Compiling for ARM Linux on Windows

Asked by Jan Jaap Kempenaar

Hello,

I have a tool which generates code and compiles the executable. However currently there is no tool-chain for ARM processors, but I can include additional cross compilation tool-chains. Also the tool only works on Windows.

The problem is that the target platform runs a Linux installation on which the software needs to execute. I'm trying to create a tool-chain so that I can compile on Windows for an ARM based linux installation. Details on the platform:

Computer board: Gumstix Overo Fire (with an Cortex-A8 (TI OMAP3530))
Operating System: Linux (kernel: 3.2.21)

The specific Linux kernel I compiled on a Linux (virtual) machine.

Now I'd like to be able to compile applications for this platform in Windows, using this cross compiler. It appears I require the headers files/libraries for this in order to make this work. My question therefore is: How can I get the libraries/headers on Windows so that I can include them and I can build for Linux on ARM?

Any help or hints or tips on where I could look (I now google is my friend, I just ran out of search key options) for more information on this subject would be much appreciated.

Regards
Jan Jaap

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Joey Ye (jinyun-ye) said :
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Jan,

You need a toolchain targeting ARM Linux. Please go http://linaro.org/downloads for it.

This toolchain is only for bare-metal, namely not for Linux target.

Thanks,
Joey

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