Posted on August 30, 2011 at 15:36Hi all,
I also had this predicament a few months ago, how to get a tool-chain setup to write to the STM32 without investing in an expensive IDE and a j-tag.
The solution i came to, and am still using is to use the codesourcery compiler on eclipse. Then a serial bootloader to load it onto the stm32. Eclipse is all set up to create its own makefile so its frankly a doddle to compile and write code. Also its easy to change the compiler flags within eclipse without having to know a large amount about the compiler itself. (which i dont..)
I currently have no way of doing code stepping but once you set up USART it makes debugging much much easier.
I am using Linux to run all of this but im 90% sure that its all portable to Windows as well, the only thing im not so sure about is the bootloader but the compiler and eclipse certainly work on windows.
I am aware of someone who is currently writing a very detailed and helpful ''walkthough'' on how to get this toolchain set up using only open source software. It was the draft of this that i used to set up my own machine.
I could post the completed version (with his permission) on here once its done and in the mean time i dont mind helping some people with the set-up if they wish.
Darren.
