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Host/Target specific installation notes for GCC

Please read this document carefully before installing the GNU Compiler Collection on your machine.

Note that this list of install notes is not a list of supported hosts or targets. Not all supported hosts and targets are listed here, only the ones that require host-specific or target-specific information have to.

aarch64*-*-*

Binutils pre 2.24 does not have support for selecting -mabi and does not support ILP32. If it is used to build GCC 4.9 or later, GCC will not support option -mabi=ilp32.

To enable a workaround for the Cortex-A53 erratum number 835769 by default (for all CPUs regardless of -mcpu option given) at configure time use the --enable-fix-cortex-a53-835769 option. This will enable the fix by default and can be explicitly disabled during compilation by passing the -mno-fix-cortex-a53-835769 option. Conversely, --disable-fix-cortex-a53-835769 will disable the workaround by default. The workaround is disabled by default if neither of --enable-fix-cortex-a53-835769 or --disable-fix-cortex-a53-835769 is given at configure time.

To enable a workaround for the Cortex-A53 erratum number 843419 by default (for all CPUs regardless of -mcpu option given) at configure time use the --enable-fix-cortex-a53-843419 option. This workaround is applied at link time. Enabling the workaround will cause GCC to pass the relevant option to the linker. It can be explicitly disabled during compilation by passing the -mno-fix-cortex-a53-843419 option. Conversely, --disable-fix-cortex-a53-843419 will disable the workaround by default. The workaround is disabled by default if neither of --enable-fix-cortex-a53-843419 or --disable-fix-cortex-a53-843419 is given at configure time.

To enable Branch Target Identification Mechanism and Return Address Signing by default at configure time use the --enable-standard-branch-protection option. This is equivalent to having -mbranch-protection=standard during compilation. This can be explicitly disabled during compilation by passing the -mbranch-protection=none option which turns off all types of branch protections. Conversely, --disable-standard-branch-protection will disable both the protections by default. This mechanism is turned off by default if neither of the options are given at configure time.

amd64-*-solaris2*

amdgcn-*-amdhsa

Instead of GNU Binutils, you will need to install LLVM 15, or later, and copy bin/llvm-mc to amdgcn-amdhsa/bin/as, bin/lld to amdgcn-amdhsa/bin/ld, bin/llvm-nm to amdgcn-amdhsa/bin/nm, and bin/llvm-ar to both bin/amdgcn-amdhsa-ar and bin/amdgcn-amdhsa-ranlib. Note that LLVM 13.0.1 or LLVM 14 can be used by specifying a --with-multilib-list= that does not list gfx1100 and gfx1103.

Use Newlib (4.3.0 or newer; 4.4.0 contains some improvements and git commits 7dd4eb1db and ed50a50b9 (2024-04-04, post-4.4.0) fix device console output for GFX10 and GFX11 devices).

To run the binaries, install the HSA Runtime from the ROCm Platform, and use libexec/gcc/amdhsa-amdhsa/version/gcn-run to launch them on the GPU.

arc-*-elf32

Use ‘configure --target=arc-elf32 --with-cpu=cpu --enable-languages="c,c++"’ to configure GCC, with cpu being one of ‘arc600’, ‘arc601’, or ‘arc700’.

arc-linux-uclibc

Use ‘configure --target=arc-linux-uclibc --with-cpu=arc700 --enable-languages="c,c++"’ to configure GCC.

arm-*-eabi

Building the Ada frontend commonly fails (an infinite loop executing xsinfo) if the host compiler is GNAT 4.8. Host compilers built from the GNAT 4.6, 4.9 or 5 release branches are known to succeed.

avr

AVR 8-bit microcontrollers. These are used in embedded applications. There are no standard Unix configurations. See AVR Options in the main manual for the list of supported MCU types.

Further installation notes and other useful information about AVR tools can also be obtained from:

Blackfin

The Blackfin processor, an Analog Devices DSP. See “Blackfin Options” in the main manual

CRIS

CRIS is a CPU architecture in Axis Communications systems-on-a-chip, for example the ETRAX series. These are used in embedded applications.

Use ‘configure --target=cris-elf’ to configure GCC for building a cross-compiler for CRIS.

DOS

You cannot install GCC by itself on MSDOS; it will not compile under any MSDOS compiler except itself. You need to get the complete compilation package DJGPP, which includes binaries as well as sources, and includes all the necessary compilation tools and libraries.

epiphany-*-elf

*-*-freebsd*

We support FreeBSD using the ELF file format with DWARF 2 debugging for all CPU architectures.

