Setting up a development environment

Installing Rust

Depending on which target you want to use installing Rust can be more or less involved.

Please follow the instructions outlined in The Rust on ESP Book

Installing Tools

There are only a few tools needed to get started.

• cargo-generate (cargo install cargo-generate)
  • used to create a new project from a template, this is not strictly needed but creating a new project from scratch is quite some work
• espflash (cargo install espflash)
  • used to flash your code via USB-serial

There are other tools which might be useful (e.g. espmonitor) but these two are the bare-minimum to follow the instructions in this book.

It's assumed you use Visual Studio Code with the Rust Analyzer Extension but that is not strictly needed and in theory you could use any text editor.