conan-hal-command

Conan custom command providing libhal development tools for embedded systems.

📥 Installation

You must have Conan 2 installed and available on your machine for this to work. Copy and paste the command below to install the hal conan command extension.

conan config install -sf extensions -tf extensions https://github.com/libhal/conan-hal-command.git

Test by writing:

conan hal --version

Should respond with something like the text below:

conan-hal-command: x.y.z

🔧 Available Commands

conan hal setup

Set up your libhal development environment by configuring remotes and installing profiles.

What it does:

1. Adds/updates the libhal remote repository
2. Installs baremetal settings for embedded development
3. Detects your OS/architecture and installs the appropriate host profile
4. Installs ARM MCU device profiles (lpc4078, stm32f103c8, etc.)
5. Installs ARM GCC compiler profiles

Note

This command will continue to be updated with additional platforms, and compilers as they roll out.

Usage:

# Basic setup
conan hal setup

# Verbose output
conan hal --verbose setup

# Skip remote configuration
conan hal setup --skip-remotes

# Skip user settings installation
conan hal setup --skip-user-settings

# Skip default host profile installation
conan hal setup --skip-default-profile

# Skip target device profiles installation
conan hal setup --skip-target-profiles

# Skip compiler profiles installation
conan hal setup --skip-compiler-profiles

# Combine multiple skip flags
conan hal setup --skip-default-profile --skip-compiler-profiles

Options:

• --skip-remotes - Skip adding/updating the libhal remote
• --skip-user-settings - Skip user settings (baremetal settings) installation
• --skip-default-profile - Skip default host profile installation
• --skip-target-profiles - Skip target device profiles installation
• --skip-compiler-profiles - Skip cross compiler profiles installation

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🔮 Future Commands

• conan hal new - Create a new libhal project, device library, platform library, or board library
• conan hal download-compilers - Download & install all cross-compilers
• conan hal build-matrix - Cross build a library against every supported libhal target
• conan hal package-matrix - Cross build package for a library against every supported libhal target
• conan hal flash - Flash binary to target device
• conan hal debug - Start debug session with target device

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Global Options

• --verbose - Enable verbose output (shows debug information)
• --version - Show version and exit