Updated 2014-04-03
Introduction
This tutorial describes how to set up a complete and free toolchain for STM32F4xx microcontrollers, including how to use hardware floating point support. It is mostly aimed towards beginners with ARM microcontrollers, however, experienced developers could probably find something useful here as well. It is assumed that the reader is a bit familiar with the C programming language and the Bash terminal.
At the end of this tutorial, the reader should be able to build and upload programs to the STM32F4** using the STLinkV2 interface (such as the one found on the STM32F4 Discovery board). This is done using Ubuntu Linux in this tutorial, however, the instructions should be general enough to make this work on any Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution.
The following hardware/software will be used:
- STM32F4 Discovery evaluation board
- Ubuntu Linux 12.04 (different versions should work as well)
- QSTLink2 (with some improvements)
- My modified summon-arm-toolchain script