Linux

Update

This information applies to Linux users, using Maple mini boards, or anyone who has installed the new stm32duino bootloader onto any other board.

The repo now contains pre-compiled versions of dfu-util, so the instructions below should not be needed. However if you find an issue with the dfu-binaries, please refer to the details below about how to compile the dfu-util binaries.

DFU is the protcol / system used to upload sketches.

Install on Linux should now only require these additional steps

After copying the Arduino_STM32 files to ~/Arduino/hardware open the shell / terminal and cd to ~/Arduino/hardware/Arduino_STM32/tools/linux and run the

install.sh

script. (you will need to enter your admin password as this change needs admin rights as it copies the udev rules file). You may also need to add your user to the dialout group. i.e on some Linux distro's normal users are apart of the dialout group, ie users who can use modems and other serial devices; However this is not the case on all distro's and it appears that Linux Mint may not put regular users in the dialout group.

So, if the IDE appears not to be able to access the Serial port associated with the Maple mini (or generic board + stm32duino bootloader)... Please add your current user to the dialout group. This can be done by finding out your current user using the shell command

whoami

Then adding this user to the dialout group e.g.

sudo adduser my_user dialout

You may need to reboot after adding your user to the dialout group before it takes effect

For support please register and post to www.STM32duino.com

OLD DFU information for reference purposes only ___________________

DFU Util on most linux distro's won't work, possibly because its too old

You need to compile Version 0.8 from source

Here is are the instructions from @Ahull (on the Arduino forum) to download, build and install dfu-util

"I created a folder to work in. In my case this is a subfolder of my "Sandbox" folder where I tend to put stuff I need to compile and play with, and that is what I will use for this example, but you can use pretty much any folder. Change to your working folder with something like.."

cd ~/Sandbox

Next, clone the git repo, note the instruction for this on the http://dfu-util.sourceforge.net/build.html page is incorrect, the correct command is below.

git clone https://gitorious.org/dfu-util/dfu-util.git

fatal: repository 'https://gitorious.org/dfu-util/dfu-util.git/' not found

This repo shutdown at the end of May and has migrated to https://archive.org/ as of 2100BST it's to be found as

https://web.archive.org/web/20150331161734/https://gitorious.org/dfu-util suggeested action is to use 'mirror'

git clone http://git.code.sf.net/p/dfu-util/dfu-util dfu-util-dfu-util

You should see something like this..

Cloning into 'dfu-util'... remote: Counting objects: 1858, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (892/892), done. remote: Total 1858 (delta 1347), reused 1316 (delta 959) Receiving objects: 100% (1858/1858), 386.64 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (1347/1347), done. Checking connectivity... done.

This will have cloned the git repo in to a subfolder of the current folder, called dfu-util

Next install the required packages to compile...

sudo apt-get build-dep dfu-util

followed by

sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0-0-dev

If not already installed you will also need autoconf automake autotools-dev
so ...

sudo apt-get install autoconf automake autotools-dev

now cd to the new dfu-util folder

cd dfu-util

run the autogen.sh script

./autogen.sh

... output will be something like

autoreconf: Entering directory .' autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext autoreconf: running: aclocal autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing autoreconf: configure.ac: creating directory m4 autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoheader autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --no-force configure.ac:14: installing 'm4/compile' configure.ac:7: installing 'm4/install-sh' configure.ac:7: installing 'm4/missing' src/Makefile.am: installing 'm4/depcomp' autoreconf: Leaving directory .'

next configure the build

./configure

then make

make

(or perhaps sudo make, depending on how your system is configured).

now if all went well, if you look in the src folder you will see ...

dfu.c dfu_file.o dfu_load.h dfu-prefix dfuse_mem.c dfuse.o dfu_util.c main.c Makefile.am prefix.c quirks.h suffix.o dfu_file.c dfu.h dfu_load.o dfuse.c dfuse_mem.h dfu-suffix dfu_util.h main.o Makefile.in prefix.o quirks.o usb_dfu.h dfu_file.h dfu_load.c dfu.o dfuse.h dfuse_mem.o dfu-util dfu_util.o Makefile portable.h quirks.c suffix.c

We need to copy dfu-util dfu-suffix and dfu-prefix to the location of the current dfu-util

which dfu-util

will give you the current location

which dfu-util /usr/bin/dfu-util

.. so

sudo cp src/dfu-util /usr/bin/dfu-util sudo cp src/dfu-suffix /usr/bin/dfu-suffix sudo cp src/dfu-prefix /usr/bin/dfu-prefix

.. should do the trick.

now if you run

dfu-util -v

you should see..

dfu-util -v dfu-util 0.8

Copyright 2005-2009 Weston Schmidt, Harald Welte and OpenMoko Inc. Copyright 2010-2014 Tormod Volden and Stefan Schmidt ... .. and you are good to go.