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xPack GNU AArch64 Embedded GCC v12.3.1-1.1 released |
Version **12.3.1-1.1** is a new release; it follows the upstream Arm release. |
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July 28, 2023 |
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2023-08-21 17:09:03 +0300 |
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The xPack GNU AArch64 Embedded GCC is a standalone cross-platform binary distribution of Arm GNU Toolchain.
There are separate binaries for Windows (Intel 64-bit), macOS (Intel 64-bit, Apple Silicon 64-bit) and GNU/Linux (Intel 64-bit, Arm 32/64-bit).
{% include note.html content="The main targets for the Arm binaries are the Raspberry Pi class devices (armv7l and aarch64; armv6 is not supported)." %}
The binary files are available from GitHub [Releases]({{ page.download_url }}).
- GNU/Linux Intel 64-bit: any system with GLIBC 2.27 or higher (like Ubuntu 18 or later, Debian 10 or later, RedHat 8 later, Fedora 29 or later, etc)
- GNU/Linux Arm 32/64-bit: any system with GLIBC 2.27 or higher (like Raspberry Pi OS, Ubuntu 18 or later, Debian 10 or later, RedHat 8 later, Fedora 29 or later, etc)
- Intel Windows 64-bit: Windows 7 with the Universal C Runtime (UCRT), Windows 8, Windows 10
- Intel macOS 64-bit: 10.13 or later
- Apple Silicon macOS 64-bit: 11.6 or later
The full details of installing the xPack GNU AArch64 Embedded GCC on various platforms are presented in the separate [Install]({{ site.baseurl }}/dev-tools/aarch64-none-elf-gcc/install/) page.
The easiest way to install Arm Embedded GCC is with
[xpm
]({{ site.baseurl }}/xpm/)
by using the binary xPack, available as
@xpack-dev-tools/aarch64-none-elf-gcc
from the npmjs.com
registry.
With the xpm
tool available, installing
the latest version of the package and adding it as
a development dependency for a project is quite easy:
cd my-project
xpm init # Add a package.json if not already present
xpm install @xpack-dev-tools/aarch64-none-elf-gcc@latest --verbose
ls -l xpacks/.bin
To install this specific version, use:
xpm install @xpack-dev-tools/aarch64-none-elf-gcc@{{ page.version }}.{{ page.npm_subversion }} --verbose
For xPacks aware tools, like the Eclipse Embedded C/C++ plug-ins, it is also possible to install Arm Embedded GCC globally, in the user home folder.
xpm install --global @xpack-dev-tools/aarch64-none-elf-gcc@latest --verbose
Eclipse will automatically
identify binaries installed with
xpm
and provide a convenient method to manage paths.
To remove the links created by xpm in the current project:
cd my-project
xpm uninstall @xpack-dev-tools/aarch64-none-elf-gcc
To completely remove the package from the central xPack store:
xpm uninstall --global @xpack-dev-tools/aarch64-none-elf-gcc
The xPack GNU AArch64 Embedded GCC generally follows the official Arm GNU Toolchain releases.
The current version is based on:
- Arm GNU Toolchain
release {{ page.arm_version }} from {{ page.arm_date }}
and uses the same sources. It includes:
- GCC {{ page.gcc_version }}
- binutils {{ page.binutils_version }}
- newlib {{ page.newlib_version }}
- GDB {{ page.gdb_version }}
The supported libraries are:
$ aarch64-none-elf-gcc -print-multi-lib
.;
ilp32;@mabi=ilp32
Compared to the Arm version, there should be no functional changes.
Some advanced GDB servers, like the one provided with SEGGER J-Link, are capable of passing an XML with the target capabilities to the GDB client. For unknown reasons, the Arm toolchain distribution came without XML parsing support. The xPack distribution brings back support for XML parsing and full integration with the SEGGER J-Link GDB server.
Support for Python scripting was added to GDB. This distribution provides
a separate binary, aarch64-none-elf-gdb-py3
with
support for Python {{ page.python_version }}.
