rogerClark:
Victor and RayOK...
I've spent some time looking at both repo's and the one that Victor found
GitHub - esp8266/Arduino: ESP8266 core for Arduino
I believe is the better of the two
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Got it.
Thank's to you and Victor... I've had the modules for a few months and do not have a project in mind, but did want to play. So, from what I understand, you own need for IoT is far more important than my play. I'm comfortable taking things at whatever your speed is, no rush!
Ray
UPDATE: (about 2 hours later...)
I did a full ZIP install of the 1.6.1 files + ESP8266 from ZIP.
As Murphy would have it, all the examples error. This is the same
1.6.1 that works with STM32 although I do have 1.6.2 nightly beta installed
for testing.
Hardware: Intel core-2 Duo 4G RAM 64-bit Windows 8.1 installation
Error is non-descript: Indentation is one long line....
Arduino: 1.6.1 (Windows 8.1), Board: "Generic ESP8266 board"
Using library ESP8266WiFi in folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\arduino-1.6.1\hardware\esp8266com\esp8266\libraries\ESP8266WiFi
C:\Program Files (x86)\arduino-1.6.1/hardware/tools/esp8266/xtensa-lx106-elf/bin/xtensa-lx106-elf-g++ -D__ets__ -DICACHE_FLASH -I
C:\Program Files (x86)\arduino-1.6.1/hardware/tools/esp8266/sdk
//include -c -Os -mlongcalls -mtext-section-literals -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -std=c++11 -MMD -DF_CPU=80000000L
-DARDUINO=10601 -DARDUINO_ESP8266_ESP01 -DARDUINO_ARCH_ESP8266 -I
C:\Program Files (x86)\arduino-1.6.1\hardware\esp8266com\esp8266\cores\esp8266 -I
C:\Program Files (x86)\arduino-1.6.1\hardware\esp8266com\esp8266\variants\esp01 -I
C:\Program Files (x86)\arduino-1.6.1\hardware\esp8266com\esp8266\libraries\ESP8266WiFi\src
C:\Users\Ray\AppData\Local\Temp\build1785729632592325968.tmp\WiFiScan.cpp -o
C:\Users\Ray\AppData\Local\Temp\build1785729632592325968.tmp\WiFiScan.cpp.o
Error compiling.
I'm going to try later today to install on another box that is running 16-bit Windows 7 and has never had Arduino installed.