stm32-blue-pill-rust | Rust for STM32 Blue Pill with Visual Studio Code

For Ubuntu only: Install required packages (arm-none-eabi-gdb is obsolete).
For Ubuntu only: Install required packages (arm-none-eabi-gdb is obsolete) sudo apt install pkg-config cmake libssl-dev zlib1g-dev gdb-multiarch curl git sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gdb-multiarch /usr/bin/arm-none-eabi-gdb
For Windows: Install ARM Cross-Compiler and Linker from the ARM Developer Website: https://developer.arm.com/open-source/gnu-toolchain/gnu-rm/downloads Scroll down the page till you find Windows 32-bit File: gcc-arm-none-eabi-…-win32.exe Click Download Select the "Add path to environment variable" option at the last install step In Windows Explorer, browse to C:\Program Files (x86)\GNU Tools Arm Embedded\7 2018-q2-update\bin (The 7 2018-q2-update part may be different for your installation) Copy the file arm-none-eabi-ar.exe to ar.exe This ar.exe workaround is temporary until we find a fix for the Windows Rust build
For Ubuntu: sudo apt install binutils-arm-none-eabi gcc-arm-none-eabi
For Windows: Download OpenOCD (for debugging the Blue Pill) from the unofficial OpenOCD release website: https://github.com/gnu-mcu-eclipse/openocd/releases Look for gnu-mcu-eclipse-openocd-…-win64.zip Unzip the OpenOCD download and copy the OpenOCD files into c:\openocd such that opencd.exe is located in the folder c:\openocd\bin
For Ubuntu: sudo apt install openocd
Install rustup (the Rust toolchain installer) from https://rustup.rs/. If you see a message about Windows Defender SmartScreen,  click More Info and Run Anyway. Select the default installation option when prompted. For Ubuntu only: Log out and log in again to update the PATH.
Install rustup (the Rust toolchain installer) from https://rustup.rs/
If you see a message about Windows Defender SmartScreen,  click More Info and Run Anyway.
Select the default installation option when prompted. For Ubuntu only: Log out and log in again to update the PATH
Switch to the nightly Rust toolchain (instead of stable or beta). Open a new Windows or Ubuntu command prompt (not Windows Bash) and enter: rustup default nightly
Install the rust-std component thumbv7m-none-eabi to cross-compile for ARM Cortex-M3 (the processor used in the Blue Pill): rustup target add thumbv7m-none-eabi
Download the source files from GitHub: (You may install git from https://gitforwindows.org).
Download the source files from GitHub: (You may install git from https://gitforwindows.org) git clone https://github.com/lupyuen/stm32-blue-pill-rust.git cd stm32-blue-pill-rust
Install Visual Studio Code from https://code.visualstudio.com/download.
Install Visual Studio Code from https://code.visualstudio.com/download
Launch Visual Studio Code and install the following extensions (just click the links below followed by the Install button and Open Visual Studio Code): Better TOML (bungcip) https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=bungcip.better-toml C/C++ (Microsoft) https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode.cpptools Native Debug (WebFreak) https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=webfreak.debug Rust (kalitaalexey) https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=kalitaalexey.vscode-rust Rust (rls) (rust-lang) https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=rust-lang.rust
In Visual Studio Code, click Install when prompted to install the above extensions
Restart Visual Studio Code
Click File → Open Workspace
Browse to the stm32-blue-pill-rust folder and select workspace.code-workspace
In the Explorer → Workspace pane at left, browse to the source folder src and select the Rust source file main.rs
When prompted, install the Rust Language Service (RLS), which provides Autocomplete and "Go To Definition" features for Rust.