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51 * Installing GCC:: This document describes the generic installation
52 procedure for GCC as well as detailing some target
53 specific installation instructions.
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55 * Specific:: Host/target specific installation notes for GCC.
56 * Binaries:: Where to get pre-compiled binaries.
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64 1 Installing GCC
65 ****************
66
67 The latest version of this document is always available at
68 https://gcc.gnu.org/install/. It refers to the current development
69 sources, instructions for specific released versions are included with
70 the sources.
71
72 This document describes the generic installation procedure for GCC as
73 well as detailing some target specific installation instructions.
74
75 GCC includes several components that previously were separate
76 distributions with their own installation instructions. This document
77 supersedes all package-specific installation instructions.
78
79 _Before_ starting the build/install procedure please check the *note
80 host/target specific installation notes: Specific. We recommend you
81 browse the entire generic installation instructions before you proceed.
82
83 Lists of successful builds for released versions of GCC are available
84 at <https://gcc.gnu.org/buildstat.html>. These lists are updated as new
85 information becomes available.
86
87 The installation procedure itself is broken into five steps.
88
89 * Menu:
90
91 * Prerequisites::
92 * Downloading the source::
93 * Configuration::
94 * Building::
95 * Testing:: (optional)
96 * Final install::
97
98 Please note that GCC does not support 'make uninstall' and probably
99 won't do so in the near future as this would open a can of worms.
100 Instead, we suggest that you install GCC into a directory of its own and
101 simply remove that directory when you do not need that specific version
102 of GCC any longer, and, if shared libraries are installed there as well,
103 no more binaries exist that use them.
104
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107
108 2 Prerequisites
109 ***************
110
111 GCC requires that various tools and packages be available for use in the
112 build procedure. Modifying GCC sources requires additional tools
113 described below.
114
115 Tools/packages necessary for building GCC
116 =========================================
117
118 ISO C++11 compiler
119 Necessary to bootstrap GCC. GCC 4.8.3 or newer has sufficient
120 support for used C++11 features, with earlier GCC versions you
121 might run into implementation bugs.
122
123 Versions of GCC prior to 11 also allow bootstrapping with an ISO
124 C++98 compiler, versions of GCC prior to 4.8 also allow
125 bootstrapping with a ISO C89 compiler, and versions of GCC prior to
126 3.4 also allow bootstrapping with a traditional (K&R) C compiler.
127
128 To build all languages in a cross-compiler or other configuration
129 where 3-stage bootstrap is not performed, you need to start with an
130 existing GCC binary (version 4.8.3 or later) because source code
131 for language frontends other than C might use GCC extensions.
132
133 C standard library and headers
134
135 In order to build GCC, the C standard library and headers must be
136 present for all target variants for which target libraries will be
137 built (and not only the variant of the host C++ compiler).
138
139 This affects the popular 'x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' platform (among
140 other multilib targets), for which 64-bit ('x86_64') and 32-bit
141 ('i386') libc headers are usually packaged separately. If you do a
142 build of a native compiler on 'x86_64-pc-linux-gnu', make sure you
143 either have the 32-bit libc developer package properly installed
144 (the exact name of the package depends on your distro) or you must
145 build GCC as a 64-bit only compiler by configuring with the option
146 '--disable-multilib'. Otherwise, you may encounter an error such
147 as 'fatal error: gnu/stubs-32.h: No such file'
148
149 GNAT
150
151 In order to build GNAT, the Ada compiler, you need a working GNAT
152 compiler (GCC version 5.1 or later).
153
154 This includes GNAT tools such as 'gnatmake' and 'gnatlink', since
155 the Ada front end is written in Ada and uses some GNAT-specific
156 extensions.
157
158 In order to build a cross compiler, it is strongly recommended to
159 install the new compiler as native first, and then use it to build
160 the cross compiler. Other native compiler versions may work but
161 this is not guaranteed and will typically fail with hard to
162 understand compilation errors during the build.
163
164 Similarly, it is strongly recommended to use an older version of
165 GNAT to build GNAT. More recent versions of GNAT than the version
166 built are not guaranteed to work and will often fail during the
167 build with compilation errors.
168
169 Note that 'configure' does not test whether the GNAT installation
170 works and has a sufficiently recent version; if too old a GNAT
171 version is installed and '--enable-languages=ada' is used, the
172 build will fail.
173
174 'ADA_INCLUDE_PATH' and 'ADA_OBJECT_PATH' environment variables must
175 not be set when building the Ada compiler, the Ada tools, or the
176 Ada runtime libraries. You can check that your build environment
177 is clean by verifying that 'gnatls -v' lists only one explicit path
178 in each section.
179
180 GDC
181
182 In order to build GDC, the D compiler, you need a working GDC
183 compiler (GCC version 9.4 or later) and D runtime library,
184 'libphobos', as the D front end is written in D.
185
186 Versions of GDC prior to 12 can be built with an ISO C++11
187 compiler, which can then be installed and used to bootstrap newer
188 versions of the D front end.
189
190 It is strongly recommended to use an older version of GDC to build
191 GDC. More recent versions of GDC than the version built are not
192 guaranteed to work and will often fail during the build with
193 compilation errors relating to deprecations or removed features.
194
195 Note that 'configure' does not test whether the GDC installation
196 works and has a sufficiently recent version. Though the
197 implementation of the D front end does not make use of any
198 GDC-specific extensions, or novel features of the D language, if
199 too old a GDC version is installed and '--enable-languages=d' is
200 used, the build will fail.
201
202 On some targets, 'libphobos' isn't enabled by default, but compiles
203 and works if '--enable-libphobos' is used. Specifics are
204 documented for affected targets.
205
206 A "working" POSIX compatible shell, or GNU bash
207
208 Necessary when running 'configure' because some '/bin/sh' shells
209 have bugs and may crash when configuring the target libraries. In
210 other cases, '/bin/sh' or 'ksh' have disastrous corner-case
211 performance problems. This can cause target 'configure' runs to
212 literally take days to complete in some cases.
213
214 So on some platforms '/bin/ksh' is sufficient, on others it isn't.
215 See the host/target specific instructions for your platform, or use
216 'bash' to be sure. Then set 'CONFIG_SHELL' in your environment to
217 your "good" shell prior to running 'configure'/'make'.
218
219 'zsh' is not a fully compliant POSIX shell and will not work when
220 configuring GCC.
221
222 A POSIX or SVR4 awk
223
224 Necessary for creating some of the generated source files for GCC.
225 If in doubt, use a recent GNU awk version, as some of the older
226 ones are broken. GNU awk version 3.1.5 is known to work.
227
228 GNU binutils
229
230 Necessary in some circumstances, optional in others. See the
231 host/target specific instructions for your platform for the exact
232 requirements.
233
234 Note binutils 2.35 or newer is required for LTO to work correctly
235 with GNU libtool that includes doing a bootstrap with LTO enabled.
236
237 gzip version 1.2.4 (or later) or
238 bzip2 version 1.0.2 (or later)
239
240 Necessary to uncompress GCC 'tar' files when source code is
241 obtained via HTTPS mirror sites.
242
243 GNU make version 3.80 (or later)
244
245 You must have GNU make installed to build GCC.
246
247 GNU tar version 1.14 (or later)
248
249 Necessary (only on some platforms) to untar the source code. Many
250 systems' 'tar' programs will also work, only try GNU 'tar' if you
251 have problems.
252
253 Perl version between 5.6.1 and 5.6.24
254
255 Necessary when targeting Darwin, building 'libstdc++', and not
256 using '--disable-symvers'. Necessary when targeting Solaris 2 with
257 Solaris 'ld' and not using '--disable-symvers'.
258
259 Necessary when regenerating 'Makefile' dependencies in libiberty.
260 Necessary when regenerating 'libiberty/functions.texi'. Necessary
261 when generating manpages from Texinfo manuals. Used by various
262 scripts to generate some files included in the source repository
263 (mainly Unicode-related and rarely changing) from source tables.
264
265 Used by 'automake'.
266
267 If available, enables parallel testing of 'libgomp' in case that
268 'flock' is not available.
269
270 Several support libraries are necessary to build GCC, some are
271 required, others optional. While any sufficiently new version of
272 required tools usually work, library requirements are generally
273 stricter. Newer versions may work in some cases, but it's safer to use
274 the exact versions documented. We appreciate bug reports about problems
275 with newer versions, though. If your OS vendor provides packages for
276 the support libraries then using those packages may be the simplest way
277 to install the libraries.
278
279 GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP) version 4.3.2 (or later)
280
281 Necessary to build GCC. If a GMP source distribution is found in a
282 subdirectory of your GCC sources named 'gmp', it will be built
283 together with GCC. Alternatively, if GMP is already installed but
284 it is not in your library search path, you will have to configure
285 with the '--with-gmp' configure option. See also '--with-gmp-lib'
286 and '--with-gmp-include'. The in-tree build is only supported with
287 the GMP version that download_prerequisites installs.
288
289 MPFR Library version 3.1.0 (or later)
290
291 Necessary to build GCC. It can be downloaded from
292 <https://www.mpfr.org>. If an MPFR source distribution is found in
293 a subdirectory of your GCC sources named 'mpfr', it will be built
294 together with GCC. Alternatively, if MPFR is already installed but
295 it is not in your default library search path, the '--with-mpfr'
296 configure option should be used. See also '--with-mpfr-lib' and
297 '--with-mpfr-include'. The in-tree build is only supported with
298 the MPFR version that download_prerequisites installs.
299
300 MPC Library version 1.0.1 (or later)
301
302 Necessary to build GCC. It can be downloaded from
303 <https://www.multiprecision.org/mpc/>. If an MPC source
304 distribution is found in a subdirectory of your GCC sources named
305 'mpc', it will be built together with GCC. Alternatively, if MPC is
306 already installed but it is not in your default library search
307 path, the '--with-mpc' configure option should be used. See also
308 '--with-mpc-lib' and '--with-mpc-include'. The in-tree build is
309 only supported with the MPC version that download_prerequisites
310 installs.
311
312 isl Library version 0.15 or later.
313
314 Necessary to build GCC with the Graphite loop optimizations. It
315 can be downloaded from
316 <https://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/>. If an isl source
317 distribution is found in a subdirectory of your GCC sources named
318 'isl', it will be built together with GCC. Alternatively, the
319 '--with-isl' configure option should be used if isl is not
320 installed in your default library search path.
321
322 zstd Library.
323
324 Necessary to build GCC with zstd compression used for LTO bytecode.
325 The library is searched in your default library patch search.
326 Alternatively, the '--with-zstd' configure option should be used.
327
328 Tools/packages necessary for modifying GCC
329 ==========================================
330
331 autoconf version 2.69
332 GNU m4 version 1.4.6 (or later)
333
334 Necessary when modifying 'configure.ac', 'aclocal.m4', etc. to
335 regenerate 'configure' and 'config.in' files.
336
337 automake version 1.15.1
338
339 Necessary when modifying a 'Makefile.am' file to regenerate its
340 associated 'Makefile.in'.
341
342 Much of GCC does not use automake, so directly edit the
343 'Makefile.in' file. Specifically this applies to the 'gcc',
344 'intl', 'libcpp', 'libiberty', 'libobjc' directories as well as any
345 of their subdirectories.
346
347 For directories that use automake, GCC requires the latest release
348 in the 1.15 series, which is currently 1.15.1. When regenerating a
349 directory to a newer version, please update all the directories
350 using an older 1.15 to the latest released version.
351
352 gettext version 0.14.5 (or later)
353
354 Needed to regenerate 'gcc.pot'.
355
356 gperf version 2.7.2 (or later)
357
358 Necessary when modifying 'gperf' input files, e.g.
359 'gcc/cp/cfns.gperf' to regenerate its associated header file, e.g.
360 'gcc/cp/cfns.h'.
361
362 DejaGnu version 1.5.3 (or later)
363 Expect
364 Tcl
365
366 Necessary to run the GCC testsuite; see the section on testing for
367 details.
368
369 autogen version 5.5.4 (or later) and
370 guile version 1.4.1 (or later)
371
372 Necessary to regenerate 'fixinc/fixincl.x' from
373 'fixinc/inclhack.def' and 'fixinc/*.tpl'.
374
375 Necessary to run 'make check' for 'fixinc'.
376
377 Necessary to regenerate the top level 'Makefile.in' file from
378 'Makefile.tpl' and 'Makefile.def'.
379
380 Flex version 2.5.4 (or later)
381
382 Necessary when modifying '*.l' files.
383
384 Necessary to build GCC during development because the generated
385 output files are not included in the version-controlled source
386 repository. They are included in releases.
387
388 Texinfo version 4.7 (or later)
389
390 Necessary for running 'makeinfo' when modifying '*.texi' files to
391 test your changes.
392
393 Necessary for running 'make dvi' or 'make pdf' to create printable
394 documentation in DVI or PDF format. Texinfo version 4.8 or later
395 is required for 'make pdf'.
396
397 Necessary to build GCC documentation during development because the
398 generated output files are not included in the repository. They
399 are included in releases.
400
401 TeX (any working version)
402
403 Necessary for running 'texi2dvi' and 'texi2pdf', which are used
404 when running 'make dvi' or 'make pdf' to create DVI or PDF files,
405 respectively.
406
407 Sphinx version 1.0 (or later)
408
409 Necessary to regenerate 'jit/docs/_build/texinfo' from the '.rst'
410 files in the directories below 'jit/docs'.
411
412 git (any version)
413 SSH (any version)
414
415 Necessary to access the source repository. Public releases and
416 weekly snapshots of the development sources are also available via
417 HTTPS.
418
419 GNU diffutils version 2.7 (or later)
420
421 Useful when submitting patches for the GCC source code.
422
423 patch version 2.5.4 (or later)
424
425 Necessary when applying patches, created with 'diff', to one's own
426 sources.
427
428
429 File: gccinstall.info, Node: Downloading the source, Next: Configuration, Prev: Prerequisites, Up: Installing GCC
430
431 3 Downloading GCC
432 *****************
433
434 GCC is distributed via git and via HTTPS as tarballs compressed with
435 'gzip' or 'bzip2'.
436
437 Please refer to the releases web page for information on how to
438 obtain GCC.
439
440 The source distribution includes the C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran,
441 and Ada (in the case of GCC 3.1 and later) compilers, as well as runtime
442 libraries for C++, Objective-C, and Fortran. For previous versions
443 these were downloadable as separate components such as the core GCC
444 distribution, which included the C language front end and shared
445 components, and language-specific distributions including the language
446 front end and the language runtime (where appropriate).
447
448 If you also intend to build binutils (either to upgrade an existing
449 installation or for use in place of the corresponding tools of your OS),
450 unpack the binutils distribution either in the same directory or a
451 separate one. In the latter case, add symbolic links to any components
452 of the binutils you intend to build alongside the compiler ('bfd',
453 'binutils', 'gas', 'gprof', 'ld', 'opcodes', ...) to the directory
454 containing the GCC sources.
455
456 Likewise the GMP, MPFR and MPC libraries can be automatically built
457 together with GCC. You may simply run the
458 'contrib/download_prerequisites' script in the GCC source directory to
459 set up everything. Otherwise unpack the GMP, MPFR and/or MPC source
460 distributions in the directory containing the GCC sources and rename
461 their directories to 'gmp', 'mpfr' and 'mpc', respectively (or use
462 symbolic links with the same name).
463
464
465 File: gccinstall.info, Node: Configuration, Next: Building, Prev: Downloading the source, Up: Installing GCC
466
467 4 Installing GCC: Configuration
468 *******************************
469
470 Like most GNU software, GCC must be configured before it can be built.
471 This document describes the recommended configuration procedure for both
472 native and cross targets.
473
474 We use SRCDIR to refer to the toplevel source directory for GCC; we
475 use OBJDIR to refer to the toplevel build/object directory.
476
477 If you obtained the sources by cloning the repository, SRCDIR must
478 refer to the top 'gcc' directory, the one where the 'MAINTAINERS' file
479 can be found, and not its 'gcc' subdirectory, otherwise the build will
480 fail.
481
482 If either SRCDIR or OBJDIR is located on an automounted NFS file
483 system, the shell's built-in 'pwd' command will return temporary
484 pathnames. Using these can lead to various sorts of build problems. To
485 avoid this issue, set the 'PWDCMD' environment variable to an
486 automounter-aware 'pwd' command, e.g., 'pawd' or 'amq -w', during the
487 configuration and build phases.
488
489 First, we *highly* recommend that GCC be built into a separate
490 directory from the sources which does *not* reside within the source
491 tree. This is how we generally build GCC; building where SRCDIR ==
492 OBJDIR should still work, but doesn't get extensive testing; building
493 where OBJDIR is a subdirectory of SRCDIR is unsupported.
494
495 If you have previously built GCC in the same directory for a
496 different target machine, do 'make distclean' to delete all files that
497 might be invalid. One of the files this deletes is 'Makefile'; if 'make
498 distclean' complains that 'Makefile' does not exist or issues a message
499 like "don't know how to make distclean" it probably means that the
500 directory is already suitably clean. However, with the recommended
501 method of building in a separate OBJDIR, you should simply use a
502 different OBJDIR for each target.
503
504 Second, when configuring a native system, either 'cc' or 'gcc' must
505 be in your path or you must set 'CC' in your environment before running
506 configure. Otherwise the configuration scripts may fail.
507
508 To configure GCC:
509
510 % mkdir OBJDIR
511 % cd OBJDIR
512 % SRCDIR/configure [OPTIONS] [TARGET]
513
514 Distributor options
515 ===================
516
517 If you will be distributing binary versions of GCC, with modifications
518 to the source code, you should use the options described in this section
519 to make clear that your version contains modifications.
520
521 '--with-pkgversion=VERSION'
522 Specify a string that identifies your package. You may wish to
523 include a build number or build date. This version string will be
524 included in the output of 'gcc --version'. This suffix does not
525 replace the default version string, only the 'GCC' part.
526
527 The default value is 'GCC'.
528
529 '--with-bugurl=URL'
530 Specify the URL that users should visit if they wish to report a
531 bug. You are of course welcome to forward bugs reported to you to
532 the FSF, if you determine that they are not bugs in your
533 modifications.
534
535 The default value refers to the FSF's GCC bug tracker.
536
537 '--with-documentation-root-url=URL'
538 Specify the URL root that contains GCC option documentation. The
539 URL should end with a '/' character.
540
541 The default value is https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/.
542
543 '--with-changes-root-url=URL'
544 Specify the URL root that contains information about changes in GCC
545 releases like 'gcc-VERSION/changes.html'. The URL should end with
546 a '/' character.
547
548 The default value is https://gcc.gnu.org/.
549
550 Host, Build and Target specification
551 ====================================
552
553 Specify the host, build and target machine configurations. You do this
554 when you run the 'configure' script.
555
556 The "build" machine is the system which you are using, the "host"
557 machine is the system where you want to run the resulting compiler
558 (normally the build machine), and the "target" machine is the system for
559 which you want the compiler to generate code.
560
561 If you are building a compiler to produce code for the machine it
562 runs on (a native compiler), you normally do not need to specify any
563 operands to 'configure'; it will try to guess the type of machine you
564 are on and use that as the build, host and target machines. So you
565 don't need to specify a configuration when building a native compiler
566 unless 'configure' cannot figure out what your configuration is or
567 guesses wrong.
568
569 In those cases, specify the build machine's "configuration name" with
570 the '--host' option; the host and target will default to be the same as
571 the host machine.
572
573 Here is an example:
574
575 ./configure --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
576
577 A configuration name may be canonical or it may be more or less
578 abbreviated ('config.sub' script produces canonical versions).
