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Re: GCC 4.8 Toolchain

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Originally Posted by MaraschinoPanda View Post
In the FIRSTForge wiki's requirements for building for windows, one of the linux requirements is "Working linux toolchain", does that mean just a working GCC install, or a working install of the powerpc-wrs-vxworks toolchain?
Yes.

You need to have gcc-powerpc-wrs-vxworks installed because part of the build process is building wpilib on linux. This is built with frcmake et al, so you need to have all of that installed. I didn't want to have the build process install things halfway through/have to run as root, so I just made it a predependency.

Since the linux binaries work and are relatively stable, I don't see this as a big problem. Additionally, building from source under linux is now (relatively) easy - no more patching and crap, and the everything is documented.
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