We recommend bootstrapping against the latest GNU binutils or the version found in the devel/binutils port. This also has been known to enable additional features and improve overall testsuite results.

Ada and D (or rather their respective libraries) are broken on FreeBSD/i386. This also affects building 32-bit libraries on FreeBSD/amd64, so configure with --disable-multilib there in case you are building one of these front ends.

ft32-*-elf

h8300-hms

hppa64-hp-hpux11*

Only the 64-bit ‘hppa’ target is supported on HP-UX. Support for 32-bit ‘hppa’ was discontinued in GCC 13.

It may be helpful to configure GCC with the --with-gnu-as and --with-as=… options to ensure that GCC can find GAS.

Only the HP linker is supported. Thus, it is best to explicitly configure the target with the --with-ld=… option.

The DCE thread library is not supported, so --enable-threads=dce does not work.

Binutils and other required tools can be built using the HP tools. Then, the GCC distribution can be built. This is challenging due to the many dependencies.

*-*-linux-gnu

Versions of libstdc++-v3 starting with 3.2.1 require bug fixes present in glibc 2.2.5 and later. More information is available in the libstdc++-v3 documentation.

i?86-*-linux*

If you receive Signal 11 errors when building on GNU/Linux, then it is possible you have a hardware problem. Further information on this can be found on www.bitwizard.nl.

i?86-*-solaris2*

Use this for Solaris 11.4 on x86 and x86-64 systems. Starting with GCC 4.7, there is also a 64-bit ‘amd64-*-solaris2*’ or ‘x86_64-*-solaris2*’ configuration that corresponds to ‘sparcv9-sun-solaris2*’.

ia64-*-linux

IA-64 processor (also known as IPF, or Itanium Processor Family) running GNU/Linux.

If you are using the installed system libunwind library with --with-system-libunwind, then you must use libunwind 0.98 or later.

ia64-*-hpux*

Building GCC on this target requires the GNU Assembler. The bundled HP assembler will not work. To prevent GCC from using the wrong assembler, the option --with-gnu-as may be necessary.

*-ibm-aix*

Support for AIX version 3 and older was discontinued in GCC 3.4. Support for AIX version 4.2 and older was discontinued in GCC 4.5.

“out of memory” bootstrap failures may indicate a problem with process resource limits (ulimit). Hard limits are configured in the /etc/security/limits system configuration file.

GCC 4.9 and above require a C++ compiler for bootstrap. IBM VAC++ / xlC cannot bootstrap GCC. xlc can bootstrap an older version of GCC and G++ can bootstrap recent releases of GCC.

GCC can bootstrap with recent versions of IBM XLC, but bootstrapping with an earlier release of GCC is recommended. Bootstrapping with XLC requires a larger data segment, which can be enabled through the LDR_CNTRL environment variable, e.g.,

% LDR_CNTRL=MAXDATA=0x50000000
% export LDR_CNTRL

One can start with a pre-compiled version of GCC to build from sources. One may delete GCC’s “fixed” header files when starting with a version of GCC built for an earlier release of AIX.

To speed up the configuration phases of bootstrapping and installing GCC, one may use GNU Bash instead of AIX /bin/sh, e.g.,

% CONFIG_SHELL=/opt/freeware/bin/bash
% export CONFIG_SHELL

and then proceed as described in the build instructions, where we strongly recommend specifying an absolute path to invoke srcdir/configure.

Because GCC on AIX is built as a 32-bit executable by default, (although it can generate 64-bit programs) the GMP and MPFR libraries required by gfortran must be 32-bit libraries. Building GMP and MPFR as static archive libraries works better than shared libraries.

Errors involving alloca when building GCC generally are due to an incorrect definition of CC in the Makefile or mixing files compiled with the native C compiler and GCC. During the stage1 phase of the build, the native AIX compiler must be invoked as cc (not xlc). Once configure has been informed of xlc, one needs to use ‘make distclean’ to remove the configure cache files and ensure that CC environment variable does not provide a definition that will confuse configure. If this error occurs during stage2 or later, then the problem most likely is the version of Make (see above).

The native as and ld are recommended for bootstrapping on AIX. The GNU Assembler, GNU Linker, and GNU Binutils version 2.20 is the minimum level that supports bootstrap on AIX 5. The GNU Assembler has not been updated to support AIX 6 or AIX 7. The native AIX tools do interoperate with GCC.

