Hung-Ming Chen's Blog: Setup STM32 Development Environment in Linux

Setup STM32 Development Environment in Linux

1. Download Tools

1.1 Toolchain: GCC ARM Embedded

Website: https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded
This toolchain for linux is 32bit. We need lib32 packages for ubuntu 64bit
# sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

# sudo apt-get install lib32ncurses5

1.2 STLink utility

Source: https://github.com/texane/stlink

Requirement: automake, libusb-1.0-dev

Install:

./autogen.sh
./configure
make; sudo make install

Copy "49-stlinkv2.rules" to /etc/udev/rules.d/
Restart udev without reboot

udevadm control --reload-rules ; udevadm trigger

Unplug and plug usb cable to STM32 board.

1.3 GNU ARM Eclipse plugin

Website: http://gnuarmeclipse.github.io/

Recommended Eclipse version is 4.4 SR2 (Luna)

Install: Eclipse -> Help -> Install New Software

name: GNU ARM Eclipse Plug-ins
URL: http://gnuarmeclipse.sourceforge.net/updates

1.4 OpenOCD

Website: http://openocd.org/

Source: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openocd/files/openocd/0.9.0/

Requirement: libftdi-dev

Install:

./configure --enable-verbose --enable-vernose-jtag-io --enable-ftdi --enable-stlink
make; sudo make install

2. Create a New Project

Project -> New -> STM32F4xx C/C++ Project

Set "Flash size" and "External clock" for your board. STM32F429 Discovery has 2MB flash and 8MHz clock. Use "semihosting DEBUG channel"for trace output (or use "None" for smaller code size).