt folder is recommended for consistency with the Sming quick start guide.
This quick start guide for Linux can be found at https://github.com/SmingHub/Sming/wiki/Linux-Quickstart.
On Linux, we can use the Open SDK for ESP8266, which takes the official Espressif (non-RTOS) SDK, and replaces all the non-open components it can with open source alternatives. This can be installed using this code: ...