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3 STVD7
STVD7 is an integrated development environment that allows you to edit, debug
and rebuild your application all from within STVD7.
The following sections tell you:
•
Section 3.1
—how to install the STVD7 software,
•
Section 3.2
—how to launch STVD7,
•
Section 3.3
—a little about STVD7’s debugging features,
• Section 3.4 —what a workspace is,
• Section 3.5 —what toolchains and executable files are supported by STVD7,
• Section 3.6 —how to create a STVD7 workspace,
• Section 3.7 —how to open existing workspaces,
• Section 3.8 —how to open binary files,
•
Section 3.10
—how to change your project settings,
•
Section 3.11
—how to save workspaces,
•
Section 3.12
—how to switch from the build context to the debug context,
• Section 3.13 —how to configure the target MCU in order to debug more
accurately and efficiently.
3.1 Installing STVD7
Your emulator comes with the “MCU on CD” CD-ROM which contains a number of
ST7 software tools. These tools run under the Windows
®
95, 98, 2000, Millenium
and Windows
®
NT
®
operating systems.
Note:
To install the software on “ MCU on CD ”, Windows
®
2000 and NT
®
users must have
administrator privileges.
To install and setup the ST7 software tools, follow these steps:
1 Close all other open applications on your Windows desktop.
2 Insert the “MCU on CD” into your CD-ROM drive. The CD-ROM’s autorun
feature will open up a welcome screen on your PC. If the autorun feature does
not work, use Windows
®
Explorer to browse to the CD-ROM’ s root folder, and
double-click on
Welcome.exe
.
3 Select Install Your Development Tools from the list of options. A new screen
will appear listing the different families of STMicroelectronics MCUs.
4 Use your mouse to place the cursor over the
ST7 Tools option. Choose
ST Tools, then ST7 Toolchain from the lists that appear.
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