Mounriver Studio... anyone with a working setup under linux?

[wilhe_jo]

Hi!

I just want to run the template project for a CH32V307 on my CH32V307V-R1-1V0 board.

After getting the "cannot write to 0x000"-error, I found on the net, that I need to update my the wlink on the board.
That seems not possible under linux, so I fired up a VM with win10, installed the windows version a got a bricked programmer.
2 days of pulling hairs, I got this fixed (see other thread) and now I'm left with libusb bulk-transfer timeouts.

Any ideas?

BTW: I get IDs from the target... so at least some communication works.

Regards

[wilhe_jo]

A little update... I reverted back to MRS 1.5 by guessing a download link (http://file-oss.mounriver.com/upgrade/MounRiver_Studio_Community_Linux_x64_V150.tar.xz)... that gave me back a working system.
So something is fishy with the OpenOCD they ship with the 1.91 toolchain/1.7 Studio

If someone has some idea how the get the current version running... I'd be glad to hear ideas

Regards

[Postal2]

If someone has some idea how the get the current version running... I'd be glad to hear ideas

I bought PC from Aliexpress with win10 and put Mounriver there. This link:
https://aliexpress.com/item/32839489621.html

Also I have old Core2duo with 4 SSD mechanically switched from one system to another (one SSD = one system).

[wilhe_jo]

If someone has some idea how the get the current version running... I'd be glad to hear ideas

I bought PC from Aliexpress with win10 and put Mounriver there. This link:
https://aliexpress.com/item/32839489621.html

Also I have old Core2duo with 4 SSD mechanically switched from one system to another (one SSD = one system).

Sorry, but your suggestions are not helpful.

Neither the recommentation to use Win XP in the other thread, nor using a totally outdated system with Windows.
My whole office runs under linux.

The problem seems to be in the software WCH provides.
I had the same issue before with something between 1.5 and 1.91.
The question is, if there's some solution to this.

For now, I reverted back to MRS 1.5 which seems to do.

Regards

[brucehoult]

You don't have to use MounRiver Studio at all, if you don't want. Standard GCC works fine, and you can build your own OpenOCD https://github.com/openwch/openocd_wch

[jnk0le]

and you can build your own OpenOCD https://github.com/openwch/openocd_wch

That's prebuild binary without linux support, there are some forks made from GPL lettered sources though
e.g. https://github.com/jnk0le/openocd-wch

[SiliconWizard]

You can use mainline GCC as Bruce mentioned. If you don't need a debugger, you don't even need OpenOCD either. I use wlink for flashing CH32V30x.
https://github.com/ch32-rs/wlink

[ddrown]

I'm developing in Linux for a ch32v307 devboard, and I've modified minichlink in order to specify the ram/flash split https://github.com/ddrown/minichlink-307

I haven't had luck with wlink, it seems to crash my wch debugger.

I also have a Makefile based template for building C/C++ projects for the 307.

[martinribelotta]

Y 2cent for the cause:
Project with all WCH examples compiling (I test many but many is untested now) https://github.com/martinribelotta/openwch-makefile
Bare metal ch32v307 C/C++ template using cmake https://gitlab.com/eta-for-ci/baremetal-ch32v3xx
RT-threads repository (outdated to main rt-thread repo) https://gitlab.com/eta-for-ci/ch32v307-gnumake

They already posted in other messages the links to openocd and wlink... Both work pretty well

[Gjeskog]

This is an old topic and I'm not claiming to know these WCH-chips, allthough I've bought a small pile of them and are planning to program them from eclipse on Linux.

Have anyone here tested out the MRS for eclipse here?
http://www.mounriver.com/download

(And if I'm not misstaken David Jones used the eclipse implementation of MRS when he reviewed these chips a year ago.)
https://youtu.be/L9Wrv7nW-S8?feature=shared

[bson]

Code: [Select]

mkdir -p ~/src
cd ~/src
git clone https://github.com/openocd-org/openocd.git openocd-dev
cd openocd-dev
./bootstrap
sudo mkdir -p /opt/openocd
./configure --prefix=/opt/openocd
make -j16
sudo make install
/opt/openocd/bin/openocd --version
Open On-Chip Debugger 0.12.0+dev-01776-g40d58ce52 (2024-11-05-10:48)
Licensed under GNU GPL v2
For bug reports, read
http://openocd.org/doc/doxygen/bugs.html
Took under a minute on my Dell XPS 9700 (10750H) laptop running Fedora 40.
You may need various dev packages though.
I use /opt for all that's not dnf packaged, to avoid stepping on it or vice versa.  YMMV