ESP8266 Toolchain Docker Environment

This docker image generates the proper toolchain environment for building and exporting binaries

This image pulls in the official linux toolchain from espressif along with a release version of the SDK.

To update repository URLs, see docker file

Pulling a Prebuilt image

If you're feeling lazy, feel free to just replace hash with allesrebel/esp8266-dev-env:latest. Note you'll need to first pull the image with:

docker pull allesrebel/esp8266-dev-env:latest

Building the Docker Image

Make sure Docker is installed, see Docker Install In the directory of this repository, issue the docker build -t esp8266-builder. command.

This will build the image for use. run docker images to make sure you now have an image called esp8266-builder

Usage of Container

Building a Specified Project

Running the image can be done with a standard run command with the project to build with the -v command. The container expects the project to be mounted to /opt/project directory. For example:

docker run -v (Path to project):/opt/project esp8266-builder

Flashing a particular project

Utilize the command specified at the build with a local copy of (ESPTool)[https://github.com/espressif/esptool.git] or pyflasher Note you can install the pip package isntead of cloning the repo

Interactively using the container

In situations where direct control of the toolchain is required you can specify the -it arg and run bash directly. (Works during start of the container or exec on a existing container)