Howdy,

I'm working on this great project ... https://github.com/graham22/Anemometer and was delighted to see it shipped ready to work with Visual Micro and MS Visual Studio 2105.

Thinking this would be a good time to take advantage, and learn of the Visual Micro features on a relatively complex project, I've run into this compilation error:

WebSockets.cpp: 28:35: fatal error: core_esp8266_features.h: No such file or directory

After a little Googling, and as a first approximation, I'm thinking I'm not building against the latest release of the ESP8266 lib for the Arduino. I was able to get the project built under the Arduino 1.8.1 IDE successfully, so at heart I must admit I may be confused on how to ensure Visual Micro hits against the correct library. I would assume that it takes advantage of the Arduino tree, and doesn't duplicate the effort to keep its own files.

I did go into the Visual Micro Explorer and attempt to install the latest locally via this facility. No change.

Best,

Randy

Tim,

It was the issue regarding the version of the ESP8266 support library I had installed. Got confused by the language regarding "update", which is actually applied to the oldest version of the lib (1.6.x) vs. the newest (2.3). 

Compiling fine now: 

"Program size: 362,420 bytes (used 35% of a 1,044,464 byte maximum) (63.12 secs)
Minimum Memory Usage: 41900 bytes (51% of a 81920 byte maximum)"
 

Anyway great project to demo the power of Visual Micro, and a rich, none AVR target. The "grayed" file, version 2.3, is in fact the active version. 

For me,




Best,

Randy

The latest release of visual micro (1702.11.1) now correctly caters for hardware versions defined in reverse or ad-hoc order. This means the latest esp8266 will be prompted correctly in Board Manager.

The Board Manager has also bee updated to work more fluently (still some work to be done but works better now)