(some) example projects don't use *.ioc file?

[FBerg.1]

E.g. the FatFs_USBDisk sample does not have a *.ioc file.

Maybe not all example projects use STM32CubeMX?
(the issue sounds like https://community.st.com/t5/stm32-mcus/creating-stm32cubmx-ioc-project-for-older-stm32cube-firmware/ta-p/49664)

How can I enable the view "Device Configuration Tool" for that example project?
Or: what's the best way to see the Mikrocontroller resources used by that project?

Reason for asking:
I can't add support for serial console (including DMA) to FatFs_USBDisk from a reference project. There seems to be a clashing of using the resources.

[Andrew Neil]

Correct - they don't all have a .ioc file.

Some just have C initialisation code for the clocks, peripherals, etc.

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@FBerg.1 wrote:

How can I enable the view "Device Configuration Tool" for that example project?

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You can't.

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@FBerg.1 wrote:

Or: what's the best way to see the Mikrocontroller resources used by that project?

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Just have to browse the code to see what's used.

If the example in question is for an ST board, then MXCube should have awareness of that board ...

[Tesla DeLorean]

Yes, some of the examples were actually coded by engineers familiar with the job, and not pressing buttons.

CubeMX generates code from templates and boiler-plate, and whilst it uses HAL, its not the type of HAL or SPL code we typically write.

With the Non-IOC methods, it's perhaps better to sand-box your CubeMX/IDE stuff into it own project, and then pull/merge the salient code, for initialization and interaction, into the more generic HAL implementation.

The Reference Manual then becomes your resource to know what peripherals work/conflict with each other, and how to make choices from the tables of routing/interconnectivity the IC facilitates, and the Data Sheet is the resource with respect to the pins and alternate function mappings there.

[Andrew Neil · Accepted solution]

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@Andrew Neil wrote:

Correct - they don't all have a .ioc file.

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I think the 'Configurable' column tells you which is which:

for the ones which do have a .ioc file;

for the ones which don't.