Troubleshooting Windows

If something goes wrong - don’t worry, community will be able to help you out. Don’t forget to check User questions before posting a github issues. Maybe someone else had a similar issue!

If nothing found, please make sure to provide all required information when posting issues. Here’s the minimum that you will need to get: Start cmd.exe and provide output of the following commands:

echo %PATH%
echo %SMING_HOME%
echo %ESP_HOME%
dir %SMING_HOME%
dir %ESP_HOME%
where make

Common issues & solutions

  • SMING_HOME should be set to c:\tools\sming\Sming, with \ as a path separator, and NO backslash \ at the end.

  • ESP_HOME should be set to c:\Espressif, using \ as a path separator, and NO backslash \ at the end.

  • MinGW paths should be at the start of PATH environment variable (before other items).

  • If you update your sming-core source don’t forget to do cd c:\tools\sming\Sming && make clean && make