Using Kiel for STM32F446 - trying to avoid CUBE

[pdd_1234]

Hello,

I have the very excellent book "STM32 Arm Programming for Embedded Systems" by Mazidi, Chen, Ghaemi.  It is from 2017.  The book uses Keil, which I am very happy to use, and it has very nicely written code which I fully understand (so nicely written!).

I am having trouble getting a project going in Keil because in the book when you make selections in 'Manage Run-Time Environment' during the project set up is says to tick 'System Startup for STMicroelectronics STM32F4 Series', but in my version of Kiel, it says something like 'use Cube IDE/MX' and no option to use 'System Startup for STMicroelectronics STM32F4 Series'.

Could someone help with this? I do NOT want to use Cube IDE etc. all that software its horrible.

Thank you in advance!

[mbarg.1]

Why do you not ask Keil? I suppose you paid for that ...

[pdd_1234]

No, I'm just studying. 

[mbarg.1]

Probably you have to study a little more or better before asserting some code is horrible ...

There are many people that confuse something horrible with something beyond their intellectual capability ..

[TDK]

Why is it horrible?

[ahsrabrifat]

You can get CMSIS and Startup Files from ST's GitHub

• Visit: https://github.com/STMicroelectronics/cmsis_device_f4

• Clone or download the ZIP.

• Find:

  • startup_stm32f4xx.s in /Source/Templates/gcc or /Source/Templates/arm

  • system_stm32f4xx.c in /Source/Templates

[pdd_1234]

The correct solution for this issue is to rollback the version of Keil/MDK to the version which does not integrate Cube MX automatically and instead uses the "start up" option.

This way you can avoid Cube MX and just use a simple #include stmxxxx.h and use clean, simple, bare metal code (albeit with CMSIS).