Understanding The Codebase

[robotgoat]

Hi, I stumbled across your project while trying to look for ways to start programming an old STM32F411 flight controller for an airplane I have being unused.

This is an awesome project and I really like how you support a wide array of hardware. I read through your documentation and understand your project structure, but am still having some trouble seeing how it all fits together with PlatformIO and cmake for STM32. Is the main entry point for the program madflight.h in the src directory or is it the main.cpp files in the examples? How are the libraries being used and how would I add a new library to use the OSD chip on my commercial flight controller?

Sorry for the barrage of stupid questions. I'm new to flight controller and STM32 programming and would like to use this project to learn how it all works. Thanks again for putting this out for everyone to use!

[qqqlab]

Thanks for trying out madflight!

madflight it is a collection of code modules from which you can pick and choose to build a flight controllers. The examples are there to show some possibilities. The madflight.h header is the glue between the examples and the modules. Have a look at https://madflight.com/Developer-Guide/ for some additional info on how the code works.