LVGL implementation into STM32 project - multiple errors - have I done the conf correctly?

arturv2000 · March 4, 2026, 11:09am

This is what i usually do, to use LVGL in an STM32 project (not using STM32CubeIDE but is using vanilla Eclipse with https://eclipse-embed-cdt.github.io/. Transitioning to VsCode “CMake” at the moment…

Create a Folder named lvgl and a subfolder named lvgl.
Copy the lv_conf_template.h to the root of the first lvgl folder and rename to lv_conf.h
- lv_conf.h needs to be on subfolder where lvgl source is located…
Change the #if in line 15 to 1 to enable the configuration, and adjust the rest as needed based on hardware / Display
Inside the Subdirectory lvgl, for my uses cases i just use the src folder and the *.h files on LVGL source root, but you can have the rest, just delete the tests and docs folders to reduce “garbage” not required and avoid extra c files to be parsed/compiled by the compiler, or exclude those extra folders from the IDE directly.
No “prepocessors” directives are required to be added
Just need to add two include directories to compiler
After that just use #include "lvgl.h" in the source code where we want to use.
My folder structure on the PC looks like this: