Thank you

[Teivaz]

I found myself in an unplanned vacation for a month and decided to get back to my hobby. Bought stlink and a couple of their latest chips. Where it happened again. The lack of proper usable tools. I was really hoping that the embedded world would have that figured by now. I was wrong.
I got myself the STM Cube IDE thingy. Assembled circuit. Created basic program. Attached wires. Tried to connect. Fixed wiring. Finally connected.
Have to say that the configurator they have there is a really nice tool. But the code it generates is pure nightmare.
That day everything worked. Then as my setup went more complex the functionality started falling apart. First thing that broke - debugging. Ever since that day I was not able to attach debugger to my MCUs. The next thing that broke - STM Cube Programmer.
So there I was. Struggling with stm's IDE from hell. Day by day it was sucking all the happiness out of me. And then I stumbled upon your guide. Oh it was such a pleasure to read. I cannot thank you enough for breaking that down for me and every struggling developer.
I even went further and created similar project for my setup - https://github.com/Teivaz/cmake-stm32
Great job!

[kxygk]

Hey, thanks for writing that @Teivaz :)
I really appreciate it. It means a lot to me to hear it was useful

Trying to figure out the whole "stack" of tools and libraries took a long time but like you said it feels great when you understand the result end-to-end without the magic half broken tools in the middle

I've moved onto other projects before I really got a chance to use this setup - so I'm curious to see what you make on top of it! When I get a chance to do more with micros I'm going to look more closely at your improvements. That's cool you got it all hooked up and working with Visual Studio Code :)