The setup described is incredibly involved ... I'm doing some ESP32 experiments and plan to investigate PlatformIO which seems to provide solutions to most of t

The setup described is incredibly involved ... I'm doing some ESP32 experiments and plan to investigate PlatformIO which seems to provide solutions to most of the problems described in the OP. PIO supports a bunch of platforms and also provides a way to create your own if necessary [1]. 1: https://docs.platformio.org/en/latest/platforms/creating_platform.html https://docs.platformio.org/en/latest/platforms/creating_pla...