Eclipse data folder to spiffs upload.

[miky2k]

Under eclipse compiled with (512k/64k) option there is no way to build and flash data directory.

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[igrr]

Do you mean you want SPIFFS upload function implemented in Eclipse?
Eclipse isn't officially supported, but I think @Links2004 is using it for development. Perhaps he can give some advice.

[Links2004]

you can create your own make targets for example mkspiffs.

1. create a file makefile.init in the project root

vecho := @echo
Q := @

ARDUINO_BASE      = D:/Coding/avr/Programme/arduino-nightly
ESP8266_BASE      = $(ARDUINO_BASE)/hardware/esp8266com/esp8266
ESP8266_TOOLS     = $(ESP8266_BASE)/tools

mkspiffs:
    $(vecho) Staring mkspiffs...
    $(ESP8266_TOOLS)/mkspiffs/mkspiffs.exe -c "../data" mkspiffs.bin

@igrr can you check the mkspiff command, i never used it before ;) is the block, size and page needed?

@far5893 may your ESP8266_BASE path is in your user arduino dir (when you have installed via json)

[igrr]

You also need to pass block size, page size, and image size to mkspiffs.
These are defined for each flash size variant in boards.txt, i.e. for 512k(64k SPIFFS):

generic.menu.FlashSize.512K64.build.spiffs_start=0x6B000
generic.menu.FlashSize.512K64.build.spiffs_end=0x7B000
generic.menu.FlashSize.512K64.build.spiffs_blocksize=4096

These values must be given to mkspiffs, otherwise created image will not be compatible with SPIFFS configuration in firmware.

mkspiffs command line arguments are described here: https://github.com/igrr/mkspiffs#usage

Edit: size should be equal to spiffs_end - spiffs_start.
Page size defaults to 256, so it is not given for many of the board variants (this should probably be fixed).

[devyte]

Closing per #3655 .