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xPack GCC v14.2.0-2 released

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Liviu Ionescu (ilg)
Liviu Ionescu (ilg)

Version 14.2.0-2.1 is a maintenance release; it fixes the unintended dependency on libiconv.so.2.

tip

This is the first release based on Debian 10.

The xPack GCC is a standalone cross-platform binary distribution of GCC.

There are separate binaries for Windows (x64), macOS (x64 and arm64) and GNU/Linux (x64, arm64 and arm).

Raspberry Pi

The main targets for the GNU/Linux Arm binaries are the Raspberry Pi class devices (aarch64; armv7l and armv6 are not supported).

Download​

The binary files can be downloaded automatically with xpm or manually from GitHub Releases.

Prerequisites​

  • x64 Windows: Windows 7 with the Universal C Runtime (UCRT), Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows 11
  • x64 GNU/Linux: any system with GLIBC 2.28 or higher (like Ubuntu 20 or later, Debian 10 or later, RedHat 8 or later, Fedora 29 or later, etc)
  • arm64 GNU/Linux: any system with GLIBC 2.28 or higher (like Raspberry Pi OS, Ubuntu 20 or later, Debian 10 or later, RedHat 8 or later, Fedora 29 or later, etc)

Install​

The easiest way to install this specific version, is by using xpm:

xpm install @xpack-dev-tools/gcc@14.2.0-2.1 -verbose

Comprehensive instructions for installing xPack GCC on different platforms can be found in the Install Guide.

Compliance​

The xPack GCC uses the official sources, with no functional changes:

  • GCC 14.2.0
  • binutils 2.42
  • mingw-w64 12.0.0
  • gdb 14.2

Supported languages​

The supported languages are:

  • C
  • C++
  • Obj-C
  • Obj-C++
  • Fortran

Note: Obj-C/C++ support is minimalistic.

Starting with 12.2.0-2, support for 32-bit multilib was added on Intel Linux; it can be enabled via the -m32 compile option.

Changes​

Compared to the upstream, there are no functional changes.

Bug fixes​

  • [#9]: due to an issue with the build scripts, in the previous releases (14.2.0-1, 13.3.0-1, 12.4.0-1, 11.5.0-1) libstdc++.so.6 has an unintended dependency on libiconv.so.2, which may be absent in some configurations; fixed.

Enhancements​

  • none

Known problems​

Please see the separate tests results page.

Documentation​

The original documentation is available from the project web site:

Build​

The binaries for all supported platforms (Windows, macOS and GNU/Linux) were built using the xPack Build Box (XBB), a set of build environments based on slightly older distributions, that should be compatible with most recent systems.

For the prerequisites and more details on the build procedure, please see the Maintainer Info page.

CI tests​

Before publishing, a set of simple tests were performed on an exhaustive set of platforms. The results are available from:

Tests​

The binaries were tested on a variety of platforms, but mainly to check the integrity of the build, not the compiler functionality.

Checksums​

The SHA-256 hashes for the files are:

9ab5fd1708a1a7b2c99f4220c225996338841c0935367bf4a2b9a7339e6415d2
xpack-gcc-14.2.0-2-linux-arm64.tar.gz

d27b09c677cefde24bdaacdde045d35ea1a391fbb5b4525d057e1974af912c4d
xpack-gcc-14.2.0-2-linux-x64.tar.gz

d6a2589bf71fb0f8e6abd40834a92dd1dcbf6d508494f0c80f17ae0052685b61
xpack-gcc-14.2.0-2-win32-x64.zip

Folders hierarchy​

After install, the package creates a hierarchy of folders like the following (only the first two depth levels are shown):

C:> tree /f %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\xPacks\@xpack-dev-tools\gcc\14.2.0-2.1\.content
Folder PATH listing
Volume serial number is B02D-925C
├── README.md
├── bin
│   ├── addr2line.exe
│   ├── ar.exe
│   ├── as.exe
│   ├── c++.exe
│   ├── c++filt.exe
│   ├── cpp.exe
│   ├── dlltool.exe
│   ├── dllwrap.exe
│   ├── elfedit.exe
│   ├── g++.exe
│   ├── gcc-ar.exe
│   ├── gcc-nm.exe
│   ├── gcc-ranlib.exe
│   ├── gcc.exe
│   ├── gcov-dump.exe
│   ├── gcov-tool.exe
│   ├── gcov.exe
│   ├── gdb-add-index
│   ├── gdb.exe
│   ├── gendef.exe
│   ├── gfortran.exe
│   ├── gprof.exe
│   ├── ld.bfd.exe
│   ├── ld.exe
│   ├── libatomic-1.dll
│   ├── libgcc_s_seh-1.dll
│   ├── libgfortran-5.dll
│   ├── libgmp-10.dll
│   ├── libgomp-1.dll
│   ├── libmpc-3.dll
│   ├── libmpfr-6.dll
│   ├── libquadmath-0.dll
│   ├── libssp-0.dll
│   ├── libstdc++-6.dll
│   ├── libzstd.dll
│   ├── lto-dump.exe
│   ├── nm.exe
│   ├── objcopy.exe
│   ├── objdump.exe
│   ├── ranlib.exe
│   ├── readelf.exe
│   ├── size.exe
│   ├── strings.exe
│   ├── strip.exe
│   ├── widl.exe
│   ├── windmc.exe
│   └── windres.exe
├── distro-info
│   └── licenses
├── include
│   ├── c++
│   └── gdb
├── lib
│   ├── gcc
│   ├── libatomic-1.dll
│   ├── libatomic.a
│   ├── libatomic.dll.a
│   ├── libatomic.la
│   ├── libgcc_s.a
│   ├── libgcc_s_seh-1.dll
│   ├── libgfortran-5.dll
│   ├── libgfortran.a
│   ├── libgfortran.dll.a
│   ├── libgfortran.la
│   ├── libgfortran.spec
│   ├── libgomp-1.dll
│   ├── libgomp.a
│   ├── libgomp.dll.a
│   ├── libgomp.la
│   ├── libgomp.spec
│   ├── libobjc-4.dll
│   ├── libquadmath-0.dll
│   ├── libquadmath.a
│   ├── libquadmath.dll.a
│   ├── libquadmath.la
│   ├── libssp-0.dll
│   ├── libssp.a
│   ├── libssp.dll.a
│   ├── libssp.la
│   ├── libssp_nonshared.a
│   ├── libssp_nonshared.la
│   ├── libstdc++-6.dll
│   ├── libstdc++.a
│   ├── libstdc++.dll.a
│   ├── libstdc++.dll.a-gdb.py
│   ├── libstdc++.la
│   ├── libstdc++exp.a
│   ├── libstdc++exp.la
│   ├── libstdc++fs.a
│   ├── libstdc++fs.la
│   ├── libsupc++.a
│   └── libsupc++.la
├── libexec
│   └── gcc
├── share
│   ├── gcc-14.2.0
│   └── gdb
└── x86_64-w64-mingw32
  ├── bin
  ├── include
  └── lib

17 directories, 86 files

Deprecation notices​

GNU/Linux minimum requirements​

The minimum requirement is GLIBC 2.28, available starting with Ubuntu 20, Debian 10 and RedHat 8. Support for RedHat 7 was dropped in 2022. Support for Ubuntu 18 was dropped in 2025.

32-bit support​

Support for 32-bit x86 GNU/Linux and x86 Windows was dropped in 2022 and for 32-bit Arm GNU/Linux in 2025.

Analytics​

Credit to Shields IO for the badges and to Somsubhra/github-release-stats for the individual file counters.