579
580 A canonical configuration name has three parts, separated by dashes.
581 It looks like this: 'CPU-COMPANY-SYSTEM'.
582
583 Here are the possible CPU types:
584
585 aarch64, aarch64_be, alpha, alpha64, amdgcn, arc, arceb, arm,
586 armeb, avr, bfin, bpf, cr16, cris, csky, epiphany, fido, fr30, frv,
587 ft32, h8300, hppa, hppa2.0, hppa64, i486, i686, ia64, iq2000, lm32,
588 loongarch64, m32c, m32r, m32rle, m68k, mcore, microblaze,
589 microblazeel, mips, mips64, mips64el, mips64octeon, mips64orion,
590 mips64vr, mipsel, mipsisa32, mipsisa32r2, mipsisa64, mipsisa64r2,
591 mipsisa64r2el, mipsisa64sb1, mipsisa64sr71k, mipstx39, mmix,
592 mn10300, moxie, msp430, nds32be, nds32le, nios2, nvptx, or1k,
593 pdp11, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcle, pru, riscv32,
594 riscv32be, riscv64, riscv64be, rl78, rx, s390, s390x, sh, shle,
595 sparc, sparc64, tic6x, tilegx, tilegxbe, tilepro, v850, v850e,
596 v850e1, vax, visium, x86_64, xstormy16, xtensa
597
598 Here is a list of system types:
599
600 aixVERSION, amdhsa, aout, cygwin, darwinVERSION, eabi, eabialtivec,
601 eabisim, eabisimaltivec, elf, elf32, elfbare, elfoabi,
602 freebsdVERSION, gnu, hpux, hpuxVERSION, kfreebsd-gnu,
603 kopensolaris-gnu, linux-androideabi, linux-gnu, linux-gnu_altivec,
604 linux-musl, linux-uclibc, lynxos, mingw32, mingw32crt, mmixware,
605 msdosdjgpp, netbsd, netbsdelfVERSION, nto-qnx, openbsd, rtems,
606 solarisVERSION, symbianelf, tpf, uclinux, uclinux_eabi, vms,
607 vxworks, vxworksae, vxworksmils
608
609 Options specification
610 =====================
611
612 Use OPTIONS to override several configure time options for GCC. A list
613 of supported OPTIONS follows; 'configure --help' may list other options,
614 but those not listed below may not work and should not normally be used.
615
616 Note that each '--enable' option has a corresponding '--disable'
617 option and that each '--with' option has a corresponding '--without'
618 option.
619
620 '--prefix=DIRNAME'
621 Specify the toplevel installation directory. This is the
622 recommended way to install the tools into a directory other than
623 the default. The toplevel installation directory defaults to
624 '/usr/local'.
625
626 We *highly* recommend against DIRNAME being the same or a
627 subdirectory of OBJDIR or vice versa. If specifying a directory
628 beneath a user's home directory tree, some shells will not expand
629 DIRNAME correctly if it contains the '~' metacharacter; use '$HOME'
630 instead.
631
632 The following standard 'autoconf' options are supported. Normally
633 you should not need to use these options.
634 '--exec-prefix=DIRNAME'
635 Specify the toplevel installation directory for
636 architecture-dependent files. The default is 'PREFIX'.
637
638 '--bindir=DIRNAME'
639 Specify the installation directory for the executables called
640 by users (such as 'gcc' and 'g++'). The default is
641 'EXEC-PREFIX/bin'.
642
643 '--libdir=DIRNAME'
644 Specify the installation directory for object code libraries
645 and internal data files of GCC. The default is
646 'EXEC-PREFIX/lib'.
647
648 '--libexecdir=DIRNAME'
649 Specify the installation directory for internal executables of
650 GCC. The default is 'EXEC-PREFIX/libexec'.
651
652 '--with-slibdir=DIRNAME'
653 Specify the installation directory for the shared libgcc
654 library. The default is 'LIBDIR'.
655
656 '--datarootdir=DIRNAME'
657 Specify the root of the directory tree for read-only
658 architecture-independent data files referenced by GCC. The
659 default is 'PREFIX/share'.
660
661 '--infodir=DIRNAME'
662 Specify the installation directory for documentation in info
663 format. The default is 'DATAROOTDIR/info'.
664
665 '--datadir=DIRNAME'
666 Specify the installation directory for some
667 architecture-independent data files referenced by GCC. The
668 default is 'DATAROOTDIR'.
669
670 '--docdir=DIRNAME'
671 Specify the installation directory for documentation files
672 (other than Info) for GCC. The default is 'DATAROOTDIR/doc'.
673
674 '--htmldir=DIRNAME'
675 Specify the installation directory for HTML documentation
676 files. The default is 'DOCDIR'.
677
678 '--pdfdir=DIRNAME'
679 Specify the installation directory for PDF documentation
680 files. The default is 'DOCDIR'.
681
682 '--mandir=DIRNAME'
683 Specify the installation directory for manual pages. The
684 default is 'DATAROOTDIR/man'. (Note that the manual pages are
685 only extracts from the full GCC manuals, which are provided in
686 Texinfo format. The manpages are derived by an automatic
687 conversion process from parts of the full manual.)
688
689 '--with-gxx-include-dir=DIRNAME'
690 Specify the installation directory for G++ header files. The
691 default depends on other configuration options, and differs
692 between cross and native configurations.
693
694 '--with-specs=SPECS'
695 Specify additional command line driver SPECS. This can be
696 useful if you need to turn on a non-standard feature by
697 default without modifying the compiler's source code, for
698 instance
699 '--with-specs=%{!fcommon:%{!fno-common:-fno-common}}'. *Note
700 Specifying subprocesses and the switches to pass to them:
701 (gcc)Spec Files,
702
703 '--program-prefix=PREFIX'
704 GCC supports some transformations of the names of its programs when
705 installing them. This option prepends PREFIX to the names of
706 programs to install in BINDIR (see above). For example, specifying
707 '--program-prefix=foo-' would result in 'gcc' being installed as
708 '/usr/local/bin/foo-gcc'.
709
710 '--program-suffix=SUFFIX'
711 Appends SUFFIX to the names of programs to install in BINDIR (see
712 above). For example, specifying '--program-suffix=-3.1' would
713 result in 'gcc' being installed as '/usr/local/bin/gcc-3.1'.
714
715 '--program-transform-name=PATTERN'
716 Applies the 'sed' script PATTERN to be applied to the names of
717 programs to install in BINDIR (see above). PATTERN has to consist
718 of one or more basic 'sed' editing commands, separated by
719 semicolons. For example, if you want the 'gcc' program name to be
720 transformed to the installed program '/usr/local/bin/myowngcc' and
721 the 'g++' program name to be transformed to
722 '/usr/local/bin/gspecial++' without changing other program names,
723 you could use the pattern
724 '--program-transform-name='s/^gcc$/myowngcc/; s/^g++$/gspecial++/''
725 to achieve this effect.
726
727 All three options can be combined and used together, resulting in
728 more complex conversion patterns. As a basic rule, PREFIX (and
729 SUFFIX) are prepended (appended) before further transformations can
730 happen with a special transformation script PATTERN.
731
732 As currently implemented, this option only takes effect for native
733 builds; cross compiler binaries' names are not transformed even
734 when a transformation is explicitly asked for by one of these
735 options.
736
737 For native builds, some of the installed programs are also
738 installed with the target alias in front of their name, as in
739 'i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc'. All of the above transformations happen
740 before the target alias is prepended to the name--so, specifying
741 '--program-prefix=foo-' and 'program-suffix=-3.1', the resulting
742 binary would be installed as
743 '/usr/local/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu-foo-gcc-3.1'.
744
745 As a last shortcoming, none of the installed Ada programs are
746 transformed yet, which will be fixed in some time.
747
748 '--with-local-prefix=DIRNAME'
749 Specify the installation directory for local include files. The
750 default is '/usr/local'. Specify this option if you want the
751 compiler to search directory 'DIRNAME/include' for locally
752 installed header files _instead_ of '/usr/local/include'.
753
754 You should specify '--with-local-prefix' *only* if your site has a
755 different convention (not '/usr/local') for where to put
756 site-specific files.
757
758 The default value for '--with-local-prefix' is '/usr/local'
759 regardless of the value of '--prefix'. Specifying '--prefix' has
760 no effect on which directory GCC searches for local header files.
761 This may seem counterintuitive, but actually it is logical.
762
763 The purpose of '--prefix' is to specify where to _install GCC_. The
764 local header files in '/usr/local/include'--if you put any in that
765 directory--are not part of GCC. They are part of other
766 programs--perhaps many others. (GCC installs its own header files
767 in another directory which is based on the '--prefix' value.)
768
769 Both the local-prefix include directory and the GCC-prefix include
770 directory are part of GCC's "system include" directories. Although
771 these two directories are not fixed, they need to be searched in
772 the proper order for the correct processing of the include_next
773 directive. The local-prefix include directory is searched before
774 the GCC-prefix include directory. Another characteristic of system
775 include directories is that pedantic warnings are turned off for
776 headers in these directories.
777
778 Some autoconf macros add '-I DIRECTORY' options to the compiler
779 command line, to ensure that directories containing installed
780 packages' headers are searched. When DIRECTORY is one of GCC's
781 system include directories, GCC will ignore the option so that
782 system directories continue to be processed in the correct order.
783 This may result in a search order different from what was specified
784 but the directory will still be searched.
785
786 GCC automatically searches for ordinary libraries using
787 'GCC_EXEC_PREFIX'. Thus, when the same installation prefix is used
788 for both GCC and packages, GCC will automatically search for both
789 headers and libraries. This provides a configuration that is easy
790 to use. GCC behaves in a manner similar to that when it is
791 installed as a system compiler in '/usr'.
792
793 Sites that need to install multiple versions of GCC may not want to
794 use the above simple configuration. It is possible to use the
795 '--program-prefix', '--program-suffix' and
796 '--program-transform-name' options to install multiple versions
797 into a single directory, but it may be simpler to use different
798 prefixes and the '--with-local-prefix' option to specify the
799 location of the site-specific files for each version. It will then
800 be necessary for users to specify explicitly the location of local
801 site libraries (e.g., with 'LIBRARY_PATH').
802
803 The same value can be used for both '--with-local-prefix' and
804 '--prefix' provided it is not '/usr'. This can be used to avoid
805 the default search of '/usr/local/include'.
806
807 *Do not* specify '/usr' as the '--with-local-prefix'! The
808 directory you use for '--with-local-prefix' *must not* contain any
809 of the system's standard header files. If it did contain them,
810 certain programs would be miscompiled (including GNU Emacs, on
811 certain targets), because this would override and nullify the
812 header file corrections made by the 'fixincludes' script.
813
814 Indications are that people who use this option use it based on
815 mistaken ideas of what it is for. People use it as if it specified
816 where to install part of GCC. Perhaps they make this assumption
817 because installing GCC creates the directory.
818
819 '--with-gcc-major-version-only'
820 Specifies that GCC should use only the major number rather than
821 MAJOR.MINOR.PATCHLEVEL in filesystem paths.
822
823 '--with-native-system-header-dir=DIRNAME'
824 Specifies that DIRNAME is the directory that contains native system
825 header files, rather than '/usr/include'. This option is most
826 useful if you are creating a compiler that should be isolated from
827 the system as much as possible. It is most commonly used with the
828 '--with-sysroot' option and will cause GCC to search DIRNAME inside
829 the system root specified by that option.
830
831 '--enable-shared[=PACKAGE[,...]]'
832 Build shared versions of libraries, if shared libraries are
833 supported on the target platform. Unlike GCC 2.95.x and earlier,
834 shared libraries are enabled by default on all platforms that
835 support shared libraries.
836
837 If a list of packages is given as an argument, build shared
838 libraries only for the listed packages. For other packages, only
839 static libraries will be built. Package names currently recognized
840 in the GCC tree are 'libgcc' (also known as 'gcc'), 'libstdc++'
841 (not 'libstdc++-v3'), 'libffi', 'zlib', 'boehm-gc', 'ada',
842 'libada', 'libgo', 'libobjc', and 'libphobos'. Note 'libiberty'
843 does not support shared libraries at all.
844
845 Use '--disable-shared' to build only static libraries. Note that
846 '--disable-shared' does not accept a list of package names as
847 argument, only '--enable-shared' does.
848
849 Contrast with '--enable-host-shared', which affects _host_ code.
850
851 '--enable-host-shared'
852 Specify that the _host_ code should be built into
853 position-independent machine code (with -fPIC), allowing it to be
854 used within shared libraries, but yielding a slightly slower
855 compiler.
856
857 This option is required when building the libgccjit.so library.
858
859 Contrast with '--enable-shared', which affects _target_ libraries.
860
861 '--with-gnu-as'
862 Specify that the compiler should assume that the assembler it finds
863 is the GNU assembler. However, this does not modify the rules to
864 find an assembler and will result in confusion if the assembler
865 found is not actually the GNU assembler. (Confusion may also
866 result if the compiler finds the GNU assembler but has not been
867 configured with '--with-gnu-as'.) If you have more than one
868 assembler installed on your system, you may want to use this option
869 in connection with '--with-as=PATHNAME' or
870 '--with-build-time-tools=PATHNAME'.
871
872 The following systems are the only ones where it makes a difference
873 whether you use the GNU assembler. On any other system,
874 '--with-gnu-as' has no effect.
875
876 * 'hppa1.0-ANY-ANY'
877 * 'hppa1.1-ANY-ANY'
878 * 'sparc-sun-solaris2.ANY'
879 * 'sparc64-ANY-solaris2.ANY'
880
881 '--with-as=PATHNAME'
882 Specify that the compiler should use the assembler pointed to by
883 PATHNAME, rather than the one found by the standard rules to find
884 an assembler, which are:
885 * Unless GCC is being built with a cross compiler, check the
886 'LIBEXEC/gcc/TARGET/VERSION' directory. LIBEXEC defaults to
887 'EXEC-PREFIX/libexec'; EXEC-PREFIX defaults to PREFIX, which
888 defaults to '/usr/local' unless overridden by the
889 '--prefix=PATHNAME' switch described above. TARGET is the
890 target system triple, such as 'sparc-sun-solaris2.7', and
891 VERSION denotes the GCC version, such as 3.0.
892
893 * If the target system is the same that you are building on,
894 check operating system specific directories (e.g.
895 '/usr/ccs/bin' on Solaris 2).
896
897 * Check in the 'PATH' for a tool whose name is prefixed by the
898 target system triple.
899
900 * Check in the 'PATH' for a tool whose name is not prefixed by
901 the target system triple, if the host and target system triple
902 are the same (in other words, we use a host tool if it can be
903 used for the target as well).
904
905 You may want to use '--with-as' if no assembler is installed in the
906 directories listed above, or if you have multiple assemblers
907 installed and want to choose one that is not found by the above
908 rules.
909
910 '--with-gnu-ld'
911 Same as '--with-gnu-as' but for the linker.
912
913 '--with-ld=PATHNAME'
914 Same as '--with-as' but for the linker.
915
916 '--with-dsymutil=PATHNAME'
917 Same as '--with-as' but for the debug linker (only used on Darwin
918 platforms so far).
919
920 '--with-tls=DIALECT'
921 Specify the default TLS dialect, for systems were there is a
922 choice. For ARM targets, possible values for DIALECT are 'gnu' or
923 'gnu2', which select between the original GNU dialect and the GNU
924 TLS descriptor-based dialect.
925
926 '--enable-multiarch'
927 Specify whether to enable or disable multiarch support. The
928 default is to check for glibc start files in a multiarch location,
929 and enable it if the files are found. The auto detection is
930 enabled for native builds, and for cross builds configured with
931 '--with-sysroot', and without '--with-native-system-header-dir'.
932 More documentation about multiarch can be found at
933 <https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch>.
934
935 '--enable-sjlj-exceptions'
936 Force use of the 'setjmp'/'longjmp'-based scheme for exceptions.
937 'configure' ordinarily picks the correct value based on the
938 platform. Only use this option if you are sure you need a
939 different setting.
940
941 '--enable-vtable-verify'
942 Specify whether to enable or disable the vtable verification
943 feature. Enabling this feature causes libstdc++ to be built with
944 its virtual calls in verifiable mode. This means that, when linked
945 with libvtv, every virtual call in libstdc++ will verify the vtable
946 pointer through which the call will be made before actually making
947 the call. If not linked with libvtv, the verifier will call stub
948 functions (in libstdc++ itself) and do nothing. If vtable
949 verification is disabled, then libstdc++ is not built with its
950 virtual calls in verifiable mode at all. However the libvtv
951 library will still be built (see '--disable-libvtv' to turn off
952 building libvtv). '--disable-vtable-verify' is the default.
953
954 '--disable-gcov'
955 Specify that the run-time library used for coverage analysis and
956 associated host tools should not be built.
957
958 '--disable-multilib'
959 Specify that multiple target libraries to support different target
960 variants, calling conventions, etc. should not be built. The
961 default is to build a predefined set of them.
962
963 Some targets provide finer-grained control over which multilibs are
964 built (e.g., '--disable-softfloat'):
965 'arm-*-*'
966 fpu, 26bit, underscore, interwork, biendian, nofmult.
967
968 'm68*-*-*'
969 softfloat, m68881, m68000, m68020.
970
971 'mips*-*-*'
972 single-float, biendian, softfloat.
973
974 'msp430-*-*'
975 no-exceptions
976
977 'powerpc*-*-*, rs6000*-*-*'
978 aix64, pthread, softfloat, powercpu, powerpccpu, powerpcos,
979 biendian, sysv, aix.
980
981 '--with-multilib-list=LIST'
982 '--without-multilib-list'
983 Specify what multilibs to build. LIST is a comma separated list of
984 values, possibly consisting of a single value. Currently only
985 implemented for aarch64*-*-*, arm*-*-*, loongarch64-*-*,
986 riscv*-*-*, sh*-*-* and x86-64-*-linux*. The accepted values and
987 meaning for each target is given below.
988
989 'aarch64*-*-*'
990 LIST is a comma separated list of 'ilp32', and 'lp64' to
991 enable ILP32 and LP64 run-time libraries, respectively. If
992 LIST is empty, then there will be no multilibs and only the
993 default run-time library will be built. If LIST is 'default'
994 or -with-multilib-list= is not specified, then the default set
995 of libraries is selected based on the value of '--target'.
996
997 'arm*-*-*'
998 LIST is a comma separated list of 'aprofile' and 'rmprofile'
999 to build multilibs for A or R and M architecture profiles
1000 respectively. Note that, due to some limitation of the
1001 current multilib framework, using the combined
1002 'aprofile,rmprofile' multilibs selects in some cases a less
1003 optimal multilib than when using the multilib profile for the
1004 architecture targetted. The special value 'default' is also
1005 accepted and is equivalent to omitting the option, i.e., only
1006 the default run-time library will be enabled.
1007
1008 LIST may instead contain '@name', to use the multilib
1009 configuration Makefile fragment 'name' in 'gcc/config/arm' in
1010 the source tree (it is part of the corresponding sources,
1011 after all). It is recommended, but not required, that files
1012 used for this purpose to be named starting with 't-ml-', to
1013 make their intended purpose self-evident, in line with GCC
1014 conventions. Such files enable custom, user-chosen multilib
1015 lists to be configured. Whether multiple such files can be
1016 used together depends on the contents of the supplied files.
1017 See 'gcc/config/arm/t-multilib' and its supplementary
1018 'gcc/config/arm/t-*profile' files for an example of what such
1019 Makefile fragments might look like for this version of GCC.
1020 The macros expected to be defined in these fragments are not
1021 stable across GCC releases, so make sure they define the
1022 'MULTILIB'-related macros expected by the version of GCC you
1023 are building. *Note Target Makefile Fragments: (gccint)Target
1024 Fragment.
1025
1026 The table below gives the combination of ISAs, architectures,
1027 FPUs and floating-point ABIs for which multilibs are built for
1028 each predefined profile. The union of these options is
1029 considered when specifying both 'aprofile' and 'rmprofile'.
