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xPack Windows Build Tools v4.4.1-1 released

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Liviu Ionescu (ilg)
Liviu Ionescu (ilg)

DEPRECATED: Version 4.4.1-1 is a new release of the xPack Windows Build Tools package, following the make release.

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).

Deprecated​

Use v4.4.1-2.

Download​

The binary files are available from GitHub Releases.

Prerequisites​

  • 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@4.4.1-1.1 -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​

  • the BusyBox code includes a patch around the UCRT bug that affects spawning sub-processes.

Enhancements​

  • none

Known problems​

  • starting with mid 2023, BusyBox included a make applet, which is preferred to GNU make; unfortunately it does not provides the full functionality and most builds fail; this applet was disabled in v4.4.1-2.

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.

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 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-4.4.1-1/bin/make --version

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

Checksums​

The SHA-256 hashes for the files are:

ddf6a02177d0d429099e6108f51377ec7429c155f1caea62d1acccbf107fe4ef
xpack-windows-build-tools-4.4.1-1-win32-x64.zip

Deprecation notices​

32-bit support​

Support for 32-bit x86 Windows was dropped in 2022.

Download analytics​

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