Compiling the tools

stm8gal

Project repository: https://github.com/gicking/stm8gal

git clone git@github.com:gicking/stm8gal.git

For Linux

cd stm8gal
make
cp -av stm8gal /usr/local/bin

For Linux 32 bit on a 64 bit Linux system

Required packages:

apt install gcc-multilib libusb-1.0-0-dev:i386

Compiling stm8gal requires a small modification in the Makefile. For CFLAGS and LDFLAGS change the = operator to += to allow for additional parameters on the command line:

cd stm8gal
sed -i '/FLAGS/ s/ = / += /' Makefile

Now start the compiler:

CFLAGS=-m32 LDFLAGS=-m32 make

For Windows

Windows does not support an SPI device. Apply this patch to disable the compilation of spi_spidev_comm.c for Windows:

patch -p1 < no-spi.patch

Now compile:

• on a Windows system: make
• using mingw on Linux: make CC=i686-w64-mingw32-gcc OS=Win

stm8flash

Project repository: https://github.com/vdudouyt/stm8flash

Compiling for Linux and OSX is straight forward, Windows is more complicated.

For Linux

Required packages:

apt install libusb-1.0-0-dev

Compiling stm8flash:

git clone git@github.com:vdudouyt/stm8flash.git
cd stm8flash
make RELEASE=yes

For Linux 32 bit on a 64 bit Linux system

Required packages:

apt install gcc-multilib libusb-1.0-0-dev:i386

Compiling stm8flash:

git clone git@github.com:vdudouyt/stm8flash.git
cd stm8flash
make RELEASE=yes CFLAGS=-m32

Cross-Compiling for windows on a Linux system

Current versions of stm8flash support the espstlink programmer. The programmer is conneced via USB and a virtual serial port, not over Wifi and for serial access the termios library is used. Being a POSIX function, this is not supported by mingw, only by cygwin. As a workaround apply this patch to disable the espstlink functionality on Windows systems:

patch -p1 < no-espstlink-10810e88.patch

Obviously, a better approach would be the use of a simple intermediate cross-platform layer like libserialport.

Required packages:

apt install mingw-w64 mingw-w64-tools

Get stm8flash and patch the sources to cut out espstlink code:

git clone git@github.com:vdudouyt/stm8flash.git
cd stm8flash
wget https://tenbaht.github.io/sduino/img/no-espstlink-10810e88.patch

Download the 7z file containing the latest libusb dll binary. Unpack the archive into a new directory inside the stm8flash directory:

7z -owindows x <libusb-xxx.7z>

Compiling stm8flash (as 32 bit binary for XP compatibility):

make CC=i686-w64-mingw32-gcc RELEASE=yes CFLAGS="-Iwindows/include -Lwindows/MinGW32/dll" PLATFORM=w7

For Windows on a Windows system

https://github.com/orlp/dev-on-windows/wiki/Installing-GCC--&-MSYS2

• Open msys window, execute pacman -Syuu, close window.
• repeat the before step until no more updates are found.
• do eigther the full install (700MB): pacman -S --needed base-devel mingw-w64-i686-toolchain
• or the reduced install (350MB): pacman -S --needed mingw-w64-i686-toolchain make grep sed pkg-config

• minimum install (150MB): pacman -S --needed mingw-w64-i686-binutils mingw-w64-i686-crt-git mingw-w64-i686-gcc mingw-w64-i686-gcc-libs mingw-w64-i686-headers-git mingw-w64-i686-libmangle-git mingw-w64-i686-libwinpthread-git mingw-w64-i686-make mingw-w64-i686-pkg-config mingw-w64-i686-tools-git mingw-w64-i686-winpthreads-git mingw-w64-i686-winstorecompat-git

• copy libusb-1.0/libusb.h and libusb.dll into current directory

• make RELEASE=yes CFLAGS="-I. -L."

For Mac OSX

stm8flash

Required packages (libusb pulls in gcc if not already installed):

brew install libusb pkg-config

Change into the stm8flash source directory and change the #include "libusb.h" to "#include "libusb-1.0/libusb.h"` (same as for Windows). Now it compiles:

    make RELEASE=yes

stm8gal

No SPI support, so compiling is similar to Windows and the same modification of the Makefile is necessary: Remove spi_spidev_comm.c from the list of source files in SOURCES in the Makefile.

Now we can compile, but we need to convince the Makefile not to set the USE_SPIDEV define. An easy workaround to do so is to fool the Makefile into assuming a Windows build:

make OS=Win