AIX 7.1 added partial support for DWARF debugging, but full support requires AIX 7.1 TL03 SP7 that supports additional DWARF sections and fixes a bug in the assembler. AIX 7.1 TL03 SP5 distributed a version of libm.a missing important symbols; a fix for IV77796 will be included in SP6.

AIX 5.3 TL10, AIX 6.1 TL05 and AIX 7.1 TL00 introduced an AIX assembler change that sometimes produces corrupt assembly files causing AIX linker errors. The bug breaks GCC bootstrap on AIX and can cause compilation failures with existing GCC installations. An AIX iFix for AIX 5.3 is available (APAR IZ98385 for AIX 5.3 TL10, APAR IZ98477 for AIX 5.3 TL11 and IZ98134 for AIX 5.3 TL12). AIX 5.3 TL11 SP8, AIX 5.3 TL12 SP5, AIX 6.1 TL04 SP11, AIX 6.1 TL05 SP7, AIX 6.1 TL06 SP6, AIX 6.1 TL07 and AIX 7.1 TL01 should include the fix.

Building libstdc++.a requires a fix for an AIX Assembler bug APAR IY26685 (AIX 4.3) or APAR IY25528 (AIX 5.1). It also requires a fix for another AIX Assembler bug and a co-dependent AIX Archiver fix referenced as APAR IY53606 (AIX 5.2) or as APAR IY54774 (AIX 5.1)

‘libstdc++’ in GCC 3.4 increments the major version number of the shared object and GCC installation places the libstdc++.a shared library in a common location which will overwrite the and GCC 3.3 version of the shared library. Applications either need to be re-linked against the new shared library or the GCC 3.1 and GCC 3.3 versions of the ‘libstdc++’ shared object needs to be available to the AIX runtime loader. The GCC 3.1 ‘libstdc++.so.4’, if present, and GCC 3.3 ‘libstdc++.so.5’ shared objects can be installed for runtime dynamic loading using the following steps to set the ‘F_LOADONLY’ flag in the shared object for each multilib libstdc++.a installed:

% ar -x libstdc++.a libstdc++.so.4 libstdc++.so.5

Enable the ‘F_LOADONLY’ flag so that the shared object will be available for runtime dynamic loading, but not linking:

% strip -e libstdc++.so.4 libstdc++.so.5

% ar -q libstdc++.a libstdc++.so.4 libstdc++.so.5

Eventually, the --with-aix-soname=svr4 configure option may drop the need for this procedure for libraries that support it.

Linking executables and shared libraries may produce warnings of duplicate symbols. The assembly files generated by GCC for AIX always have included multiple symbol definitions for certain global variable and function declarations in the original program. The warnings should not prevent the linker from producing a correct library or runnable executable.

AIX 4.3 utilizes a “large format” archive to support both 32-bit and 64-bit object modules. The routines provided in AIX 4.3.0 and AIX 4.3.1 to parse archive libraries did not handle the new format correctly. These routines are used by GCC and result in error messages during linking such as “not a COFF file”. The version of the routines shipped with AIX 4.3.1 should work for a 32-bit environment. The -g option of the archive command may be used to create archives of 32-bit objects using the original “small format”. A correct version of the routines is shipped with AIX 4.3.2 and above.

Some versions of the AIX binder (linker) can fail with a relocation overflow severe error when the -bbigtoc option is used to link GCC-produced object files into an executable that overflows the TOC. A fix for APAR IX75823 (OVERFLOW DURING LINK WHEN USING GCC AND -BBIGTOC) is available from IBM Customer Support and from its techsupport.services.ibm.com website as PTF U455193.

The AIX 4.3.2.1 linker (bos.rte.bind_cmds Level 4.3.2.1) will dump core with a segmentation fault when invoked by any version of GCC. A fix for APAR IX87327 is available from IBM Customer Support and from its techsupport.services.ibm.com website as PTF U461879. This fix is incorporated in AIX 4.3.3 and above.

The initial assembler shipped with AIX 4.3.0 generates incorrect object files. A fix for APAR IX74254 (64BIT DISASSEMBLED OUTPUT FROM COMPILER FAILS TO ASSEMBLE/BIND) is available from IBM Customer Support and from its techsupport.services.ibm.com website as PTF U453956. This fix is incorporated in AIX 4.3.1 and above.

