Check it Out
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-Open a MSYS2 MINGW32 terminal window by running ``C:\msys32\mingw32.exe``. The environment in this window is a bash shell.
+Open a MSYS2 MINGW32 terminal window by running ``C:\msys32\mingw32.exe``. The environment in this window is a bash shell. Create a directory named ``esp`` that is a default location to develop ESP32 applications. To do so, run the following shell command::
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+ mkdir -p ~/esp
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+By typing ``cd ~/esp`` you can then move to the newly created directory. If there are no error messages you are done with this step.
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