GNU ARM Toolchain Installer

[waipot]

For the old version of toolchain which is included
 * binutils-2.18.tar.bz2
 * gcc-4.2.2.tar.bz2
 * newlib-1.15.0.tar.gz
 * insight-6.8.tar.bz2

You can download the previous installer here gnu-arm-installer.tar.gz and then type these command:

Code:

tar xzf gnu-arm-installer.tar.gz
cd gnu-arm-installer
./gnu-arm-installer.sh

The installer will download, extract and compile all of the source files automatically. If it fails to download the source file, you need to download it manually to src/ directory and then run the installer again. If it is successful, you will get the toolchain in install/ directory.

[waipot]

What New
This version was fixed to work on Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10.


To install
1. Download the latest installer gnu-arm-installer-v0.2.tar.gz and then extract the archive by typing:

Code:

tar xzf gnu-arm-installer-v0.2.tar.gz

2. Download the following source files to gnu-arm-installer/src
 * binutils-2.19.tar.bz2
 * gcc-4.3.2.tar.bz2
 * newlib-1.16.0.tar.gz
 * insight-6.8.tar.bz2

and then type these commands:

Code:

cd gnu-arm-installer
./gnu-arm-installer.sh

The installer will extract and compile all of the source files automatically. If it is successful, you will get the toolchain in install/ directory.


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[spye]

Thanks for the suggestion.  Unfortunately I have a chicken-and-egg problem:  if I run the install shell script as 'steve', I get the following error:

Configuring in ./gcc
configure: loading cache ./config.cache
checking build system type... (cached) x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... (cached) x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking target system type... (cached) arm-unknown-elf
checking LIBRARY_PATH variable... ok
checking GCC_EXEC_PREFIX variable... ok
checking whether to place generated files in the source directory... no
checking whether a default linker was specified... no
checking whether a default assembler was specified... no
checking for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc... (cached) gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

I don't know what causes that, and I can't seem to find the config.log file

If I run the script as superuser, i.e. with the sudo prefix, then I get past the error I just mentioned, but run into the error I posted last night.  I don't think the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH is seen when the script runs under sudo.

Thanks again for any suggestions.

BTW. if I go sudo -s, i.e. run as 'root', and then initiate the script without sudo, then I still get the 'C compiler cannot create executables' error.

Here's a thought - is there a directory that I can manually do "chmod 777" to that might get rid of the 'C compiler cannot create executables' error?

[alsig]

Hi,

I just used the GNU ARM Toolchain Installer, everything build a-ok 

But when I try to build a existing project, which build ok with another tc I get this error:
 

Code:

-------- begin --------
arm-elf-gcc (GCC) 4.3.2
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
source/drivers/systemtiming.o: In function `Drivers::CSystemTiming::Instance()':
/home/jens/Code::Blocks/Robot/source/drivers/systemtiming.cpp:16: undefined reference to `__dso_handle'
source/drivers/uart.o: In function `Drivers::CUartDriver::Instance()':
Linking: main.elf
/home/jens/Code::Blocks/Robot/source/drivers/uart.cpp:138: undefined reference to `__dso_handle'
arm-elf-gcc -mthumb -mcpu=arm7tdmi-s -mthumb-interwork -I. -gdwarf-2 -DROM_RUN  -Os -Wall -Wcast-align -Wcast-qual -Wimplicit -Wpointer-arith -Wswitch -Wredundant-decls -Wreturn-type -Wshadow -Wunused -Wa,-adhlns=source/crt0.lst -Iinclude/drivers -Iinclude/platform -Iinclude/device_drivers -Iinclude/scheduler -Iinclude/system_configurator -Iinclude/application -MD -MP -MF .dep/main.elf.d source/crt0.o    source/main.o source/drivers/gpio.o source/drivers/spi.o source/drivers/systemtiming.o source/device_drivers/max146driver.o source/scheduler/component.o source/scheduler/scheduler.o source/system_configurator/signal.o source/system_configurator/systemconfigurator.o source/application/ledflasher.o source/drivers/uart.o source/drivers/armVIC.o source/drivers/timer.o --output main.elf -nostartfiles -Wl,-Map=main.map,--cref -lc  -lm -lc -lgcc -lstdc++ -TLPC2214-ROM.ld
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [main.elf] Error 1

The problem, as far as I know, is something about static objects. In both lines I declare a static object.