AIX provides National Language Support (NLS). Compilers and assemblers use NLS to support locale-specific representations of various data formats including floating-point numbers (e.g., ‘.’ vs ‘,’ for separating decimal fractions). There have been problems reported where GCC does not produce the same floating-point formats that the assembler expects. If one encounters this problem, set the LANG environment variable to ‘C’ or ‘En_US’.

A default can be specified with the -mcpu=cpu_type switch and using the configure option --with-cpu-cpu_type.

iq2000-*-elf

Vitesse IQ2000 processors. These are used in embedded applications. There are no standard Unix configurations.

lm32-*-elf

lm32-*-uclinux

Lattice Mico32 processor. This configuration is intended for embedded systems running uClinux.

LoongArch

m32c-*-elf

m32r-*-elf

m68k-*-*

By default, ‘m68k-*-elf*’, ‘m68k-*-rtems’, ‘m68k-*-uclinux’ and ‘m68k-*-linux’ build libraries for both M680x0 and ColdFire processors. If you only need the M680x0 libraries, you can omit the ColdFire ones by passing --with-arch=m68k to configure. Alternatively, you can omit the M680x0 libraries by passing --with-arch=cf to configure. These targets default to 5206 or 5475 code as appropriate for the target system when configured with --with-arch=cf and 68020 code otherwise.

The ‘m68k-*-netbsd’ and ‘m68k-*-openbsd’ targets also support the --with-arch option. They will generate ColdFire CFV4e code when configured with --with-arch=cf and 68020 code otherwise.

You can override the default processors listed above by configuring with --with-cpu=target. This target can either be a -mcpu argument or one of the following values: ‘m68000’, ‘m68010’, ‘m68020’, ‘m68030’, ‘m68040’, ‘m68060’, ‘m68020-40’ and ‘m68020-60’.

m68k-*-uclinux

GCC 4.3 changed the uClinux configuration so that it uses the ‘m68k-linux-gnu’ ABI rather than the ‘m68k-elf’ ABI. It also added improved support for C++ and flat shared libraries, both of which were ABI changes.

microblaze-*-elf

Xilinx MicroBlaze processor. This configuration is intended for embedded systems.

mips-*-*

If on a MIPS system you get an error message saying “does not have gp sections for all it’s [sic] sectons [sic]”, don’t worry about it. This happens whenever you use GAS with the MIPS linker, but there is not really anything wrong, and it is okay to use the output file. You can stop such warnings by installing the GNU linker.

It would be nice to extend GAS to produce the gp tables, but they are optional, and there should not be a warning about their absence.

The libstdc++ atomic locking routines for MIPS targets requires MIPS II and later. A patch went in just after the GCC 3.3 release to make ‘mips*-*-*’ use the generic implementation instead. You can also configure for ‘mipsel-elf’ as a workaround. The ‘mips*-*-linux*’ target continues to use the MIPS II routines. More work on this is expected in future releases.

The built-in __sync_* functions are available on MIPS II and later systems and others that support the ‘ll’, ‘sc’ and ‘sync’ instructions. This can be overridden by passing --with-llsc or --without-llsc when configuring GCC. Since the Linux kernel emulates these instructions if they are missing, the default for ‘mips*-*-linux*’ targets is --with-llsc. The --with-llsc and --without-llsc configure options may be overridden at compile time by passing the -mllsc or -mno-llsc options to the compiler.

MIPS systems check for division by zero (unless -mno-check-zero-division is passed to the compiler) by generating either a conditional trap or a break instruction. Using trap results in smaller code, but is only supported on MIPS II and later. Also, some versions of the Linux kernel have a bug that prevents trap from generating the proper signal (SIGFPE). To enable the use of break, use the --with-divide=breaks configure option when configuring GCC. The default is to use traps on systems that support them.

moxie-*-elf

msp430-*-elf*

‘msp430-*-elf’ is the standard configuration with most GCC features enabled by default.

‘msp430-*-elfbare’ is tuned for a bare-metal environment, and disables features related to shared libraries and other functionality not used for this device. This reduces code and data usage of the GCC libraries, resulting in a minimal run-time environment by default.

nds32le-*-elf

nds32be-*-elf

nvptx-*-none

Instead of GNU binutils, you will need to install nvptx-tools. Tell GCC where to find it: --with-build-time-tools=[install-nvptx-tools]/nvptx-none/bin.

