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I am new to the realm of STM32 programming and have been trying to find a suitable IDE for quite a while now. I know of all the other IDE's like Keil and IAR but the cost of buying them just to learn is far to steep for me at this point in time.

I have started using VS Code for a growing amount of my development work and I though it would be a good IDE to use for STM32 development. I have found many examples online over the past few days on how to configure the IDE to build STM32 projects but they all seem to be missing important information that I need to properly get the project to compile. It is rather frustrating,

I was wondering if there is anyone that can point me to a complete setup guide on how to set up VS code to work with cubeMX and the arm tool-chain, or if you are feeling really kind, send me a sample project that I can use as a base learn from.

Just some background information, I know how to use cubeMX to generate the base project as well as the associated makefile, I also have the latest GNU-Tools-Arm-Embedded installed.

Thank you in advance for your help

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A while ago I had the same question, but did not find anything that I really liked. So I created STM32 for VSCode, it is an extension for VSCode which works with STM32CubeMX generated files and sets up building and debugging for you.