Re: Getting linaro toolchain binaries

Dave,

I agree with you when you say that Linaro toolchains are not easy to use for new visitors.

I will improve the http://www.linaro.org/downloads/ page (hopefully this week) to improve this.

On 03/03/2011 02:26 PM, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:

Current situation is like this:

1. Debian users can grab non-Linaro cross toolchains from Emdebian team
2. Ubuntu 10.10/11.04 users have Linaro cross toolchain in archive
3. Ubuntu 10.04/10.10 users can use Linaro toolchain backport PPA [4] which contains natty versions (will be updated in next week)
4. We can build binary tarballs using Michael's makefile [1][3] but resulting toolchain requires some host libraries. In OpenEmbedded we solved this problem by shipping all of them in tarball. But this would require some hacking time.

Marcin, thanks for the status.

I created a wiki page about the binary cross-compiling toolchains: https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/BinaryCrossToolchains

Please correct me if there is anything wrong or incomplete. I plan to use a link to this page on http://www.linaro.org/downloads/.

Thank you in advance for having a look.

Cheers,

Michael.