GCC 4.9 arm-nilrt-linux-gnueabi toolchain

[byteit101]

We are currently updating our toolchain for GCC 4.9, which will (hopefully, almost positive) be the official C++ compiler for 2015. Its not yet done (I'm actually waiting for GCC to compile on launchpad as I type this), but we are hoping to let some beta teams test it soon (week or so?).

Originally Posted by CodeYeti

What C library did you use? Just glibc? And where did you snag the kernel headers?

The C library much match the one on the roborio (which is glibc irrc. We are currently just copying them off the image). The kernel headers are normal kernel headers, which can be snagged by something like this: https://bitbucket.org/byteit101/tool....sh?at=default

Originally Posted by yash101

I have never cross-compiled before, so I am a newbie. When you use GCC and try to compile an application for another platform like the PPC in the cRIO, do you still have access to the full C++ STL library? Also, are there some libraries like pthread available?

I have the GNU GCC compiler to cross-compile for the RasPi, but I don't know if it will compile my application, which uses pthread and libx11.

Thanks!

Depends on the platform. C++STL is anywhere that C++ compiles, but pthread is not always. Its on the RoboRIO, but not the cRIO. libx11 is not on the RoboRIO as there is no output display for X to run on.

Shameless plug: Anyone interested in maintaining arm-linux-gnueabi packages for non .deb-based linux should contact me. If the given platform already has binutils 2.24 and gcc 4.9.1, you only need to package the header files and so libs.