System Workbench for STM32

ok, ive tried to do this according to ciprian and deutraveaux, I dont understand why this is so complicating to just blink an LED? I understand that copying files would be pretty simple, but so far ST on eclipse is pretty weird coming from an atmel environment.

deutraveaux,

please explain the following:

on point 4,
what do you mean that this project will be created closed?
what kind of files would I require as base requirements for a simple blinking project? what are the files that I should have in every project? at some point, I must do an RS 232 coms part, what files would I require for that kind of comms?

on point 5,

what is an external library project?
how do I configure? what do you mean by configure?

Ciprian,

thank you for your explanations, I appreciate it. please load your workspace folder anyway you feel comfortable, something that I can just paste on my C:/ drive and use as my workspace, if there are huge folders that I already have, then leave them out, I will copy them from my HAL zip files.

so far, if I import the SW4STM32 project folder into my workspace from the GPIO example in the repository in users/.../STM32... the project builds for the GPIO project, as for the UART project, if I try the same thing, I get the weirdest error, please check attached image.

there is a lot of information flying around in this post, I really am looking to just blink an LED and then go onto the next step, would it be alright for you guys to give me a step by step instruction that even illiterate people would understand (^^,)

thank you guys again for the assist