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GNU MCU Eclipse ARM Embedded GCC v8.2.1-1.5 released

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Liviu Ionescu (ilg)
Liviu Ionescu (ilg)

Version 8.2.1-1.5 is a maintenance release of GNU MCU Eclipse ARM Embedded GCC that fixes the bugs affecting Windows LTO builds, present in the previous release.

Download​

The binary files are available from GitHub Releases.

Deprecated​

Use v8.2.1-1.6.

Compliance​

This release follows the official GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain 8-2018-q4-major release from December 20, 2018 and it is based on the gcc-arm-none-eabi-8-2018-q4-major-src.tar.bz2 source invariant.

Changes​

Compared to the ARM distribution, the build procedure is more or less the same and there should be no functional differences, except the following bug fixes:

  • [Issue:#3] due to a problem in the GCC configure script and the specifics of the static build, LTO was not effective on Windows, and the initial workaround proved not effective either; in the new build environment the configure script is enables LTO and it is functional on windows too;
  • a patch was applied to binutils to fix the 32-bit objcopy bug 24065
  • GDB was built the Git commit ad0f979c9 from 2019-01-29, to fix the bugs affecting C++ LTO projects 24145
  • [Issue:#3] by default, the GCC build script fails to create liblto_plugin-0.dll for static builds with mingw; builds are now using shared libraries
  • [Issue:#1] the liblto_plugin copied/linked to the lib/bdf-plugins for ar to find it and be able to process archives with LTO objects
  • a patch was applied to gcc to fix the Windows LTO with -g bug 89183
  • a patch was applied to gcc to fix the Windows paths with spaces bug 89249

Python 3​

Experimental support was added for Python 3 in GDB. Unfortunately compiling GDB with mingw-w64 requires an update to the new Python 3 API, not yet available at the moment of this release.

Also support for 32-bit machines might not be fully functional.

Binaries​

Binaries for Windows, macOS and GNU/Linux are provided.

The GNU/Linux binaries were built on two CentOS 6 Docker images (32/64-bit), and run on any distribution based on CentOS 6 or later.

The macOS binary was built on a macOS 10.10.5 and must run on any newer macOS system.

The Windows binaries were built with mingw-w64, and run on any reasonably recent i686 and x86_64 Windows machines.

Instructions on how to install the binaries are available in the Install Guide.

The toolchain is also available as an xPack and can be conveniently installed with xpm:

xpm install --global @gnu-mcu-eclipse/arm-none-eabi-gcc@latest

This installs the latest available version.

For better control and repeatability, the build scripts use Docker containers; all files required during builds are available as a separate gnu-mcu-eclipse/arm-none-eabi-gcc-build project.

Known problems​

Windows paths with spaces​

Installing the toolchain in locations which use spaces in the path is still problematic.

Temporarily move the toolchain to paths which do not use spaces, or, even better, install it via xpm, which uses safe paths.

Checksums​

The SHA-256 hashes for the files are:

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