Project building process

[iTTy]

Hy there!

I'm new on ST platforms and development environments (I'm used to Netbeans-like ones).

Well, I would like to copy (automatically) both .elf executable and the .map files in given folder after building the projet.

This folder ("Out") is placed inside the project path.

I tried by adding a post-building step but i'm not able to find makefile variables sutch as ${ProjName} and so on...

I need those variables to automate the process throgh several configurations.

Where are defined those variable and what they contain?

I saw them, looking at the project options but I'm not able to find a guide to use them to write a building step as I'm used to do in other environments...

Thank You in advance for your support!

iTTy

[Kevin HUBER]

Hello @iTTy​ ,

I made a quick test with STM32CubeIde 1.10 and ${ProjName} seems available in post build step:

 

After the build, the copy is done as expected:

 

If you still can't access to this variable, you can try to configure a build variable in the property of your project and you set its value to ${ProjName}:

 

Then you can use this variable 

From what I remember, the variable {ProjName} is related to

	<name>OpenAMP_TTY_echo_CM4</name>

inside your ".project".

If it still doesn't work please share some codes with us 🙂

Hope it helps,

Kevin

[iTTy · Accepted solution]

Hi @Kevin HUBER​ ,

First of all thancks a lot for yous fast reply!

First good fact: following your suggestions and exploring a little bit more the environment i found a list containing a lot of environment variables.

Opening the Project properties -> C/C++ -> Build Variables and checking the voice "Show system variables", will display a comprehensive variable list...

The problem now is that building fails beause makefile seems "Unable to find specified path"

 

I tried following exactly your example, giving manually full paths and also using environment variables; but the result is always the same.

What I understand watching the console is that now file and paths are correctly expanded in the post-build step, but command fails for some reason.

 Could be a "/" vs "\" issue...

About code: I'm just playing on a Nucleo-144 demo board (with a dual core STM32H7) using STM32CubeIDE version 1.9.0 on an empty self-generated project.

I'm focusing on understand how the tool works and how to manage the workflow...

iTTy

[Kevin HUBER]

Hello @iTTy​ ,

Did you success to execute the cp command?

In linux you have to use "/" and in windows "\".

On which OS are you trying to use the CubeIde? Do you still need help?

Regards,

Kevin

[iTTy]

Hi @Kevin HUBER​ ,

sorry for my ghosting: I was out for vacations.😁

Coming back at work, I re-started experimeenting on ST platform and after some attempts I fixed my issues!

Well, as you suggested above, there was a path syntax issue: since I'm on a Windows system, I expressed paths using "\"; but it seems that make commands shall be written using linux-like syntax (using "/")!

Therefore your first suggestion was right without "tranlation" to the Windows syntax!

It was so simple! 😅

Thanks a lot for your support!

Regards,

iTTy