ESP-IDF Eclipse Plugin

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2025-12 (4.38), 2025-09 (4.37), 2025-06 (4.36), 2025-03 (4.35), 2024-12 (4.34), 2024-09 (4.33), 2024-06 (4.32), 2024-03 (4.31)

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Solution Description

The ESP-IDF Plugin for Eclipse (also known as Espressif-IDE) is based on Eclipse CDT and is used for developing applications on the ESP32. The ESP32 is a popular low-power system-on-chip microcontroller with integrated Wi-Fi and dual-mode Bluetooth, making it ideal for designing and prototyping IoT solutions. The ESP-IDF Plugin enhances standard Eclipse CDT by providing improved tooling capabilities, simplifying and enhancing advanced editing, compiling, flashing, and debugging features.

Other notable features this plugin offers.

  • Creating CMake-based projects with ESP-IDF 5.0 and higher
  • Get started with ESP-IDF templates 
  • Installing Tools directly from Eclipse
  • SDK Configuration editor for configuring the project
  • Integrated CMake editor to support IDF built-in functions
  • Application size analysis editor to give an insight into the memory footprint of an application
  • ESP-IDF terminal pre-configured with IDF environment variables
  • OpenOCD debugging

This is an open-source project you can check the project source here https://github.com/espressif/idf-eclipse-plugin

Note: Plugin supports ESP-IDF CMake-based projects (5.x and above) and it runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Documentation: https://github.com/espressif/idf-eclipse-plugin/blob/master/README.md

To know more about ESP-IDF https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf

Github repo: https://github.com/espressif/idf-eclipse-plugin

Additional Details

Eclipse Versions: 2025-12 (4.38), 2025-09 (4.37), 2025-06 (4.36), 2025-03 (4.35), 2024-12 (4.34), 2024-09 (4.33), 2024-06 (4.32), 2024-03 (4.31)

Platform Support: Windows, Mac, Linux/GTK

Organization Name: Espressif Systems

Development Status: Production/Stable

Date Created: Wednesday, November 27, 2019 - 03:11

License: EPL 2.0

Date Updated: Tuesday, February 17, 2026 - 01:12

Submitted by: Kondal Kolipaka

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September 2025 79/653 304 60
August 2025 59/615 353 57
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