I have copied a scetch for the ESP8266 from the Internet , compiled and used it . OK everything is fine . But when I want to develop it on my own , the compilation fails when simply changing the variable "int x" to "long x;" , and the compilator returns the message "collect2.exe: error: ld returned…

Declaration of variables

PaulMurrayCbr September 2, 2016, 4:32am 14

Yup - XP is simply not supported anymore, and that's how it is. Why not get a Mac?

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