Windows version of arm-linux-gnueabi and arm-linux-gnueabihf for gcc8

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 regards
P. Wirkus

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 regards
P. 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:

How to build the toolchain from sources

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.

Instructions

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 regards
Przemyslaw

This is very useful, thank you