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Open source version of the STMicroelectronics STLINK Tools

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Recent new features and bugfixes can be found in the Changelog of this software project.

License

The stlink library and tools are licensed under the BSD-3 License.

Introduction

stlink is an open source toolset to program and debug STM32 devices and boards manufactured by STMicroelectronics. It supports several so called STLINK programmer boards (and clones thereof) which use a microcontroller chip to translate commands from USB to JTAG/SWD. There are four generations available on the market which are all supported by this toolset:

On the user level there is no difference in handling or operation between these different revisions.

The STlink toolset includes:

Supported operating systems and hardware combinations

Currently known working MCU targets are listed in supported_devices.md.

A list of supported operating can be found in version_support.md.

Tutorial & HOWTO

Our tutorial may help you along with some advanced tasks and additional info.

Installation

Windows:

As of Release v1.6.1 stand-alone Windows binaries are made available (again) on the release page of the project. Please ensure to select the correct version for your system (i686 or x86_64). The archive file can be unzipped to any desired location as it does not contain any hardcoded paths. However we suggest to move the unzipped application folder to C:\Program Files\ on 32-bit systems and to C:\Program Files (x86)\ on 64-bit systems (the toolset is 32-bit).

Alternatively one may compile and install from source as described in our compiling manual.

Linux / Unix:

We recommend to install stlink-tools from the package repository of the used distribution:

Note: As packages distributed via the Debian and Ubuntu repositories differ from our self-maintained deb-package, we recommend to use the latter instead (see link below). It provides the opportunity to handle and fix user-reported package issues directly within the project and is not redundant to any limitations deriving from external maintenance guidelines.

macOS:

Support for macOS has been dropped with v1.8.0.

Please use v1.7.0 instead, but note that this version is no longer maintained and supported!

Installation from source (advanced users)

When there is no executable available for your platform or you need the latest (possible unstable) version you need to compile the toolset yourself. This procedure is explained in the compiling manual.

Contributing and versioning

Please also refer to our Contribution Guidelines.

User Reviews

I hope it's not to out of topic, but I've been so frustrated with AVR related things on OpenBSD, the fact that stlink built out of the box without needing to touch anything was so relieving. Literally made my whole weekend better! I take it's thanks to @Crest and also to the stlink-org team (@Nightwalker-87 and @xor-gate it seems) to have made a software that's not unfriendly to the "fringe" OSes. Thank you <3" - nbonfils, 11.12.2021