STM32F4 Discovery simple, minimal toolchain on Mac OS X

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I'm in the process of learning to program the STM32F4 on a discovery board. It has been frustrating to get a toolchain going to say the least. I have the necessary utilities to program and debug the board (st-link, arm-none-eabi), have established communication with the board, and loaded the blinky example.

First of all, I have a Mac and I already know that limits me as far as support goes. Mbed also doesn't support this board very well. All I want is to get the bare minimum source files I need and learn to program this board from scratch. By that I mean I'd like to download the STM cube firmware files and extract the minimum source files I need to access all the different parts of the chip and board (registers, pins, etc.). Is this possible?

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Look for STM32CubeF4 on the ST website, that's a plain zip file with the CMSIS and HAL libraries, board support drivers, and tons of examples.

But check out the latest version of STM32CubeMX too, it has recently got a multiplatform installer that's supposed to work on a Mac.

Supported operating systems and architectures

 * Windows(R) XP: 32-bit (x86)
 * Windows(R) 7: 32-bit (x86), 64-bit (x64)
 * Windows(R) 8: 32-bit (x86), 64-bit (x64)
 * Linux: 64-bit (x64) (tested on RedHat, Ubuntu and Fedora)
 * Mac OS X Yosemite or newer

Software requirements

Java Run Time Environment (minimum version 1.7.0_45)