Hello !
It seems like the binaries for the windows version of arm-linux-gnueabi and arm-linux-gnueabihf has been removed in gcc8. Have the support for windows been removed or will it appear ?
Hello Uban,Indeed, support for Windows hosted (mingw) arm-linux-gnueabi and arm-linux-gnueabihf has been removed from GCC 8 releases.
kind regardsPrzemyslaw Wirkus
Hi Przemyslaw Wirkus:Actually we don't use arm-linux-gnueabi and arm-linux-gnueabihf on Windows host to develop linux kernel and drivers, but we use them to develop Linux applications on Windows host, mainly our customers use them, because customers are not familiar with the manner of Linux development, customers focus on their domain such as industry. We provide windows SDK and they develop and debug code on windows with eclipse. So can you add back the arm-linux-gnueabi and arm-linux-gnueabihf for Windows host.
Thanks
I want to build the c-sdk on a windows host for raspberry pi (arm). I installed http://gnutoolchains.com/raspberry/ and updated the sysroot with an updated raspberry pi which had openssl ect installed. I was also able to build the c-sdk on a ubuntu-host which used the rpi-tools and toolchains provided by the raspberry pi. ctrentacar islamabadcar
HI all,
So the good news is that we are bringing back Windows hosted crosses for: arm-none-ilnux-gnueabhf and aarch64-none-linux-gnu targets for upcoming release of GCC 9 toolchain!
We should be releasing whole toolchain shortly.
kind regardsP. Wirkus
Hi Przemyslaw,
I have one question about it:
What is required in order to build it from source for Windows? I have been trying to compile the Linaro version 7.5 of GCC arm-linux-gnueabi (no hard float) with MSYS2 and MingW32 (kinda cross-compiling a cross compiler I think :D), performing the config step with similar arguments as of ones you get with gcc -v... without much success yet. I basically want to obtain the release version as downloaded from Linaro's or ARM's website... I just need to modify a compile flag in order to target armv6 due to hardware compatibility issues (ARM11 target). Any clues?
Thanks in advance
Guillermo Garcia M.
Hi Guillermo,
I understand that you want to build Windows hosted targeting arm-linux-gnueabi machine toolchain.
If you are planing to do this on x86_64 Linux (e.g. Ubuntu 16.04) then you will be doing Canadian cross compilation.
What you need for sure is "gcc-mingw-w64" Ubuntu package (sudo apt-get install gcc-mingw-w64). You may also need other things like: autoconf or libtool. We currently build Windows hosted toolchains on Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS machines. Build can be done with Linaro's ABE build system easily.
You can have a look at release note of e.g. latest toolchain:
https://developer.arm.com/tools-and-software/open-source-software/developer-tools/gnu-toolchain/gnu-a/downloads
where we explain how to build toolchain using ABE with example manifest files on Ubuntu hosted machines.
It goes something like this:
You can build GNU cross-toolchain for the A-profile from sources using Linaro ABE (Advanced Build Environment) and provided ABE manifest files.
Below example shows how to build gcc-arm-aarch64-linux-gnu toolchain from sources using Linaro ABE build system.
Clone ABE one of the URL below and checkout the stable branch (see Getting ABE):
$ git clone https://git.linaro.org/toolchain/abe.git
Create the build directory and change to it. Any name for the directory will work (see Building Toolchains With ABE):
$ mkdir build && cd build
Configure ABE (from the build directory):
$ ../abe/configure
And finally build toolchain (from the build directory):
$ ../abe/abe.sh --manifest gcc-arm-aarch64-linux-gnu-abe-manifest.txt --build all
PS: We do not build Windows hosted toolchains on Windows hosts so I'm unable to help you there.
kind regardsPrzemyslaw
This is very useful, thank you