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xPack OpenOCD v0.10.0-15 released

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Liviu Ionescu (ilg)
Liviu Ionescu (ilg)

Version 0.10.0-15 is a maintenance release; it updates to the latest upstream master.

The xPack OpenOCD is the xPack distribution of OpenOCD.

There are binaries for x64 Windows, macOS (x64) and GNU/Linux (x64 and x86, arm64 and arm).

Raspberry Pi

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

Download​

The binary files are available from GitHub Releases.

Install​

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

xpm install @xpack-dev-tools/openocd@0.10.0-15.3 -verbose

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

Compliance​

The xPack OpenOCD generally follows the official OpenOCD releases.

The current version is based on:

  • OpenOCD version 0.10.0, the development commit 3ffa14b04 from October 11, 2020.

Changes​

There are no functional changes.

Compared to the upstream, the following changes were applied:

  • a configure option was added to configure branding (--enable-branding)
  • the src/openocd.c file was edited to display the branding string
  • the contrib/60-openocd.rules file was simplified to avoid protection related issues.

Bug fixes​

  • none

Enhancements​

  • none

Known problems​

  • none

Documentation​

The original documentation is available in the share/doc folder.

Supported platforms​

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

The binaries 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.

  • x86/x64 GNU/Linux: all binaries were built with GCC 9.3, running in an Ubuntu 12 Docker container
  • arm64/arm GNU/Linux: all binaries were built with GCC 9.3, running in an Ubuntu 16 Docker container (added in mid-2020)
  • x86/x64 Windows: all binaries were built with mingw-w64 GCC 9.3, running in an Ubuntu 12 Docker container
  • x64 macOS: all binaries were built with GCC 9.3, running in a separate folder on macOS 10.10.5.

Build​

The scripts used to build this distribution are in:

  • distro-info/scripts

For the prerequisites and more details on the build procedure, please see the README-MAINTAINER page.

Travis tests​

The first set of tests were performed on Travis, by running a simple script to check if the binaries start on a wide range of platforms and distributions:

Tests​

The binaries were testes on Windows 11 Pro, Intel Ubuntu 22 LTS and macOS 14.5.

Install the package with xpm.

The simple test, consists in starting the binaries only to identify the STM32F4DISCOVERY board.

~/Library/xPacks/@xpack-dev-tools/openocd/0.10.0-15.3/.content/bin/openocd -f board/stm32f4discovery.cfg

A more complex test consist in programming and debugging a simple blinky application on the STM32F4DISCOVERY board. The binaries were those generated by the simple Eclipse projects available in the xPack GNU Arm Embedded GCC project.

Checksums​

The SHA-256 hashes for the files are:

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xpack-openocd-0.10.0-15-win32-x32.zip

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xpack-openocd-0.10.0-15-win32-x64.zip

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