What are the stlink/nbproject files?

[gbulmer]

I discovered stlink a couple of days ago. Thank you very much, it is a
great piece of work. I am very pleased with the flash program and st-
util the gdbserver. This is a marvelous improvement over debugging by
flashing LEDs :-)

I am trying to find an Open Source IDE (something a bit simpler than
Eclipse) for development on the STM32 family.

I noticed the nbproject directory with the comment "Keep netbeans
happy". I got quite excited because NetBeans would be okay
development.

There is no README in that directory, so would someone please tell me
what those files are for?
Do they enable NetBeans to use st-util as a gdb server, or develop
stlink using NetBeans, or cause NetBeans to recognise arm-none-eabi-
gcc as a compiler, something else?

If someone gives me some pointers or hints, I think I should be able
to get it working, and maybe write up something.

[Karl P]

They are some project files for opening the stlink directory in netbeans. In
the examples directories, they can help open some of the examples too.

In my branch of the codebase, not yet merged, I've actually removed them,
they're a little bit of a private thing, rather than something that's easily shared.

however, if you want to use netbeans, just add the stlink source as an "existing
makefile based project"

You'll probably have to setup the compiler paths yourself though, it's not
something netbeans (at least up to v7) did very well.

With the most recent builds, and the gdbserver plugin for netbeans, I have done
source level debugging of my code using stlink's gdbserver and netbeans, which
is neat :)

Cheers,
Karl P