Yes, the licensing of the ST library is part of the problem.

In the long run it would be good to move away from that.

I have used the OpenCM3 library for basic stuff, but not DSP.

Don

On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 01:55:14PM -0500, Steve wrote:
> There was an earlier discussion. The problem is, the library is not
> open source. It is free of royalty, but you now have to register to
> download it. Thus, the theory is, that anyone who wants to create an
> STM product, should use the STM software after registering, and as far
> as I read, they don't allow publishing their library.
> 
> By the way, the library is now deprecated, as they have a new system.
> However, Codec2 is no where near compatible with the new library.
> 
> I also believe the Makefile is now obsolete, and we should be using
> the cmake build. I have not gone with that in my testing, but I will
> have to port the Makefile to cmake when the code matures, and the
> sm700d is merged.
> 
> Steve
> 
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 12:53 PM Don <don_li...@db-reid.com> wrote:
> >
> > The stm32/Makefile has rules to download and extract the ST provided
> > library for STM32F4.  The location specified
> >
> >     http://www.st.com/resource/en/firmware/stm32f4_dsp_stdperiph_lib.zip
> >
> > does not work for me.  However it was easy to find the file and get it.
> > Now I have to have a hacked Makefile that comments this stuff out.  That
> > makes it awkward to make other changes and get them checked in.
> >
> > Downloading this library is a one-time thing when you start working on
> > this code.  In fact I don't think you want to get a new version if it
> > ever appears unless you are ready for it.  So this does not need to be
> > in the Makefile.
> >
> > What I'd like to do is to put instructions for downloading the library
> > into the README file and take this part out of the Makefile.  I'll also
> > have the Makefile use an ENV value for the location if set, otherwise
> > use the default location from the README.
> >
> > Does that work for people??
> >
> > Don Reid
> >
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