Building to WeAct Blackpill STM32 F411CE Board

yoben2q2q · September 19, 2023, 7:32pm

Hello,
I am kind of new to this platform, let me know if I have to change the location of this post.
I am currently trying a few STM32 boards and I want to migrate from Arduino IDE to VSC + Platformio.
My current problem is with the mentioned Blackpill board. It work for a while on multiple projects but suddenly I started getting this error when trying to compile.

Compiling .pio\build\blackpill_f411ce\FrameworkArduino\wiring_digital.c.o
Compiling .pio\build\blackpill_f411ce\FrameworkArduino\wiring_pulse.cpp.o
Compiling .pio\build\blackpill_f411ce\FrameworkArduino\wiring_shift.c.o
Compiling .pio\build\blackpill_f411ce\FrameworkArduino\wiring_time.c.o
Archiving .pio\build\blackpill_f411ce\libFrameworkArduino.a
Linking .pio\build\blackpill_f411ce\firmware.elf
arm-none-eabi-g++: error: F411CE: No such file or directory
arm-none-eabi-g++: error: Portenta: No such file or directory
arm-none-eabi-g++: error: Build/.pio/build/blackpill_f411ce/firmware.map: No such file or directory
*** [.pio\build\blackpill_f411ce\firmware.elf] Error 1

This is my platformio.ini file:

[env:blackpill_f411ce]
platform = ststm32
board = blackpill_f411ce
framework = arduino
board_build.core = stm32

What I have tried:

Reinstalling the platformio extension -no luck
Trying with a new blank project, nothing added, just tried to compile - no luck
Trying with another blackpill board - no luck
Trying on another PC - no luck
Trying with other stm32 board - Arduino Portenta, everything works fine on the H7 core

Thank you in advance!

maxgerhardt · September 20, 2023, 9:38am

This is a bug in the builder script if the project path contains spaces. Already reported + fixed in

github.com/platformio/platform-ststm32

framework-arduinoststm32 spaces-in-path error

opened 11:17AM - 11 Sep 23 UTC

closed 10:56AM - 19 Sep 23 UTC

thijses

just a quick one: in version [4.20500.230714](https://registry.platformio.org/t…ools/platformio/framework-arduinoststm32?version=4.20500.230714) of the [framework-arduinoststm32](https://registry.platformio.org/tools/platformio/framework-arduinoststm32/versions) the platformio-build.py includes the line: "-Wl,-Map=$BUILD_DIR/firmware.map" which uses the BUILD_DIR path (absolute) without adding quotation marks. Unfortunately, my windows user path includes spaces. I fixed the compiler error (which complained about not being able to find the firmware.map) by just adding quotation marks, OR just commenting out this line entirely (like the [github source](https://github.com/stm32duino/Arduino_Core_STM32) does). Also, where can i find the actual source changelog for the platformIO versions, as they differ from the github releases is a few interesting ways (like using "-std=gnu17" and "-std=gnu++17" instead of "-std=gnu11" and "-std=gnu++14")? (Note: was redirected to here from: [the platformIO forum](https://community.platformio.org/t/framework-arduinoststm32-spaces-in-path-error/35680) )

in 1c5bffe7879697cd7274a51f3035cb2d9c8929c4.

Since a new stable version is not released yet, you have to point the platform to the at least fixed commit or later, i.e., use the platformio.ini

[env:blackpill_f411ce]
platform = https://github.com/platformio/platform-ststm32.git#237956571a140374dada64008d63628788ab6e3b
board = blackpill_f411ce
framework = arduino
board_build.core = stm32

The alternative is to comment out the wrong line in

C:\Users\<user>\.platformio\packages\framework-arduinoststm32\tools\platformio\platformio-build.py

yoben2q2q · September 24, 2023, 9:29am

Thank you for the fast reply, while commenting the wrong line in the .py file didnt work, I just moved the project to a folder without spaces in the name and everything works as expected