Fortunately I remembered that I had the idf-tools and .espressif folders available from another machine, so copying those two folders over, installing Python, Pip and the Visual Studio Tools as mentioned in the Pico toolchain instructions, and adding some Path variables led to a working installation...

Installing Flowcode on a Windows 11 ARM machine, and have run into a problem running the ESP Toolchain installer, which isn't compatible and refuses to run (x64 architecture only).

Has anyone attempted or knows how to install the necessary components manually please?

Thank you Martin. Although I had seen and acted on the post you linked to I had presumably made a couple of errors on the way. I'd reverted to previous snapshots of Windows so many times it's hard to know whereabouts. But to cut a long story short, Blinky now exists as a file ready to download to my...

Working my way through installing toolchains in Flowcode, have installed ESP32 which seems to work, so moved on to the Pico one. Followed the PDF installation instructions I hope to the letter and the same version numbers for all except Git. Pico-sdk is installed to the root of C: and its location r...