GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain

Building on x86_64

Asked by jarekluberek

The build build-*.sh seem to want a i686 system. How to I build it on x86_64.
Why can I not build this on a x86_64 system.

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Best Terry Guo (terry.guo) said : 		#1

You are right. The Ubuntu 8.10 on an i686 pc is a verified build environment. For other system, we don't get enough effort to test all of them.

But if you want to run on a x86_64 system, you can try command "./build-toolchain.sh --ppa --skip_mingw32", the precondition is all the depended libraries should be installed firstly (the ones from system, not the ones from our source package).

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Joey Ye (jinyun-ye) said : 		#2

As 32 bit release works on both, we didn't think it necessary to build for
64. We are happy to see people improve it for more environment.
On Nov 13, 2013 9:21 PM, "jarekluberek" <
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> New question #239167 on GCC ARM Embedded:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded/+question/239167
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> The build build-*.sh seem to want a i686 system. How to I build it on
> x86_64.
> Why can I not build this on a x86_64 system.
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jarekluberek (jarek-luberek) said : 		#3

>But if you want to run on a x86_64 system, you can try command "./build-toolchain.sh --ppa --skip_mingw32", the precondition is >all the depended libraries should be installed firstly (the ones from system, not the ones from our source package).

Thanks, that worked. Everything builds. I get much further along with gdb now though it still segfaults but much deeper into the session. The i686-version crashed almost immediately.

I didn't get a libexec-directory in this build which I noticed the summon toolkit had. Do I need it? Things seem to work without it.

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jarekluberek (jarek-luberek) said : 		#4

Thanks Terry Guo, that solved my question.

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Trevor Woerner (trevor-woerner) said : 		#5

> But if you want to run on a x86_64 system, you can
> try command "./build-toolchain.sh --ppa --skip_mingw32"

In build-toolchain.sh it looks as though the "--ppa" option
implicitly adds the "--skip_mingw32" option. So (just to be
pedantic) all you need is

$ ./build-toolchain.sh --ppa

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Joey Ye (jinyun-ye) said : 		#6

Please be noticed that since 4.8 release, it can be built on x86_64 system, without any addition options.