March 6, 2015, 4:26 am

This is a continuation of my notes on the esp8266 microcontroller, you can find a complete list of my esp8266 posts here

Installing the esp8266 SDK has got a lot easier recently, thanks to the great work of Paul Sokolovsky. I’m using my own fork of his repository. But you’d also be wise to check out the original.

The instructions shown here are for Linux. Currently the esp8266 doesn’t work reliably under Windows, and I’d recommend running the tools in either a Ubuntu virtual machine on Windows or on a real Linux box. The instructions are also for recent versions of Ubuntu (14.04) or Debian. They can easily be adapted for other distributions however.

The instructions below is build the excellent open SDK put together by Paul Sokolovsky. First open a console, then use the following command to install the required dependencies: