Adding external libraries in arduino ide

[roseanne09]

I'm working on a project on esp32cam in which I'm converting an image to base64 for transmission. for this I need to add an external library. I'm currently using Windows 11 and Arduino I.D.E. 2.0.3

i tried adding esp cam header file but it shows me this error

Error: 13 INTERNAL: Library install failed: library not valid. the error occurs when i try to add a zip library of esp32-camera-master in the add .ZIP library

[xfpd]

When you added the .zip library, the first error in the IDE, lower-right, says the addition did not succeed. Try to add the .zip again and (look inside the .zip to see that good files exist), or use the Library Manager.

[johnwasser]

Even if you had successfully installed the ESP32 library, you have "Arduino UNO" selected as the board type so the ESP32 libraries would not be available.

[roseanne09]

i just opened it again to take the screenshot, the other times i had tried it i selected esp wrover and ai thinker esp32 cam respectively

[roseanne09]

img_convert_jpeg_to_base64 this is the function im trying to use from the zip file. so i tried add .zip file and this error popped up. (i renamed the file to remove the -master from the end as the library is esp_camera.h

[jim-p]

You don't need to download it.
It's already part of the ESP32 core for arduino

[roseanne09]

then why does it show me this error? i tried verifying the sketch and this error showed up

captureimgandconvertitobase64.ino:50:82: error: 'img_convert_jpeg_to_base64' was not declared in this scope
   esp_err_t err = img_convert_jpeg_to_base64(fb->buf, fb->len, &out_buf, &out_len);
                                                                                  ^

exit status 1

Compilation error: 'img_convert_jpeg_to_base64' was not declared in this scope```

so then i realized i need to install the header file but it wasnt directly available on library manager so i downloaded the zip file from github but then that shows the above picture

[jim-p]

Have you installed the ESP32 core for Arduino?

[jim-p]

https://espressif-docs.readthedocs-hosted.com/projects/arduino-esp32/en/latest/getting_started.html

[roseanne09]

hey. im sorry for the late reply.
so when you said it should be already installed, i searched for esp and to my surprise i actually couldnt find it in the library manager. so i just reinstalled and then everything was fine so thank you