STM8 Series of micro-controllers by ST Microelectronics are dirt cheap and powerful at the same time. Their processing power is nothing short as of Arduino, while at the same time their power consumption is much less. These properties makes STM8 micros a great choice for many hobby and serious projects. I this tutorial you will learn how to setup a developing and programming environment for STM8 on Linux based systems.
A while ago I stated a mini-tutorial series of programming for STM8, which are based on ST Visual Develop IDE and COSMIC C Comiler on Microsoft Windows platform. In the very first tutorial I promised to talk about setting up environment and programming on Linux. And here I am with the video tutorial on my YouTube channel.
Here are the required links (for easy copy-paste) that I used in the video:
- SDCC Compiler v3.5.0 or higher for Linux-x86 (works fine with x64 if you have multiarch enabled!).
- STM8FLASH (should be easy to compile using GCC).
- STM8 Example Project.
Please note that I used Ubuntu x64 14.04 LTS (which is a Debian based distro). I have not tested the procedure on other Linux architectures or distros, but I strongly beleive it should make no difference which architecture (as long is it is x86 or x64) or distro of linux you are using.
As a side note, if the SDCC complained about libstd6 or libglx, the solutions is as follow:
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#if faced problem with libglx sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get dist-upgrade |
See the full instruction in the video:
As always, if you faced any problems just comment on the video or use the comment system below (needs registration)
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Warning! Most Linux distros are 64bit. The SBCC compiler is 32bit.
If you try to run
sbccyou will receive the illogical error “File not found”.See http://askubuntu.com/questions/133389/no-such-file-or-directory-but-the-file-exists to enable 32bit executables.
Actually, is SDCC and is available also in 64bit package on most 64bit Linux distros. If not, you can compile it from sources, as is an open source project. So, not really a problem here.
I have the following problem:
root@dell5437:/home/luis.kunzler/stm8_teste/sdcc-examples-stm8# stm8flash -c stlinkv2 -p stm8s003?3 -w blinky.ihx
Determine FLASH area
Could not open USB device.
Do you know what’s going on?
Maybe you don’t have write permission on USB. Try it with sudo
I’m logged in as the root user
hmmm could be your chip is damaged? have you tried on windows using official ST tool to see if you can connect to the chip and read its memory?
I have a problem:
pham@pham-laptop:~/stm8flash$ ./stm8flash -cstlinkv2 -pstm8s003?3 -s flash -w ../sdcc-examples-stm8/blinky.ihx
Determine FLASH area
Due to its file extension (or lack thereof), “../sdcc-examples-stm8/blinky.ihx” is considered as INTEL HEX format!
196 bytes at 0x8000… Tries exceeded
Do you know what’s going on?
Check out this thread, it helped me with the “tries exceeded” error. https://github.com/vdudouyt/stm8flash/issues/38
Hello, thanks for the updated comparison.
I want to install sdcc+stm32cubeide(or eclipse) in windows10.
I installed sdcc of:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sdcc/
and installed :
https://github.com/gnu-mcu-eclipse/windows-build-tools/releases
I worked the GPIO,But I couldn’t work with the etc.
makefile downloaded of internet.
I think it’s possible to add sdcc because STIDE is based on eclipse,Of course I did this to some extent for gpio.
(Software IAR-stm8 has a boring environment)
(please create video for this)
I’ll send you the files
http://8upload.ir/uploads/f880377312.jpg
http://8upload.ir/uploads/f156972770.rar
please help me