All-in-one script to build bleeding-edge-toolchain for ARM microcontrollers.
bleeding-edge-toolchain - what it's all about?
Due to the fact that building a binary on "Linux distribution A" that would work on "Linux distribution B" (where "Linux distribution B" may just be "Linux distribution A 6 months later after a few upgrades") is really hard (impossible?), there will be no binary packages for Linux. This script and some spare CPU time (~2 hours) is all you need.
To build native toolchain for Linux just run the script with no arguments:
./build-bleeding-edge-toolchain.sh
Most of the tools required by the script should be already present in your system, but some may be missing. Generally the tools listed below should be enough to successfully execute this script:
- obvious tools needed to compile anything - like
gcc
,binutils
,make
andcoreutils
m4
, which is required to executeconfigure
scriptscurl
, used to download the source tarballs of toolchain componentstar
, used to extract source tarballs and to compress a compiled toolchaintexinfo
andtexlive
, (optional) used to generate documentationpython
, required by GDB, may be either version 2 or 3, but should contain headers and libraries, so you may need some kind of "development" and/or "library" package, depending on your system
The exact set of required packages will be different on each system, but on a fresh Ubuntu installation you are going
to need just these packages: curl
, m4
, python2.7-dev
and optionally: texinfo
and texlive
.
As Windows is at the opposite end of spectrum when it comes to binary compatibility, the packages for 32-bit and 64-bit
Windows are available on Freddie Chopin's website in Download > Software >
bleeding-edge-toolchain. If you choose the easy path, just download an archive, extract it with 7-zip and add .../bin
folder to your system's PATH
environment variable.
If you want to also build a toolchain for 32-bit and/or 64-bit Windows pass --enable-win32
and/or --enable-win64
as arguments for the script, like this:
./build-bleeding-edge-toolchain.sh --enable-win32 --enable-win64
Such compilation has more dependencies:
Mingw-w64
, namelyi686-w64-mingw32-gcc
(for 32-bit version) and/orx86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc
(for 64-bit version) with their own dependencies (binutils, headers, ...)libtermcap
andlibwinpthread
compiled forMingw-w64
p7zip
, used to compress the toolchain into an archive in.7z
format
--keep-build-folders
will cause all build folders to be left intact after the build, by default - if this option is not provided - all build folders are removed as soon as they are not needed anymore--resume
will try to resume the last (interrupted) build instead of starting from scratch; be advised that this option is experimental and may not work reliably in all possible cases - if in doubt or in case of strange errors just don't use it to perform a clean build--skip-documentation
will skip building html/pdf documentation in the subprojects, by default - if this option is not provided - the documentation is built, requiring texlive/texinfo--skip-nano-libraries
will skip building of "nano" libraries, by default - if this option is not provided - "nano" libraries will be built, making the whole process take significantly longer--quiet
will make the build slightly less noisy