The Python 3 run-time is included, so GDB does not need any version of Python to be installed, and is insensitive to the presence of other versions.
Support for TUI was added to GDB. The ncurses
library was added to
the distribution.
{% include note.html content="TUI is not available on Windows." %}
Due to the difficulties of building standalone Guile libraries on all platforms, support for Guile scripting in GDB is currently not available.
- none
- none
- [#2]
due to a an issue in the build scripts, on GNU/Linux,
the
aarch64-none-elf-gdb
was built without ELF support; fixed in 12.3.1-2.1.
On all platforms the packages are standalone, and expect only the standard runtime to be present on the host.
All dependencies that are build as shared libraries are copied locally
in the libexec
folder (or in the same folder as the executable for Windows).
On GNU/Linux the binaries are adjusted to use a relative path:
$ readelf -d library.so | grep runpath
0x000000000000001d (RPATH) Library rpath: [$ORIGIN]
In the GNU ld.so search strategy, the DT_RPATH
has
the highest priority, higher than LD_LIBRARY_PATH
, so if this later one
is set in the environment, it should not interfere with the xPack binaries.
Please note that previous versions, up to mid-2020, used DT_RUNPATH
, which
has a priority lower than LD_LIBRARY_PATH
, and does not tolerate setting
it in the environment.
Similarly, on macOS, the binaries are adjusted with install_name_tool
to use a
relative path.
The original GNU GCC documentation is available online.
The binaries for all supported platforms (Windows, macOS and GNU/Linux) were built using the xPack Build Box (XBB), a set of build environments based on slightly older distributions, that should be compatible with most recent systems.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver reachedFor the prerequisites and more details on the build procedure, please see the How to build page.
Before publishing, a set of simple tests were performed on an exhaustive set of platforms. The results are available from:
The binaries were tested on a variety of platforms, but mainly to check the integrity of the build, not the compiler functionality.
The SHA-256 hashes for the files are:
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xpack-aarch64-none-elf-gcc-12.3.1-1.1-darwin-arm64.tar.gz
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xpack-aarch64-none-elf-gcc-12.3.1-1.1-darwin-x64.tar.gz
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xpack-aarch64-none-elf-gcc-12.3.1-1.1-linux-arm.tar.gz
0eaba21e98d0de28beecac0cbdb76fc46a99fb676075be2d64bf6b77d664bbc0
xpack-aarch64-none-elf-gcc-12.3.1-1.1-linux-arm64.tar.gz
b8567f486e9f5475494d8cb4177481024085c635be989a055cc4fdc89ef79e4f
xpack-aarch64-none-elf-gcc-12.3.1-1.1-linux-x64.tar.gz
934d4ac5372198f281286d73467725bfdcbc61bac2ce3f91117dfc03a673e629
xpack-aarch64-none-elf-gcc-12.3.1-1.1-win32-x64.zip
Support for 32-bit Intel Linux and Intel Windows was dropped in 2022. Support for 32-bit Arm Linux (armv7l) will be preserved for a while, due to the large user base of 32-bit Raspberry Pi systems.
Support for RedHat 7 was dropped in 2022 and the minimum requirement was raised to GLIBC 2.27, available starting with Ubuntu 18, Debian 10 and RedHat 8.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver reached the end of the standard five-year maintenance window for Long-Term Support (LTS) release on 31 May 2023.
As a courtesy, the xPack GNU/Linux releases will continue to be based on Ubuntu 18.04 for another year.
From mid-2024 onwards, the GNU/Linux binaries will be built on Debian 10, (GLIBC 2.28), and are also expected to run on RedHat 8.
Users are urged to update their build and test infrastructure to ensure a smooth transition to the next xPack releases.
- GitHub xpack-dev-tools/aarch64-none-elf-gcc-xpack
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- all xPack releases
- individual file counters (grouped per release)
- npmjs.com @xpack-dev-tools/aarch64-none-elf-gcc
Credit to Shields IO for the badges and to Somsubhra/github-release-stats for the individual file counters.