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Hello,

I have installed the expressive IDE:

Version: 3.6.0
Build id: 20250725-0706

I am trying to program a ESP32C3 mini board. So I connect the Mac to the USB type connector.

I just do a demo program like that:

void app_main(void)
{
esp_log_level_set(TAG, ESP_LOG_INFO);

for(;;)
{
vTaskDelay(1000);
}
}

I can compile and upload the code and I get this output at the debug console:

Please enable CONFIG_ESP_SYSTEM_USE_FRAME_POINTER option to have a full backtrace.
E (15453) task_wdt: Task watchdog got triggered. The following tasks/users did not reset the watchdog in time:
E (15453) task_wdt: - CPU 0 (CPU 0)
E (15453) task_wdt: Tasks currently running:
E (15453) task_wdt: CPU 0: IDLE
E (15453) task_wdt: Print CPU 0 (current core) registers
Core 0 register dump:
MEPC : 0x40385a48 RA : 0x40385a4c SP : 0x3fc8f7f0 GP : 0x3fc8c200
--- 0x40385a48: prvIdleTask at /Users/domitech/esp_idf/esp-idf-v5.5.1/components/freertos/FreeRTOS-Kernel-SMP/tasks.c:5786
--- 0x40385a4c: prvIdleTask at /Users/domitech/esp_idf/esp-idf-v5.5.1/components/freertos/FreeRTOS-Kernel-SMP/tasks.c:5782
TP : 0x3fc8f830 T0 : 0x00000000 T1 : 0x00000000 T2 : 0x00000000
S0/FP : 0x00000000 S1 : 0x00000000 A0 : 0x00000000 A1 : 0x00000000
A2 : 0x00000000 A3 : 0x00000000 A4 : 0x00000000 A5 : 0x00000000
A6 : 0x00000000 A7 : 0x00000000 S2 : 0x00000000 S3 : 0x00000000
S4 : 0x00000000 S5 : 0x00000000 S6 : 0x00000000 S7 : 0x00000000
S8 : 0x00000000 S9 : 0x00000000 S10 : 0x00000000 S11 : 0x00000000
T3 : 0x00000000 T4 : 0x00000000 T5 : 0x00000000 T6 : 0x00000000
MSTATUS : 0x00001889 MTVEC : 0x40380001 MCAUSE : 0xdeadc0de MTVAL : 0xdeadc0de
--- 0x40380001: _vector_table at /Users/domitech/esp_idf/esp-idf-v5.5.1/components/riscv/vectors_intc.S:54


If I click debug I get the following error:

Error with command: gdb --version
Cannot run program "gdb": Unknown reason

In my IDE the build icon (the hammer) is gray.... no idea why.

If I try to update the IDE I get the following error:

Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found.
Software being installed: C/C++ CMake Build Support - Preview 12.2.0.202506091931 (org.eclipse.cdt.cmake.feature.group 12.2.0.202506091931)
Missing requirement: CDT CMake Core 2.0.100.202505200054 (org.eclipse.cdt.cmake.core 2.0.100.202505200054) requires 'osgi.bundle; org.eclipse.core.resources [3.22.200,4.0.0)' but it could not be found
Cannot satisfy dependency:
From: C/C++ CMake Build Support - Preview 12.2.0.202506091931 (org.eclipse.cdt.cmake.feature.group 12.2.0.202506091931)
To: org.eclipse.equinox.p2.iu; org.eclipse.cdt.cmake.core [2.0.100.202505200054,2.0.100.202505200054]


I don't know... I just want to connect my Esp32C3 mini board and flash some code but nothing works. What am I doing wrong?

BTW: The code that I am using is created initially from a project example: UART_events that I have been cutting to be just a wait loop.

Also in order to be able to flash I had to change the run configuration and select flash over UART.
Thanks,

Hello,

Please share the error log so we can check what’s causing this issue.

From the error, it seems that the GDB client is not auto-configured for some reason.
Kindly verify the following setting in the Debugging Editor Configuraiton dialog
In the GDB Client setup group, - look for actual executable by clicking on the "eye" icon and see if that shows the correct path

For checking the error log, please see https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp ... #error-log

Hi,

The debug executable path looks ok to me:
/Users/domitech/.espressif/tools/openocd-esp32/v0.12.0-esp32-20250707/openocd-esp32/bin/openocd

The error log is the following: