No Starch Press Bare Metal C: Embedded Programming for the Real World

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Interested in getting this to work on Windows? Well, you are going to need to install three things that suck:- STM32, the main development component, which you will have to obtain from a poorly-maintained, slow-to-the-point-of-broken, website that looks like it was thrown together in 1997.- MinGW, where the current 64-bit installer looks like it's being flagged for containing malware- MSYS2Maybe this is better on Linux, where gcc is easy to obtain, but that still leaves you with STM32.I really want to like this book, but my patience with getting a dev environment up and running is wearing thin. If you buy an Arduino starter kit you can run your first program 15 minutes after you open the box. Why put up with this nonsense?

Even the installation of the fringe group software is difficult, since the registration process turns out to be a, öhm, non-functioning 90s homepage with excessive use of Java Script. Why should you use the manufacturer's free software? The use of a HAL also contradicts the title. It's a good example of how you can go wrong for 50 years without realizing it, but only in the USA can you make money out of it. Normally NoStarch's books are of better quality and it is to be hoped that this book was just a blip. Otherwise, my good impression of this publisher suffers in the long term.

Not bare-metal at all. Most code examples are plain old C, with no hardware involved. The few hardware-related code examples use a hardware abstraction layer, obfuscating away the actual bare metal hardware details the book is supposedly written for. Misleading book title. Money wasted buying the book and the recommended hardware.