Do folks just develop inside the SDK itself?

[Nick]

I've been playing around with the SDK these past few days using both Keil and ARM GCC options. 

When people develop a product using this SDK, do they just clone one of the examples, keeping it inside the examples/xx directory and then develop directly inside the SDK?  It feels like with the way the SDK is laid out, references all over the place, creating a blank solution outside of the SDK examples directory leads to a lot of frustration.  

Is there a clean way to create a project outside of the SDK that references includes and libraries?  The Espressif IoT Development Framework (ESP IDF) does this beautifully with just a couple environment variables.

Nick

[Nguyen Hoan Hoang]

hahaha! welcome to the SDK pain.  It wasn't like that in the early days.  Then it got worst and worst with every updates.  Lately the worst of the worst was introduced: the famous sdk_config.h.  You need to enable or add 3-5 defines for each module to get it compiled.  Cheers!