X-Cube Touchfgx software on Mac

[Avgerinos]

Hello

I am using a Mac. There is software support for stm32cude ide on Mac. But I would like to ask if there is support for Touchgfx application on a Mac.

On the website https://www.st.com/en/embedded-software/x-cube-touchgfx.html
I can not find a link to download the software for Mac.

Is there software support for Mac or any other way to run this application?

Thank you

[GaetanGodart · Accepted solution]

Hello @Avgerinos ,

There is no support for TouchGFX on macOS.

However, there is still 2 ways you can use TouchGFX on your Apple computer:

1. Run TouchGFX on a virtual machine
2. Dual boot your computer with Windows (install Windows as a startup option)

If this comment answers your question, I invite you to select it as "best answer".

Regards,

[Avgerinos]

Hello

Is there a plan for Mac support in the near future?

Thank you for your answer

[GaetanGodart]

Hello @Avgerinos ,

Not in the near future but we are thinking about it!

Regards,

[mars3142]

I do own a M3 MacBook Pro and can't dual boot into Windows. Do you have any other options, beside a second laptop or a virtual machine (which slows down development)? 

[Andrei Chichak]

In the beginning, STM32CubeMX only ran on Windows and Linux, but someone figured out that it was all just a big Java program and figured out that it ran perfectly well on Mac if you just pointed Java at the .jar file. Word eventually got out and within a reasonable time period ST started officially supporting Cube on Mac.

I have not tried this with TouchGFX, as I still have a few Intel Macs around that I use with Fusion.

[Peter BENSCH]

TouchGFX is not based on Java, so it is not so easy to make it run under MacOSX. But at least you can get on with VMWare Fusion.