Programming STM32 Nucleo from Linux

[1994timmeh]

Hi,
Ive been working at this goal for a while now so i thought id open it up and see if anyone has a solution to my problem.

I bought a STM Nucleo F401RE and yes it has MBED, but for University and offline stuff its pretty darn useless. I have programmed a Netduino from linux but can't seem to find how to get this board to work.

Any ideas?

Cheers

[ealex]

My environment for working with microcontrollers in linux:

eclipse + CDT
CodeSourcery arm toolchain + PATH modified to point to the tool-chain's bin
openocd - latest version when i remember to update

i have a nucleo f401 board and it works properly - writing the flash and debugging via openocd, etc

what did you tried - and what / how did it fail ?

[gmb42]

I take it you have looked at the Offline wiki page as it shows how you can easily export an mbed project to makefiles and then simply run make.  This should be enough to get you started.

You'll also have to install an ARM toolchain, e.g GCC ARM Embedded or Code Sourcery and OpenOCD.

[dannyf]

but for University and offline stuff its pretty darn useless.

How so?

I have one programmed from keil/iar no problem. That's as offline as offline can go.

[1994timmeh]

I have been trying to go from scratch but Ecipse does seem like a nice way to go!

Anyway my problem seems to be flashing to the board. Im doing this through st-utils and arm-none-eabi-gdb but when i go load i get "Load Failed".

Any ideas?

[1994timmeh]

How so?

I have one programmed from keil/iar no problem. That's as offline as offline can go.

Essentially the university want us to do this stuff from as close to scratch as we can. And the IDEs cost hundreds upon thousands of dollars!

[dannyf]

Essentially the university want us to do this stuff from as close to scratch as we can.

Then go from scratch.

But it has nothing to do with your inability to program it offline.

And the IDEs cost hundreds upon thousands of dollars!

Plenty of free IDEs too.

[1994timmeh]

But it has nothing to do with your inability to program it offline.

Exactly! This is what i came onto here to find out about! Ive been banging my head against the wall trying to work it out, though someone would have done the same before and could shed some light.

[ealex]

i've never used st-utils, openocd works without any problem.
is you board detected ?
run "lsusb" with the board attached - what do you see ?
i have to run openocd with root access ( sudo openocd .... ) on my system - otherwise normal used account can not access the usb.

do you have any output from st-utils ? will it work if you try to just load a binary from command line - not via gdb
how do you connect gdb to st-utils ?

[farsi]

the MUCCC presented a gnu c toolchain for arm with stlink flasher last week:

https://github.com/muccc/arm-workshop

maybe it helps