From: Angus Gratton Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 06:08:11 +0000 (+0800) Subject: Windows-setup: Remove direct download option as it doesn't work X-Git-Tag: v0.9~100 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ceafd59d91bd5af9d37e6e36093eacef79cf0e6a;p=esp-idf Windows-setup: Remove direct download option as it doesn't work --- diff --git a/docs/windows-setup.rst b/docs/windows-setup.rst index 7165619609..30acca82a6 100644 --- a/docs/windows-setup.rst +++ b/docs/windows-setup.rst @@ -44,21 +44,9 @@ Important: Just having this toolchain is *not enough* to use ESP-IDF on Windows. Step 2: Getting the SDK from github =================================== -Option 1: Direct Download -------------------------- - -This is the quick option to get up and running with the SDK, but you'll have to re-download in order to update the SDK. - -Navigate to the github repository and click Download. Unzip the SDK somewhere that you need to use it. - -Option 2: Using git -------------------- - -It takes longer to check out the SDK directly from git, but you'll have the option of using ``git pull`` to update the SDK sources. - Open an MSYS2 terminal window by running ``C:\msys32\msys2_shell.cmd``. The environment in this window is a bash shell. -Change to the directory you want to clone the SDK into by typing a command like this one: ``cd "C:/path/to/dir"`` (note the forward-slashes in the path). Then type ``git clone https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf.git`` +Change to the directory you want to clone the SDK into by typing a command like this one: ``cd "C:/path/to/dir"`` (note the forward-slashes in the path). Then type ``git clone --recursive https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf.git`` If you'd rather use a Windows UI tool to manage your git repositories, this is also possible. A wide range are available.