Building From Source

FlashFloppy can be built from source either manually in a suitable Linux environment, or using a pre-built Docker image.

Manual Method

This project is cross-compiled on an x86 Ubuntu Linux system. However other similar Linux-base systems (or a Linux virtual environment on another OS) can likely be made to work quite easily.

The Ubuntu package prerequisites include:

• git
• gcc-arm-none-eabi
• python-pip
• srecord
• stm32flash
• zip, unzip
• wget

If the stm32flash package is unavailable on your system then it must be downloaded from Sourceforge and built locally.

The Python library prerequisites include:

• crcmod
• intelhex

To install the prerequisites on Ubuntu:

 # sudo apt install git gcc-arm-none-eabi python-pip srecord stm32flash zip unzip wget
 # pip install --user crcmod intelhex

To build the FlashFloppy firmware:

 # git clone https://github.com/keirf/FlashFloppy.git
 # cd FlashFloppy
 # make dist

Docker

Urban Jonnson has uploaded a Docker image which will create the FlashFloppy distribution zip file from the following command line:

 # docker run -v $(pwd):/output --rm -ti planeturban/docker-flashfloppy