If you have problems building your own cross-compiler for ArmLinux, you can download a tarball with a precompiled C/C++ cross-compiler from this page. The compiler was built using Chris Rutter's description.

This compiler was built on an i386 Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 system, which uses glibc-2.0.7. It works for us, YMMV.

Source files

The following sources were used to build this cross-compiler:

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Download

Get your copy of the cross-compiler here:

arm-linux-cross.tar.bz2	14 Feb 2000 00:06:15	20,206,893 bytes
i386-linux to arm-linux C/C++ cross compiler binary tarball. Note that clicking the link will get you a 19 megabyte file! (tar, bz2). If you find yourself at the wrong end of a slow link, Netscape may abort the transfer halfway through. If this happens to you, use GNU wget (see the link on this page).

arm-linux-cross-3.0.tar.bz2	12 Apr 2001 23:42:19	33,630,431 bytes
Tarball with the beta gcc-3.0 i386-linux to arm-linux C/C++ cross compiler. Note: this file is here just for people who want to try gcc-3.0 on ARM. Gcc-3.0 is beta software! If it breaks don't say that we didn't warn you. Use arm-linux-crosss.tar.bz2 if you want a stable compiler. Note that clicking the link will get you a 32 megabyte file! (tar, bz2). If you find yourself at the wrong end of a slow link, Netscape may abort the transfer halfway through. If this happens to you, use GNU wget (see the link on this page).

If you have problems downloading the complete 19 megabyte, use a download tool that supports continue mode on http connections. GNU wget can do the trick.

Installing the tarball

As gcc has hardcoded paths in it, you have to install it at the same place as it is on my system.

How to install:

mkdir /data
mkdir /data/lart
cd /data/lart
bzip2 -dc arm-linux-cross.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -

Using the cross-compiler

Simply add /data/lart/cross/bin to your path and invoke the compiler as arm-linux-gcc (for the C compiler) or arm-linux-g++ (for the C++ compiler). All other binutils are also available, have a look in /data/lart/cross/bin.

Known bugs

Compiling linux-2.2.xx kernels with this compiler sometimes fails (read: the kernel crashes at boot time) although linux-2.2.14 and newer don't seem to suffer from this bug. Linux-2.3.xx kernels can be compiled without risk with this compiler; that is: if you take the latest version of the kernel plus the ARM patch set.

New compilers

Newer compilers are available from the arm-linux ftp site and are mirrored over here:

cross-3.0.tar.bz2	20 Jul 2001 23:41:59	40,880,037 bytes
i386-linux to arm-linux C/C++/Objective C/Fortran 77/Java precompiled 3.0 cross compiler. NOTE: the C++ compiler in this package does NOT work. A bug report has been send to the GCC bugs database (report number 3774) .Clicking the link will get you a 39 megabyte file! (tar, bz2). If you find yourself at the wrong end of a slow link, Netscape may abort the transfer halfway through. If this happens to you, use GNU wget (see the link on this page).

cross-2.95.3.tar.bz2	20 Jul 2001 23:40:43	36,273,634 bytes
i386-linux to arm-linux C/C++/Objective C/Fortran 77/Java precompiled 2.95.3 cross compiler. Note that clicking the link will get you a 35 megabyte file! (tar, bz2). If you find yourself at the wrong end of a slow link, Netscape may abort the transfer halfway through. If this happens to you, use GNU wget (see the link on this page).

Make sure you read the README file.

25 Feb 2004