EBlink as a terminal?

[vdaniel]

It is certainly possible to make a fully functional terminal (command line interface) using just the STLink and EBMonitor, I do it all the time.
I documented how to do it on my blog: https://www.dalbert.net/?p=921

The only issue is that if you want to support *both* UART (for non-developer use) *and* EBMonitor (for developer use), you need to unhook _write() for your debug builds since EBMonitor must hook it to do its thing.  I add a define for USE_EBMONITOR to my Debug build options (Compiler Settings->#defines) and then wrap the _write() implementation for uart I/O in an #ifndef USE_EBMONITOR

I'll add some detail on this to my blog page soon, but maybe Gerard has a better idea for how to do this?

Hi, dalbert,

Thank you very much.
I know your post of 7 December 2020.  With your recommrndations I
successfully made a project and even a geheric embitz project, which I placed
in this forum.
But I need a possibility to redirect the EB monitor printf results to a file.
And maybe, it is possible to have a standalone monitor (not from embitz IDE).

vdaniel

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