Error: Could not execute process espflash flash --monitor .. No such file or directory

[3210jr]

For a fresh new project, created with esp-generate --chip esp32s3 hello-esp.

Building with cargo build has no errors, but cargo run is the one that keeps failing no matter what options I pass. Below is the output of running that

$ hello-esp git:(main) ✗ cargo run


WARNING: use --release
  We *strongly* recommend using release profile when building esp-hal.
  The dev profile can potentially be one or more orders of magnitude
  slower than release, and may cause issues with timing-senstive
  peripherals and/or devices.

    Finished `dev` profile [optimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.10s
     Running `espflash flash --monitor target/xtensa-esp32s3-none-elf/debug/async_main`
error: could not execute process `espflash flash --monitor target/xtensa-esp32s3-none-elf/debug/async_main` (never executed)

Caused by:
  No such file or directory (os error 2)

Any thoughts on how to fix this?

Thank you!

[bjoernQ]

Seems espflash is not installed on your system, see https://docs.esp-rs.org/book/tooling/espflash.html

Maybe esp-generate should check that (and a few other things) to avoid running into problems later