1030
1031 Option aprofile rmprofile
1032 ISAs '-marm' and '-mthumb'
1033 '-mthumb'
1034 Architecturesdefault default architecture
1035 architecture '-march=armv6s-m'
1036 '-march=armv7-a' '-march=armv7-m'
1037 '-march=armv7ve' '-march=armv7e-m'
1038 '-march=armv8-a' '-march=armv8-m.base'
1039 '-march=armv8-m.main'
1040 '-march=armv7'
1041 FPUs none none
1042 '-mfpu=vfpv3-d16' '-mfpu=vfpv3-d16'
1043 '-mfpu=neon' '-mfpu=fpv4-sp-d16'
1044 '-mfpu=vfpv4-d16' '-mfpu=fpv5-sp-d16'
1045 '-mfpu=neon-vfpv4' '-mfpu=fpv5-d16'
1046 '-mfpu=neon-fp-armv8'
1047 floating-point'-mfloat-abi=soft' '-mfloat-abi=soft'
1048 ABIs '-mfloat-abi=softfp' '-mfloat-abi=softfp'
1049 '-mfloat-abi=hard' '-mfloat-abi=hard'
1050
1051 'loongarch*-*-*'
1052 LIST is a comma-separated list of the following ABI
1053 identifiers: 'lp64d[/base]' 'lp64f[/base]' 'lp64d[/base]',
1054 where the '/base' suffix may be omitted, to enable their
1055 respective run-time libraries. If LIST is empty or 'default',
1056 or if '--with-multilib-list' is not specified, then the
1057 default ABI as specified by '--with-abi' or implied by
1058 '--target' is selected.
1059
1060 'riscv*-*-*'
1061 LIST is a single ABI name. The target architecture must be
1062 either 'rv32gc' or 'rv64gc'. This will build a single
1063 multilib for the specified architecture and ABI pair. If
1064 '--with-multilib-list' is not given, then a default set of
1065 multilibs is selected based on the value of '--target'. This
1066 is usually a large set of multilibs.
1067
1068 'sh*-*-*'
1069 LIST is a comma separated list of CPU names. These must be of
1070 the form 'sh*' or 'm*' (in which case they match the compiler
1071 option for that processor). The list should not contain any
1072 endian options - these are handled by '--with-endian'.
1073
1074 If LIST is empty, then there will be no multilibs for extra
1075 processors. The multilib for the secondary endian remains
1076 enabled.
1077
1078 As a special case, if an entry in the list starts with a '!'
1079 (exclamation point), then it is added to the list of excluded
1080 multilibs. Entries of this sort should be compatible with
1081 'MULTILIB_EXCLUDES' (once the leading '!' has been stripped).
1082
1083 If '--with-multilib-list' is not given, then a default set of
1084 multilibs is selected based on the value of '--target'. This
1085 is usually the complete set of libraries, but some targets
1086 imply a more specialized subset.
1087
1088 Example 1: to configure a compiler for SH4A only, but
1089 supporting both endians, with little endian being the default:
1090 --with-cpu=sh4a --with-endian=little,big --with-multilib-list=
1091
1092 Example 2: to configure a compiler for both SH4A and
1093 SH4AL-DSP, but with only little endian SH4AL:
1094 --with-cpu=sh4a --with-endian=little,big \
1095 --with-multilib-list=sh4al,!mb/m4al
1096
1097 'x86-64-*-linux*'
1098 LIST is a comma separated list of 'm32', 'm64' and 'mx32' to
1099 enable 32-bit, 64-bit and x32 run-time libraries,
1100 respectively. If LIST is empty, then there will be no
1101 multilibs and only the default run-time library will be
1102 enabled.
1103
1104 If '--with-multilib-list' is not given, then only 32-bit and
1105 64-bit run-time libraries will be enabled.
1106
1107 '--with-multilib-generator=CONFIG'
1108 Specify what multilibs to build. CONFIG is a semicolon separated
1109 list of values, possibly consisting of a single value. Currently
1110 only implemented for riscv*-*-elf*. The accepted values and
1111 meanings are given below.
1112
1113 Every config is constructed with four components: architecture
1114 string, ABI, reuse rule with architecture string and reuse rule
1115 with sub-extension.
1116
1117 Example 1: Add multi-lib suppport for rv32i with ilp32.
1118 rv32i-ilp32--
1119
1120 Example 2: Add multi-lib suppport for rv32i with ilp32 and
1121 rv32imafd with ilp32.
1122 rv32i-ilp32--;rv32imafd-ilp32--
1123
1124 Example 3: Add multi-lib suppport for rv32i with ilp32; rv32im with
1125 ilp32 and rv32ic with ilp32 will reuse this multi-lib set.
1126 rv32i-ilp32-rv32im-c
1127
1128 Example 4: Add multi-lib suppport for rv64ima with lp64; rv64imaf
1129 with lp64, rv64imac with lp64 and rv64imafc with lp64 will reuse
1130 this multi-lib set.
1131 rv64ima-lp64--f,c,fc
1132
1133 '--with-multilib-generator' have an optional configuration argument
1134 '--cmodel=val' for code model, this option will expand with other
1135 config options, VAL is a comma separated list of possible code
1136 model, currently we support medlow and medany.
1137
1138 Example 5: Add multi-lib suppport for rv64ima with lp64; rv64ima
1139 with lp64 and medlow code model
1140 rv64ima-lp64--;--cmodel=medlow
1141
1142 Example 6: Add multi-lib suppport for rv64ima with lp64; rv64ima
1143 with lp64 and medlow code model; rv64ima with lp64 and medany code
1144 model
1145 rv64ima-lp64--;--cmodel=medlow,medany
1146
1147 '--with-endian=ENDIANS'
1148 Specify what endians to use. Currently only implemented for
1149 sh*-*-*.
1150
1151 ENDIANS may be one of the following:
1152 'big'
1153 Use big endian exclusively.
1154 'little'
1155 Use little endian exclusively.
1156 'big,little'
1157 Use big endian by default. Provide a multilib for little
1158 endian.
1159 'little,big'
1160 Use little endian by default. Provide a multilib for big
1161 endian.
1162
1163 '--enable-threads'
1164 Specify that the target supports threads. This affects the
1165 Objective-C compiler and runtime library, and exception handling
1166 for other languages like C++. On some systems, this is the
1167 default.
1168
1169 In general, the best (and, in many cases, the only known) threading
1170 model available will be configured for use. Beware that on some
1171 systems, GCC has not been taught what threading models are
1172 generally available for the system. In this case,
1173 '--enable-threads' is an alias for '--enable-threads=single'.
1174
1175 '--disable-threads'
1176 Specify that threading support should be disabled for the system.
1177 This is an alias for '--enable-threads=single'.
1178
1179 '--enable-threads=LIB'
1180 Specify that LIB is the thread support library. This affects the
1181 Objective-C compiler and runtime library, and exception handling
1182 for other languages like C++. The possibilities for LIB are:
1183
1184 'aix'
1185 AIX thread support.
1186 'dce'
1187 DCE thread support.
1188 'lynx'
1189 LynxOS thread support.
1190 'mipssde'
1191 MIPS SDE thread support.
1192 'no'
1193 This is an alias for 'single'.
1194 'posix'
1195 Generic POSIX/Unix98 thread support.
1196 'rtems'
1197 RTEMS thread support.
1198 'single'
1199 Disable thread support, should work for all platforms.
1200 'tpf'
1201 TPF thread support.
1202 'vxworks'
1203 VxWorks thread support.
1204 'win32'
1205 Microsoft Win32 API thread support.
1206
1207 '--enable-tls'
1208 Specify that the target supports TLS (Thread Local Storage).
1209 Usually configure can correctly determine if TLS is supported. In
1210 cases where it guesses incorrectly, TLS can be explicitly enabled
1211 or disabled with '--enable-tls' or '--disable-tls'. This can
1212 happen if the assembler supports TLS but the C library does not, or
1213 if the assumptions made by the configure test are incorrect.
1214
1215 '--disable-tls'
1216 Specify that the target does not support TLS. This is an alias for
1217 '--enable-tls=no'.
1218
1219 '--disable-tm-clone-registry'
1220 Disable TM clone registry in libgcc. It is enabled in libgcc by
1221 default. This option helps to reduce code size for embedded
1222 targets which do not use transactional memory.
1223
1224 '--with-cpu=CPU'
1225 '--with-cpu-32=CPU'
1226 '--with-cpu-64=CPU'
1227 Specify which cpu variant the compiler should generate code for by
1228 default. CPU will be used as the default value of the '-mcpu='
1229 switch. This option is only supported on some targets, including
1230 ARC, ARM, i386, M68k, PowerPC, and SPARC. It is mandatory for ARC.
1231 The '--with-cpu-32' and '--with-cpu-64' options specify separate
1232 default CPUs for 32-bit and 64-bit modes; these options are only
1233 supported for aarch64, i386, x86-64, PowerPC, and SPARC.
1234
1235 '--with-schedule=CPU'
1236 '--with-arch=CPU'
1237 '--with-arch-32=CPU'
1238 '--with-arch-64=CPU'
1239 '--with-tune=CPU'
1240 '--with-tune-32=CPU'
1241 '--with-tune-64=CPU'
1242 '--with-abi=ABI'
1243 '--with-fpu=TYPE'
1244 '--with-float=TYPE'
1245 These configure options provide default values for the
1246 '-mschedule=', '-march=', '-mtune=', '-mabi=', and '-mfpu=' options
1247 and for '-mhard-float' or '-msoft-float'. As with '--with-cpu',
1248 which switches will be accepted and acceptable values of the
1249 arguments depend on the target.
1250
1251 '--with-mode=MODE'
1252 Specify if the compiler should default to '-marm' or '-mthumb'.
1253 This option is only supported on ARM targets.
1254
1255 '--with-stack-offset=NUM'
1256 This option sets the default for the -mstack-offset=NUM option, and
1257 will thus generally also control the setting of this option for
1258 libraries. This option is only supported on Epiphany targets.
1259
1260 '--with-fpmath=ISA'
1261 This options sets '-mfpmath=sse' by default and specifies the
1262 default ISA for floating-point arithmetics. You can select either
1263 'sse' which enables '-msse2' or 'avx' which enables '-mavx' by
1264 default. This option is only supported on i386 and x86-64 targets.
1265
1266 '--with-fp-32=MODE'
1267 On MIPS targets, set the default value for the '-mfp' option when
1268 using the o32 ABI. The possibilities for MODE are:
1269 '32'
1270 Use the o32 FP32 ABI extension, as with the '-mfp32'
1271 command-line option.
1272 'xx'
1273 Use the o32 FPXX ABI extension, as with the '-mfpxx'
1274 command-line option.
1275 '64'
1276 Use the o32 FP64 ABI extension, as with the '-mfp64'
1277 command-line option.
1278 In the absence of this configuration option the default is to use
1279 the o32 FP32 ABI extension.
1280
1281 '--with-odd-spreg-32'
1282 On MIPS targets, set the '-modd-spreg' option by default when using
1283 the o32 ABI.
1284
1285 '--without-odd-spreg-32'
1286 On MIPS targets, set the '-mno-odd-spreg' option by default when
1287 using the o32 ABI. This is normally used in conjunction with
1288 '--with-fp-32=64' in order to target the o32 FP64A ABI extension.
1289
1290 '--with-nan=ENCODING'
1291 On MIPS targets, set the default encoding convention to use for the
1292 special not-a-number (NaN) IEEE 754 floating-point data. The
1293 possibilities for ENCODING are:
1294 'legacy'
1295 Use the legacy encoding, as with the '-mnan=legacy'
1296 command-line option.
1297 '2008'
1298 Use the 754-2008 encoding, as with the '-mnan=2008'
1299 command-line option.
1300 To use this configuration option you must have an assembler version
1301 installed that supports the '-mnan=' command-line option too. In
1302 the absence of this configuration option the default convention is
1303 the legacy encoding, as when neither of the '-mnan=2008' and
1304 '-mnan=legacy' command-line options has been used.
1305
1306 '--with-divide=TYPE'
1307 Specify how the compiler should generate code for checking for
1308 division by zero. This option is only supported on the MIPS
1309 target. The possibilities for TYPE are:
1310 'traps'
1311 Division by zero checks use conditional traps (this is the
1312 default on systems that support conditional traps).
1313 'breaks'
1314 Division by zero checks use the break instruction.
1315
1316 '--with-llsc'
1317 On MIPS targets, make '-mllsc' the default when no '-mno-llsc'
1318 option is passed. This is the default for Linux-based targets, as
1319 the kernel will emulate them if the ISA does not provide them.
1320
1321 '--without-llsc'
1322 On MIPS targets, make '-mno-llsc' the default when no '-mllsc'
1323 option is passed.
1324
1325 '--with-synci'
1326 On MIPS targets, make '-msynci' the default when no '-mno-synci'
1327 option is passed.
1328
1329 '--without-synci'
1330 On MIPS targets, make '-mno-synci' the default when no '-msynci'
1331 option is passed. This is the default.
1332
1333 '--with-lxc1-sxc1'
1334 On MIPS targets, make '-mlxc1-sxc1' the default when no
1335 '-mno-lxc1-sxc1' option is passed. This is the default.
1336
1337 '--without-lxc1-sxc1'
1338 On MIPS targets, make '-mno-lxc1-sxc1' the default when no
1339 '-mlxc1-sxc1' option is passed. The indexed load/store
1340 instructions are not directly a problem but can lead to unexpected
1341 behaviour when deployed in an application intended for a 32-bit
1342 address space but run on a 64-bit processor. The issue is seen
1343 because all known MIPS 64-bit Linux kernels execute o32 and n32
1344 applications with 64-bit addressing enabled which affects the
1345 overflow behaviour of the indexed addressing mode. GCC will assume
1346 that ordinary 32-bit arithmetic overflow behaviour is the same
1347 whether performed as an 'addu' instruction or as part of the
1348 address calculation in 'lwxc1' type instructions. This assumption
1349 holds true in a pure 32-bit environment and can hold true in a
1350 64-bit environment if the address space is accurately set to be
1351 32-bit for o32 and n32.
1352
1353 '--with-madd4'
1354 On MIPS targets, make '-mmadd4' the default when no '-mno-madd4'
1355 option is passed. This is the default.
1356
1357 '--without-madd4'
1358 On MIPS targets, make '-mno-madd4' the default when no '-mmadd4'
1359 option is passed. The 'madd4' instruction family can be
1360 problematic when targeting a combination of cores that implement
1361 these instructions differently. There are two known cores that
1362 implement these as fused operations instead of unfused (where
1363 unfused is normally expected). Disabling these instructions is the
1364 only way to ensure compatible code is generated; this will incur a
1365 performance penalty.
1366
1367 '--with-mips-plt'
1368 On MIPS targets, make use of copy relocations and PLTs. These
1369 features are extensions to the traditional SVR4-based MIPS ABIs and
1370 require support from GNU binutils and the runtime C library.
1371
1372 '--with-stack-clash-protection-guard-size=SIZE'
1373 On certain targets this option sets the default stack clash
1374 protection guard size as a power of two in bytes. On AArch64 SIZE
1375 is required to be either 12 (4KB) or 16 (64KB).
1376
1377 '--with-isa-spec=ISA-SPEC-STRING'
1378 On RISC-V targets specify the default version of the RISC-V
1379 Unprivileged (formerly User-Level) ISA specification to produce
1380 code conforming to. The possibilities for ISA-SPEC-STRING are:
1381 '2.2'
1382 Produce code conforming to version 2.2.
1383 '20190608'
1384 Produce code conforming to version 20190608.
1385 '20191213'
1386 Produce code conforming to version 20191213.
1387 In the absence of this configuration option the default version is
1388 20191213.
1389
1390 '--enable-__cxa_atexit'
1391 Define if you want to use __cxa_atexit, rather than atexit, to
1392 register C++ destructors for local statics and global objects.
1393 This is essential for fully standards-compliant handling of
1394 destructors, but requires __cxa_atexit in libc. This option is
1395 currently only available on systems with GNU libc. When enabled,
1396 this will cause '-fuse-cxa-atexit' to be passed by default.
1397
1398 '--enable-gnu-indirect-function'
1399 Define if you want to enable the 'ifunc' attribute. This option is
1400 currently only available on systems with GNU libc on certain
1401 targets.
1402
1403 '--enable-target-optspace'
1404 Specify that target libraries should be optimized for code space
1405 instead of code speed. This is the default for the m32r platform.
1406
1407 '--with-cpp-install-dir=DIRNAME'
1408 Specify that the user visible 'cpp' program should be installed in
1409 'PREFIX/DIRNAME/cpp', in addition to BINDIR.
1410
1411 '--enable-comdat'
1412 Enable COMDAT group support. This is primarily used to override
1413 the automatically detected value.
1414
1415 '--enable-initfini-array'
1416 Force the use of sections '.init_array' and '.fini_array' (instead
1417 of '.init' and '.fini') for constructors and destructors. Option
1418 '--disable-initfini-array' has the opposite effect. If neither
1419 option is specified, the configure script will try to guess whether
1420 the '.init_array' and '.fini_array' sections are supported and, if
1421 they are, use them.
1422
1423 '--enable-link-mutex'
1424 When building GCC, use a mutex to avoid linking the compilers for
1425 multiple languages at the same time, to avoid thrashing on build
1426 systems with limited free memory. The default is not to use such a
1427 mutex.
1428
1429 '--enable-link-serialization'
1430 When building GCC, use make dependencies to serialize linking the
1431 compilers for multiple languages, to avoid thrashing on build
1432 systems with limited free memory. The default is not to add such
1433 dependencies and thus with parallel make potentially link different
1434 compilers concurrently. If the argument is a positive integer,
1435 allow that number of concurrent link processes for the large
1436 binaries.
1437
1438 '--enable-maintainer-mode'
1439 The build rules that regenerate the Autoconf and Automake output
1440 files as well as the GCC master message catalog 'gcc.pot' are
1441 normally disabled. This is because it can only be rebuilt if the
1442 complete source tree is present. If you have changed the sources
1443 and want to rebuild the catalog, configuring with
1444 '--enable-maintainer-mode' will enable this. Note that you need a
1445 recent version of the 'gettext' tools to do so.
1446
1447 '--disable-bootstrap'
1448 For a native build, the default configuration is to perform a
1449 3-stage bootstrap of the compiler when 'make' is invoked, testing
1450 that GCC can compile itself correctly. If you want to disable this
1451 process, you can configure with '--disable-bootstrap'.
1452
1453 '--enable-bootstrap'
1454 In special cases, you may want to perform a 3-stage build even if
1455 the target and host triplets are different. This is possible when
1456 the host can run code compiled for the target (e.g. host is
1457 i686-linux, target is i486-linux). Starting from GCC 4.2, to do
1458 this you have to configure explicitly with '--enable-bootstrap'.
1459
1460 '--enable-generated-files-in-srcdir'
1461 Neither the .c and .h files that are generated from Bison and flex
1462 nor the info manuals and man pages that are built from the .texi
1463 files are present in the repository development tree. When
1464 building GCC from that development tree, or from one of our
1465 snapshots, those generated files are placed in your build
1466 directory, which allows for the source to be in a readonly
1467 directory.
1468
1469 If you configure with '--enable-generated-files-in-srcdir' then
1470 those generated files will go into the source directory. This is
1471 mainly intended for generating release or prerelease tarballs of
1472 the GCC sources, since it is not a requirement that the users of
1473 source releases to have flex, Bison, or makeinfo.
1474
1475 '--enable-version-specific-runtime-libs'
1476 Specify that runtime libraries should be installed in the compiler
1477 specific subdirectory ('LIBDIR/gcc') rather than the usual places.
1478 In addition, 'libstdc++''s include files will be installed into
1479 'LIBDIR' unless you overruled it by using
1480 '--with-gxx-include-dir=DIRNAME'. Using this option is
1481 particularly useful if you intend to use several versions of GCC in
1482 parallel. The default is 'yes' for 'libada', and 'no' for the
1483 remaining libraries.
1484
1485 '--with-aix-soname='aix', 'svr4' or 'both''
1486 Traditional AIX shared library versioning (versioned 'Shared
1487 Object' files as members of unversioned 'Archive Library' files
1488 named 'lib.a') causes numerous headaches for package managers.
1489 However, 'Import Files' as members of 'Archive Library' files allow
1490 for *filename-based versioning* of shared libraries as seen on
1491 Linux/SVR4, where this is called the "SONAME". But as they prevent
1492 static linking, 'Import Files' may be used with 'Runtime Linking'
1493 only, where the linker does search for 'libNAME.so' before
1494 'libNAME.a' library filenames with the '-lNAME' linker flag.
1495
1496 For detailed information please refer to the AIX ld Command
1497 reference.
