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Posted: **Thu Jul 23, 2015 11:10 am**

Yes, I guess with some binutils trickery I guess you can make an image as well.

Posted: **Thu Jul 23, 2015 12:06 pm**

In fact, I revised those old projects Makefile, and you're right, they were using esptool for generating the binaries.
I was just confused with some STM32 or LPC17xx projects where they were indeed using binutils.

Posted: **Fri Jul 24, 2015 1:51 am**

And actually, at least esptool.py uses binutils, tools like objdump, readelf, etc. So I guess it all boils down to the same. I guess I can implement something like that myself, but I'd prefer to have it in esptool.py, request has been sent.

On the other hand it isn't such a big deal to have two binaries

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