Now I was able to advance a little bit on this topic: In general I am having the problem on the windows 7 machine that the invocation of "idf.py build" has exactly no output like so: C:\Users\de527\esp\blink>idf.py build C:\Users\de527\esp\blink> also invoking idf.py without any arguments has not ou...

Both German.
Maybe that is the problem? How can I switch to English - just for test?

After poitively installing and using the CMake build system on Windows 10 I now tried to install the same on a Windows 7 PC - unfortunatley without success. I am running in compilation errors: Checking Python dependencies... Python requirements from c:\Users\de527\esp\esp-idf\requirements.txt are sa...

Now I tried to install the same build system (CMake based) on a Windows 7 PC (previous installation was on Windows 10) and I am encountering compile time errors. I think I will open a separate thread for this.

@roland Hello squonk11! I fixed a similar issue in https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/commit/4749b118bc5e80e3d3ab5999444d078d36bfb1c9. Does this fix your issue? This fix is already included in my version of "idf.py". The problem still persits. But it is not a big issue since I can terminate monito...

@ESP_Angus Executing "C:\Python27\python.exe C:\Users\gus\dev\esp-idf\tools/idf_monitor.py -p COM6 -b 115200 C:\Users\gus\Desktop\esp-idf-v3.1.2\examples\get-started\hello_world\build\hello-world.elf -m 'C:\Python27\python.exe' 'C:\Users\gus\Desktop\esp-idf-v3.1.2\tools\idf.py' '-p' 'COM6'"... --- i...

@roland:

What is the IDF version you are using?

I am using:"v3.3-beta1-136-g97eecfa1b".

I fixed a similar issue in https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/co ... 8d36bfb1c9. Does this fix your issue?

I need to check if this also helps for me.

Now I switched to the CMake build system under Windows cmd.exe. This works tremendously fast! But I still have the problem, that I am not able to quit monitor mode by hitting "Ctrl-]". But in windows cmd.exe I have the option to exit the running script (idf.py) just by hitting "Ctrl+c". This is not ...

ah, o.k. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
But I am really having a problem with this right now: even starting the terminal mode (make monitor) takes sometimes several minutes until I see the first output on my screen.

@mikemoy: The option -jx I know already. This was not the question.
My question is that I am not able to quit the monitor mode (incoked by 'make monitor') using "Ctrl+]" key. This keystroke is simply ignored by WSL.