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A small question: I am thinking of using ESP32 LOLIN32 boards to connect with the LEGO poweredup modules, as they combine decent bluetooth and built-in lythium batteries on a small PCB. But the ESP-IDF suite is this bigger-than-auditable download of scripts from a Chinese company, so my brain's security leds started blinking. Is there any way to do, for example, gcc development from the debian repositories.

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It's been a while, so I'm not sure if it will work on the newer models, but I used to use the xtensa-lx106-elf (patched from crosstool-NG[0]) toolchain to build my ESP8266 project and then upload it wil esptool.py. There was also esp-open-sdk which was an installer for that toolchain and some additional libraries[1].

[0]: https://github.com/i404788/crosstool-NG [1]: https://github.com/pfalcon/esp-open-sdk

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