Truestudio + J-Link = endless pain

[Lukasz Przenioslo]

Posted on January 23, 2018 at 15:54

Hello there,

Recently I decided to make a swap from Eclipse + OpenSTM32 + ARM Gnu eclipse plugin. This setup was working quite flawlessly, but since a dedicated solution is available now why not try it.

I was surprised that the actual debugging experience is much more problematic in Truestudio than in an open source software + addons. The pain list is really long, but I would like to address the most anointing issue here:

The problem is with the starting and terminating of the debug session.

Starting: When i start the debug session (the PC stops at main) I sometimes get GDB freeze. This happens in like 40 % times. This is an example log from the console, after this nothing happens and I need to kill the process:

[New Remote target]

[Switching to Thread 1]Temporary breakpoint 1, main () at ..\Src\main.c:128128      HAL_Init();No breakpoint number 4.[New Thread 536886144][New Thread 536892880][New Thread 536873712][New Thread 536893712][New Thread 536892256][New Thread 536889704][New Thread 536887392][New Thread 536886768][New Thread 16233224][New Remote target][Switching to Thread 536886144]Breakpoint 2, ws_thread (argument=0x0) at ..\user_files\u_ws.c:114114        rgbLed_activateColor(e_rgbLedColor_red);

A screenshot of the situation:

Terminating: This is a lot more painful, as each time this happens I need to restart truestudio. Also in about 40% times after I click

terminate

,

terminate and remove

,

terminate/ disconnect

all or

restart,

the GDB session dies, but I still see all the processes in the debug view. I can keep terminating them all I want, they wont dissapear. Starting new debug session is also not possible. I need to restart Truestudio. If I find the GDB task in process list and kill It, I then have no access to the *.elf file, because its in use. Thus, I need to restart truestudio...

I would appreciate all help regarding this issue. For a commercial grade software, Truestudio is very, very hard to use at the moment. Open source is still more convienient.

#atollic-truestudio #debug

[Nicholas Yunker_2]

Posted on January 23, 2018 at 16:14

We had problems with True Studio at my last job as well.  Couldn't get it to work right and another division of our parent company was using IAR so we just switched over to IAR to standardize and get away from the problems.

[Lukasz Przenioslo]

Posted on January 23, 2018 at 23:18

ST team: are there any planos on fixing the (very) old problems with Truestudio anytime soon? I would appreciate yur feedback.

[T J]

Posted on January 23, 2018 at 23:20

Visual Studio is an excellent IDE, I recommend it.

but the GDB component cost $150US approx

[Lukasz Przenioslo]

Posted on January 23, 2018 at 23:22

So far I was (and still am) very happy with eclipse + addons. I just hoped Truestudio got better at some point.