Yes, IDEs make the job easier, but..

If you are an embedded developer, you should know what is going under the hood.

Get rid of that IDE and do it like a boss 😎

🎉 GOOD NEWS 😁 : FROM NOW ON WE'LL USE OpenOCD & GDB FOR FLASHING AND DEBUGGING, UNDER BOTH LINUX AND WINDOWS!

What you will need :

✪ Any Text Editor

✪ CMSIS / HAL Drivers (You can use your own HAL!)

✪ Startup File + Linker Script (You can always use you own)

✪ GNU Make (Makefiles)

✪ GNU ARM Embedded Toolchain (Compiler/Other Tools)

✪ OpenOCD (If You Want to Flash/Debug Directly From the Command Line)

✪ The GNU Debugger - GDB (arm-none-eabi-gdb OR gdb-multiarch)

STEPS :

• DOWNLOAD (CLONE) THIS REPOSITORY :

$ git clone https://github.com/JihedChaibi/STM32-with-no-IDE

• ENTER THE STM32-with-no-IDE FOLDER :

$ cd STM32-with-no-IDE

• COMPILE THE DEMO CODE (src/main.c) :

  $ make 

• FLASH :

  $ make flash

• CLEAN BINARIES (OPTIONAL) :

  $ make clean

• ERASE THE CHIP'S CONTENT (OPTIONAL) :

  $ make erase

• START THE DEBUGGING SESSION :

  $ make debug

• OPEN ANOTHER TERMINAL WINDOW, AND LET THE FUN BEGIN :

  $ make gdb

Short term goals :

• Debugging from the command line [:heavy_check_mark: DONE!]
• Windows support [:heavy_check_mark: DONE!]
• Using CMake+GNU Make or CMake+Ninja as a main builder [:recycle: IN PROGRESS]