I learned to write Bash by writing this script. My professor for embedded systems gave me some documentation and instructions so I could spend my summer learning about ARM Assembly using the Cortex M4 on the STM32F303Discovery board.
Since I was running Linux Mint using VMWare, I started to poke around inside of the operating system more and more and as a Linux beginner I made a LOT of mistakes.
After my 2nd installation was corrupted, I decided to try and automate the installation of the tools for programming the board.
This eventually led to this completed script! I'm pretty happy with it, I do not have other systems to test this on, but it works fine every time I need to use it.
I made a variable to store a teachers name, in case anyone ever wants to use this for their own purposes.
Feel free to change anything about it, I just did this for fun.
This also provides error logging to trace any problems during the installation process.
When the script is run, it will allow you to run a full setup or select the setup options to execute:
- Full setup:
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Execute the following commands:
- install -y build-essential
- install -y dfu-util
- install -y make
- install -y libtool
- install -y libftdi-dev
- install -y libusb-1.0-0-dev
- install -y minicom
- install -y gcc-arm-none-eabi
- install -y gdb-multiarch
- install -y vim
- install -y git
- install -y openocd
- install -y modemmanager
- usermod -a -G dialout $SUDO_USER
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Install Visual Studio Code
- This requires some extra steps
- install -y snap
- apt install -y snapd
- snap install core
- snap install code --classic
- This requires some extra steps
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Setup Share Folder
- Requires the share folder being setup in VMWare
- Adds a symbolic link to the share folder on the desktop
- Edits /etc/fstab to ensure the share folder is mounted when the guest boots up
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Necessary Checks
- Ensure creation of symbolic link between:
- /usr/bin/arm-none-eabi-gdb and
- /usr/bin/gdb-multiarch
- Ensure creation of symbolic link between: