Why building "blinky" project is taking more than 4 minutes every time on STM32MP157F-DK2 CORTEX-m4 ?

[PSonani]

-- Using STM32cubeIDE.

[Olivier GALLIEN]

Hi @PSonani​ 

Can you provide further details.

PC configuration, CubeIDE version, build traces

Thanks

Olivier

[PSonani]

PC:

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz  3.19 GHz

8.00 GB RAM

64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

CubeIDE:

Version: 1.7.0

Build: 10852_20210715_0634 (UTC)

Build Trace: This time it didn't take 4 mins to build, but I tried building simple UART project and this took ,

I have included traces for both project below.

#Blinky Project#

11:01:15 **** Incremental Build of configuration Debug for project Blinky_CM4 ****

make -j4 all 

arm-none-eabi-size  Blinky_CM4.elf 

  text   data   bss   dec   hex filename

 34252   304   1852  36408   8e38 Blinky_CM4.elf

Finished building: default.size.stdout

11:02:03 Build Finished. 0 errors, 0 warnings. (took 48s.80ms)

#UART project --> Just transmitting a character using UART7#

11:09:32 **** Incremental Build of configuration Debug for project test_UART_CM4 ****

make -j4 all 

arm-none-eabi-gcc "../Core/Src/main.c" -mcpu=cortex-m4 -std=gnu11 -g3 -DDEBUG -DCORE_CM4 -DNO_ATOMIC_64_SUPPORT -DMETAL_INTERNAL -DMETAL_MAX_DEVICE_REGIONS=2 -DVIRTIO_SLAVE_ONLY -DUSE_HAL_DRIVER -DSTM32MP157Fxx -DUSE_FULL_LL_DRIVER -c -I../OPENAMP -I../Core/Inc -I../../Middlewares/Third_Party/OpenAMP/open-amp/lib/include -I../../Middlewares/Third_Party/OpenAMP/libmetal/lib/include -I../../Drivers/STM32MP1xx_HAL_Driver/Inc -I../../Drivers/STM32MP1xx_HAL_Driver/Inc/Legacy -I../../Drivers/CMSIS/Device/ST/STM32MP1xx/Include -I../../Middlewares/Third_Party/OpenAMP/virtual_driver -I../../Drivers/CMSIS/Include -O0 -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -Wall -fstack-usage -MMD -MP -MF"Core/Src/main.d" -MT"Core/Src/main.o" --specs=nano.specs -mfpu=fpv4-sp-d16 -mfloat-abi=hard -mthumb -o "Core/Src/main.o"

arm-none-eabi-gcc -o "test_UART_CM4.elf" @"objects.list"  -mcpu=cortex-m4 -T"C:\Users\psonani\STM32CubeIDE\workspace_1.7.0\test_UART\CM4\STM32MP157FACX_RAM.ld" --specs=nosys.specs -Wl,-Map="test_UART_CM4.map" -Wl,--gc-sections -static --specs=nano.specs -mfpu=fpv4-sp-d16 -mfloat-abi=hard -mthumb -Wl,--start-group -lc -lm -Wl,--end-group

Finished building target: test_UART_CM4.elf

arm-none-eabi-size  test_UART_CM4.elf 

arm-none-eabi-objdump -h -S test_UART_CM4.elf > "test_UART_CM4.list"

  text   data   bss   dec   hex filename

 39688   304   1852  41844   a374 test_UART_CM4.elf

arm-none-eabi-objcopy -O binary test_UART_CM4.elf "test_UART_CM4.bin"

Finished building: default.size.stdout

Finished building: test_UART_CM4.list

Finished building: test_UART_CM4.bin

11:14:12 Build Finished. 0 errors, 0 warnings. (took 4m:40s.321ms)

Thank you for the help!