After trying Lua and the Arduino IDE I now have the ESP IDF working with Eclipse and was able to “make flash” the blink example both from the command line and within Eclipse. Now comes the fun of learning a whole new environment and learning a lot more about the ESP32.
I just followed the guide and it worked. Each project has to be set up but it’s just a few edits to make it build and flash the board. Still new to the environment so other than getting blink to work I have a lot to learn but it looks good so far.