User's Manual

12. Configure
Being in terminal window, go to directory of hello_world application by typing cd󰲧~/
esp/hello_world. Then start project configuration utility menuconfig:
If previous steps have been done correctly, the following menu will be displayed:
In the menu, navigate to Serial flasher config > Default serial port to configure the
serial port, where project will be loaded to. Confirm selection by pressing enter, save
configuration by selecting <Save> and then exit application by selecting <Exit>.
Here are couple of tips on navigation and use of menuconfig:
• Use up & down arrow keys to navigate the menu.
• Use Enter key to go into a submenu, Escape key to go out or to exit.
• Type ? to see a help screen. Enter key exits the help screen.
• Use Space key, or Y and N keys to enable (Yes) and disable (No) configuration
items with checkboxes “[*]“.
• Pressing ? while highlighting a configuration item displays help about that item.
•
Type / to search the configuration items.
cd󰲧~/esp/hello_world
make󰲧menuconfig
📖 Note:
On Windows, serial ports have names like COM1. On MacOS, they start with /dev/cu.. On Linux, they
start with /dev/tty. (See Establish Serial Connection with ESP32 for full details.)
📖 Note:
If you are Arch Linux user, navigate to SDK tool configuration and change the name of Python 2
interpreter from python to python2.