stm32-cmake VS stm32_programming

Check out stm32-cmake

My suggestion would be to use CMake. There is a great set of CMake tools for STM32 called stm32-cmake. You can use the STMCubeF1 package from GitHub, FreeRTOS from source (or from Cube which is also bundled with their GitHub source).

If your projects use different compilers or you need to compile with different architecture flags then CMake is a good option to manage this. This was an example I used when I first started with CMake and microcontroller developement. https://github.com/ObKo/stm32-cmake

I highly suggest https://github.com/ObKo/stm32-cmake Using cmake allows to build using cli commands. If you then onboard people later on, they still can work with their IDE thanks to cmake.

stm32 is really nice for getting into it. id steer clear of their IDE and probably use their code generator as a reference. Learn CMake and go with this https://github.com/ObKo/stm32-cmake

stm32-cmake, for when you don't want to touch STs IDE at all. https://github.com/ObKo/stm32-cmake

Have you seen stm32-cmake?

If you master a bit of cmake then https://github.com/ObKo/stm32-cmake will make you start very fast in vscode.

The first thing you want to do is to get a JTAG adapter (I use ft2232h based board) and familiarize yourself with openocd. I have a tutorial on setting up openocd with ARM based chip. Then, you should get familiar with linker scripts.

Here's a repo I've made for my students https://gitlab.com/matsievskiysv/stm32_programming/. In it I start with assembly, introduce C and linker scripts and finally write my own HAL. It uses stock gcc, gdb and openocd from debian repo.