You will need newlib 4.3.0 or later. It can be automatically built together with GCC. For this, add a symbolic link to nvptx-newlib’s newlib directory to the directory containing the GCC sources.

Use the --disable-sjlj-exceptions and --enable-newlib-io-long-long options when configuring.

The --with-arch option may be specified to override the default value for the -march option, and to also build corresponding target libraries. The default is --with-arch=sm_30.

For example, if --with-arch=sm_70 is specified, -march=sm_30 and -march=sm_70 target libraries are built, and code generation defaults to -march=sm_70.

or1k-*-elf

The OpenRISC 1000 32-bit processor with delay slots. This configuration is intended for embedded systems.

or1k-*-linux

powerpc-*-*

You can specify a default version for the -mcpu=cpu_type switch by using the configure option --with-cpu-cpu_type.

powerpc-*-darwin*

Pre-installed versions of Mac OS X may not include any developer tools, meaning that you will not be able to build GCC from source. Tool binaries are available at https://opensource.apple.com.

This version of GCC requires at least cctools-590.36. The cctools-590.36 package referenced from https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2006-03/msg00507.html will not work on systems older than 10.3.9 (aka darwin7.9.0).

powerpc-*-elf

powerpc*-*-linux-gnu*

powerpc-*-netbsd*

powerpc-*-eabisim

Embedded PowerPC system in big endian mode for use in running under the PSIM simulator.

powerpc-*-eabi

powerpcle-*-elf

powerpcle-*-eabisim

Embedded PowerPC system in little endian mode for use in running under the PSIM simulator.

powerpcle-*-eabi

rl78-*-elf

The Renesas RL78 processor. This configuration is intended for embedded systems.

riscv32-*-elf

The RISC-V RV32 instruction set. This configuration is intended for embedded systems. This (and all other RISC-V) targets require the binutils 2.30 release.

riscv32-*-linux

The RISC-V RV32 instruction set running GNU/Linux. This (and all other RISC-V) targets require the binutils 2.30 release.

riscv64-*-elf

The RISC-V RV64 instruction set. This configuration is intended for embedded systems. This (and all other RISC-V) targets require the binutils 2.30 release.

riscv64-*-linux

The RISC-V RV64 instruction set running GNU/Linux. This (and all other RISC-V) targets require the binutils 2.30 release.

rx-*-elf

s390-*-linux*

s390x-*-linux*

s390x-ibm-tpf*

zSeries system (64-bit) running TPF. This platform is supported as cross-compilation target only.

*-*-solaris2*

Support for Solaris 11.3 and earlier has been removed in GCC 15. Support for Solaris 10 has been removed in GCC 10. Support for Solaris 9 has been removed in GCC 5. Support for Solaris 8 has been removed in GCC 4.8. Support for Solaris 7 has been removed in GCC 4.6.

You need to install the system/header, system/linker, and developer/assembler packages.

Trying to use the compatibility tools in /usr/ucb, from the compatibility/ucb package, to install GCC has been observed to cause trouble. The fix is to remove /usr/ucb from your PATH.

The build process works more smoothly with the legacy Solaris tools so, if you have /usr/xpg4/bin in your PATH, we recommend that you place /usr/bin before /usr/xpg4/bin for the duration of the build.

We recommend the use of the Solaris assembler or the GNU assembler, in conjunction with the Solaris linker.

The GNU as versions included in Solaris 11.4, from GNU binutils 2.30.1 or newer (in /usr/bin/gas and /usr/gnu/bin/as), are known to work. The version from GNU binutils 2.42 is known to work as well. Recent versions of the Solaris assembler in /usr/bin/as work almost as well, though. To use GNU as, configure with the options --with-gnu-as --with-as=/usr/gnu/bin/as.

For linking, the Solaris linker is preferred. If you want to use the GNU linker instead, the version in Solaris 11.4, from GNU binutils 2.30.1 or newer (in /usr/gnu/bin/ld and /usr/bin/gld), works, as does the version from GNU binutils 2.42. However, it generally lacks platform specific features, so better stay with Solaris ld. To use the LTO linker plugin (-fuse-linker-plugin) with GNU ld, GNU binutils must be configured with --enable-largefile. To use Solaris ld, we recommend to configure with --without-gnu-ld --with-ld=/usr/bin/ld to guarantee the right linker is found irrespective of the user’s PATH.

Note that your mileage may vary if you use a combination of the GNU tools and the Solaris tools: while the combination GNU as and Solaris ld works well, the reverse combination Solaris as with GNU ld may fail to build or cause memory corruption at runtime in some cases for C++ programs.

