cargo-flash | probe-rs (original) (raw)

cargo-flash is a cargo extension and drop in replacement for cargo run.

Installation

cargo-flash is installed as part of the probe-rs group of tools, see theInstallation page.

Usage

You can use cargo-flash just like ‘cargo run’, but instead of running on the host,cargo-flash will download your binary to the target and run.

Here are the basics

cargo-flash is installed as part of the probe-rs group of tools, see theInstallation page.

Terminal window

# In your cargo project directory, call

cargo flash --release --chip <chip_name>

# Don't know if your target is supported

# by cargo flash and what it's name is?

probe-rs chip list

# You can run your examples as usual with

cargo flash --example <your_example>

# Specifying manually what options should be used

cargo flash --release --chip nRF52840_xxAA --target thumbv6m-none-eabi --example gpio_hal_blinky

# Using a custom chip definition from a non-builtin file

cargo flash --release --chip-description-path nRF52840_xxAA.yaml --target thumbv6m-none-eabi --example gpio_hal_blinky

Any config flags that are accepted by ‘cargo run’ are accepted by cargo-flash too. If not, hit us with an issue.

Happy coding!