General Project Update

- Updated build script for Windows
- [doc] Updated documentation on:
--> compile instructions
--> release preparation steps
--> list of supported devices
--> OS version support status

Author: Nightwalker-87

doc/compiling.md

@@ -16,35 +16,14 @@ On Windows users should ensure that the following software is installed:
 1. Install `git` from <https://git-scm.com/download/win>
 2. Install `cmake` from <https://cmake.org/download><br />
    Ensure that you add cmake to the $PATH system variable when following the instructions by the setup assistant.
-3. Install
-
-   - _EITHER_: Download **MinGW-w64** from <hhttp://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%20targetting%20Win64/Personal%20Builds/mingw-builds/8.1.0/threads-win32/sjlj/x86_64-8.1.0-release-win32-sjlj-rt_v6-rev0.7z>. Extract content to `C:\mingw-w64\` and add `C:\mingw-w64\bin\` to PATH-Variable.<br />
-   - _OR_: **MSVC toolchain** from Visual Studio Build Tools 2019
+3. Install MinGW-w64<br />
+   Download **MinGW-w64** from <https://github.com/niXman/mingw-builds-binaries/releases/download/13.2.0-rt_v11-rev1/x86_64-13.2.0-release-win32-seh-msvcrt-rt_v11-rev1.7z>. Extract content to `C:\mingw-w64\` and add `C:\mingw-w64\bin\` to PATH-Variable.<br />
 
 4. Create a new destination folder at a place of your choice
 5. Open the command-line (cmd.exe) and execute `cd C:\$Path-to-your-destination-folder$\`
 6. Fetch the project sourcefiles by running `git clone https://github.com/stlink-org/stlink.git`from the command-line (cmd.exe)<br />
    or download and extract the stlink zip-sourcefolder from the Release page on GitHub.
 
-#### MSVC toolchain - minimal installation
-
-Visual Studio IDE is not necessary, only Windows SDK & build tools are required (~3,3GB).
-
-1. Open <https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/>
-2. Navigate through menus as follows (might change overtime)
-
-   `All downloads > Tools for Visual Studio 2019 > Build Tools for Visual Studio 2019 > Download`
-
-3. Start downloaded executable. After Visual Studio Installer bootstraps and main window pops up, open `Individual Components` tab, and pick
-
-- latest build tools (eg. `MSVC v142 - VS 2019 C++ x64/x86 build tools (v14.25)`)
-- latest Windows SDK (eg. `Windows 10 SDK (10.0.18362.0)`)
-
-4. After installation finishes, you can press `Launch` button in Visual Studio Installer's main menu.
-   - Thus you can open `Developer Command Prompt for VS 2019`. It is `cmd.exe` instance with adjusted PATHs including eg. `msbuild`.
-   - Alternatively, you can use `Developer Powershell for VS 2019` which is the same thing for `powershell.exe`. Both are available from Start menu.
-   - Another option is to add `msbuild` to PATH manually. Its location should be `C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\BuildTools\MSBuild\Current\Bin`. Then, it should be available from any `powershell.exe` or `cmd.exe` session.
-
 ### Building
 
 #### MinGW-w64
@@ -58,19 +37,6 @@ Per default the build script (currently) uses `C:\mingw-w64\x86_64-8.1.0-release
 When installing different toolchains make sure to update the path in the `mingw64-build.bat`.<br />
 This can be achieved by opening the .bat file with a common text editor.
 
-#### MSVC toolchain
-
-1. In a command prompt, change the directory to the folder where the stlink files were cloned (or unzipped) to.
-2. Make sure the build folder exists (`mkdir build` if not).
-3. From the build folder, run cmake (`cd build; cmake ..`).
-
-This will create a solution file `stlink.sln` in the build folder.
-Now, you can build whole `stlink` suite using following command:
-
-```
-msbuild /m /p:Configuration=Release stlink.sln
-```
-
 Options:
 
 - `/m` - compilation runs in parallel utilizing multiple cores

doc/release.md

@@ -3,12 +3,12 @@ Release
 
 This document describes the necessary steps for developers to create a release:
 
