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xPack OpenOCD v0.12.0-1 released

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Liviu Ionescu (ilg)
Liviu Ionescu (ilg)

Version 0.12.0-1 is a new release; it follows the upstream release.

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

There are separate binaries for Windows (x64), macOS (x64, 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 (armv7l and aarch64; armv6 is not supported).

Download​

The binary files are available from GitHub Releases.

Prerequisites​

  • x64 GNU/Linux: any system with GLIBC 2.27 or higher (like Ubuntu 18 or later, Debian 10 or later, RedHat 8 or later, Fedora 29 or later, etc)
  • arm64/arm GNU/Linux: any system with GLIBC 2.27 or higher (like Raspberry Pi OS, Ubuntu 18 or later, Debian 10 or later, RedHat 8 or later, Fedora 29 or later, etc)
  • x64 Windows: Windows 7 with the Universal C Runtime (UCRT), Windows 8, Windows 10
  • x64 macOS: 10.13 or later
  • arm64 macOS: 11.6 or later

Install​

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

xpm install @xpack-dev-tools/openocd@0.12.0-1.1 -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 0.12.0, the development commit 9ea7f3d from 15 Jan 2022.

Changes​

There are no functional changes.

Compared to the upstream, the following changes were applied:

  • 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 online:

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.

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.

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 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/0.12.0-1.1/.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-0.12.0-1-darwin-arm64.tar.gz

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xpack-openocd-0.12.0-1-darwin-x64.tar.gz

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xpack-openocd-0.12.0-1-linux-arm.tar.gz

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xpack-openocd-0.12.0-1-linux-arm64.tar.gz

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xpack-openocd-0.12.0-1-linux-x64.tar.gz

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xpack-openocd-0.12.0-1-win32-x64.zip

Deprecation notices​

32-bit support​

Support for 32-bit Intel Linux and Intel Windows was dropped in 2022. Support for 32-bit Arm Linux (armv7l) will be preserved for a while, due to the large user base of 32-bit Raspberry Pi systems.

Linux minimum requirements​

Support for RedHat 7 was dropped in 2022 and the minimum requirement was raised to GLIBC 2.27, available starting with Ubuntu 18, Debian 10 and RedHat 8.

Download analytics​

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