Mike

@aemseemann Thanks for your support, much appreciated. To address your points: > Isn't it a chicken-and-egg problem? The component.mk would belong to the submodule, so unless it is checked out...

Re. __shared libraries or rebuild for each application?__ The nub of the problem appears to be: a. The need to avoid re-building libraries for every application, and b. Ensuring the...

I've got a working build of 'modularised makefiles' to try out. It's in my repo as 'update/modularise_makefiles' branch. I've updated the `building.md` file with some details. https://github.com/mikee47/Sming/tree/update/modularise_makefiles

> is there a native Windows port of ESP8266 anywhere? Arduino https://github.com/earlephilhower/esp-quick-toolchain

> If using spiffs, a host compiler is needed to build spiffy. While I suspect most developers will have a suitable compiler installed already, it shouldn't be too hard to...

One further thought about how this might look. Let's say our application contains `MySpiDeviceClass` to talk to some device or other via SPI. We can't emulate this, so instead we...

My experience is actually with Microsoft's (D)COM, but as it's Windows-only won't help us. It has it's own compiler and language for defining interfaces, with a lot of features we...

This looks interesting https://github.com/EmbeddedRPC/erpc

@slaff I've been trying to get analogue reading working so tried patching PHY to see if that helped (it doesn't, probably broken hardware). Anyway, I've got this ported onto current...

OK, thanks.