1498
1499 As long as shared library creation is enabled, upon:
1500 '--with-aix-soname=aix'
1501 '--with-aix-soname=both'
1502 A (traditional AIX) 'Shared Archive Library' file is created:
1503 * using the 'libNAME.a' filename scheme
1504 * with the 'Shared Object' file as archive member named
1505 'libNAME.so.V' (except for 'libgcc_s', where the 'Shared
1506 Object' file is named 'shr.o' for backwards
1507 compatibility), which
1508 - is used for runtime loading from inside the
1509 'libNAME.a' file
1510 - is used for dynamic loading via
1511 'dlopen("libNAME.a(libNAME.so.V)", RTLD_MEMBER)'
1512 - is used for shared linking
1513 - is used for static linking, so no separate 'Static
1514 Archive Library' file is needed
1515 '--with-aix-soname=both'
1516 '--with-aix-soname=svr4'
1517 A (second) 'Shared Archive Library' file is created:
1518 * using the 'libNAME.so.V' filename scheme
1519 * with the 'Shared Object' file as archive member named
1520 'shr.o', which
1521 - is created with the '-G linker flag'
1522 - has the 'F_LOADONLY' flag set
1523 - is used for runtime loading from inside the
1524 'libNAME.so.V' file
1525 - is used for dynamic loading via
1526 'dlopen("libNAME.so.V(shr.o)", RTLD_MEMBER)'
1527 * with the 'Import File' as archive member named 'shr.imp',
1528 which
1529 - refers to 'libNAME.so.V(shr.o)' as the "SONAME", to
1530 be recorded in the 'Loader Section' of subsequent
1531 binaries
1532 - indicates whether 'libNAME.so.V(shr.o)' is 32 or 64
1533 bit
1534 - lists all the public symbols exported by
1535 'lib.so.V(shr.o)', eventually decorated with the
1536 ''weak' Keyword'
1537 - is necessary for shared linking against
1538 'lib.so.V(shr.o)'
1539 A symbolic link using the 'libNAME.so' filename scheme is
1540 created:
1541 * pointing to the 'libNAME.so.V' 'Shared Archive Library'
1542 file
1543 * to permit the 'ld Command' to find 'lib.so.V(shr.imp)'
1544 via the '-lNAME' argument (requires 'Runtime Linking' to
1545 be enabled)
1546 * to permit dynamic loading of 'lib.so.V(shr.o)' without
1547 the need to specify the version number via
1548 'dlopen("libNAME.so(shr.o)", RTLD_MEMBER)'
1549
1550 As long as static library creation is enabled, upon:
1551 '--with-aix-soname=svr4'
1552 A 'Static Archive Library' is created:
1553 * using the 'libNAME.a' filename scheme
1554 * with all the 'Static Object' files as archive members,
1555 which
1556 - are used for static linking
1557
1558 While the aix-soname='svr4' option does not create 'Shared Object'
1559 files as members of unversioned 'Archive Library' files any more,
1560 package managers still are responsible to transfer 'Shared Object'
1561 files found as member of a previously installed unversioned
1562 'Archive Library' file into the newly installed 'Archive Library'
1563 file with the same filename.
1564
1565 _WARNING:_ Creating 'Shared Object' files with 'Runtime Linking'
1566 enabled may bloat the TOC, eventually leading to 'TOC overflow'
1567 errors, requiring the use of either the '-Wl,-bbigtoc' linker flag
1568 (seen to break with the 'GDB' debugger) or some of the TOC-related
1569 compiler flags, *Note RS/6000 and PowerPC Options: (gcc)RS/6000 and
1570 PowerPC Options.
1571
1572 '--with-aix-soname' is currently supported by 'libgcc_s' only, so
1573 this option is still experimental and not for normal use yet.
1574
1575 Default is the traditional behavior '--with-aix-soname='aix''.
1576
1577 '--enable-languages=LANG1,LANG2,...'
1578 Specify that only a particular subset of compilers and their
1579 runtime libraries should be built. For a list of valid values for
1580 LANGN you can issue the following command in the 'gcc' directory of
1581 your GCC source tree:
1582 grep ^language= */config-lang.in
1583 Currently, you can use any of the following: 'all', 'default',
1584 'ada', 'c', 'c++', 'd', 'fortran', 'go', 'jit', 'lto', 'objc',
1585 'obj-c++'. Building the Ada compiler has special requirements, see
1586 below. If you do not pass this flag, or specify the option
1587 'default', then the default languages available in the 'gcc'
1588 sub-tree will be configured. Ada, D, Go, Jit, and Objective-C++
1589 are not default languages. LTO is not a default language, but is
1590 built by default because '--enable-lto' is enabled by default. The
1591 other languages are default languages. If 'all' is specified, then
1592 all available languages are built. An exception is 'jit' language,
1593 which requires '--enable-host-shared' to be included with 'all'.
1594
1595 '--enable-stage1-languages=LANG1,LANG2,...'
1596 Specify that a particular subset of compilers and their runtime
1597 libraries should be built with the system C compiler during stage 1
1598 of the bootstrap process, rather than only in later stages with the
1599 bootstrapped C compiler. The list of valid values is the same as
1600 for '--enable-languages', and the option 'all' will select all of
1601 the languages enabled by '--enable-languages'. This option is
1602 primarily useful for GCC development; for instance, when a
1603 development version of the compiler cannot bootstrap due to
1604 compiler bugs, or when one is debugging front ends other than the C
1605 front end. When this option is used, one can then build the target
1606 libraries for the specified languages with the stage-1 compiler by
1607 using 'make stage1-bubble all-target', or run the testsuite on the
1608 stage-1 compiler for the specified languages using 'make
1609 stage1-start check-gcc'.
1610
1611 '--disable-libada'
1612 Specify that the run-time libraries and tools used by GNAT should
1613 not be built. This can be useful for debugging, or for
1614 compatibility with previous Ada build procedures, when it was
1615 required to explicitly do a 'make -C gcc gnatlib_and_tools'.
1616
1617 '--disable-libsanitizer'
1618 Specify that the run-time libraries for the various sanitizers
1619 should not be built.
1620
1621 '--disable-libssp'
1622 Specify that the run-time libraries for stack smashing protection
1623 should not be built or linked against. On many targets library
1624 support is provided by the C library instead.
1625
1626 '--disable-libquadmath'
1627 Specify that the GCC quad-precision math library should not be
1628 built. On some systems, the library is required to be linkable
1629 when building the Fortran front end, unless
1630 '--disable-libquadmath-support' is used.
1631
1632 '--disable-libquadmath-support'
1633 Specify that the Fortran front end and 'libgfortran' do not add
1634 support for 'libquadmath' on systems supporting it.
1635
1636 '--disable-libgomp'
1637 Specify that the GNU Offloading and Multi Processing Runtime
1638 Library should not be built.
1639
1640 '--disable-libvtv'
1641 Specify that the run-time libraries used by vtable verification
1642 should not be built.
1643
1644 '--with-dwarf2'
1645 Specify that the compiler should use DWARF 2 debugging information
1646 as the default.
1647
1648 '--with-advance-toolchain=AT'
1649 On 64-bit PowerPC Linux systems, configure the compiler to use the
1650 header files, library files, and the dynamic linker from the
1651 Advance Toolchain release AT instead of the default versions that
1652 are provided by the Linux distribution. In general, this option is
1653 intended for the developers of GCC, and it is not intended for
1654 general use.
1655
1656 '--enable-targets=all'
1657 '--enable-targets=TARGET_LIST'
1658 Some GCC targets, e.g. powerpc64-linux, build bi-arch compilers.
1659 These are compilers that are able to generate either 64-bit or
1660 32-bit code. Typically, the corresponding 32-bit target, e.g.
1661 powerpc-linux for powerpc64-linux, only generates 32-bit code.
1662 This option enables the 32-bit target to be a bi-arch compiler,
1663 which is useful when you want a bi-arch compiler that defaults to
1664 32-bit, and you are building a bi-arch or multi-arch binutils in a
1665 combined tree. On mips-linux, this will build a tri-arch compiler
1666 (ABI o32/n32/64), defaulted to o32. Currently, this option only
1667 affects sparc-linux, powerpc-linux, x86-linux, mips-linux and
1668 s390-linux.
1669
1670 '--enable-default-pie'
1671 Turn on '-fPIE' and '-pie' by default.
1672
1673 '--enable-secureplt'
1674 This option enables '-msecure-plt' by default for powerpc-linux.
1675 *Note RS/6000 and PowerPC Options: (gcc)RS/6000 and PowerPC
1676 Options,
1677
1678 '--enable-default-ssp'
1679 Turn on '-fstack-protector-strong' by default.
1680
1681 '--enable-cld'
1682 This option enables '-mcld' by default for 32-bit x86 targets.
1683 *Note i386 and x86-64 Options: (gcc)i386 and x86-64 Options,
1684
1685 '--enable-large-address-aware'
1686 The '--enable-large-address-aware' option arranges for MinGW
1687 executables to be linked using the '--large-address-aware' option,
1688 that enables the use of more than 2GB of memory. If GCC is
1689 configured with this option, its effects can be reversed by passing
1690 the '-Wl,--disable-large-address-aware' option to the so-configured
1691 compiler driver.
1692
1693 '--enable-win32-registry'
1694 '--enable-win32-registry=KEY'
1695 '--disable-win32-registry'
1696 The '--enable-win32-registry' option enables Microsoft
1697 Windows-hosted GCC to look up installations paths in the registry
1698 using the following key:
1699
1700 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Free Software Foundation\KEY
1701
1702 KEY defaults to GCC version number, and can be overridden by the
1703 '--enable-win32-registry=KEY' option. Vendors and distributors who
1704 use custom installers are encouraged to provide a different key,
1705 perhaps one comprised of vendor name and GCC version number, to
1706 avoid conflict with existing installations. This feature is
1707 enabled by default, and can be disabled by
1708 '--disable-win32-registry' option. This option has no effect on
1709 the other hosts.
1710
1711 '--nfp'
1712 Specify that the machine does not have a floating point unit. This
1713 option only applies to 'm68k-sun-sunosN'. On any other system,
1714 '--nfp' has no effect.
1715
1716 '--enable-werror'
1717 '--disable-werror'
1718 '--enable-werror=yes'
1719 '--enable-werror=no'
1720 When you specify this option, it controls whether certain files in
1721 the compiler are built with '-Werror' in bootstrap stage2 and
1722 later. If you don't specify it, '-Werror' is turned on for the
1723 main development trunk. However it defaults to off for release
1724 branches and final releases. The specific files which get
1725 '-Werror' are controlled by the Makefiles.
1726
1727 '--enable-checking'
1728 '--disable-checking'
1729 '--enable-checking=LIST'
1730 This option controls performing internal consistency checks in the
1731 compiler. It does not change the generated code, but adds error
1732 checking of the requested complexity. This slows down the compiler
1733 and may only work properly if you are building the compiler with
1734 GCC.
1735
1736 When the option is not specified, the active set of checks depends
1737 on context. Namely, bootstrap stage 1 defaults to
1738 '--enable-checking=yes', builds from release branches or release
1739 archives default to '--enable-checking=release', and otherwise
1740 '--enable-checking=yes,extra' is used. When the option is
1741 specified without a LIST, the result is the same as
1742 '--enable-checking=yes'. Likewise, '--disable-checking' is
1743 equivalent to '--enable-checking=no'.
1744
1745 The categories of checks available in LIST are 'yes' (most common
1746 checks 'assert,misc,gc,gimple,rtlflag,runtime,tree,types'), 'no'
1747 (no checks at all), 'all' (all but 'valgrind'), 'release' (cheapest
1748 checks 'assert,runtime') or 'none' (same as 'no'). 'release'
1749 checks are always on and to disable them '--disable-checking' or
1750 '--enable-checking=no[,<other checks>]' must be explicitly
1751 requested. Disabling assertions makes the compiler and runtime
1752 slightly faster but increases the risk of undetected internal
1753 errors causing wrong code to be generated.
1754
1755 Individual checks can be enabled with these flags: 'assert', 'df',
1756 'extra', 'fold', 'gc', 'gcac', 'gimple', 'misc', 'rtl', 'rtlflag',
1757 'runtime', 'tree', 'types' and 'valgrind'. 'extra' extends 'misc'
1758 checking with extra checks that might affect code generation and
1759 should therefore not differ between stage1 and later stages in
1760 bootstrap.
1761
1762 The 'valgrind' check requires the external 'valgrind' simulator,
1763 available from <https://valgrind.org>. The 'rtl' checks are
1764 expensive and the 'df', 'gcac' and 'valgrind' checks are very
1765 expensive.
1766
1767 '--disable-stage1-checking'
1768 '--enable-stage1-checking'
1769 '--enable-stage1-checking=LIST'
1770 This option affects only bootstrap build. If no
1771 '--enable-checking' option is specified the stage1 compiler is
1772 built with 'yes' checking enabled, otherwise the stage1 checking
1773 flags are the same as specified by '--enable-checking'. To build
1774 the stage1 compiler with different checking options use
1775 '--enable-stage1-checking'. The list of checking options is the
1776 same as for '--enable-checking'. If your system is too slow or too
1777 small to bootstrap a released compiler with checking for stage1
1778 enabled, you can use '--disable-stage1-checking' to disable
1779 checking for the stage1 compiler.
1780
1781 '--enable-coverage'
1782 '--enable-coverage=LEVEL'
1783 With this option, the compiler is built to collect self coverage
1784 information, every time it is run. This is for internal
1785 development purposes, and only works when the compiler is being
1786 built with gcc. The LEVEL argument controls whether the compiler
1787 is built optimized or not, values are 'opt' and 'noopt'. For
1788 coverage analysis you want to disable optimization, for performance
1789 analysis you want to enable optimization. When coverage is
1790 enabled, the default level is without optimization.
1791
1792 '--enable-gather-detailed-mem-stats'
1793 When this option is specified more detailed information on memory
1794 allocation is gathered. This information is printed when using
1795 '-fmem-report'.
1796
1797 '--enable-valgrind-annotations'
1798 Mark selected memory related operations in the compiler when run
1799 under valgrind to suppress false positives.
1800
1801 '--enable-nls'
1802 '--disable-nls'
1803 The '--enable-nls' option enables Native Language Support (NLS),
1804 which lets GCC output diagnostics in languages other than American
1805 English. Native Language Support is enabled by default if not
1806 doing a canadian cross build. The '--disable-nls' option disables
1807 NLS.
1808
1809 '--with-included-gettext'
1810 If NLS is enabled, the '--with-included-gettext' option causes the
1811 build procedure to prefer its copy of GNU 'gettext'.
1812
1813 '--with-catgets'
1814 If NLS is enabled, and if the host lacks 'gettext' but has the
1815 inferior 'catgets' interface, the GCC build procedure normally
1816 ignores 'catgets' and instead uses GCC's copy of the GNU 'gettext'
1817 library. The '--with-catgets' option causes the build procedure to
1818 use the host's 'catgets' in this situation.
1819
1820 '--with-libiconv-prefix=DIR'
1821 Search for libiconv header files in 'DIR/include' and libiconv
1822 library files in 'DIR/lib'.
1823
1824 '--enable-obsolete'
1825 Enable configuration for an obsoleted system. If you attempt to
1826 configure GCC for a system (build, host, or target) which has been
1827 obsoleted, and you do not specify this flag, configure will halt
1828 with an error message.
1829
1830 All support for systems which have been obsoleted in one release of
1831 GCC is removed entirely in the next major release, unless someone
1832 steps forward to maintain the port.
1833
1834 '--enable-decimal-float'
1835 '--enable-decimal-float=yes'
1836 '--enable-decimal-float=no'
1837 '--enable-decimal-float=bid'
1838 '--enable-decimal-float=dpd'
1839 '--disable-decimal-float'
1840 Enable (or disable) support for the C decimal floating point
1841 extension that is in the IEEE 754-2008 standard. This is enabled
1842 by default only on PowerPC, i386, and x86_64 GNU/Linux systems.
1843 Other systems may also support it, but require the user to
1844 specifically enable it. You can optionally control which decimal
1845 floating point format is used (either 'bid' or 'dpd'). The 'bid'
1846 (binary integer decimal) format is default on i386 and x86_64
1847 systems, and the 'dpd' (densely packed decimal) format is default
1848 on PowerPC systems.
1849
1850 '--enable-fixed-point'
1851 '--disable-fixed-point'
1852 Enable (or disable) support for C fixed-point arithmetic. This
1853 option is enabled by default for some targets (such as MIPS) which
1854 have hardware-support for fixed-point operations. On other
1855 targets, you may enable this option manually.
1856
1857 '--with-long-double-128'
1858 Specify if 'long double' type should be 128-bit by default on
1859 selected GNU/Linux architectures. If using
1860 '--without-long-double-128', 'long double' will be by default
1861 64-bit, the same as 'double' type. When neither of these configure
1862 options are used, the default will be 128-bit 'long double' when
1863 built against GNU C Library 2.4 and later, 64-bit 'long double'
1864 otherwise.
1865
1866 '--with-long-double-format=ibm'
1867 '--with-long-double-format=ieee'
1868 Specify whether 'long double' uses the IBM extended double format
1869 or the IEEE 128-bit floating point format on PowerPC Linux systems.
1870 This configuration switch will only work on little endian PowerPC
1871 Linux systems and on big endian 64-bit systems where the default
1872 cpu is at least power7 (i.e. '--with-cpu=power7',
1873 '--with-cpu=power8', or '--with-cpu=power9' is used).
1874
1875 If you use the '--with-long-double-64' configuration option, the
1876 '--with-long-double-format=ibm' and
1877 '--with-long-double-format=ieee' options are ignored.
1878
1879 The default 'long double' format is to use IBM extended double.
1880 Until all of the libraries are converted to use IEEE 128-bit
1881 floating point, it is not recommended to use
1882 '--with-long-double-format=ieee'.
1883
1884 '--enable-fdpic'
1885 On SH Linux systems, generate ELF FDPIC code.
1886
1887 '--with-gmp=PATHNAME'
1888 '--with-gmp-include=PATHNAME'
1889 '--with-gmp-lib=PATHNAME'
1890 '--with-mpfr=PATHNAME'
1891 '--with-mpfr-include=PATHNAME'
1892 '--with-mpfr-lib=PATHNAME'
1893 '--with-mpc=PATHNAME'
1894 '--with-mpc-include=PATHNAME'
1895 '--with-mpc-lib=PATHNAME'
1896 If you want to build GCC but do not have the GMP library, the MPFR
1897 library and/or the MPC library installed in a standard location and
1898 do not have their sources present in the GCC source tree then you
1899 can explicitly specify the directory where they are installed
1900 ('--with-gmp=GMPINSTALLDIR', '--with-mpfr=MPFRINSTALLDIR',
1901 '--with-mpc=MPCINSTALLDIR'). The '--with-gmp=GMPINSTALLDIR' option
1902 is shorthand for '--with-gmp-lib=GMPINSTALLDIR/lib' and
1903 '--with-gmp-include=GMPINSTALLDIR/include'. Likewise the
1904 '--with-mpfr=MPFRINSTALLDIR' option is shorthand for
1905 '--with-mpfr-lib=MPFRINSTALLDIR/lib' and
1906 '--with-mpfr-include=MPFRINSTALLDIR/include', also the
1907 '--with-mpc=MPCINSTALLDIR' option is shorthand for
1908 '--with-mpc-lib=MPCINSTALLDIR/lib' and
1909 '--with-mpc-include=MPCINSTALLDIR/include'. If these shorthand
1910 assumptions are not correct, you can use the explicit include and
1911 lib options directly. You might also need to ensure the shared
1912 libraries can be found by the dynamic linker when building and
1913 using GCC, for example by setting the runtime shared library path
1914 variable ('LD_LIBRARY_PATH' on GNU/Linux and Solaris systems).
1915
1916 These flags are applicable to the host platform only. When
1917 building a cross compiler, they will not be used to configure
1918 target libraries.
1919
1920 '--with-isl=PATHNAME'
1921 '--with-isl-include=PATHNAME'
1922 '--with-isl-lib=PATHNAME'
1923 If you do not have the isl library installed in a standard location
1924 and you want to build GCC, you can explicitly specify the directory
1925 where it is installed ('--with-isl=ISLINSTALLDIR'). The
1926 '--with-isl=ISLINSTALLDIR' option is shorthand for
1927 '--with-isl-lib=ISLINSTALLDIR/lib' and
1928 '--with-isl-include=ISLINSTALLDIR/include'. If this shorthand
1929 assumption is not correct, you can use the explicit include and lib
1930 options directly.
