curious about the possibilities for out-of-the box binary toolchains suitable for building for BBB ... the first choice is, unsurprisingly, the one recommended by RCN here:
https://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone+Black#BeagleBoneBlack-ARMCrossCompiler:GCC whose only minimal drawback is that it's a 32-bit toolchain so one needs to have the 32-bit libs installed for that, but that's not a big deal. now, as i recall, RCN mentioned not that long ago that linaro was discontinuing their binary builds, but i tripped over this directory: http://releases.linaro.org/14.11/components/toolchain/binaries/arm-linux-gnueabihf which *seems* to have a 64-bit, BBB-compatible toolchain: gcc-linaro-4.9-2014.11-x86_64_arm-linux-gnueabihf.tar.xz althought the size of that tarball is considerably larger than the original one listed by RCN, and it appears to properly compile a "hello, world" file into an ARM executable, so does anyone know if this is an acceptable toolchain if i don't want to mess with 32-bit libs? (i'll do a bit more reading to see why the massive difference in tarball sizes.) finally, there are the pre-built yocto project toolchains: http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-1.7.1/toolchain/x86_64/ which one assumes should work just fine. any other recommendations for ready-to-go toolchains for the BBB? i just like to have choices. thanks. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================
