ERROR: XTENSA-LX106-ELF-GDB.EXE NOT FOUND!

I get this error when trying to launch the esp exception decoder from the arduino IDE. I have compiled and uploaded many times to esp8266 boards, I have a standard installation IDE v1.8.5 on windows10 64b. I put the file in the correct directory. The option shows on the IDE menu but I get the error I am missing the file. FYI I also have esp32 installed and working. Can someone pleaae help me I posted an issue to github 2 months ago and no one responded thanks.

I got the same question. It seems happened for a while. When can this be fixed ? We are not be able to use old UI forever. Or is there a work around instead. If yes, please provide detail steps.

Here are people met same issues,

I saw a lot of persons met same issue, and someone says that download toolchains can fix this problem. Can anyone provide detail steps of how to install this toolchain? I also download that, but don't how to install this toolchain with arduion IDE ??

anyone ?

Finally, I found a walk around to launch on Windows7(64bit) + arduino 1.8.5 IDE. Here is the steps and link.

  1. download ESP8266 Exception Decoder and install according to website guild.
    GitHub - me-no-dev/EspExceptionDecoder: Exception Stack Trace Decoder for ESP8266 and ESP32

  2. download ESP8266 SDK that includes "xtensa-lx106-elf-gdb.exe" file
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  3. unzip esp-alt-sdk-v1.5.0.258-windows-x86.zip file and copy "xtensa-lx106-elf-gdb.exe" to following location
    C:\Users{user_id}\AppData\Local\Arduino15\packages\esp8266\tools\xtensa-lx106-elf-gcc\1.20.0-26-gb404fb9-2\bin

  4. google and download libwinpthread-1.dll (64bit) to C:\Windows\SysWOW64

  5. google and download libexpat-1.dll (64bit) to C:\Windows\SysWOW64

  6. restart arduino IDE:
    MENU bar: tool >> Esp Exception Decoder
    decoder will show up perfectly !

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thank you iamneo2416 !!! your instructions worked first time!! wish i'd found them a few days ago!!