Build Analyzer does not work after STM32CubeIDE update.

[Kim KyungTack]

Hi.

 

I was using STM32CubeIDE 1.14.0 until yesterday.

Build Analyzer worked fine in 1.14.0, but after updating to 1.15.0 using the update feature provided by CubeIDE, nothing is displayed in Build Analyzer. 

The build was successful and the <project>.map file was created, but the Build Analyzer information was not displayed, and I uninstalled and reinstalled CubeIDE, but it was the same.

 

 

 

[christelle burguera]

Hello Kim,

 

You have to click on the "Refresh" button:

Please, refer to the User Manual, section 2.5 where this new button is explained and how you can change the behavior:

 

BR

Christelle

[Kim KyungTack]

Thank you!!

[christelle burguera]

welcome !

Please refer to my last comment if you want to change the behavior of this functionality.

Have a good day

[jlag]

I am having the same issue after 14.1 to 15.0 on Win 11.
I have changed the setting to Auto and still blank in Build Analyzer tab after building. Have restarted IDE.

Additionally, the refresh button is disabled, does not highlight when I mouse over it and clicking it does nothing:

EDIT: My mistake. 'On Request 'does in fact enable the 'Refresh' button and the button perform the functionality correctly.

I assumed that the 'Auto' setting would load the analysis on every build, but alas it does not.

 

 

[jlag]

Has anyone managed to get the 'auto' option to work, or is there an issue with the 'auto' refresh?

 

As section 2.5 states:

 

[PR.10]

yes, see my reply

 

[PHolt.1]

Cube IDE has always had a bug in that the Build Analyser would sometimes not show - until you clicked on the .map file in the LH pane.

[BillFleming]

I had to change the "Build Views Refresh Mode" several times along with also attempting to change the "Complexity Ceiling". Hitting "Apply and Close" would then cause STM32Cube to either close or crash immediately in some cases.

But the last time I switched back to "Auto" and changed the "Complexity Ceiling" to 50 then hitting "Apply and Close" after e2 studio exited when I re-opened it back up all of the projects were working in the Build Analyzer again. I didn't need to hand-edit any of the project files, even though they look different compared to projects created from the newest STM32CubeIDE.

So this looks to be some issue with initializing a new workspace in the new STM32CubeIDE. I used the default new 1.15.1 workspace when installing this one, on a new PC that didn't even have the previous version workspaces.

[cjpeplin]

I just want to concur. I'm using 1.16 and whether or not the build analyzer refreshes seems completely random. I started a new project using 1.16 and the only way to get the build analyzer to update is to try a bunch of combinations of rebuilding, restarting, reconfiguring, etc. It's been this way for a while. I really like the build analyzer when it works. Next I'll go look for a way to open this as a bug.

[Carl_G]

The build analyzer does have a problem. If the project is not selected and you hit refresh, it won't do anything. Or maybe it tries to refresh from the project that is selected (even if that project is closed) and fails. If only one project is open then the Build Analyzer should always refresh from that project no matter if its selected or not. Or even better the build analyzer should give some warning if its not going to do anything. such as stating that no project is selected. In fact, I think the FreeRTOS warning that pops up when I regenerate is taking the focus selection off of the project which is then making it so that refresh does not work even if the project appears to be selected, without first clicking on the project again.

Whichever engineer decided to include the file with the date and time that the Build Analyzer is using, in the displayed information, made a great decision.

Anyway, if you are hitting refresh and noticing that the information is not refreshing, then select the project or some item in the project and hit refresh again. It should take after that.

[PHolt.1]

I find three separate issues:

1) After a build one needs to click on the .map file (which is in the Debug directory) and then the Build Analyser appears

2) The .map file does not usually appear until a second build (i.e. another control-b).

3) The values shown in the Build Analyser magically change to the correct values (I think the initial ones are old ones) after some 10-20 seconds!

Cube IDE is based on a generic 3rd party (open source?) IDE called Eclipse and - along with the "semi-random" file opening bug - ST are clearly reluctant to dive in too deep to fix stuff on it. It is a massively bloated piece of code which basically nobody understands. Written in Java ;)

BTW the email notification one gets from this ST forum contains a dud URL and I get this

but a Reload just displays the same thing.

 

 

[Carl_G]

I've written applications using Eclipse platform. Its open source. Its backed by major players. I don't think its bloated. Its very componentized so an application builder simply doesn't include the parts they don't want.

The focus issue should be easily fixed by the developers.

[cjpeplin]

I've now installed 1.17.0 and the build analyzer seems to work correctly. There are some tricks. You need to select the .elf file that you want to analyze in the Project Explorer. Then click the refresh button in the Build Analyzer. 

[Carl_G]

You'll have to reselect it again each time. I think they are deleting and recreating the build folder. This breaks any notifications of change that they may have registered to retrigger the project selection. Needs a bit of work on that Eclipse plugin.

[Bugfarmer]

No matter whether I click the elf or the map. Refreshing the build Anal_yzer does nothing. This is with 1.17. It worked earlier on another project over the weekend but Monday morning it stopped. It wasn't cured by copious amount of swearing or coffee either.

[Carl_G]

Is the code for this plugin available?

[JCtib]

Hello,

 

does anybody know ow to select specific .elf to view in Build Analyzer? I have projcts with multiple elfs and dont know how to chage it to my lastr build. Thx

[Carl_G]

Id delete the other elfs. This plugin has issues with its selections.