Anybody got an idea for solving this problem?

/Jens

[waipot]

Hi Jens,

I have no conclusion for your errors now. By the way, if your code is C++, please try to use arm-elf-g++ instead.
The common problem is that the Linux cannot find the compiler path. This problem is fixed by typing

Code:

export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/gnu-arm-installer/install/bin

[spye]

Regarding the problems I described in Reply#17, I split the install script into 2 and have now successfully built the toolchain.   The first executed Steps 1 and 2 of the original script and I ran this script with sudo prefix.  The second script executed Steps 3,4,5 and I ran this script as regular user.  Because the first part of the script was run as 'root' I had to manually go in and chown and chgrp some directories, and I had to "sudo apt-get install libx11-dev" to get Iinsight to compile, ... but problems worked around.  Thanks.

Questions:

1)  I see install/include is empty and install/arm-elf/include is full of good stuff - is this expected?

2) If I want to add the TCP/IP sockets library and related include files, where do I go about getting those?


Thanks.

[spye]

I just tried to compile and link a trivial C program to test out the toolchain and got the following linker error:

steve@steve-laptop:~$ arm-elf-gcc hh.c
/home/steve/armelfgcc/gnu-arm-installer/install/lib/gcc/arm-elf/4.3.2/../../../../arm-elf/bin/ld: ERROR: /home/steve/armelfgcc/gnu-arm-installer/install/lib/gcc/arm-elf/4.3.2/../../../../arm-elf/lib/crt0.o uses hardware FP, whereas a.out uses software FP

Is it expected that the compiler default and the library default for Floating-Point are different?

From the directories above does it appear that the install put binaries/libraries in the correct directories?

Thanks for any response.

[homicide319]

hey people,

when i've downloaded the installer, how do i extract the archive?

like this?:
tar xzf gnu-arm-installer-v0.2.tar.gz

what stands xzf for?

and in the next step, folder "gnu-arm-installer/src" already existing??

sorry i'm absolutly new to linux (kubuntu8.1) but i gotta get armed, because i study informatics.

thanks a lot

/tim

[Doug]

Welcome Tim!

Working with Linux is not so sweet, is it? 
If you don't know such the commands, this quick review may help you:

http://linuxreviews.org/beginner/

Please feel free to ask any questions.

[homicide319]

hey now i get this error and there is nothing in the install directory:

config.status: creating po/Makefile.in
config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: executing libtool commands
config.status: executing default-1 commands
config.status: executing bfd_stdint.h commands
config.status: executing default commands
make[3]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/tbienias/gnu-arm-installer/build/binutils-2.19/bfd/po'
make[3]: Betrete Verzeichnis '/home/tbienias/gnu-arm-installer/build/binutils-2.19/bfd/po'
make[3]: Für das Ziel »info« ist nichts zu tun.
make[3]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/tbienias/gnu-arm-installer/build/binutils-2.19/bfd/po'
make[3]: Betrete Verzeichnis '/home/tbienias/gnu-arm-installer/build/binutils-2.19/bfd'
make[3]: Für das Ziel »info-am« ist nichts zu tun.
make[3]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/tbienias/gnu-arm-installer/build/binutils-2.19/bfd'
make[2]: *** [info-recursive] Fehler 1
make[2]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/tbienias/gnu-arm-installer/build/binutils-2.19/bfd'
make[1]: *** [all-bfd] Fehler 2
make[1]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/tbienias/gnu-arm-installer/build/binutils-2.19'
make: *** [all] Fehler 2

[Doug]

I suppose you are missing texinfo. To install

Code:

sudo apt-get install texinfo

if you are using Ubuntu.

[hellowang]

Hi All,
I download the files,and run the ./configure.sh
but about 10 minutes later ,i got this error:

configure :error:building Gcc requires GMP4.1+ and MPFR2.3.0+......

how can i sovle this problem?
any suggestion is  apprecated!