STM32CubeIDE - an all-in-one multi-OS development tool

My take on vendor-specific toolchains in general:

* Fine for hobbyists , occasional users, and prototypes.

Second choice in a commercial environment, because:

* Silicon vendors use to lack the compiler/linker expertise. Toolchains are either bought up, leased, or freely available. A performance gap does exist.

* All-in-one often implies "all in one hand". Not everone likes that.

* This oolchains are limited to the company's product line. This does not fit for many customers.

* Longterm-availability, maintenance (bugfixes) and feature requests. What can you expect from a free product ?

* Licence and copyright issues.

Wich doesn't mean all this problems are present in STM32CubeIDE. But since it is based on TrueStudio (and Atollic) I wait to see.

Situations and occurences like observed with the Atollic take-over do usually fail to motivate the employees. The experienced key developers tend to disembark first.

Why distribute as ...bundle.sh.zip? 745431591 vs 745431337 bits, about 300 bytes saved by zipping!

There is no libusbx on Opensuse. As found on the net" As of 2014.01.26, libusbx project has been fully merged back into libusb and is being discontinued."

Does Mint have libusbx? And what should that tell?

I consider it a fault of STM32CubeIDE to require a library that has been discontinued for 5 years!

​I wonder what is the relationship between this and Atollic TrueStudio which ST owns?

Did someone installed it on MacOS? I get a warning ST Link Server is not compatible with Mojave.

System can be corrupted if I would continue the installation. Did no one test the Mac version on a Mac at ST?

Markus thank you for your responses. I just got STM32CubeIDE Friday, installed it, used STM32CubeIDE to start with a STM32F429I-DISCOVERY, used the integrated TouchGFX to create a base screen, did the build and got code errors in [b]startup_stm32f429zitx.s[/b] and in [b]stm32f4xx_it.c[/b]. That's not even my code, there is no User Code in this test project. So now I'm stopped by the internal code.  :roll: 

C:/STM32CubeIDE/Workspace/BattMonTest4/Debug/../Startup/startup_stm32f429zitx.s:113: undefined reference to `main'

Src/stm32f4xx_it.o: In function `LTDC_IRQHandler':

C:/STM32CubeIDE/Workspace/BattMonTest4/Debug/../Src/stm32f4xx_it.c:205: undefined reference to `hltdc'

Src/stm32f4xx_it.o: In function `DMA2D_IRQHandler':

C:/STM32CubeIDE/Workspace/BattMonTest4/Debug/../Src/stm32f4xx_it.c:219: undefined reference to `hdma2d'

collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status

make: *** [makefile:51: BattMonTest4.elf] Error 1

"make -j8 all" terminated with exit code 2. Build might be incomplete.

08:56:40 Build Failed. 4 errors, 0 warnings. (took 15s.10ms)

Before STM32CubeIDE, I used STM32CubeMX 5.1, TouchGFX 4.10 and TrueSTUDIO separate applications using the same board to start developing I2C code from STM32Cube\Repository\STM32Cube_FW_F4_V1.24.1\Projects\STM32F429I-Discovery\Examples\I2C\ . After I did similar to above, select the board, use the article Configuring STM32F429I-DISCO from TouchGFX, open the project in TrueSTUDIO, I spent many days fixing all the missing includes, errors in the generated code, and after ALL that the project won't load into the target board during Debug, it hangs in HAL_MpxInit inside of HAL_INIT. I did nothing to that code. Extremely frustrating.

My hope is that STM32CubeIDE gets fixed soon, it is much easier than using the separate applications.

New CubeIDE question....

I just tried STM32CubeIDE for the first time, install on Fedora 27 via the RPM install. Smooth install, no problems--nice!

I'm using the STM32L452RE board, and I wanted to use the 1.13.0 libraries I had been using on my project, instead of the 1.14.0 libs that were downloaded when I created my first project under CubeIDE. But I found that none of the options to select an alternate firmware pkg/libs would let me select my 1.13.0 package, even though it was installed in the Repository right next to the new 1.14.0.

* When creating the STM32 Project, on the "Firmware Library Package Setup" screen in the wizard, 1.14.0 was shown greyed out in a drop-down box and would not allow me to select an alternate.

* In the Project Manager tab in the IOC file editor, the Firmware Package Name and Version showed 1.14.0 and the "use default" checkbox that used to appear in CubeMX to enable alternate package selection is missing.

I did verify that under Help -> Manage Embedded Software Packages, it showed both 1.13.0 and 1.14.0 as currently installed.

I checked the release notes and didn't see any entries there. Did I miss something?

Regrouping with; https://community.st.com/s/question/0D50X0000AkT1RWSQ0/stm32cubeide

I am attempting to run STM32CubeIde on a 2017 Macbook Pro (MacBookPro14,1, P/N: A1708-3164) running MacOs 10.14.4 (Mojave) and am having an issue where the program seems to get stuck "Checking for Updated Files ...". The IDE launches and shows the initial page, but when I click on the "Start new STM32 project" button the "Initializing STM32 Target Selector..." and "Checking for Updated Files .." pop-up appear and never seem to finish.... Is anyone else seeing this? I have un-installed and re-installed the IDE with no change in behavior.