Linux support

[vshymanskyy]

Currently cannot be installed in Arduino IDE on Linux..
Are there any plans to support it?

[PaulMichell]

I have just found this out the hard way: 'Tool wmtools is not available for your operating system.' when selecting in Boards Manager. Swapping to Windows is a no-go for me, I will be looking at other ARM chips or going back to ESP32s if Linux is not supported.

[honnet]

Hey, @vshymanskyy & @PaulMichell
Did you look at what makes it windows only?
If it works there it should not be too difficult to make it work in linux ;)
Let's help our community and make it happen together?

[locomx]

I have found the same problem 'Tool wmtools is not available for your operating system.'
I have MACOS (and is not working Arduino IDE for the FTDI Drivers) so i only have Linux in my other machine.
Now i have 2 (like) esp-01s without use because i don't know how to put in programing mode and with i don't know what's running inside. So i think im going back to ESP8266 with Tasmota or ESPRUNA. Mayby in a few years the product will be more mature.

[maxgerhardt]

FYI: I'm currently working on Linux (and Windows, MacOs, ..) integration through PlatformIO (https://github.com/maxgerhardt/platform-w60x). Since the wmtool source code is included from the WinnerMicro SDK files (http://www.winnermicro.com/en/html/1/156/158/497.html or directly http://winnermicro.com/upload/1/editor/1584693446529.zip) it's pretty easy to compile it from source yourself. This should also help you if you want to flasher tools right now.

[vshymanskyy]

@maxgerhardt please also check out https://github.com/vshymanskyy/w600tool
This should be a more reliable solution.

I'm also looking forward to test your integration via PIO! Please let me know.