Bootlin toolchains updated, 2018.02 version

Back in June last year, we launched a new service that provides pre-compiled and ready-to-use cross compilation toolchains for a large number of CPU architectures and C library configurations. They are available from toolchains.bootlin.com.

We have recently updated those toolchains, with the following improvements:

  • Our stable family of toolchains has been updated in terms of components versions: we’re using gcc 6.3.0, binutils 2.29.1, gdb 7.11.1, kernel headers 4.1, glibc 2.26, musl 1.1.18 and uClibc 1.0.28
  • Our bleeding-edge family of toolchains has also been updated in terms of components versions: we’re using gcc 7.3.0, binutils 2.30, gdb 8.0.1, kernel headers 4.9.80, glibc 2.27, musl 1.1.8 and uClibc 1.0.28
  • The tarballs now have a more nice-looking version number, and the version number is also included in the directory after extracting the tarball
  • Qemu testing of the PowerPC64 little-endian configuration was added

Toolchains.bootlin.com

Next in our TODO list are:

  • Adding an ARMv7 Thumb-2 configuration
  • Adding more PowerPC variants, as suggested by this issue and this pull request
  • Enabling Python support in gdb, as suggested by this issue

We remain interested in getting your feedback about those toolchains, so do not hesitate to contact us at info@bootlin.com, or through the Github issue tracker.

Thomas Petazzoni

Author: Thomas Petazzoni

Thomas Petazzoni is Bootlin's co-owner and CEO. Thomas joined Bootlin in 2008 as a kernel and embedded Linux engineer, became CTO in 2013, and co-owner/CEO in 2021. More details...

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