Yes, ESP8266 toolchain could be the pain. I'd have thought you could compile your own, but it's not friendly! Either that or you could probably run x86 versions inside of QEmu, which would have the benefit of being completely sandboxed from your system
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Yes, ESP8266 toolchain could be the pain. I'd have thought you could compile your own, but it's not friendly! Either that or you could probably run x86 versions inside of QEmu, which would have the benefit of being completely sandboxed from your system