mattyt/esp8266-micropython-build repository overview

A Debian Jessie image containing all the tools and code required to build Micropython for the ESP8266.

Also see:

https://github.com/pfalcon/esp-open-sdk⁠ https://github.com/micropython/micropython/tree/master/esp8266⁠

Note that it cannot be run as root so all operations are run as user 'builder'.

Step-by-step:

# First build the ESP8266 toolchain
cd esp-open-sdk/
make
export PATH=/home/builder/code/esp-open-sdk/xtensa-lx106-elf/bin:$PATH
export THISDIR=/home/builder/code/esp-open-sdk/

# Now for Micropython
cd ../micropython/
git submodule update --init
make -C mpy-cross
cd esp8266/
make axtls
make

The output is in the build directory. make deploy can be used to transfer to an ESP8266 - see the ESP8266 port of Micropython for more information.

Be sure to have plenty of disk space available (about 6.5GB is needed to build the ESP toolchain and Micropython).