What's new in 7-2017-q4-major
In this release
- gcc-arm-none-eabi-7-2017-q4-major-win32-sha1.exe Windows 32-bit Installer (Signed for Windows XP and Vista)
- gcc-arm-none-eabi-7-2017-q4-major-win32-sha2.exe Windows 32-bit Installer (Signed for Windows 7 and later)
- gcc-arm-none-eabi-7-2017-q4-major-win32.exe Windows 32-bit Installer (Unsigned)
- gcc-arm-none-eabi-7-2017-q4-major-win32.zip Windows 32-bit ZIP package
- gcc-arm-none-eabi-7-2017-q4-major-linux.tar.bz2 Linux 64-bit Tarball
- gcc-arm-none-eabi-7-2017-q4-major-mac.tar.bz2 Mac OS X 64-bit Tarball
- gcc-arm-none-eabi-7-2017-q4-major-src.tar.bz2 Source Tarball
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Features:
- Armv8-R and Cortex-R52 support.
- Fix for https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69866
- GDB built with C++ enabled for Mac OS X
- Thumb1 code size regression due to new register allocation: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59535
- Multilib is now enabled with --with-multilib-list=rmprofile when building the toolchain from source
Release Note for GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain Downloads 7-2017-q4-major
Release notes for
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GNU Tools for Arm Embedded Processors 7
- Q4 2017
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This release includes the following items:
* Bare metal EABI pre-built binaries for running on a Windows host
* Bare metal EABI pre-built binaries for running on a Linux host
* Bare metal EABI pre-built binaries for running on a Mac OS X host
* Source code package (together with build scripts and instructions to setup
build environment), composed of:
* gcc : ARM/embedded-7-branch revision 255204
svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches/ARM/embedded-7-branch/
* binutils : 2.29 mainline
git://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git commit b23dc97fe237a1d9e850d7cbeee066183a00630b
* newlib and newlib-nano :
git://sourceware.org/git/newlib-cygwin.git commit 76bd5cab331a873ac422fdcb7ba5fe79abea94f0
* gdb : 8.0 mainline
git://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git commit b23dc97fe237a1d9e850d7cbeee066183a00630b
Note that some or all of the following prerequisites are downloaded when
building from source:
* EnvVarUpdate NSIS script :
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/images/a/ad/EnvVarUpdate.7z
* expat 2.1.1 :
http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/project/expat/expat/2.1.1/expat-2.1.1.tar.bz2
* gmp 6.1.0 : ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/gmp-6.1.0.tar.bz2
* isl 0.15 : ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/isl-0.15.tar.bz2
* libelf 0.8.13 : http://www.mr511.de/software/libelf-0.8.13.tar.gz
* libiconv 1.14 :
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.14.tar.gz
* mpc 1.0.3 : ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/mpc-1.0.3.tar.gz
* mpfr 3.1.4 : ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/mpfr-3.1.4.tar.bz2
* python 2.7.13 : https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.13/python-2.7.13.msi
* zlib 1.2.8
http://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/files/zlib/1.2.8/zlib-1.2.8.tar.gz/download
Minimum host requirements:
* Windows 7 32/64 bits or later (with installer and alternative zip package)
* Linux
- Ubuntu 14.04 64 bits or later (tarball)
- Ubuntu supported releases 32 bits and 64 bits (PPA)
https://www.ubuntu.com/info/release-end-of-life
- RHEL 7 64 bits (tarball)
* Mac OS X 10.7.3 and newer 64 bits (tarball)
Supported target OS:
* Bare metal EABI only
Features:
* All GCC 7 features, plus latest mainline features:
+ Armv8-R and Arm Cortex-R52 support
Tests:
* Targets
+ variety of Cortex-M0/M0+/M3/M4/M7/A9 boards
+ Qemu
+ Arm Fast Models
* Hosts
+ Windows 7 32/64 bits (with installer and alternative zip package)
+ Linux 64 bits
- Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 (tarball and PPA)
- RHEL 7 (tarball)
+ Mac OS X 10.7.3 (tarball)
Important changes in 7 release:
* Armv8-R and Arm Cortex-R52 support
* Fix for https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69866
* GDB built with C++ enabled for Mac OS X
Known Changes and Issues:
* Thumb1 code size regression due to new register allocation:
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59535
* Multilib is now enabled with --with-multilib-list=rmprofile when building the
toolchain from source
* Windows installer now accepts the following options when running in silent mode:
- /P Adds the installation bin directory to the system PATH
- /R Adds an InstallFolder registry entry for the install.