ESP8266 Community Forum

hi to all
i am new in programming and esp8266 so excuse me for simple question.
can any one tell me how setup an environment for programming for esp8266??
i saw in internet that people setup arduino compiler and eclipse ide in that manner but i can not find how they done that.
thanks for your attention.

If you are new to this, I wouldn't recommend Eclipse. It's fully featured but considerably more complex to use.

I recommend you use the Arduino IDE. Follow the instructions on this https://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/HomePage page to install that on your computer.

Once you have done that, you need to install the ESP8266 board into the Arduino IDE. Follow these https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/es ... uino-addon instructions to do that.

If you run into any problems, there is a sub-forum here viewforum.php?f=26 dedicated to this topic.

thank lotus49,i am going to installing arduino in my system.
i have another question,with arduino ide i can access to API's that espressif made ready for developers such as creating tcp connection and receiving data or others??
thanks for your attention.

There are existing APIs to do a lot of common tasks. As I understand it, most of these have been ported from libraries for the Arduino rather than being from Espressif. All the basic stuff like establishing network connections is there and very easy to use.