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Sking.21
Sking.21
Associate II
February 23, 2020
Question

Can STM32CubeIDE be used to program a device only? The latest revs of CubeIDE work great for dev and debugging. Now I want to turn off -g, recompile, write to device program memory and unplug. How? Can CubeIDE even do this?

I feel like a complete ***** but darned if I can figure out how to do it.

If I should be reading a tutorial somewhere let me know. Flames accepted gratefully.

I am using Segger J-link, on a custom board. Debug configurations work fine, programming via SWIO. It works almost too well, because I haven't learned how it works.

Possible alternatives are STM32CubeProgrammer or Segger J-link commander loadbin, but the CubeIDE must be able to just load a release binary and stand back. (?)

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KnarfB
KnarfB
Super User
February 23, 2020

its planned for release 1.3.0:

https://www.st.com/content/ccc/resource/technical/document/release_note/group0/9a/72/48/16/ec/bd/44/5a/DM00603738/files/DM00603738.pdf/jcr:content/translations/en.DM00603738.pdf

Amel NASRI
Amel NASRI
ST Technical Moderator
March 3, 2020

STM32CubeIDE 1.3.0 is already available: https://www.st.com/content/st_com/en/products/development-tools/software-development-tools/stm32-software-development-tools/stm32-ides/stm32cubeide.html

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Sking.21
Sking.21Author
Associate II
February 23, 2020

Indeed so; I see issue 64277. Thank you KnarfB.

Sking.21
Sking.21Author
Associate II
March 5, 2020

Hi Amel, I tried 1.3.0 some days ago (see https://community.st.com/s/question/0D50X0000CCqGb5SQF/130-squashes-bug-64277downloadandresetwithoutgdb-thank-you-team-however-when-disconnected-from-swio-and-poweredon-the-chip-never-starts) although I am not there yet.

-If there are any specific instructions for debuggerless download please direct me to them. I did find the release notes.

-I almost expected a new menu item or button would have appeared "Download only" or similar since that is what we want. I may not be doing something right however, hence the previous point.

-I expected a Release-build/download-only Run configuration to be immune to deliberate missetting of the gdb configuration, but it is not. Again I wonder if I am using 1.3.0 as intended.

Thank you to the team for the efforts so far; CubeIDE will be the best in the industry.

Amel NASRI
Amel NASRI
ST Technical Moderator
March 6, 2020

Hi @Sking.2​ ,

Thanks for your feedback. I add our STM32CubeIDE experts, they can take care of your requests: @mattias norlander​  and @Markus GIRDLAND​ .

-Amel

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