Move embedded programming from Keil to Linux

Question

I'm currently using Keil to develop for an STM32 discovery board. My project is close to finished, and I'd like to move to a Linux based building environment. I've been using the preconfigured flashing tool and the STLink drivers for windows to flash the board, and I got keil to export a bin file, which I managed to flash on my Linux machine using qSTLink2. So far, so good.

Now I'm stuck on moving the process of building the entire project. Specifically:

How do I port my .uvproj to a makefile, while taking things like the 'startup_stm32l1xx_md.s' startup file into account?

• PeterJ: I haven't used in an STM32 in particular under a Linux GCC build environment, but you'll probably find GCC needs a different startup file. You might be best to find an already working simple project and then add your code to that.
• Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams: The hard way, no doubt.
• Lg102: Could I use the current .o file Keil generated using MDK-ARM, ignore the compilation for that one file for now, and link it in statically?
• harper: As PeterJ already wrote. It will use a different startup file with different labels and different semantics. There should be no way to keep the Keil startup_stm32l1xx_md.o file. Don't you have the source startup_stm32l1xx_md.s for it?
• Lg102: I do, but it seems oriented at MDK-ARM (or so the header claims). I've replaced it with another. I'm not sure what the distinction between medium and high density entails, though.

Answer 1

Got it done. I figured I'd share my results so others can use it. Thanks for your time, everyone.

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I used this ARM toolchain to build my project, and the texane/stlink library, which comes with the ./st-flash tool, to flash the binary to my STM32L1. While texane/stlink comes with GDB, I found I could get the building+flashing process done without it.

My Makefile ended up looking like this. It isn't very pretty or abstract, but it gets the job done.

all:
 arm-none-eabi-gcc -T stm32l1xx.ld -mthumb -mcpu=cortex-m3 -D STM32L1XX_MD -D USE_STDPERIPH_DRIVER startup_stm32l1xx_md.s system_stm32l1xx.c main.c [ sources ] -lm --specs=nosys.specs -o Project.elf

In which:

• arm-none-eabi-gcc
  The ARM toolchain
• -T stm32l1xx.ld
  The linker document
• -mthumb -mcpu=cortex-m3
  Tell GCC this is for an M3
• -D STM32L1XX_MD -D USE_STDPERIPH_DRIVER
  Defines for the Standard Peripheral Driver
• startup_stm32l1xx_md.s
  GCC oriented startup document.
• system_stm32l1xx.c main.c [ sources ]
  List of my source files
• -lm
  For Math.h(LibMath)
• --specs=nosys.specs
  Don't use sytems calls like _exit.
• -o Project.elf
  Output name

• oxr463: Where does the stm32l1xx.ld file come from?

Answer 2

There is a Gnu ARM toolchain (arm-none-eabi), and supposedly openOCD works with gdb (although I haven't been able to make that happen under Win7 - openOCD connects to an STM32F4disco board OK, but gdb has problems connecting to openOCD).

Do some digging around here and you will find links to the toolchain, openOCD and sample projects that include startup source.