Setup toolchains and Environment for Amazon RTOS

Libraries
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Is there any tutorial specifically for a getting start guide with Amazon RTOS environment setup using Platform IO and ESP-IDF framework.

I have been programming with Platform IO on Arduino framework for ESP32.
I am on Mac with VS Code on Platform IO with a TTGO T-Beam ESP32 Development board.

What I could find officially on AWS is the getting start guide on CLI and it seems to suggest programmers to clone their git repository.

I am still confused with the Libraries and Platforms in Platform IO. I think Amazon RTOS is not listed, or maintained, in Platform IO as a platform, and there are a few repo named RTOS, which is the ‘original’ version of the RTOS without the AWS libraries in it. Am I correct?

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ESP-IDF currently integrates FreeRTOS V8.2.0 from here but it’s not the Amazon FreeRTOS version you want (which is GitHub - aws/amazon-freertos: DEPRECATED - See README.md). They have a guide for Espressif here and a demo project built for native ESP-IDF here. We’d have to port the project structure to the PlatformIO buildystem for it work with PIO.

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Well there is the possibility of porting the project to PIO right now but I think it makes more sense to make ESP-IDF change out it’s old FreeRTOS version to the Amazon FreeRTOS version. I’ve asked them that in Will ESP-IDF upgrade to the Amazon FreeRTOS? (IDFGH-875) · Issue #3231 · espressif/esp-idf · GitHub.

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So espressif, amazon anf platformio dev teams are all playing a massive game of chicken at the moment. Oh dear!