1931
1932 These flags are applicable to the host platform only. When
1933 building a cross compiler, they will not be used to configure
1934 target libraries.
1935
1936 '--with-stage1-ldflags=FLAGS'
1937 This option may be used to set linker flags to be used when linking
1938 stage 1 of GCC. These are also used when linking GCC if configured
1939 with '--disable-bootstrap'. If '--with-stage1-libs' is not set to
1940 a value, then the default is '-static-libstdc++ -static-libgcc', if
1941 supported.
1942
1943 '--with-stage1-libs=LIBS'
1944 This option may be used to set libraries to be used when linking
1945 stage 1 of GCC. These are also used when linking GCC if configured
1946 with '--disable-bootstrap'.
1947
1948 '--with-boot-ldflags=FLAGS'
1949 This option may be used to set linker flags to be used when linking
1950 stage 2 and later when bootstrapping GCC. If -with-boot-libs is not
1951 is set to a value, then the default is '-static-libstdc++
1952 -static-libgcc'.
1953
1954 '--with-boot-libs=LIBS'
1955 This option may be used to set libraries to be used when linking
1956 stage 2 and later when bootstrapping GCC.
1957
1958 '--with-debug-prefix-map=MAP'
1959 Convert source directory names using '-fdebug-prefix-map' when
1960 building runtime libraries. 'MAP' is a space-separated list of
1961 maps of the form 'OLD=NEW'.
1962
1963 '--enable-linker-build-id'
1964 Tells GCC to pass '--build-id' option to the linker for all final
1965 links (links performed without the '-r' or '--relocatable' option),
1966 if the linker supports it. If you specify
1967 '--enable-linker-build-id', but your linker does not support
1968 '--build-id' option, a warning is issued and the
1969 '--enable-linker-build-id' option is ignored. The default is off.
1970
1971 '--with-linker-hash-style=CHOICE'
1972 Tells GCC to pass '--hash-style=CHOICE' option to the linker for
1973 all final links. CHOICE can be one of 'sysv', 'gnu', and 'both'
1974 where 'sysv' is the default.
1975
1976 '--enable-gnu-unique-object'
1977 '--disable-gnu-unique-object'
1978 Tells GCC to use the gnu_unique_object relocation for C++ template
1979 static data members and inline function local statics. Enabled by
1980 default for a toolchain with an assembler that accepts it and GLIBC
1981 2.11 or above, otherwise disabled.
1982
1983 '--with-diagnostics-color=CHOICE'
1984 Tells GCC to use CHOICE as the default for '-fdiagnostics-color='
1985 option (if not used explicitly on the command line). CHOICE can be
1986 one of 'never', 'auto', 'always', and 'auto-if-env' where 'auto' is
1987 the default. 'auto-if-env' makes '-fdiagnostics-color=auto' the
1988 default if 'GCC_COLORS' is present and non-empty in the environment
1989 of the compiler, and '-fdiagnostics-color=never' otherwise.
1990
1991 '--with-diagnostics-urls=CHOICE'
1992 Tells GCC to use CHOICE as the default for '-fdiagnostics-urls='
1993 option (if not used explicitly on the command line). CHOICE can be
1994 one of 'never', 'auto', 'always', and 'auto-if-env' where 'auto' is
1995 the default. 'auto-if-env' makes '-fdiagnostics-urls=auto' the
1996 default if 'GCC_URLS' or 'TERM_URLS' is present and non-empty in
1997 the environment of the compiler, and '-fdiagnostics-urls=never'
1998 otherwise.
1999
2000 '--enable-lto'
2001 '--disable-lto'
2002 Enable support for link-time optimization (LTO). This is enabled by
2003 default, and may be disabled using '--disable-lto'.
2004
2005 '--enable-linker-plugin-configure-flags=FLAGS'
2006 '--enable-linker-plugin-flags=FLAGS'
2007 By default, linker plugins (such as the LTO plugin) are built for
2008 the host system architecture. For the case that the linker has a
2009 different (but run-time compatible) architecture, these flags can
2010 be specified to build plugins that are compatible to the linker.
2011 For example, if you are building GCC for a 64-bit x86_64
2012 ('x86_64-pc-linux-gnu') host system, but have a 32-bit x86
2013 GNU/Linux ('i686-pc-linux-gnu') linker executable (which is
2014 executable on the former system), you can configure GCC as follows
2015 for getting compatible linker plugins:
2016
2017 % SRCDIR/configure \
2018 --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu \
2019 --enable-linker-plugin-configure-flags=--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu \
2020 --enable-linker-plugin-flags='CC=gcc\ -m32\ -Wl,-rpath,[...]/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib'
2021
2022 '--with-plugin-ld=PATHNAME'
2023 Enable an alternate linker to be used at link-time optimization
2024 (LTO) link time when '-fuse-linker-plugin' is enabled. This linker
2025 should have plugin support such as gold starting with version 2.20
2026 or GNU ld starting with version 2.21. See '-fuse-linker-plugin'
2027 for details.
2028
2029 '--enable-canonical-system-headers'
2030 '--disable-canonical-system-headers'
2031 Enable system header path canonicalization for 'libcpp'. This can
2032 produce shorter header file paths in diagnostics and dependency
2033 output files, but these changed header paths may conflict with some
2034 compilation environments. Enabled by default, and may be disabled
2035 using '--disable-canonical-system-headers'.
2036
2037 '--with-glibc-version=MAJOR.MINOR'
2038 Tell GCC that when the GNU C Library (glibc) is used on the target
2039 it will be version MAJOR.MINOR or later. Normally this can be
2040 detected from the C library's header files, but this option may be
2041 needed when bootstrapping a cross toolchain without the header
2042 files available for building the initial bootstrap compiler.
2043
2044 If GCC is configured with some multilibs that use glibc and some
2045 that do not, this option applies only to the multilibs that use
2046 glibc. However, such configurations may not work well as not all
2047 the relevant configuration in GCC is on a per-multilib basis.
2048
2049 '--enable-as-accelerator-for=TARGET'
2050 Build as offload target compiler. Specify offload host triple by
2051 TARGET.
2052
2053 '--enable-offload-targets=TARGET1[=PATH1],...,TARGETN[=PATHN]'
2054 Enable offloading to targets TARGET1, ..., TARGETN. Offload
2055 compilers are expected to be already installed. Default search
2056 path for them is 'EXEC-PREFIX', but it can be changed by specifying
2057 paths PATH1, ..., PATHN.
2058
2059 % SRCDIR/configure \
2060 --enable-offload-targets=x86_64-intelmicemul-linux-gnu=/path/to/x86_64/compiler,nvptx-none
2061
2062 '--enable-offload-defaulted'
2063
2064 Tell GCC that configured but not installed offload compilers and
2065 libgomp plugins are silently ignored. Useful for distribution
2066 compilers where those are in separate optional packages and where
2067 the presence or absence of those optional packages should determine
2068 the actual supported offloading target set rather than the GCC
2069 configure-time selection.
2070
2071 '--with-hsa-runtime=PATHNAME'
2072 '--with-hsa-runtime-include=PATHNAME'
2073 '--with-hsa-runtime-lib=PATHNAME'
2074
2075 If you configure GCC with offloading which uses an HSA run-time
2076 such as AMDGCN but do not have the HSA run-time library installed
2077 in a standard location then you can explicitly specify the
2078 directory where they are installed. The
2079 '--with-hsa-runtime=HSAINSTALLDIR' option is a shorthand for
2080 '--with-hsa-runtime-lib=HSAINSTALLDIR/lib' and
2081 '--with-hsa-runtime-include=HSAINSTALLDIR/include'.
2082
2083 '--enable-cet'
2084 '--disable-cet'
2085 Enable building target run-time libraries with control-flow
2086 instrumentation, see '-fcf-protection' option. When '--enable-cet'
2087 is specified target libraries are configured to add
2088 '-fcf-protection' and, if needed, other target specific options to
2089 a set of building options.
2090
2091 '--enable-cet=auto' is default. CET is enabled on Linux/x86 if
2092 target binutils supports 'Intel CET' instructions and disabled
2093 otherwise. In this case, the target libraries are configured to
2094 get additional '-fcf-protection' option.
2095
2096 '--with-riscv-attribute='yes', 'no' or 'default''
2097 Generate RISC-V attribute by default, in order to record extra
2098 build information in object.
2099
2100 The option is disabled by default. It is enabled on RISC-V/ELF
2101 (bare-metal) target if target binutils supported.
2102
2103 '--enable-s390-excess-float-precision'
2104 '--disable-s390-excess-float-precision'
2105 On s390(x) targets, enable treatment of float expressions with
2106 double precision when in standards-compliant mode (e.g., when
2107 '--std=c99' or '-fexcess-precision=standard' are given).
2108
2109 For a native build and cross compiles that have target headers, the
2110 option's default is derived from glibc's behavior. When glibc
2111 clamps float_t to double, GCC follows and enables the option. For
2112 other cross compiles, the default is disabled.
2113
2114 '--with-zstd=PATHNAME'
2115 '--with-zstd-include=PATHNAME'
2116 '--with-zstd-lib=PATHNAME'
2117 If you do not have the 'zstd' library installed in a standard
2118 location and you want to build GCC, you can explicitly specify the
2119 directory where it is installed ('--with-zstd=ZSTDINSTALLDIR').
2120 The '--with-zstd=ZSTDINSTALLDIR' option is shorthand for
2121 '--with-zstd-lib=ZSTDINSTALLDIR/lib' and
2122 '--with-zstd-include=ZSTDINSTALLDIR/include'. If this shorthand
2123 assumption is not correct, you can use the explicit include and lib
2124 options directly.
2125
2126 These flags are applicable to the host platform only. When
2127 building a cross compiler, they will not be used to configure
2128 target libraries.
2129
2130 Cross-Compiler-Specific Options
2131 -------------------------------
2132
2133 The following options only apply to building cross compilers.
2134
2135 '--with-toolexeclibdir=DIR'
2136 Specify the installation directory for libraries built with a cross
2137 compiler. The default is '${gcc_tooldir}/lib'.
2138
2139 '--with-sysroot'
2140 '--with-sysroot=DIR'
2141 Tells GCC to consider DIR as the root of a tree that contains (a
2142 subset of) the root filesystem of the target operating system.
2143 Target system headers, libraries and run-time object files will be
2144 searched for in there. More specifically, this acts as if
2145 '--sysroot=DIR' was added to the default options of the built
2146 compiler. The specified directory is not copied into the install
2147 tree, unlike the options '--with-headers' and '--with-libs' that
2148 this option obsoletes. The default value, in case '--with-sysroot'
2149 is not given an argument, is '${gcc_tooldir}/sys-root'. If the
2150 specified directory is a subdirectory of '${exec_prefix}', then it
2151 will be found relative to the GCC binaries if the installation tree
2152 is moved.
2153
2154 This option affects the system root for the compiler used to build
2155 target libraries (which runs on the build system) and the compiler
2156 newly installed with 'make install'; it does not affect the
2157 compiler which is used to build GCC itself.
2158
2159 If you specify the '--with-native-system-header-dir=DIRNAME' option
2160 then the compiler will search that directory within DIRNAME for
2161 native system headers rather than the default '/usr/include'.
2162
2163 '--with-build-sysroot'
2164 '--with-build-sysroot=DIR'
2165 Tells GCC to consider DIR as the system root (see '--with-sysroot')
2166 while building target libraries, instead of the directory specified
2167 with '--with-sysroot'. This option is only useful when you are
2168 already using '--with-sysroot'. You can use '--with-build-sysroot'
2169 when you are configuring with '--prefix' set to a directory that is
2170 different from the one in which you are installing GCC and your
2171 target libraries.
2172
2173 This option affects the system root for the compiler used to build
2174 target libraries (which runs on the build system); it does not
2175 affect the compiler which is used to build GCC itself.
2176
2177 If you specify the '--with-native-system-header-dir=DIRNAME' option
2178 then the compiler will search that directory within DIRNAME for
2179 native system headers rather than the default '/usr/include'.
2180
2181 '--with-headers'
2182 '--with-headers=DIR'
2183 Deprecated in favor of '--with-sysroot'. Specifies that target
2184 headers are available when building a cross compiler. The DIR
2185 argument specifies a directory which has the target include files.
2186 These include files will be copied into the 'gcc' install
2187 directory. _This option with the DIR argument is required_ when
2188 building a cross compiler, if 'PREFIX/TARGET/sys-include' doesn't
2189 pre-exist. If 'PREFIX/TARGET/sys-include' does pre-exist, the DIR
2190 argument may be omitted. 'fixincludes' will be run on these files
2191 to make them compatible with GCC.
2192
2193 '--without-headers'
2194 Tells GCC not use any target headers from a libc when building a
2195 cross compiler. When crossing to GNU/Linux, you need the headers
2196 so GCC can build the exception handling for libgcc.
2197
2198 '--with-libs'
2199 '--with-libs="DIR1 DIR2 ... DIRN"'
2200 Deprecated in favor of '--with-sysroot'. Specifies a list of
2201 directories which contain the target runtime libraries. These
2202 libraries will be copied into the 'gcc' install directory. If the
2203 directory list is omitted, this option has no effect.
2204
2205 '--with-newlib'
2206 Specifies that 'newlib' is being used as the target C library.
2207 This causes '__eprintf' to be omitted from 'libgcc.a' on the
2208 assumption that it will be provided by 'newlib'.
2209
2210 '--with-avrlibc'
2211 Only supported for the AVR target. Specifies that 'AVR-Libc' is
2212 being used as the target C library. This causes float support
2213 functions like '__addsf3' to be omitted from 'libgcc.a' on the
2214 assumption that it will be provided by 'libm.a'. For more
2215 technical details, cf. PR54461. It is not supported for RTEMS
2216 configurations, which currently use newlib. The option is
2217 supported since version 4.7.2 and is the default in 4.8.0 and
2218 newer.
2219
2220 '--with-double={32|64|32,64|64,32}'
2221 '--with-long-double={32|64|32,64|64,32|double}'
2222 Only supported for the AVR target since version 10. Specify the
2223 default layout available for the C/C++ 'double' and 'long double'
2224 type, respectively. The following rules apply:
2225 * The first value after the '=' specifies the default layout (in
2226 bits) of the type and also the default for the '-mdouble='
2227 resp. '-mlong-double=' compiler option.
2228 * If more than one value is specified, respective multilib
2229 variants are available, and '-mdouble=' resp.
2230 '-mlong-double=' acts as a multilib option.
2231 * If '--with-long-double=double' is specified, 'double' and
2232 'long double' will have the same layout.
2233 * The defaults are '--with-long-double=64,32' and
2234 '--with-double=32,64'. The default 'double' layout imposed by
2235 the latter is compatible with older versions of the compiler
2236 that implement 'double' as a 32-bit type, which does not
2237 comply to the language standard.
2238 Not all combinations of '--with-double=' and '--with-long-double='
2239 are valid. For example, the combination '--with-double=32,64'
2240 '--with-long-double=32' will be rejected because the first option
2241 specifies the availability of multilibs for 'double', whereas the
2242 second option implies that 'long double' -- and hence also 'double'
2243 -- is always 32 bits wide.
2244
2245 '--with-double-comparison={tristate|bool|libf7}'
2246 Only supported for the AVR target since version 10. Specify what
2247 result format is returned by library functions that compare 64-bit
2248 floating point values ('DFmode'). The GCC default is 'tristate'.
2249 If the floating point implementation returns a boolean instead, set
2250 it to 'bool'.
2251
2252 '--with-libf7={libgcc|math|math-symbols|no}'
2253 Only supported for the AVR target since version 10. Specify to
2254 which degree code from LibF7 is included in libgcc. LibF7 is an
2255 ad-hoc, AVR-specific, 64-bit floating point emulation written in C
2256 and (inline) assembly. 'libgcc' adds support for functions that
2257 one would usually expect in libgcc like double addition, double
2258 comparisons and double conversions. 'math' also adds routines that
2259 one would expect in 'libm.a', but with '__' (two underscores)
2260 prepended to the symbol names as specified by 'math.h'.
2261 'math-symbols' also defines weak aliases for the functions declared
2262 in 'math.h'. However, '--with-libf7' won't install no 'math.h'
2263 header file whatsoever, this file must come from elsewhere. This
2264 option sets '--with-double-comparison' to 'bool'.
2265
2266 '--with-nds32-lib=LIBRARY'
2267 Specifies that LIBRARY setting is used for building 'libgcc.a'.
2268 Currently, the valid LIBRARY is 'newlib' or 'mculib'. This option
2269 is only supported for the NDS32 target.
2270
2271 '--with-build-time-tools=DIR'
2272 Specifies where to find the set of target tools (assembler, linker,
2273 etc.) that will be used while building GCC itself. This option
2274 can be useful if the directory layouts are different between the
2275 system you are building GCC on, and the system where you will
2276 deploy it.
2277
2278 For example, on an 'ia64-hp-hpux' system, you may have the GNU
2279 assembler and linker in '/usr/bin', and the native tools in a
2280 different path, and build a toolchain that expects to find the
2281 native tools in '/usr/bin'.
2282
2283 When you use this option, you should ensure that DIR includes 'ar',
2284 'as', 'ld', 'nm', 'ranlib' and 'strip' if necessary, and possibly
2285 'objdump'. Otherwise, GCC may use an inconsistent set of tools.
2286
2287 Overriding 'configure' test results
2288 ...................................
2289
2290 Sometimes, it might be necessary to override the result of some
2291 'configure' test, for example in order to ease porting to a new system
2292 or work around a bug in a test. The toplevel 'configure' script
2293 provides three variables for this:
2294
2295 'build_configargs'
2296 The contents of this variable is passed to all build 'configure'
2297 scripts.
2298
2299 'host_configargs'
2300 The contents of this variable is passed to all host 'configure'
2301 scripts.
2302
2303 'target_configargs'
2304 The contents of this variable is passed to all target 'configure'
2305 scripts.
2306
2307 In order to avoid shell and 'make' quoting issues for complex
2308 overrides, you can pass a setting for 'CONFIG_SITE' and set variables in
2309 the site file.
2310
2311 Objective-C-Specific Options
2312 ----------------------------
2313
2314 The following options apply to the build of the Objective-C runtime
2315 library.
2316
2317 '--enable-objc-gc'
2318 Specify that an additional variant of the GNU Objective-C runtime
2319 library is built, using an external build of the
2320 Boehm-Demers-Weiser garbage collector
2321 (<https://www.hboehm.info/gc/>). This library needs to be
2322 available for each multilib variant, unless configured with
2323 '--enable-objc-gc='auto'' in which case the build of the additional
2324 runtime library is skipped when not available and the build
2325 continues.
2326
2327 '--with-target-bdw-gc=LIST'
2328 '--with-target-bdw-gc-include=LIST'
2329 '--with-target-bdw-gc-lib=LIST'
2330 Specify search directories for the garbage collector header files
2331 and libraries. LIST is a comma separated list of key value pairs
2332 of the form 'MULTILIBDIR=PATH', where the default multilib key is
2333 named as '.' (dot), or is omitted (e.g.
2334 '--with-target-bdw-gc=/opt/bdw-gc,32=/opt-bdw-gc32').
2335
2336 The options '--with-target-bdw-gc-include' and
2337 '--with-target-bdw-gc-lib' must always be specified together for
2338 each multilib variant and they take precedence over
2339 '--with-target-bdw-gc'. If '--with-target-bdw-gc-include' is
2340 missing values for a multilib, then the value for the default
2341 multilib is used (e.g.
2342 '--with-target-bdw-gc-include=/opt/bdw-gc/include'
2343 '--with-target-bdw-gc-lib=/opt/bdw-gc/lib64,32=/opt-bdw-gc/lib32').
2344 If none of these options are specified, the library is assumed in
2345 default locations.
