Compiling STM32 firmware

Compiling STM32 Firmware

Install the GNU ARM toolchain

Go to the GNU ARM Embedded Toolchain page and download the Linux binary.

Alteratilvely, you can download it from the command line, like this:

curl https://armkeil.blob.core.windows.net/developer/Files/downloads/gnu-rm/7-2017q4/gcc-arm-none-eabi-7-2017-q4-major-linux.tar.bz2 > gcc-arm-none-eabi-7-2017-q4-major-linux.tar.bz2

Now extract and install it:

# Extract archive
bunzip2 -c ./gcc-arm-none-eabi-7-2017-q4-major-linux.tar.bz2 | tar xf -
# Set your path so the toolchain binaries
PATH=$PATH:/home/ubuntu/gcc-arm-none-eabi-7-2017-q4-major/bin

Trial Compile

If you don't have a C project yet to compile, just try to recompile the STM32 iceboot firmware that comes standard with your BlackIce-II board.

Get the BlackIce-II github repo, if you don't have it already:

git clone https://github.com/mystorm-org/BlackIce-II.git

Now compile the iceboot firmware:

cd BlackIce-II/firmware/iceboot
make clean
make output/iceboot.raw

If all goes well, you should see a fresh built iceboot.raw file in the output directory.

You can upload this file with dfu-utils, as described here.