Windows Manual Installation

Sming Manual Installation

This is a DEPRECATED way of installing Sming. It will not be supported in the next versions.

Please consider using a simple way of installing Sming via Chocolatey. Package sources are available as well

If you still want to install it manually, please make sure the following steps are taken:

Install Universial Development Kit.
Install Java Runtime Environment.
Install Eclipse Luna. Unpack the archive to c:\Eclipse
Install MingGW. Run mingw-get-setup.exe. Add install support for the graphical user interface. Install to c:\MinGW.
Install additional modules for MinGW. Run install-mingw-package.bat
Start the Eclipse Luna from the directory c:\Eclipse\eclipse.exe
In Eclipse, select File -> Import -> General -> Existing Project into Workspace, in the line Select root directory, select the directory C:\Espressif\examples and import work projects. Further, the right to select the Make Target project, such as hello-world and run the target All the assembly, while in the console window should display the progress of the build. To select the target firmware flash.

C:\MinGW\bin\mingw-get install "msys-make"

mklink /d C:\Espressif\sdk C:\Espressif\ESP8266_SDK

Windows System PATH variable should contain a path to mingw64\bin and mingw64\msys\1.0\bin:

Make sure it is in this exact order. This step is also required for some old sming installations.

SETX PATH /M C:\mingw\bin;C:\mingw\msys\1.0\bin;%PATH%

SETX SMING_HOME c:\tools\Sming\Sming
SETX ESP_HOME c:\Espressif

You can manually add variables into Eclipse IDE: Window > Preferences -> C/C++ > Build > Environment