cs32f103-bluepill-quickstart

Since ST create a lot of barriers and obstacles for STM32 chinese clones development (clone stlink dongle + cs32f1 bluepill), one cannot benefit from ST provided mainstream STM32CubeIDE + one click ready to use gdb debugger with Eclipse frontend + integrated CubeMX. I experimented with a lot of ways to find the easiest + fastest way to working with STM32 chinese clones. This is the way that I found.

Pros

• Smarter code linting thanks to "ms-vscode.cpptools" extension
• Far quicker startup time thanks to VSCode's lightweight
• Enable boilerplate code generation thanks to CubeMX
• Enable interactive debug using "marus25.cortex-debug"

Installing dependencies

• XPack openocd
• arm-none-eabi-*
• VSCode extension "marus25.cortex-debug"

Building

For debug build:

# Generate Makefile
cmake -B Debug -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -G "Unix Makefiles"
# Building using cmake
cmake --build Debug -j <nproc>
# Clean project
cmake --build Debug --target clean

For release build:

# Generate Makefile
cmake -B Release -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -G "Unix Makefiles"
# Building using cmake
cmake --build Release -j <nproc>
# Clean project
cmake --build Release --target clean

You can open .mxproject to reconfigure and regenerate code as expected.