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xPack Windows Build Tools v4.2.1-3 released

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Liviu Ionescu (ilg)
Liviu Ionescu (ilg)

DO NOT USE! Version 4.2.1-3 is a maintenance release; it updates to the latest upstream Busybox and to the new build scripts.

caution

This version is affected by the Windows UCRT bug, make throws Error -1073741819; please use v4.3.x or later. Thank you for your understanding.

The xPack Windows Build Tools is a standalone Windows binary distribution of GNU make and a few other tools required by the Eclipse Embedded CDT (formerly GNU MCU/ARM Eclipse) project, but the binaries can also be used in generic build environments.

There are separate binaries for Windows (x64 and x86).

Download​

The binary files are available from GitHub Releases.

Prerequisites​

  • x86/x64 Windows: Windows 7 with the Universal C Runtime (UCRT), Windows 8, Windows 10

Install​

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

xpm install @xpack-dev-tools/windows-build-tools@4.2.1-3.1 --verbose

The full details of installing the xPack Windows Build Tools can be found in the Install Guide.

Compliance​

The xPack Windows Build Tools uses programs from other projects.

The current version is based on:

Changes​

There are no functional changes from original projects.

Bug fixes​

  • none

Enhancements​

  • none

Known problems​

  • #19 A bug was identified in Microsoft UCRT, affecting programs which spawn subprocesses, like sh.exe, make.exe, etc; a workaround was identified for BusyBox, and the problem was fixed in v4.3.0-1.

Documentation​

  • none

Build​

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.

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 10 Pro 32/64-bit.

Install the package with xpm.

The simple test, consists in starting the binary.

.../xpack-windows-build-tools-4.2.1-3/bin/make --version

A more elaborate test would be to run an Eclipse build.

Checksums​

The SHA-256 hashes for the files are:

939edfd488642693fadf564e5285cbb388bad2bd550b6b061a4b54daf58eca47
xpack-windows-build-tools-4.2.1-3-win32-ia32.zip

f3081840c0bb7df1abc4d3379546ea7286b2f0282cc148ed105a23432bbc6f9b
xpack-windows-build-tools-4.2.1-3-win32-x64.zip

Deprecation notices​

32-bit support​

Support for 32-bit x86 GNU/Linux and x86 Windows will most probably be dropped in 2022. Support for 32-bit Arm GNU/Linux will be preserved for a while, due to the large user base of 32-bit Raspberry Pi systems.

GNU/Linux minimum requirements​

Support for RedHat 7 will most probably be dropped in 2022, and the minimum requirement will be raised to GLIBC 2.27, available starting with Ubuntu 18 and RedHat 8.

Download analytics​

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