-1. Update `CHANGELOG.md`, `cmake/packaging/deb/changelog` & `cmake/packaging/rpm/changelog`
+1. Update changelog (`CHANGELOG.md`, `cmake/packaging/deb/changelog` & `cmake/packaging/rpm/changelog`)
 2. Update `.version` with semantic version: `x.x.x`
 3. Update `README.md` with semantic version `x.x.x` in commits badge
-4. Merge `develop` into `master`
-5. Create and push git tag and commits `git tag x.x.x`
-6. Create binary packages (.rpm / .deb / .zip) with `make package && sh ./cmake/packaging/windows/generate_binaries.sh`
-7. Upload packages to the [release page](https://github.com/stlink-org/stlink/releases) of this project
-8. Merge `master` into `develop`
-9. Update GitHub security policy (/SECURITY.md)
+4. Update GitHub security policy (`SECURITY.md`)
+5. Merge `develop` into `master`
+6. Create and push git tag and commits `git tag x.x.x`
+7. Create binary packages (.rpm / .deb / .zip) with `make package && sh ./cmake/packaging/windows/generate_binaries.sh`
+8. Upload packages to the [release page](https://github.com/stlink-org/stlink/releases) of this project
+9. Merge `master` into `develop`

doc/supported_devices.md

@@ -30,10 +30,13 @@ More commonly these are:
 | STM32F4        | M4F             |                                                            |
 | STM32G4        | M4F             |                                                            |
 | STM32L4        | M4F             |                                                            |
-| STM32F7        | M4F             |                                                            |
-| STM32H7        | M4F             |                                                            |
+| STM32F7        | M7F             |                                                            |
+| STM32H7        | M7F             |                                                            |
 | STM32WB        | M4F             |                                                            |
 | STM32WL        | M4              |                                                            |
+| STM32L5        | M33             |                                                            |
+| STM32H5        | M33             |                                                            |
+| STM32U5        | M33             |                                                            |
 
 
 # Chinese Clone-Chips [may work, but without support!]

doc/version_support.md

@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ Other Linux-/Unix-based Operating Systems:
 | Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal) | 1.0.23                         | 3.**16.3** | 3.24.**18** | May 2025               |
 |                          |                                |            |             |                        |
 | FreeBSD 13.x             | 1.0.**16-18** (API 0x01000102) | 3.22.1     | 3.24.31     |                        |
-| FreeBSD 12.x             | 1.0.**16-18** (API 0x01000102) | 3.22.1     | 3.24.31     | Dec 2023               |
 |                          |                                |            |             |                        |
 | NetBSD 9.x               | 1.0.24                         | 3.21.2     | 3.24.30     |                        |
 | NetBSD 8.x               | 1.0.24                         | 3.**19.7** | 3.24.27     |                        |
@@ -60,6 +59,7 @@ Systems with highlighted versions remain compatible with this toolset.
 
 | Operating System                         | libusb                         | cmake      | End of<br />OS-Support |
 | ---------------------------------------- | ------------------------------ | ---------- | ---------------------- |
+| FreeBSD 12.x                             | 1.0.**16-18** (API 0x01000102) | 3.**22.1** | Dec 2023               |
 | Alpine 3.15                              | 1.0.**24**                     | 3.**21.3** | Nov 2023               |
 | Fedora 35 [x64]                          | 1.0.**24**                     | 3.**21.3** | Dec 2022               |
 | Alpine 3.14                              | 1.0.**24**                     | 3.**20.3** | May 2023               |

mingw64-build.bat

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 mkdir build-mingw
 cd build-mingw
-set PATH=C:\Program Files (x86)\CMake\bin;C:\Program Files\CMake\bin;C:\mingw-w64\x86_64-8.1.0-win32-sjlj-rt_v6-rev0\mingw64\bin;%PATH%
+set PATH=C:\Program Files\CMake\bin;C:\mingw-w64\x86_64-13.2.0-release-win32-seh-msvcrt-rt_v11-rev1\mingw64\bin;%PATH%
 cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" ..
 mingw32-make
 mingw32-make install