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fixeria, 04/18/2022 12:36 PM
Describe building the old toolchain using Docker
| 1 | 12 | fixeria | h1. Toolchain |
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| 3 | 20 | fixeria | To compile the target firmware for [[OsmocomBB]] or [[SIMtrace:]], you need a GNU toolchain for ARM. You can either use binary packages provided by your distribution (recommended), or build a toolchain from source code yourself. There are various pre-compiled toolchains available (e.g. Code Sourcery), but not all of them will produce working firmware. We're trying to support all these configurations, but it might take a while to identify the source of a problem. If you have persistent errors when compiling, try using a different package. |
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| 5 | 20 | fixeria | h3. Binary packages |
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| 7 | 12 | fixeria | You can use a pre-compiled toolchain provided by your GNU/Linux distribution. |
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| 9 | 12 | fixeria | For Debian based distributions (Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc.), use the following command: |
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| 11 | 12 | fixeria | <pre> |
| 12 | $ sudo apt install gcc-arm-none-eabi |
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| 13 | </pre> |
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| 15 | 12 | fixeria | For ArchLinux (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/arm-none-eabi-gcc/): |
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| 17 | 12 | fixeria | <pre> |
| 18 | 19 | fixeria | $ sudo pacman -S arm-none-eabi-gcc arm-none-eabi-newlib |
| 19 | 12 | fixeria | </pre> |
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| 21 | 20 | fixeria | The following versions are confirmed to work: |
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| 23 | 20 | fixeria | <pre> |
| 24 | Name : arm-none-eabi-gcc |
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| 25 | Version : 10.2.0-1 |
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| 26 | --- |
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| 27 | Name : arm-none-eabi-binutils |
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| 28 | Version : 2.34-1 |
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| 29 | --- |
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| 30 | Name : arm-none-eabi-newlib |
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| 31 | Version : 3.3.0-1 |
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| 32 | </pre> |
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| 34 | 20 | fixeria | h3. Building from source |
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| 36 | If a pre-compiled toolchain provided by your distribution fails to produce working firmware images, you can build your own toolchain known to be working with [[OsmocomBB]], see here: [[GnuArmToolchain]]. |
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| 38 | h3. Building old branches |
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| 40 | 21 | fixeria | If you need to build the *firmware* from old unmaintained branches (sylvain/burst_ind, sylvain/testing, jolly/testing, etc.), an older version of toolchain is needed. |
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| 42 | 21 | fixeria | This combination is known to work: |
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| 44 | * binutils 2.21.1a, |
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| 45 | * newlib 1.19.0, |
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| 46 | * gcc 4.8.2. |
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| 48 | It can be compiled using our "Dockerfiles":https://cgit.osmocom.org/docker-playground/: |
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| 50 | <pre> |
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| 51 | $ git clone https://git.osmocom.org/docker-playground |
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| 52 | $ cd docker-playground/arm-none-eabi-gcc-4.8.2 |
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| 53 | $ make |
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| 54 | </pre> |
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| 56 | Usage example: |
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| 58 | <pre> |
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| 59 | $ cd osmocom-bb |
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| 60 | $ docker run --user $(id -u) -v $(pwd):/data -it --rm root/arm-none-eabi-gcc-4.8.2 |
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| 61 | # cd /data/src |
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| 62 | # make firmware |
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| 63 | </pre> |
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| 65 | When using toolchain with GCC >=4.8, the firmware can be compiled, but will hang as soon as you want to sync to an ARFCN. |
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| 66 | This issue has been fixed in master: http://cgit.osmocom.org/osmocom-bb/commit/?id=a903b3c1ee27047c79728b18ff6340d23d1aad2e. |
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| 68 | 1 | tsaitgaist | h3. Mac OS X |
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| 70 | 17 | fixeria | Apparently the arm-elf-gcc 4.3.2 from ports for MacOS X can compile the firmware as well after symlinking _/opt/local/bin/arm-elf-ranlib_ to _/opt/local/bin/arm-elf-linux-ranlib_ and _/opt/local/bin/arm-elf-strip_ to _/opt/local/bin/arm-elf-linux-strip_. If you omit the links, there will be unresolvable references to symbols in the libraries. |