2346
2347 D-Specific Options
2348 ------------------
2349
2350 The following options apply to the build of the D runtime library.
2351
2352 '--enable-libphobos-checking'
2353 '--disable-libphobos-checking'
2354 '--enable-libphobos-checking=LIST'
2355 This option controls whether run-time checks and contracts are
2356 compiled into the D runtime library. When the option is not
2357 specified, the library is built with 'release' checking. When the
2358 option is specified without a LIST, the result is the same as
2359 '--enable-libphobos-checking=yes'. Likewise,
2360 '--disable-libphobos-checking' is equivalent to
2361 '--enable-libphobos-checking=no'.
2362
2363 The categories of checks available in LIST are 'yes' (compiles
2364 libphobos with '-fno-release'), 'no' (compiles libphobos with
2365 '-frelease'), 'all' (same as 'yes'), 'none' or 'release' (same as
2366 'no').
2367
2368 Individual checks available in LIST are 'assert' (compiles
2369 libphobos with an extra option '-fassert').
2370
2371 '--with-libphobos-druntime-only'
2372 '--with-libphobos-druntime-only=CHOICE'
2373 Specify whether to build only the core D runtime library
2374 (druntime), or both the core and standard library (phobos) into
2375 libphobos. This is useful for targets that have full support in
2376 druntime, but no or incomplete support in phobos. CHOICE can be
2377 one of 'auto', 'yes', and 'no' where 'auto' is the default.
2378
2379 When the option is not specified, the default choice 'auto' means
2380 that it is inferred whether the target has support for the phobos
2381 standard library. When the option is specified without a CHOICE,
2382 the result is the same as '--with-libphobos-druntime-only=yes'.
2383
2384 '--with-target-system-zlib'
2385 Use installed 'zlib' rather than that included with GCC. This
2386 needs to be available for each multilib variant, unless configured
2387 with '--with-target-system-zlib='auto'' in which case the
2388 GCC included 'zlib' is only used when the system installed library
2389 is not available.
2390
2391
2392 File: gccinstall.info, Node: Building, Next: Testing, Prev: Configuration, Up: Installing GCC
2393
2394 5 Building
2395 **********
2396
2397 Now that GCC is configured, you are ready to build the compiler and
2398 runtime libraries.
2399
2400 Some commands executed when making the compiler may fail (return a
2401 nonzero status) and be ignored by 'make'. These failures, which are
2402 often due to files that were not found, are expected, and can safely be
2403 ignored.
2404
2405 It is normal to have compiler warnings when compiling certain files.
2406 Unless you are a GCC developer, you can generally ignore these warnings
2407 unless they cause compilation to fail. Developers should attempt to fix
2408 any warnings encountered, however they can temporarily continue past
2409 warnings-as-errors by specifying the configure flag '--disable-werror'.
2410
2411 On certain old systems, defining certain environment variables such
2412 as 'CC' can interfere with the functioning of 'make'.
2413
2414 If you encounter seemingly strange errors when trying to build the
2415 compiler in a directory other than the source directory, it could be
2416 because you have previously configured the compiler in the source
2417 directory. Make sure you have done all the necessary preparations.
2418
2419 If you build GCC on a BSD system using a directory stored in an old
2420 System V file system, problems may occur in running 'fixincludes' if the
2421 System V file system doesn't support symbolic links. These problems
2422 result in a failure to fix the declaration of 'size_t' in 'sys/types.h'.
2423 If you find that 'size_t' is a signed type and that type mismatches
2424 occur, this could be the cause.
2425
2426 The solution is not to use such a directory for building GCC.
2427
2428 Similarly, when building from the source repository or snapshots, or
2429 if you modify '*.l' files, you need the Flex lexical analyzer generator
2430 installed. If you do not modify '*.l' files, releases contain the
2431 Flex-generated files and you do not need Flex installed to build them.
2432 There is still one Flex-based lexical analyzer (part of the build
2433 machinery, not of GCC itself) that is used even if you only build the C
2434 front end.
2435
2436 When building from the source repository or snapshots, or if you
2437 modify Texinfo documentation, you need version 4.7 or later of Texinfo
2438 installed if you want Info documentation to be regenerated. Releases
2439 contain Info documentation pre-built for the unmodified documentation in
2440 the release.
2441
2442 5.1 Building a native compiler
2443 ==============================
2444
2445 For a native build, the default configuration is to perform a 3-stage
2446 bootstrap of the compiler when 'make' is invoked. This will build the
2447 entire GCC system and ensure that it compiles itself correctly. It can
2448 be disabled with the '--disable-bootstrap' parameter to 'configure', but
2449 bootstrapping is suggested because the compiler will be tested more
2450 completely and could also have better performance.
2451
2452 The bootstrapping process will complete the following steps:
2453
2454 * Build tools necessary to build the compiler.
2455
2456 * Perform a 3-stage bootstrap of the compiler. This includes
2457 building three times the target tools for use by the compiler such
2458 as binutils (bfd, binutils, gas, gprof, ld, and opcodes) if they
2459 have been individually linked or moved into the top level GCC
2460 source tree before configuring.
2461
2462 * Perform a comparison test of the stage2 and stage3 compilers.
2463
2464 * Build runtime libraries using the stage3 compiler from the previous
2465 step.
2466
2467 If you are short on disk space you might consider 'make
2468 bootstrap-lean' instead. The sequence of compilation is the same
2469 described above, but object files from the stage1 and stage2 of the
2470 3-stage bootstrap of the compiler are deleted as soon as they are no
2471 longer needed.
2472
2473 If you wish to use non-default GCC flags when compiling the stage2
2474 and stage3 compilers, set 'BOOT_CFLAGS' on the command line when doing
2475 'make'. For example, if you want to save additional space during the
2476 bootstrap and in the final installation as well, you can build the
2477 compiler binaries without debugging information as in the following
2478 example. This will save roughly 40% of disk space both for the
2479 bootstrap and the final installation. (Libraries will still contain
2480 debugging information.)
2481
2482 make BOOT_CFLAGS='-O' bootstrap
2483
2484 You can place non-default optimization flags into 'BOOT_CFLAGS'; they
2485 are less well tested here than the default of '-g -O2', but should still
2486 work. In a few cases, you may find that you need to specify special
2487 flags such as '-msoft-float' here to complete the bootstrap; or, if the
2488 native compiler miscompiles the stage1 compiler, you may need to work
2489 around this, by choosing 'BOOT_CFLAGS' to avoid the parts of the stage1
2490 compiler that were miscompiled, or by using 'make bootstrap4' to
2491 increase the number of stages of bootstrap.
2492
2493 'BOOT_CFLAGS' does not apply to bootstrapped target libraries. Since
2494 these are always compiled with the compiler currently being
2495 bootstrapped, you can use 'CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET' to modify their
2496 compilation flags, as for non-bootstrapped target libraries. Again, if
2497 the native compiler miscompiles the stage1 compiler, you may need to
2498 work around this by avoiding non-working parts of the stage1 compiler.
2499 Use 'STAGE1_TFLAGS' to this end.
2500
2501 If you used the flag '--enable-languages=...' to restrict the
2502 compilers to be built, only those you've actually enabled will be built.
2503 This will of course only build those runtime libraries, for which the
2504 particular compiler has been built. Please note, that re-defining
2505 'LANGUAGES' when calling 'make' *does not* work anymore!
2506
2507 If the comparison of stage2 and stage3 fails, this normally indicates
2508 that the stage2 compiler has compiled GCC incorrectly, and is therefore
2509 a potentially serious bug which you should investigate and report. (On
2510 a few systems, meaningful comparison of object files is impossible; they
2511 always appear "different". If you encounter this problem, you will need
2512 to disable comparison in the 'Makefile'.)
2513
2514 If you do not want to bootstrap your compiler, you can configure with
2515 '--disable-bootstrap'. In particular cases, you may want to bootstrap
2516 your compiler even if the target system is not the same as the one you
2517 are building on: for example, you could build a
2518 'powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu' toolchain on a 'powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu'
2519 host. In this case, pass '--enable-bootstrap' to the configure script.
2520
2521 'BUILD_CONFIG' can be used to bring in additional customization to
2522 the build. It can be set to a whitespace-separated list of names. For
2523 each such 'NAME', top-level 'config/NAME.mk' will be included by the
2524 top-level 'Makefile', bringing in any settings it contains. The default
2525 'BUILD_CONFIG' can be set using the configure option
2526 '--with-build-config=NAME...'. Some examples of supported build
2527 configurations are:
2528
2529 'bootstrap-O1'
2530 Removes any '-O'-started option from 'BOOT_CFLAGS', and adds '-O1'
2531 to it. 'BUILD_CONFIG=bootstrap-O1' is equivalent to
2532 'BOOT_CFLAGS='-g -O1''.
2533
2534 'bootstrap-O3'
2535 'bootstrap-Og'
2536 Analogous to 'bootstrap-O1'.
2537
2538 'bootstrap-lto'
2539 Enables Link-Time Optimization for host tools during bootstrapping.
2540 'BUILD_CONFIG=bootstrap-lto' is equivalent to adding '-flto' to
2541 'BOOT_CFLAGS'. This option assumes that the host supports the
2542 linker plugin (e.g. GNU ld version 2.21 or later or GNU gold
2543 version 2.21 or later).
2544
2545 'bootstrap-lto-noplugin'
2546 This option is similar to 'bootstrap-lto', but is intended for
2547 hosts that do not support the linker plugin. Without the linker
2548 plugin static libraries are not compiled with link-time
2549 optimizations. Since the GCC middle end and back end are in
2550 'libbackend.a' this means that only the front end is actually LTO
2551 optimized.
2552
2553 'bootstrap-lto-lean'
2554 This option is similar to 'bootstrap-lto', but is intended for
2555 faster build by only using LTO in the final bootstrap stage. With
2556 'make profiledbootstrap' the LTO frontend is trained only on
2557 generator files.
2558
2559 'bootstrap-debug'
2560 Verifies that the compiler generates the same executable code,
2561 whether or not it is asked to emit debug information. To this end,
2562 this option builds stage2 host programs without debug information,
2563 and uses 'contrib/compare-debug' to compare them with the stripped
2564 stage3 object files. If 'BOOT_CFLAGS' is overridden so as to not
2565 enable debug information, stage2 will have it, and stage3 won't.
2566 This option is enabled by default when GCC bootstrapping is
2567 enabled, if 'strip' can turn object files compiled with and without
2568 debug info into identical object files. In addition to better test
2569 coverage, this option makes default bootstraps faster and leaner.
2570
2571 'bootstrap-debug-big'
2572 Rather than comparing stripped object files, as in
2573 'bootstrap-debug', this option saves internal compiler dumps during
2574 stage2 and stage3 and compares them as well, which helps catch
2575 additional potential problems, but at a great cost in terms of disk
2576 space. It can be specified in addition to 'bootstrap-debug'.
2577
2578 'bootstrap-debug-lean'
2579 This option saves disk space compared with 'bootstrap-debug-big',
2580 but at the expense of some recompilation. Instead of saving the
2581 dumps of stage2 and stage3 until the final compare, it uses
2582 '-fcompare-debug' to generate, compare and remove the dumps during
2583 stage3, repeating the compilation that already took place in
2584 stage2, whose dumps were not saved.
2585
2586 'bootstrap-debug-lib'
2587 This option tests executable code invariance over debug information
2588 generation on target libraries, just like 'bootstrap-debug-lean'
2589 tests it on host programs. It builds stage3 libraries with
2590 '-fcompare-debug', and it can be used along with any of the
2591 'bootstrap-debug' options above.
2592
2593 There aren't '-lean' or '-big' counterparts to this option because
2594 most libraries are only build in stage3, so bootstrap compares
2595 would not get significant coverage. Moreover, the few libraries
2596 built in stage2 are used in stage3 host programs, so we wouldn't
2597 want to compile stage2 libraries with different options for
2598 comparison purposes.
2599
2600 'bootstrap-debug-ckovw'
2601 Arranges for error messages to be issued if the compiler built on
2602 any stage is run without the option '-fcompare-debug'. This is
2603 useful to verify the full '-fcompare-debug' testing coverage. It
2604 must be used along with 'bootstrap-debug-lean' and
2605 'bootstrap-debug-lib'.
2606
2607 'bootstrap-cet'
2608 This option enables Intel CET for host tools during bootstrapping.
2609 'BUILD_CONFIG=bootstrap-cet' is equivalent to adding
2610 '-fcf-protection' to 'BOOT_CFLAGS'. This option assumes that the
2611 host supports Intel CET (e.g. GNU assembler version 2.30 or later).
2612
2613 'bootstrap-time'
2614 Arranges for the run time of each program started by the GCC
2615 driver, built in any stage, to be logged to 'time.log', in the top
2616 level of the build tree.
2617
2618 'bootstrap-asan'
2619 Compiles GCC itself using Address Sanitization in order to catch
2620 invalid memory accesses within the GCC code.
2621
2622 'bootstrap-hwasan'
2623 Compiles GCC itself using HWAddress Sanitization in order to catch
2624 invalid memory accesses within the GCC code. This option is only
2625 available on AArch64 systems that are running Linux kernel version
2626 5.4 or later.
2627
2628 5.2 Building a cross compiler
2629 =============================
2630
2631 When building a cross compiler, it is not generally possible to do a
2632 3-stage bootstrap of the compiler. This makes for an interesting
2633 problem as parts of GCC can only be built with GCC.
2634
2635 To build a cross compiler, we recommend first building and installing
2636 a native compiler. You can then use the native GCC compiler to build
2637 the cross compiler. The installed native compiler needs to be GCC
2638 version 2.95 or later.
2639
2640 Assuming you have already installed a native copy of GCC and
2641 configured your cross compiler, issue the command 'make', which performs
2642 the following steps:
2643
2644 * Build host tools necessary to build the compiler.
2645
2646 * Build target tools for use by the compiler such as binutils (bfd,
2647 binutils, gas, gprof, ld, and opcodes) if they have been
2648 individually linked or moved into the top level GCC source tree
2649 before configuring.
2650
2651 * Build the compiler (single stage only).
2652
2653 * Build runtime libraries using the compiler from the previous step.
2654
2655 Note that if an error occurs in any step the make process will exit.
2656
2657 If you are not building GNU binutils in the same source tree as GCC,
2658 you will need a cross-assembler and cross-linker installed before
2659 configuring GCC. Put them in the directory 'PREFIX/TARGET/bin'. Here
2660 is a table of the tools you should put in this directory:
2661
2662 'as'
2663 This should be the cross-assembler.
2664
2665 'ld'
2666 This should be the cross-linker.
2667
2668 'ar'
2669 This should be the cross-archiver: a program which can manipulate
2670 archive files (linker libraries) in the target machine's format.
2671
2672 'ranlib'
2673 This should be a program to construct a symbol table in an archive
2674 file.
2675
2676 The installation of GCC will find these programs in that directory,
2677 and copy or link them to the proper place to for the cross-compiler to
2678 find them when run later.
2679
2680 The easiest way to provide these files is to build the Binutils
2681 package. Configure it with the same '--host' and '--target' options
2682 that you use for configuring GCC, then build and install them. They
2683 install their executables automatically into the proper directory.
2684 Alas, they do not support all the targets that GCC supports.
2685
2686 If you are not building a C library in the same source tree as GCC,
2687 you should also provide the target libraries and headers before
2688 configuring GCC, specifying the directories with '--with-sysroot' or
2689 '--with-headers' and '--with-libs'. Many targets also require "start
2690 files" such as 'crt0.o' and 'crtn.o' which are linked into each
2691 executable. There may be several alternatives for 'crt0.o', for use
2692 with profiling or other compilation options. Check your target's
2693 definition of 'STARTFILE_SPEC' to find out what start files it uses.
2694
2695 5.3 Building in parallel
2696 ========================
2697
2698 GNU Make 3.80 and above, which is necessary to build GCC, support
2699 building in parallel. To activate this, you can use 'make -j 2' instead
2700 of 'make'. You can also specify a bigger number, and in most cases
2701 using a value greater than the number of processors in your machine will
2702 result in fewer and shorter I/O latency hits, thus improving overall
2703 throughput; this is especially true for slow drives and network
2704 filesystems.
2705
2706 5.4 Building the Ada compiler
2707 =============================
2708
2709 *note GNAT-prerequisite::.
2710
2711 5.5 Building the D compiler
2712 ===========================
2713
2714 *note GDC-prerequisite::.
2715
2716 5.6 Building with profile feedback
2717 ==================================
2718
2719 It is possible to use profile feedback to optimize the compiler itself.
2720 This should result in a faster compiler binary. Experiments done on x86
2721 using gcc 3.3 showed approximately 7 percent speedup on compiling C
2722 programs. To bootstrap the compiler with profile feedback, use 'make
2723 profiledbootstrap'.
2724
2725 When 'make profiledbootstrap' is run, it will first build a 'stage1'
2726 compiler. This compiler is used to build a 'stageprofile' compiler
2727 instrumented to collect execution counts of instruction and branch
2728 probabilities. Training run is done by building 'stagetrain' compiler.
2729 Finally a 'stagefeedback' compiler is built using the information
2730 collected.
2731
2732 Unlike standard bootstrap, several additional restrictions apply.
2733 The compiler used to build 'stage1' needs to support a 64-bit integral
2734 type. It is recommended to only use GCC for this.
2735
2736 On Linux/x86_64 hosts with some restrictions (no virtualization) it
2737 is also possible to do autofdo build with 'make autoprofiledback'. This
2738 uses Linux perf to sample branches in the binary and then rebuild it
2739 with feedback derived from the profile. Linux perf and the 'autofdo'
2740 toolkit needs to be installed for this.
2741
2742 Only the profile from the current build is used, so when an error
2743 occurs it is recommended to clean before restarting. Otherwise the code
2744 quality may be much worse.
2745
2746
2747 File: gccinstall.info, Node: Testing, Next: Final install, Prev: Building, Up: Installing GCC
2748
2749 6 Installing GCC: Testing
2750 *************************
2751
2752 Before you install GCC, we encourage you to run the testsuites and to
2753 compare your results with results from a similar configuration that have
2754 been submitted to the gcc-testresults mailing list. Some of these
2755 archived results are linked from the build status lists at
2756 <https://gcc.gnu.org/buildstat.html>, although not everyone who reports
2757 a successful build runs the testsuites and submits the results. This
2758 step is optional and may require you to download additional software,
2759 but it can give you confidence in your new GCC installation or point out
2760 problems before you install and start using your new GCC.
2761
2762 First, you must have downloaded the testsuites. These are part of
2763 the full distribution, but if you downloaded the "core" compiler plus
2764 any front ends, you must download the testsuites separately.
2765
2766 Second, you must have the testing tools installed. This includes
2767 DejaGnu, Tcl, and Expect; the DejaGnu site has links to these. Some
2768 optional tests also require Python3 and pytest module.
2769
2770 If the directories where 'runtest' and 'expect' were installed are
2771 not in the 'PATH', you may need to set the following environment
2772 variables appropriately, as in the following example (which assumes that
2773 DejaGnu has been installed under '/usr/local'):
2774
2775 TCL_LIBRARY = /usr/local/share/tcl8.0
2776 DEJAGNULIBS = /usr/local/share/dejagnu
2777
2778 (On systems such as Cygwin, these paths are required to be actual
2779 paths, not mounts or links; presumably this is due to some lack of
2780 portability in the DejaGnu code.)
2781
2782 Finally, you can run the testsuite (which may take a long time):
2783 cd OBJDIR; make -k check
2784
2785 This will test various components of GCC, such as compiler front ends
2786 and runtime libraries. While running the testsuite, DejaGnu might emit
2787 some harmless messages resembling 'WARNING: Couldn't find the global
2788 config file.' or 'WARNING: Couldn't find tool init file' that can be
2789 ignored.
2790
2791 If you are testing a cross-compiler, you may want to run the
2792 testsuite on a simulator as described at
2793 <https://gcc.gnu.org/simtest-howto.html>.
2794
2795 6.1 How can you run the testsuite on selected tests?
2796 ====================================================
2797
2798 In order to run sets of tests selectively, there are targets 'make
2799 check-gcc' and language specific 'make check-c', 'make check-c++', 'make
2800 check-d' 'make check-fortran', 'make check-ada', 'make check-objc',
2801 'make check-obj-c++', 'make check-lto' in the 'gcc' subdirectory of the
2802 object directory. You can also just run 'make check' in a subdirectory
2803 of the object directory.
