GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain

Win7/64 crash during installation

Asked by Todd Sprague on 2013-05-31

I'm trying to install the package gcc-arm-none-eabi-4_7-2013q1-20130313-win32.exe on an HP Win7/x64 laptop.

Before I see anything, it crashes, with the following details:
Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
  Application Name: gcc-arm-none-eabi-4_7-2013q1-20130313-win32.exe
  Application Version: 1.0.0.0
  Application Timestamp: 4b9c1d3a
  Fault Module Name: gcc-arm-none-eabi-4_7-2013q1-20130313-win32.exe
  Fault Module Version: 1.0.0.0
  Fault Module Timestamp: 4b9c1d3a
  Exception Code: c00000fd
  Exception Offset: 00033780
  OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
  Locale ID: 1033
  Additional Information 1: e8ad
  Additional Information 2: e8adce1c2b9e7be834b4063ac3c53863
  Additional Information 3: e8ad
  Additional Information 4: e8adce1c2b9e7be834b4063ac3c53863

I tried running the installation as administrator with no apparent difference.

When I clicked "Debug the program" and it ended up in VS2010 JIT, the exception code was given the name "stack overflow". The call stack had nothing useful in it -- it was somewhere deep inside ntdll.dll. However, the last offset within the installation EXE was 0x44d94b.

Thanks for any ideas you may have.

Question information

Language:: English Edit question

Status:: Answered

For:: GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain Edit question

Assignee:: No assignee Edit question

Last query:: 2013-06-11

Last reply:: 2013-06-14

Link existing bug

Revision history for this message

Terry Guo (terry.guo) said on 2013-06-03:

Just FYI. This installation package works for my win7/x64 laptop. There are Microsoft Office suite and other software installed on my laptop. I didn't install the VS2010. I guess the installation package conflicts with some software installed in your laptop. How about trying the win32 zip package?

Revision history for this message

Todd Sprague (todd-3) said on 2013-06-11:

I have installed the zip file, and that stuff appears to work. I had thought there was an IDE in the package, but I don't see one in the zip installation.

Perhaps I'm just unclear about how to go about this... trying to set up an IDE environment for the Freescale Freedom board -- I like the online stuff from mbed.org, but that requires me to have an internet connection, which isn't always possible.

I think I'll end up using some random editor (eg, VS2010) and a Cygwin window where I can type 'make'. I'll probably use an export of the mbeg.org hello world project to see what the Makefile should look like.

Thanks for the idea... I was really just trying to document this, in case others had run into it, and in case the project manager(s) would like to fix it.

Revision history for this message

Terry Guo (terry.guo) said on 2013-06-14:

If you are looking for IDE that can work with this GNU tool chain, I'd like to recommend two of them:

1). Keil MDK-ARM at http://www.keil.com/download/product/

2). CooCox IDE at http://www.coocox.org/index.html