Pre-compiled GNU Toolchain

Pre-compiled GNU Toolchain

Usually I compile the toolchain myself. It is easy, especially now that we do not need gcc for its preprocessor. However, here are some links that may lead to a pre-compiled GNU Toolchain that could work for you if you would rather not compile the toolchain yourself.

Please let me know your successes (and failures) with any of these you experiment with. The last time I tried a pre-compiled toolchain (30 July 2006), I used the ipodlinux.org installation scripts mentioned below.

Also, some of the links may provide details that will help you compile the toolchain yourself.

• http://www.gnuarm.com/ — looks promising
• http://www.billgatliff.com/
• http://www.aeolusdevelopment.com/Articles/download.html
• http://www.uclinux.org/
• http://gumstix.com/support.html
• http://www.omimo.be/vpr/layout/display/pr.asp?PRID=3491
• http://h-storm.tantos.homedns.org/gcc_arm.htm
• http://h-storm.tantos.homedns.org/download.htm

- http://sources.redhat.com/ml/crossgcc/ - http://ipdolinux.org/Toolchain

I installed (30 July 2006) the precompiled toolchain from ipdolinux.org mentioned above. I downloaded the 3 shell scripts ("For Linux on x86 or AMD64") and moved them to

/usr/local/ipodtoolchain/

and ran them as described on the web site

cd /usr/local/ipodtoolchain/
sh ./arm-uclinux-elf-tools-base-gcc3.4.3-20050722.sh
sh ./arm-uclinux-elf-tools-c++-gcc3.4.3-20050722.sh
sh ./arm-uclinux-elf-tools-gdb-20050722.sh

the scripts installed the programs and linked them to the ''/usr/local/arm-uclinux-tools2/bin'' directory. I then modified the makefile to point ''BIN'' to that directory:

BIN = /usr/local/arm-uclinux-tools2/bin

I see I did not need to create the ipodtoolchain subdirectory within /usr/local/. Instead, I could have copied the shell scripts directly to /usr/local/ and run them from there. So far, they seem to work ok, so this has been an easy way to get the precompiled tool chain installed.

Usually, though, I compile the toolchain myself.