2804
2805 A more selective way to just run all 'gcc' execute tests in the
2806 testsuite is to use
2807
2808 make check-gcc RUNTESTFLAGS="execute.exp OTHER-OPTIONS"
2809
2810 Likewise, in order to run only the 'g++' "old-deja" tests in the
2811 testsuite with filenames matching '9805*', you would use
2812
2813 make check-g++ RUNTESTFLAGS="old-deja.exp=9805* OTHER-OPTIONS"
2814
2815 The file-matching expression following FILENAME'.exp=' is treated as
2816 a series of whitespace-delimited glob expressions so that multiple
2817 patterns may be passed, although any whitespace must either be escaped
2818 or surrounded by single quotes if multiple expressions are desired. For
2819 example,
2820
2821 make check-g++ RUNTESTFLAGS="old-deja.exp=9805*\ virtual2.c OTHER-OPTIONS"
2822 make check-g++ RUNTESTFLAGS="'old-deja.exp=9805* virtual2.c' OTHER-OPTIONS"
2823
2824 The '*.exp' files are located in the testsuite directories of the GCC
2825 source, the most important ones being 'compile.exp', 'execute.exp',
2826 'dg.exp' and 'old-deja.exp'. To get a list of the possible '*.exp'
2827 files, pipe the output of 'make check' into a file and look at the
2828 'Running ... .exp' lines.
2829
2830 6.2 Passing options and running multiple testsuites
2831 ===================================================
2832
2833 You can pass multiple options to the testsuite using the
2834 '--target_board' option of DejaGNU, either passed as part of
2835 'RUNTESTFLAGS', or directly to 'runtest' if you prefer to work outside
2836 the makefiles. For example,
2837
2838 make check-g++ RUNTESTFLAGS="--target_board=unix/-O3/-fmerge-constants"
2839
2840 will run the standard 'g++' testsuites ("unix" is the target name for
2841 a standard native testsuite situation), passing '-O3 -fmerge-constants'
2842 to the compiler on every test, i.e., slashes separate options.
2843
2844 You can run the testsuites multiple times using combinations of
2845 options with a syntax similar to the brace expansion of popular shells:
2846
2847 ..."--target_board=arm-sim\{-mhard-float,-msoft-float\}\{-O1,-O2,-O3,\}"
2848
2849 (Note the empty option caused by the trailing comma in the final
2850 group.) The following will run each testsuite eight times using the
2851 'arm-sim' target, as if you had specified all possible combinations
2852 yourself:
2853
2854 --target_board='arm-sim/-mhard-float/-O1 \
2855 arm-sim/-mhard-float/-O2 \
2856 arm-sim/-mhard-float/-O3 \
2857 arm-sim/-mhard-float \
2858 arm-sim/-msoft-float/-O1 \
2859 arm-sim/-msoft-float/-O2 \
2860 arm-sim/-msoft-float/-O3 \
2861 arm-sim/-msoft-float'
2862
2863 They can be combined as many times as you wish, in arbitrary ways.
2864 This list:
2865
2866 ..."--target_board=unix/-Wextra\{-O3,-fno-strength\}\{-fomit-frame,\}"
2867
2868 will generate four combinations, all involving '-Wextra'.
2869
2870 The disadvantage to this method is that the testsuites are run in
2871 serial, which is a waste on multiprocessor systems. For users with GNU
2872 Make and a shell which performs brace expansion, you can run the
2873 testsuites in parallel by having the shell perform the combinations and
2874 'make' do the parallel runs. Instead of using '--target_board', use a
2875 special makefile target:
2876
2877 make -jN check-TESTSUITE//TEST-TARGET/OPTION1/OPTION2/...
2878
2879 For example,
2880
2881 make -j3 check-gcc//sh-hms-sim/{-m1,-m2,-m3,-m3e,-m4}/{,-nofpu}
2882
2883 will run three concurrent "make-gcc" testsuites, eventually testing
2884 all ten combinations as described above. Note that this is currently
2885 only supported in the 'gcc' subdirectory. (To see how this works, try
2886 typing 'echo' before the example given here.)
2887
2888 6.3 How to interpret test results
2889 =================================
2890
2891 The result of running the testsuite are various '*.sum' and '*.log'
2892 files in the testsuite subdirectories. The '*.log' files contain a
2893 detailed log of the compiler invocations and the corresponding results,
2894 the '*.sum' files summarize the results. These summaries contain status
2895 codes for all tests:
2896
2897 * PASS: the test passed as expected
2898 * XPASS: the test unexpectedly passed
2899 * FAIL: the test unexpectedly failed
2900 * XFAIL: the test failed as expected
2901 * UNSUPPORTED: the test is not supported on this platform
2902 * ERROR: the testsuite detected an error
2903 * WARNING: the testsuite detected a possible problem
2904
2905 It is normal for some tests to report unexpected failures. At the
2906 current time the testing harness does not allow fine grained control
2907 over whether or not a test is expected to fail. This problem should be
2908 fixed in future releases.
2909
2910 6.4 Submitting test results
2911 ===========================
2912
2913 If you want to report the results to the GCC project, use the
2914 'contrib/test_summary' shell script. Start it in the OBJDIR with
2915
2916 SRCDIR/contrib/test_summary -p your_commentary.txt \
2917 -m gcc-testresults (a] gcc.gnu.org |sh
2918
2919 This script uses the 'Mail' program to send the results, so make sure
2920 it is in your 'PATH'. The file 'your_commentary.txt' is prepended to
2921 the testsuite summary and should contain any special remarks you have on
2922 your results or your build environment. Please do not edit the
2923 testsuite result block or the subject line, as these messages may be
2924 automatically processed.
2925
2926
2927 File: gccinstall.info, Node: Final install, Prev: Testing, Up: Installing GCC
2928
2929 7 Installing GCC: Final installation
2930 ************************************
2931
2932 Now that GCC has been built (and optionally tested), you can install it
2933 with
2934 cd OBJDIR && make install
2935
2936 We strongly recommend to install into a target directory where there
2937 is no previous version of GCC present. Also, the GNAT runtime should
2938 not be stripped, as this would break certain features of the debugger
2939 that depend on this debugging information (catching Ada exceptions for
2940 instance).
2941
2942 That step completes the installation of GCC; user level binaries can
2943 be found in 'PREFIX/bin' where PREFIX is the value you specified with
2944 the '--prefix' to configure (or '/usr/local' by default). (If you
2945 specified '--bindir', that directory will be used instead; otherwise, if
2946 you specified '--exec-prefix', 'EXEC-PREFIX/bin' will be used.) Headers
2947 for the C++ library are installed in 'PREFIX/include'; libraries in
2948 'LIBDIR' (normally 'PREFIX/lib'); internal parts of the compiler in
2949 'LIBDIR/gcc' and 'LIBEXECDIR/gcc'; documentation in info format in
2950 'INFODIR' (normally 'PREFIX/info').
2951
2952 When installing cross-compilers, GCC's executables are not only
2953 installed into 'BINDIR', that is, 'EXEC-PREFIX/bin', but additionally
2954 into 'EXEC-PREFIX/TARGET-ALIAS/bin', if that directory exists.
2955 Typically, such "tooldirs" hold target-specific binutils, including
2956 assembler and linker.
2957
2958 Installation into a temporary staging area or into a 'chroot' jail
2959 can be achieved with the command
2960
2961 make DESTDIR=PATH-TO-ROOTDIR install
2962
2963 where PATH-TO-ROOTDIR is the absolute path of a directory relative to
2964 which all installation paths will be interpreted. Note that the
2965 directory specified by 'DESTDIR' need not exist yet; it will be created
2966 if necessary.
2967
2968 There is a subtle point with tooldirs and 'DESTDIR': If you relocate
2969 a cross-compiler installation with e.g. 'DESTDIR=ROOTDIR', then the
2970 directory 'ROOTDIR/EXEC-PREFIX/TARGET-ALIAS/bin' will be filled with
2971 duplicated GCC executables only if it already exists, it will not be
2972 created otherwise. This is regarded as a feature, not as a bug, because
2973 it gives slightly more control to the packagers using the 'DESTDIR'
2974 feature.
2975
2976 You can install stripped programs and libraries with
2977
2978 make install-strip
2979
2980 If you are bootstrapping a released version of GCC then please
2981 quickly review the build status page for your release, available from
2982 <https://gcc.gnu.org/buildstat.html>. If your system is not listed for
2983 the version of GCC that you built, send a note to <gcc (a] gcc.gnu.org>
2984 indicating that you successfully built and installed GCC. Include the
2985 following information:
2986
2987 * Output from running 'SRCDIR/config.guess'. Do not send that file
2988 itself, just the one-line output from running it.
2989
2990 * The output of 'gcc -v' for your newly installed 'gcc'. This tells
2991 us which version of GCC you built and the options you passed to
2992 configure.
2993
2994 * Whether you enabled all languages or a subset of them. If you used
2995 a full distribution then this information is part of the configure
2996 options in the output of 'gcc -v', but if you downloaded the "core"
2997 compiler plus additional front ends then it isn't apparent which
2998 ones you built unless you tell us about it.
2999
3000 * If the build was for GNU/Linux, also include:
3001 * The distribution name and version (e.g., Red Hat 7.1 or Debian
3002 2.2.3); this information should be available from
3003 '/etc/issue'.
3004
3005 * The version of the Linux kernel, available from 'uname
3006 --version' or 'uname -a'.
3007
3008 * The version of glibc you used; for RPM-based systems like Red
3009 Hat, Mandrake, and SuSE type 'rpm -q glibc' to get the glibc
3010 version, and on systems like Debian and Progeny use 'dpkg -l
3011 libc6'.
3012 For other systems, you can include similar information if you think
3013 it is relevant.
3014
3015 * Any other information that you think would be useful to people
3016 building GCC on the same configuration. The new entry in the build
3017 status list will include a link to the archived copy of your
3018 message.
3019
3020 We'd also like to know if the *note host/target specific installation
3021 notes: Specific. didn't include your host/target information or if that
3022 information is incomplete or out of date. Send a note to
3023 <gcc (a] gcc.gnu.org> detailing how the information should be changed.
3024
3025 If you find a bug, please report it following the bug reporting
3026 guidelines.
3027
3028 If you want to print the GCC manuals, do 'cd OBJDIR; make dvi'. You
3029 will need to have 'texi2dvi' (version at least 4.7) and TeX installed.
3030 This creates a number of '.dvi' files in subdirectories of 'OBJDIR';
3031 these may be converted for printing with programs such as 'dvips'.
3032 Alternately, by using 'make pdf' in place of 'make dvi', you can create
3033 documentation in the form of '.pdf' files; this requires 'texi2pdf',
3034 which is included with Texinfo version 4.8 and later. You can also buy
3035 printed manuals from the Free Software Foundation, though such manuals
3036 may not be for the most recent version of GCC.
3037
3038 If you would like to generate online HTML documentation, do 'cd
3039 OBJDIR; make html' and HTML will be generated for the gcc manuals in
3040 'OBJDIR/gcc/HTML'.
3041
3042
3043 File: gccinstall.info, Node: Binaries, Next: Specific, Prev: Installing GCC, Up: Top
3044
3045 8 Installing GCC: Binaries
3046 **************************
3047
3048 We are often asked about pre-compiled versions of GCC. While we cannot
3049 provide these for all platforms, below you'll find links to binaries for
3050 various platforms where creating them by yourself is not easy due to
3051 various reasons.
3052
3053 Please note that we did not create these binaries, nor do we support
3054 them. If you have any problems installing them, please contact their
3055 makers.
3056
3057 * AIX:
3058 * Bull's Open Source Software Archive for for AIX 6 and AIX 7;
3059
3060 * AIX Open Source Packages (AIX5L AIX 6.1 AIX 7.1).
3061
3062 * DOS--DJGPP.
3063
3064 * HP-UX:
3065 * HP-UX Porting Center;
3066
3067 * Solaris 2 (SPARC, Intel):
3068 * OpenCSW
3069
3070 * macOS:
3071 * The Homebrew package manager;
3072 * MacPorts.
3073
3074 * Microsoft Windows:
3075 * The Cygwin project;
3076 * The MinGW and mingw-w64 projects.
3077
3078 * OpenPKG offers binaries for quite a number of platforms.
3079
3080 * The GFortran Wiki has links to GNU Fortran binaries for several
3081 platforms.
3082
3083
3084 File: gccinstall.info, Node: Specific, Next: GNU Free Documentation License, Prev: Binaries, Up: Top
3085
3086 9 Host/target specific installation notes for GCC
3087 *************************************************
3088
3089 Please read this document carefully _before_ installing the GNU Compiler
3090 Collection on your machine.
3091
3092 Note that this list of install notes is _not_ a list of supported
3093 hosts or targets. Not all supported hosts and targets are listed here,
3094 only the ones that require host-specific or target-specific information
3095 have to.
3096
3097 aarch64*-*-*
3098 ============
3099
3100 Binutils pre 2.24 does not have support for selecting '-mabi' and does
3101 not support ILP32. If it is used to build GCC 4.9 or later, GCC will
3102 not support option '-mabi=ilp32'.
3103
3104 To enable a workaround for the Cortex-A53 erratum number 835769 by
3105 default (for all CPUs regardless of -mcpu option given) at configure
3106 time use the '--enable-fix-cortex-a53-835769' option. This will enable
3107 the fix by default and can be explicitly disabled during compilation by
3108 passing the '-mno-fix-cortex-a53-835769' option. Conversely,
3109 '--disable-fix-cortex-a53-835769' will disable the workaround by
3110 default. The workaround is disabled by default if neither of
3111 '--enable-fix-cortex-a53-835769' or '--disable-fix-cortex-a53-835769' is
3112 given at configure time.
3113
3114 To enable a workaround for the Cortex-A53 erratum number 843419 by
3115 default (for all CPUs regardless of -mcpu option given) at configure
3116 time use the '--enable-fix-cortex-a53-843419' option. This workaround
3117 is applied at link time. Enabling the workaround will cause GCC to pass
3118 the relevant option to the linker. It can be explicitly disabled during
3119 compilation by passing the '-mno-fix-cortex-a53-843419' option.
3120 Conversely, '--disable-fix-cortex-a53-843419' will disable the
3121 workaround by default. The workaround is disabled by default if neither
3122 of '--enable-fix-cortex-a53-843419' or '--disable-fix-cortex-a53-843419'
3123 is given at configure time.
3124
3125 To enable Branch Target Identification Mechanism and Return Address
3126 Signing by default at configure time use the
3127 '--enable-standard-branch-protection' option. This is equivalent to
3128 having '-mbranch-protection=standard' during compilation. This can be
3129 explicitly disabled during compilation by passing the
3130 '-mbranch-protection=none' option which turns off all types of branch
3131 protections. Conversely, '--disable-standard-branch-protection' will
3132 disable both the protections by default. This mechanism is turned off
3133 by default if neither of the options are given at configure time.
3134
3135 alpha*-*-*
3136 ==========
3137
3138 This section contains general configuration information for all
3139 Alpha-based platforms using ELF. In addition to reading this section,
3140 please read all other sections that match your target.
3141
3142 amd64-*-solaris2*
3143 =================
3144
3145 This is a synonym for 'x86_64-*-solaris2*'.
3146
3147 amdgcn-*-amdhsa
3148 ===============
3149
3150 AMD GCN GPU target.
3151
3152 Instead of GNU Binutils, you will need to install LLVM 13.0.1, or
3153 later, and copy 'bin/llvm-mc' to 'amdgcn-amdhsa/bin/as', 'bin/lld' to
3154 'amdgcn-amdhsa/bin/ld', 'bin/llvm-nm' to 'amdgcn-amdhsa/bin/nm', and
3155 'bin/llvm-ar' to both 'bin/amdgcn-amdhsa-ar' and
3156 'bin/amdgcn-amdhsa-ranlib'.
3157
3158 Use Newlib (3.2.0, or newer).
3159
3160 To run the binaries, install the HSA Runtime from the ROCm Platform,
3161 and use 'libexec/gcc/amdhsa-amdhsa/VERSION/gcn-run' to launch them on
3162 the GPU.
3163
3164 arc-*-elf32
3165 ===========
3166
3167 Use 'configure --target=arc-elf32 --with-cpu=CPU
3168 --enable-languages="c,c++"' to configure GCC, with CPU being one of
3169 'arc600', 'arc601', or 'arc700'.
3170
3171 arc-linux-uclibc
3172 ================
3173
3174 Use 'configure --target=arc-linux-uclibc --with-cpu=arc700
3175 --enable-languages="c,c++"' to configure GCC.
3176
3177 arm-*-eabi
3178 ==========
3179
3180 ARM-family processors.
3181
3182 Building the Ada frontend commonly fails (an infinite loop executing
3183 'xsinfo') if the host compiler is GNAT 4.8. Host compilers built from
3184 the GNAT 4.6, 4.9 or 5 release branches are known to succeed.
3185
3186 avr
3187 ===
3188
3189 ATMEL AVR-family micro controllers. These are used in embedded
3190 applications. There are no standard Unix configurations. *Note AVR
3191 Options: (gcc)AVR Options, for the list of supported MCU types.
3192
3193 Use 'configure --target=avr --enable-languages="c"' to configure GCC.
3194
3195 Further installation notes and other useful information about AVR
3196 tools can also be obtained from:
3197
3198 * http://www.nongnu.org/avr/
3199 * http://www.amelek.gda.pl/avr/
3200
3201 The following error:
3202 Error: register required
3203
3204 indicates that you should upgrade to a newer version of the binutils.
3205
3206 Blackfin
3207 ========
3208
3209 The Blackfin processor, an Analog Devices DSP. *Note Blackfin Options:
3210 (gcc)Blackfin Options,
3211
3212 More information, and a version of binutils with support for this
3213 processor, are available at
3214 <https://sourceforge.net/projects/adi-toolchain/>.
3215
3216 CR16
3217 ====
3218
3219 The CR16 CompactRISC architecture is a 16-bit architecture. This
3220 architecture is used in embedded applications.
3221
3222 *Note CR16 Options: (gcc)CR16 Options,
3223
3224 Use 'configure --target=cr16-elf --enable-languages=c,c++' to
3225 configure GCC for building a CR16 elf cross-compiler.
3226
3227 Use 'configure --target=cr16-uclinux --enable-languages=c,c++' to
3228 configure GCC for building a CR16 uclinux cross-compiler.
3229
3230 CRIS
3231 ====
3232
3233 CRIS is a CPU architecture in Axis Communications systems-on-a-chip, for
3234 example the ETRAX series. These are used in embedded applications.
3235
3236 *Note CRIS Options: (gcc)CRIS Options, for a list of CRIS-specific
3237 options.
3238
3239 Use 'configure --target=cris-elf' to configure GCC for building a
3240 cross-compiler for CRIS.
3241
3242 DOS
3243 ===
3244
3245 Please have a look at the binaries page.
3246
3247 You cannot install GCC by itself on MSDOS; it will not compile under
3248 any MSDOS compiler except itself. You need to get the complete
3249 compilation package DJGPP, which includes binaries as well as sources,
3250 and includes all the necessary compilation tools and libraries.
3251
3252 epiphany-*-elf
3253 ==============
3254
3255 Adapteva Epiphany. This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
3256
3257 *-*-freebsd*
3258 ============
3259
3260 In order to better utilize FreeBSD base system functionality and match
3261 the configuration of the system compiler, GCC 4.5 and above as well as
3262 GCC 4.4 past 2010-06-20 leverage SSP support in libc (which is present
3263 on FreeBSD 7 or later) and the use of '__cxa_atexit' by default (on
3264 FreeBSD 6 or later). The use of 'dl_iterate_phdr' inside
3265 'libgcc_s.so.1' and boehm-gc (on FreeBSD 7 or later) is enabled by GCC
3266 4.5 and above.
3267
3268 We support FreeBSD using the ELF file format with DWARF 2 debugging
3269 for all CPU architectures. You may use '-gstabs' instead of '-g', if
3270 you really want the old debugging format. There are no known issues
3271 with mixing object files and libraries with different debugging formats.