To enable symbol versioning in ‘libstdc++’ and other runtime libraries with the Solaris linker, you need to have any version of GNU c++filt, which is part of GNU binutils. Symbol versioning will be disabled if no appropriate version is found. Solaris c++filt from the Solaris Studio compilers does not work.

In order to build the GNU Ada compiler, GNAT, a working GNAT is needed. Since Solaris 11.4 SRU 39, GNAT 11, 12 or 13 is bundled in the developer/gcc/gcc-gnat package.

In order to build the GNU D compiler, GDC, a working ‘libphobos’ is needed. That library wasn’t built by default in GCC 9–11 on SPARC, or on x86 when the Solaris assembler is used, but can be enabled by configuring with --enable-libphobos. Also, GDC 9.4.0 is required on x86, while GDC 9.3.0 is known to work on SPARC.

The versions of the GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP), the MPFR library and the MPC library bundled with Solaris 11.4 are recent enough to match GCC’s requirements.

sparc*-*-*

This section contains general configuration information for all SPARC-based platforms. In addition to reading this section, please read all other sections that match your target.

Newer versions of the GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP), the MPFR library and the MPC library are known to be miscompiled by earlier versions of GCC on these platforms. We therefore recommend the use of the exact versions of these libraries listed as minimal versions in the prerequisites.

sparc-sun-solaris2*

When GCC is configured to use GNU binutils 2.14 or later, the binaries produced are smaller than the ones produced using Solaris native tools; this difference is quite significant for binaries containing debugging information.

Starting with Solaris 7, the operating system is capable of executing 64-bit SPARC V9 binaries. GCC 3.1 and later properly supports this; the -m64 option enables 64-bit code generation.

When configuring the GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP), the MPFR library or the MPC library on Solaris, the canonical target triplet must be specified as the build parameter on the configure line. This target triplet can be obtained by invoking ./config.guess in the toplevel source directory of GCC (and not that of GMP or MPFR or MPC). For example:

% srcdir/configure --build=sparc-sun-solaris2.11 --prefix=dirname

sparc-*-linux*

sparc64-*-solaris2*

sparcv9-*-solaris2*

When configuring a 64-bit-default GCC on Solaris/SPARC, you must use a build compiler that generates 64-bit code, either by default or by specifying ‘CC='gcc -m64' CXX='g++ -m64' GDC='gdc -m64'’ to configure. Additionally, you must pass --build=sparcv9-sun-solaris2.11 or --build=sparc64-sun-solaris2.11 because config.guess misdetects this situation, which can cause build failures.

When configuring the GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP), the MPFR library or the MPC library, the canonical target triplet must be specified as the build parameter on the configure line. For example:

% srcdir/configure --build=sparcv9-sun-solaris2.11 --prefix=dirname

c6x-*-*

visium-*-elf

*-*-vxworks*

Support for VxWorks is in flux. At present GCC supports only the very recent VxWorks 5.5 (aka Tornado 2.2) release, and only on PowerPC. We welcome patches for other architectures supported by VxWorks 5.5. Support for VxWorks AE would also be welcome; we believe this is merely a matter of writing an appropriate “configlette” (see below). We are not interested in supporting older, a.out or COFF-based, versions of VxWorks in GCC 3.

VxWorks comes with an older version of GCC installed in $WIND_BASE/host; we recommend you do not overwrite it. Choose an installation prefix entirely outside $WIND_BASE. Before running configure, create the directories prefix and prefix/bin. Link or copy the appropriate assembler, linker, etc. into prefix/bin, and set your PATH to include that directory while running both configure and make.

You must give configure the --with-headers=$WIND_BASE/target/h switch so that it can find the VxWorks system headers. Since VxWorks is a cross compilation target only, you must also specify --target=target. configure will attempt to create the directory prefix/target/sys-include and copy files into it; make sure the user running configure has sufficient privilege to do so.

