VS Arduino - Selecting the ESP32 Core with VM. Is it possible?

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Chevelle Junior Member Offline Posts: 40 Joined: Feb 29^th, 2020	Selecting the ESP32 Core with VM. Is it possible? Sep 28^th, 2025 at 12:42pm	Print Post
	Unfortunately, more and more often I am running into the situation where libraries that I use for my ESP32 projects are not keeping up with the release of new ESP32 cores. This has created lots of frustration as you can imagine. Things that used to work no longer work with the new cores. I have been loading the core I need within the Arduino IDE and then starting VS. That is a bit of a pain, especially when I have multiple projects within a solution that need different cores. I searched the forums and couldn't find anything so I'm asking here. It is possible to select the ESP32 core within the VM settings? In the hopes that it is possible, I have already created separate folders for each core. Thanks.


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12204 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Selecting the ESP32 Core with VM. Is it possible? Reply #1 - Sep 28^th, 2025 at 1:04pm	Print Post
	You can use the the board manager and library manager in visual micro via the vMicro>Platform Explorer. It works the same as the arduino ide. Keeping different solution for different version of cores and libraries has always been difficult. We recently release portable solutions that allows you to install core and/or libraries that remain private to the projects in a solution. That allows us to have different projects that use their own core and lib versions. Please review the Docs link from the top of visualmicro.com. Looks for "Special Folders and Portability". The section provides docs as follows:- - New Arduino Portable Solution - Benefits of Portable Solutions for Education - How to Encapsulate a Board Package Within a Solution - How to Encapsulate Libraries Within a Solution Does this help?


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Chevelle Junior Member Offline Posts: 40 Joined: Feb 29^th, 2020	Re: Selecting the ESP32 Core with VM. Is it possible? Reply #2 - Sep 28^th, 2025 at 1:39pm	Print Post
	I'll give it a try. Thanks


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Chevelle Junior Member Offline Posts: 40 Joined: Feb 29^th, 2020	Re: Selecting the ESP32 Core with VM. Is it possible? Reply #3 - Sep 29^th, 2025 at 9:53am	Print Post
	That really isn't what I was looking for. I was looking for a way, through the UI, to select which ESP32 core was being used at compile time. I guess I will just keep switching cores when I want to work on each project. Thanks.


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12204 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Selecting the ESP32 Core with VM. Is it possible? Reply #4 - Sep 29^th, 2025 at 12:26pm	Print Post
	The Arduino design caters for one installed toolchain at a time. The ability to add a specific toolchain to a solution is the only way to get around that. That also allows for install/uninstall of matching libraries. Out of interest, what did you feel was not acceptable for your workflows in the portable scenario?


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