[ Dacav's Corner :: toolchain ]

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What is a toolchain?

Obviously someone already gave an explanation of what a toolchain is, so just have a look here ...not a big deal. In this specific case I'm talking about the GNU toolchain, which I compiled for my thesis project. This page is not about the thesis, but you can download the toolchain here.

Also have a look at this website.

So what did you compile exactly?

Pretty simple: the following are the compilation flags I used: 

dacav@mithril$ arm-elf-gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: arm-elf
Configured with: ./configure --target=arm-elf
--prefix=/usr/local/arm7-swfp/ --enable-interwork --enable-multilib
--with-float=soft --enable-languages=c --with-newlib
--with-headers=../newlib-1.16.0/newlib/libc/include
Thread model: single
gcc version 4.2.2
dacav@mithril$

This toolchain can be used to program a ARM7TDMI based microcontroller.

...cpio.7z what?

Yep, not cot conventional, indeed. The cpio format is just an archive format (something like tar, it's also used for ramfs and friends). 7z instead stands for 7 zip, which is a compression format: 

dacav@mithril$ cd /usr/local/
dacav@mithril$ ls
arm7-swfp/  etc/      lib/  sbin/   src/
bin/        include/  man@  share/  Toolchain_Arm7.swfp.cpio.7z
dacav@mithril$ du -sh arm7-swfp/ Toolchain_Arm7.swfp.cpio.7z 
91M arm7-swfp/
15M Toolchain_Arm7.swfp.cpio.7z
dacav@mithril$