GCC’s exception handling runtime requires a special “configlette” module, contrib/gthr_supp_vxw_5x.c. Follow the instructions in that file to add the module to your kernel build. (Future versions of VxWorks will incorporate this module.)

x86_64-*-*, amd64-*-*

GCC supports the x86-64 architecture implemented by the AMD64 processor (amd64-*-* is an alias for x86_64-*-*) on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD. On GNU/Linux the default is a bi-arch compiler which is able to generate both 64-bit x86-64 and 32-bit x86 code (via the -m32 switch).

x86_64-*-solaris2*

Unlike other systems, without special options a bi-arch compiler is built which generates 32-bit code by default, but can generate 64-bit x86-64 code with the -m64 switch. Since GCC 4.7, there is also a configuration that defaults to 64-bit code, but can generate 32-bit code with -m32. To configure and build this way, you have to provide all support libraries like libgmp as 64-bit code, configure with --target=x86_64-pc-solaris2.11 and ‘CC=gcc -m64’.

xtensa*-*-elf

This target is intended for embedded Xtensa systems using the ‘newlib’ C library. It uses ELF but does not support shared objects. Designed-defined instructions specified via the Tensilica Instruction Extension (TIE) language are only supported through inline assembly.

The Xtensa configuration information must be specified prior to building GCC. The include/xtensa-config.h header file contains the configuration information. If you created your own Xtensa configuration with the Xtensa Processor Generator, the downloaded files include a customized copy of this header file, which you can use to replace the default header file.

xtensa*-*-linux*

This target is for Xtensa systems running GNU/Linux. It supports ELF shared objects and the GNU C library (glibc). It also generates position-independent code (PIC) regardless of whether the -fpic or -fPIC options are used. In other respects, this target is the same as the ‘xtensa*-*-elf’ target.

Microsoft Windows

Intel 16-bit versions

The 16-bit versions of Microsoft Windows, such as Windows 3.1, are not supported.

However, the 32-bit port has limited support for Microsoft Windows 3.11 in the Win32s environment, as a target only. See below.

Intel 32-bit versions

The 32-bit versions of Windows, including Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows XP, and Windows Vista, are supported by several different target platforms. These targets differ in which Windows subsystem they target and which C libraries are used.

Intel 64-bit versions

GCC contains support for x86-64 using the mingw-w64 runtime library, available from https://www.mingw-w64.org/downloads/. This library should be used with the target triple x86_64-pc-mingw32.

Windows CE

Windows CE is supported as a target only on Hitachi SuperH (sh-wince-pe), and MIPS (mips-wince-pe).

Other Windows Platforms

*-*-cygwin

GCC will build under Cygwin without modification; it does not build with Microsoft’s C++ compiler and there are no plans to make it do so.

The Cygwin native compiler can be configured to target any 32-bit x86 cpu architecture desired; the default is i686-pc-cygwin. It should be used with as up-to-date a version of binutils as possible; use either the latest official GNU binutils release in the Cygwin distribution, or version 2.20 or above if building your own.

*-*-mingw32

GCC will build with and support only MinGW runtime 3.12 and later. Earlier versions of headers are incompatible with the new default semantics of extern inline in -std=c99 and -std=gnu99 modes.

Older systems

GCC contains support files for many older (1980s and early 1990s) Unix variants. For the most part, support for these systems has not been deliberately removed, but it has not been maintained for several years and may suffer from bitrot.

Starting with GCC 3.1, each release has a list of “obsoleted” systems. Support for these systems is still present in that release, but configure will fail unless the --enable-obsolete option is given. Unless a maintainer steps forward, support for these systems will be removed from the next release of GCC.

Support for old systems as hosts for GCC can cause problems if the workarounds for compiler, library and operating system bugs affect the cleanliness or maintainability of the rest of GCC. In some cases, to bring GCC up on such a system, if still possible with current GCC, may require first installing an old version of GCC which did work on that system, and using it to compile a more recent GCC, to avoid bugs in the vendor compiler. Old releases of GCC 1 and GCC 2 are available in the old-releases directory on the GCC mirror sites. Header bugs may generally be avoided using fixincludes, but bugs or deficiencies in libraries and the operating system may still cause problems.

Support for older systems as targets for cross-compilation is less problematic than support for them as hosts for GCC; if an enthusiast wishes to make such a target work again (including resurrecting any of the targets that never worked with GCC 2, starting from the last version before they were removed), patches following the usual requirements would be likely to be accepted, since they should not affect the support for more modern targets.

Some of the information on specific systems above relates to such older systems, but much of the information about GCC on such systems (which may no longer be applicable to current GCC) is to be found in the GCC texinfo manual.

all ELF targets (SVR4, Solaris, etc.)

C++ support is significantly better on ELF targets if you use the GNU linker; duplicate copies of inlines, vtables and template instantiations will be discarded automatically.

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