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
Categories: IDE, Internet of Things (IoT), Tools
Additional Details
Eclipse Versions: 2024-09 (4.33), 2024-06 (4.32), 2024-03 (4.31), 2023-12 (4.30), 2023-09 (4.29), 2024-12 (4.34), 2025-03 (4.35), 2025-06 (4.36)
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, October 22, 2024 - 04:56
Submitted by: Kondal Kolipaka
| Date | Ranking | Installs | Clickthroughs |
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| November 2025 | 66/530 | 76 | 21 |
| October 2025 | 84/637 | 293 | 60 |
| September 2025 | 79/653 | 304 | 60 |
| August 2025 | 59/615 | 353 | 57 |
| July 2025 | 74/636 | 295 | 35 |
| June 2025 | 84/627 | 254 | 42 |
| May 2025 | 79/634 | 313 | 37 |
| April 2025 | 55/623 | 446 | 44 |
| March 2025 | 65/661 | 515 | 102 |
| February 2025 | 57/645 | 497 | 103 |
| January 2025 | 67/654 | 434 | 57 |
| December 2024 | 60/654 | 455 | 53 |
Unsuccessful Installs
Unsuccessful Installs in the last 7 Days: 16
| Count | Error Message |
|---|---|
| 10 | Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be… |
| 6 | Cannot continue the operation. There is another install operation in progress. |

Reviews Add new review
v1.1.0 is available now
Submitted by Kondal Kolipaka on Wed, 06/03/2020 - 03:24
Check this here https://github.com/espressif/idf-eclipse-plugin/releases/tag/v1.1.0
v1.0.1 is released with minor bug fixes
Submitted by Kondal Kolipaka on Tue, 03/31/2020 - 21:25
Please check this https://github.com/espressif/idf-eclipse-plugin/releases/tag/v1.0.1
v1.0.0 release is available now!
Submitted by Kondal Kolipaka on Mon, 03/23/2020 - 10:01
IDF Eclipse Plugin v1.0.0 release is available now!