3272 Otherwise, this release of GCC should now match more of the
3273 configuration used in the stock FreeBSD configuration of GCC. In
3274 particular, '--enable-threads' is now configured by default. However,
3275 as a general user, do not attempt to replace the system compiler with
3276 this release. Known to bootstrap and check with good results on FreeBSD
3277 7.2-STABLE. In the past, known to bootstrap and check with good results
3278 on FreeBSD 3.0, 3.4, 4.0, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.8, 4.9 and 5-CURRENT.
3279
3280 The version of binutils installed in '/usr/bin' probably works with
3281 this release of GCC. Bootstrapping against the latest GNU binutils
3282 and/or the version found in '/usr/ports/devel/binutils' has been known
3283 to enable additional features and improve overall testsuite results.
3284 However, it is currently known that boehm-gc may not configure properly
3285 on FreeBSD prior to the FreeBSD 7.0 release with GNU binutils after
3286 2.16.1.
3287
3288 ft32-*-elf
3289 ==========
3290
3291 The FT32 processor. This configuration is intended for embedded
3292 systems.
3293
3294 h8300-hms
3295 =========
3296
3297 Renesas H8/300 series of processors.
3298
3299 Please have a look at the binaries page.
3300
3301 The calling convention and structure layout has changed in release
3302 2.6. All code must be recompiled. The calling convention now passes
3303 the first three arguments in function calls in registers. Structures
3304 are no longer a multiple of 2 bytes.
3305
3306 hppa*-hp-hpux*
3307 ==============
3308
3309 Support for HP-UX version 9 and older was discontinued in GCC 3.4.
3310
3311 We require using gas/binutils on all hppa platforms. Version 2.19 or
3312 later is recommended.
3313
3314 It may be helpful to configure GCC with the '--with-gnu-as' and
3315 '--with-as=...' options to ensure that GCC can find GAS.
3316
3317 The HP assembler should not be used with GCC. It is rarely tested and
3318 may not work. It shouldn't be used with any languages other than C due
3319 to its many limitations.
3320
3321 Specifically, '-g' does not work (HP-UX uses a peculiar debugging
3322 format which GCC does not know about). It also inserts timestamps into
3323 each object file it creates, causing the 3-stage comparison test to fail
3324 during a bootstrap. You should be able to continue by saying 'make
3325 all-host all-target' after getting the failure from 'make'.
3326
3327 Various GCC features are not supported. For example, it does not
3328 support weak symbols or alias definitions. As a result, explicit
3329 template instantiations are required when using C++. This makes it
3330 difficult if not impossible to build many C++ applications.
3331
3332 There are two default scheduling models for instructions. These are
3333 PROCESSOR_7100LC and PROCESSOR_8000. They are selected from the pa-risc
3334 architecture specified for the target machine when configuring.
3335 PROCESSOR_8000 is the default. PROCESSOR_7100LC is selected when the
3336 target is a 'hppa1*' machine.
3337
3338 The PROCESSOR_8000 model is not well suited to older processors.
3339 Thus, it is important to completely specify the machine architecture
3340 when configuring if you want a model other than PROCESSOR_8000. The
3341 macro TARGET_SCHED_DEFAULT can be defined in BOOT_CFLAGS if a different
3342 default scheduling model is desired.
3343
3344 As of GCC 4.0, GCC uses the UNIX 95 namespace for HP-UX 10.10 through
3345 11.00, and the UNIX 98 namespace for HP-UX 11.11 and later. This
3346 namespace change might cause problems when bootstrapping with an earlier
3347 version of GCC or the HP compiler as essentially the same namespace is
3348 required for an entire build. This problem can be avoided in a number
3349 of ways. With HP cc, 'UNIX_STD' can be set to '95' or '98'. Another
3350 way is to add an appropriate set of predefines to 'CC'. The description
3351 for the 'munix=' option contains a list of the predefines used with each
3352 standard.
3353
3354 More specific information to 'hppa*-hp-hpux*' targets follows.
3355
3356 hppa*-hp-hpux10
3357 ===============
3358
3359 For hpux10.20, we _highly_ recommend you pick up the latest sed patch
3360 'PHCO_19798' from HP.
3361
3362 The C++ ABI has changed incompatibly in GCC 4.0. COMDAT subspaces
3363 are used for one-only code and data. This resolves many of the previous
3364 problems in using C++ on this target. However, the ABI is not
3365 compatible with the one implemented under HP-UX 11 using secondary
3366 definitions.
3367
3368 hppa*-hp-hpux11
3369 ===============
3370
3371 GCC 3.0 and up support HP-UX 11. GCC 2.95.x is not supported and cannot
3372 be used to compile GCC 3.0 and up.
3373
3374 The libffi library haven't been ported to 64-bit HP-UX and doesn't
3375 build.
3376
3377 Refer to binaries for information about obtaining precompiled GCC
3378 binaries for HP-UX. Precompiled binaries must be obtained to build the
3379 Ada language as it cannot be bootstrapped using C. Ada is only
3380 available for the 32-bit PA-RISC runtime.
3381
3382 Starting with GCC 3.4 an ISO C compiler is required to bootstrap.
3383 The bundled compiler supports only traditional C; you will need either
3384 HP's unbundled compiler, or a binary distribution of GCC.
3385
3386 It is possible to build GCC 3.3 starting with the bundled HP
3387 compiler, but the process requires several steps. GCC 3.3 can then be
3388 used to build later versions.
3389
3390 There are several possible approaches to building the distribution.
3391 Binutils can be built first using the HP tools. Then, the GCC
3392 distribution can be built. The second approach is to build GCC first
3393 using the HP tools, then build binutils, then rebuild GCC. There have
3394 been problems with various binary distributions, so it is best not to
3395 start from a binary distribution.
3396
3397 On 64-bit capable systems, there are two distinct targets. Different
3398 installation prefixes must be used if both are to be installed on the
3399 same system. The 'hppa[1-2]*-hp-hpux11*' target generates code for the
3400 32-bit PA-RISC runtime architecture and uses the HP linker. The
3401 'hppa64-hp-hpux11*' target generates 64-bit code for the PA-RISC 2.0
3402 architecture.
3403
3404 The script config.guess now selects the target type based on the
3405 compiler detected during configuration. You must define 'PATH' or 'CC'
3406 so that configure finds an appropriate compiler for the initial
3407 bootstrap. When 'CC' is used, the definition should contain the options
3408 that are needed whenever 'CC' is used.
3409
3410 Specifically, options that determine the runtime architecture must be
3411 in 'CC' to correctly select the target for the build. It is also
3412 convenient to place many other compiler options in 'CC'. For example,
3413 'CC="cc -Ac +DA2.0W -Wp,-H16376 -D_CLASSIC_TYPES -D_HPUX_SOURCE"' can be
3414 used to bootstrap the GCC 3.3 branch with the HP compiler in 64-bit
3415 K&R/bundled mode. The '+DA2.0W' option will result in the automatic
3416 selection of the 'hppa64-hp-hpux11*' target. The macro definition table
3417 of cpp needs to be increased for a successful build with the HP
3418 compiler. _CLASSIC_TYPES and _HPUX_SOURCE need to be defined when
3419 building with the bundled compiler, or when using the '-Ac' option.
3420 These defines aren't necessary with '-Ae'.
3421
3422 It is best to explicitly configure the 'hppa64-hp-hpux11*' target
3423 with the '--with-ld=...' option. This overrides the standard search for
3424 ld. The two linkers supported on this target require different
3425 commands. The default linker is determined during configuration. As a
3426 result, it's not possible to switch linkers in the middle of a GCC
3427 build. This has been reported to sometimes occur in unified builds of
3428 binutils and GCC.
3429
3430 A recent linker patch must be installed for the correct operation of
3431 GCC 3.3 and later. 'PHSS_26559' and 'PHSS_24304' are the oldest linker
3432 patches that are known to work. They are for HP-UX 11.00 and 11.11,
3433 respectively. 'PHSS_24303', the companion to 'PHSS_24304', might be
3434 usable but it hasn't been tested. These patches have been superseded.
3435 Consult the HP patch database to obtain the currently recommended linker
3436 patch for your system.
3437
3438 The patches are necessary for the support of weak symbols on the
3439 32-bit port, and for the running of initializers and finalizers. Weak
3440 symbols are implemented using SOM secondary definition symbols. Prior
3441 to HP-UX 11, there are bugs in the linker support for secondary symbols.
3442 The patches correct a problem of linker core dumps creating shared
3443 libraries containing secondary symbols, as well as various other linking
3444 issues involving secondary symbols.
3445
3446 GCC 3.3 uses the ELF DT_INIT_ARRAY and DT_FINI_ARRAY capabilities to
3447 run initializers and finalizers on the 64-bit port. The 32-bit port
3448 uses the linker '+init' and '+fini' options for the same purpose. The
3449 patches correct various problems with the +init/+fini options, including
3450 program core dumps. Binutils 2.14 corrects a problem on the 64-bit port
3451 resulting from HP's non-standard use of the .init and .fini sections for
3452 array initializers and finalizers.
3453
3454 Although the HP and GNU linkers are both supported for the
3455 'hppa64-hp-hpux11*' target, it is strongly recommended that the HP
3456 linker be used for link editing on this target.
3457
3458 At this time, the GNU linker does not support the creation of long
3459 branch stubs. As a result, it cannot successfully link binaries
3460 containing branch offsets larger than 8 megabytes. In addition, there
3461 are problems linking shared libraries, linking executables with
3462 '-static', and with dwarf2 unwind and exception support. It also
3463 doesn't provide stubs for internal calls to global functions in shared
3464 libraries, so these calls cannot be overloaded.
3465
3466 The HP dynamic loader does not support GNU symbol versioning, so
3467 symbol versioning is not supported. It may be necessary to disable
3468 symbol versioning with '--disable-symvers' when using GNU ld.
3469
3470 POSIX threads are the default. The optional DCE thread library is
3471 not supported, so '--enable-threads=dce' does not work.
3472
3473 *-*-linux-gnu
3474 =============
3475
3476 The '.init_array' and '.fini_array' sections are enabled unconditionally
3477 which requires at least glibc 2.1 and binutils 2.12.
3478
3479 Versions of libstdc++-v3 starting with 3.2.1 require bug fixes
3480 present in glibc 2.2.5 and later. More information is available in the
3481 libstdc++-v3 documentation.
3482
3483 i?86-*-linux*
3484 =============
3485
3486 As of GCC 3.3, binutils 2.13.1 or later is required for this platform.
3487 See bug 10877 for more information.
3488
3489 If you receive Signal 11 errors when building on GNU/Linux, then it
3490 is possible you have a hardware problem. Further information on this
3491 can be found on www.bitwizard.nl.
3492
3493 i?86-*-solaris2*
3494 ================
3495
3496 Use this for Solaris 11.3 or later on x86 and x86-64 systems. Starting
3497 with GCC 4.7, there is also a 64-bit 'amd64-*-solaris2*' or
3498 'x86_64-*-solaris2*' configuration that corresponds to
3499 'sparcv9-sun-solaris2*'.
3500
3501 It is recommended that you configure GCC to use the GNU assembler.
3502 The versions included in Solaris 11.3, from GNU binutils 2.23.1 or newer
3503 (available as '/usr/bin/gas' and '/usr/gnu/bin/as'), work fine. The
3504 current version, from GNU binutils 2.34, is known to work. Recent
3505 versions of the Solaris assembler in '/usr/bin/as' work almost as well,
3506 though.
3507
3508 For linking, the Solaris linker is preferred. If you want to use the
3509 GNU linker instead, the version in Solaris 11.3, from GNU binutils
3510 2.23.1 or newer (in '/usr/gnu/bin/ld' and '/usr/bin/gld'), works, as
3511 does the latest version, from GNU binutils 2.34.
3512
3513 To use GNU 'as', configure with the options '--with-gnu-as
3514 --with-as=/usr/gnu/bin/as'. It may be necessary to configure with
3515 '--without-gnu-ld --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld' to guarantee use of Solaris
3516 'ld'.
3517
3518 ia64-*-linux
3519 ============
3520
3521 IA-64 processor (also known as IPF, or Itanium Processor Family) running
3522 GNU/Linux.
3523
3524 If you are using the installed system libunwind library with
3525 '--with-system-libunwind', then you must use libunwind 0.98 or later.
3526
3527 ia64-*-hpux*
3528 ============
3529
3530 Building GCC on this target requires the GNU Assembler. The bundled HP
3531 assembler will not work. To prevent GCC from using the wrong assembler,
3532 the option '--with-gnu-as' may be necessary.
3533
3534 The GCC libunwind library has not been ported to HPUX. This means
3535 that for GCC versions 3.2.3 and earlier, '--enable-libunwind-exceptions'
3536 is required to build GCC. For GCC 3.3 and later, this is the default.
3537 For gcc 3.4.3 and later, '--enable-libunwind-exceptions' is removed and
3538 the system libunwind library will always be used.
3539
3540 *-ibm-aix*
3541 ==========
3542
3543 Support for AIX version 3 and older was discontinued in GCC 3.4.
3544 Support for AIX version 4.2 and older was discontinued in GCC 4.5.
3545
3546 "out of memory" bootstrap failures may indicate a problem with
3547 process resource limits (ulimit). Hard limits are configured in the
3548 '/etc/security/limits' system configuration file.
3549
3550 GCC 4.9 and above require a C++ compiler for bootstrap. IBM VAC++ /
3551 xlC cannot bootstrap GCC. xlc can bootstrap an older version of GCC and
3552 G++ can bootstrap recent releases of GCC.
3553
3554 GCC can bootstrap with recent versions of IBM XLC, but bootstrapping
3555 with an earlier release of GCC is recommended. Bootstrapping with XLC
3556 requires a larger data segment, which can be enabled through the
3557 LDR_CNTRL environment variable, e.g.,
3558
3559 % LDR_CNTRL=MAXDATA=0x50000000
3560 % export LDR_CNTRL
3561
3562 One can start with a pre-compiled version of GCC to build from
3563 sources. One may delete GCC's "fixed" header files when starting with a
3564 version of GCC built for an earlier release of AIX.
3565
3566 To speed up the configuration phases of bootstrapping and installing
3567 GCC, one may use GNU Bash instead of AIX '/bin/sh', e.g.,
3568
3569 % CONFIG_SHELL=/opt/freeware/bin/bash
3570 % export CONFIG_SHELL
3571
3572 and then proceed as described in the build instructions, where we
3573 strongly recommend specifying an absolute path to invoke
3574 SRCDIR/configure.
3575
3576 Because GCC on AIX is built as a 32-bit executable by default,
3577 (although it can generate 64-bit programs) the GMP and MPFR libraries
3578 required by gfortran must be 32-bit libraries. Building GMP and MPFR as
3579 static archive libraries works better than shared libraries.
3580
3581 Errors involving 'alloca' when building GCC generally are due to an
3582 incorrect definition of 'CC' in the Makefile or mixing files compiled
3583 with the native C compiler and GCC. During the stage1 phase of the
3584 build, the native AIX compiler *must* be invoked as 'cc' (not 'xlc').
3585 Once 'configure' has been informed of 'xlc', one needs to use 'make
3586 distclean' to remove the configure cache files and ensure that 'CC'
3587 environment variable does not provide a definition that will confuse
3588 'configure'. If this error occurs during stage2 or later, then the
3589 problem most likely is the version of Make (see above).
3590
3591 The native 'as' and 'ld' are recommended for bootstrapping on AIX.
3592 The GNU Assembler, GNU Linker, and GNU Binutils version 2.20 is the
3593 minimum level that supports bootstrap on AIX 5. The GNU Assembler has
3594 not been updated to support AIX 6 or AIX 7. The native AIX tools do
3595 interoperate with GCC.
3596
3597 AIX 7.1 added partial support for DWARF debugging, but full support
3598 requires AIX 7.1 TL03 SP7 that supports additional DWARF sections and
3599 fixes a bug in the assembler. AIX 7.1 TL03 SP5 distributed a version of
3600 libm.a missing important symbols; a fix for IV77796 will be included in
3601 SP6.
3602
3603 AIX 5.3 TL10, AIX 6.1 TL05 and AIX 7.1 TL00 introduced an AIX
3604 assembler change that sometimes produces corrupt assembly files causing
3605 AIX linker errors. The bug breaks GCC bootstrap on AIX and can cause
3606 compilation failures with existing GCC installations. An AIX iFix for
3607 AIX 5.3 is available (APAR IZ98385 for AIX 5.3 TL10, APAR IZ98477 for
3608 AIX 5.3 TL11 and IZ98134 for AIX 5.3 TL12). AIX 5.3 TL11 SP8, AIX 5.3
3609 TL12 SP5, AIX 6.1 TL04 SP11, AIX 6.1 TL05 SP7, AIX 6.1 TL06 SP6, AIX 6.1
3610 TL07 and AIX 7.1 TL01 should include the fix.
3611
3612 Building 'libstdc++.a' requires a fix for an AIX Assembler bug APAR
3613 IY26685 (AIX 4.3) or APAR IY25528 (AIX 5.1). It also requires a fix for
3614 another AIX Assembler bug and a co-dependent AIX Archiver fix referenced
3615 as APAR IY53606 (AIX 5.2) or as APAR IY54774 (AIX 5.1)
3616
3617 'libstdc++' in GCC 3.4 increments the major version number of the
3618 shared object and GCC installation places the 'libstdc++.a' shared
3619 library in a common location which will overwrite the and GCC 3.3
3620 version of the shared library. Applications either need to be re-linked
3621 against the new shared library or the GCC 3.1 and GCC 3.3 versions of
3622 the 'libstdc++' shared object needs to be available to the AIX runtime
3623 loader. The GCC 3.1 'libstdc++.so.4', if present, and GCC 3.3
3624 'libstdc++.so.5' shared objects can be installed for runtime dynamic
3625 loading using the following steps to set the 'F_LOADONLY' flag in the
3626 shared object for _each_ multilib 'libstdc++.a' installed:
3627
3628 Extract the shared objects from the currently installed 'libstdc++.a'
3629 archive:
3630 % ar -x libstdc++.a libstdc++.so.4 libstdc++.so.5
3631
3632 Enable the 'F_LOADONLY' flag so that the shared object will be
3633 available for runtime dynamic loading, but not linking:
3634 % strip -e libstdc++.so.4 libstdc++.so.5
3635
3636 Archive the runtime-only shared object in the GCC 3.4 'libstdc++.a'
3637 archive:
3638 % ar -q libstdc++.a libstdc++.so.4 libstdc++.so.5
3639
3640 Eventually, the '--with-aix-soname=svr4' configure option may drop
3641 the need for this procedure for libraries that support it.
3642
3643 Linking executables and shared libraries may produce warnings of
3644 duplicate symbols. The assembly files generated by GCC for AIX always
3645 have included multiple symbol definitions for certain global variable
3646 and function declarations in the original program. The warnings should
3647 not prevent the linker from producing a correct library or runnable
3648 executable.
3649
3650 AIX 4.3 utilizes a "large format" archive to support both 32-bit and
3651 64-bit object modules. The routines provided in AIX 4.3.0 and AIX 4.3.1
3652 to parse archive libraries did not handle the new format correctly.
3653 These routines are used by GCC and result in error messages during
3654 linking such as "not a COFF file". The version of the routines shipped
3655 with AIX 4.3.1 should work for a 32-bit environment. The '-g' option of
3656 the archive command may be used to create archives of 32-bit objects
3657 using the original "small format". A correct version of the routines is
3658 shipped with AIX 4.3.2 and above.
3659
3660 Some versions of the AIX binder (linker) can fail with a relocation
3661 overflow severe error when the '-bbigtoc' option is used to link
3662 GCC-produced object files into an executable that overflows the TOC. A
3663 fix for APAR IX75823 (OVERFLOW DURING LINK WHEN USING GCC AND -BBIGTOC)
3664 is available from IBM Customer Support and from its
3665 techsupport.services.ibm.com website as PTF U455193.
3666
3667 The AIX 4.3.2.1 linker (bos.rte.bind_cmds Level 4.3.2.1) will dump
3668 core with a segmentation fault when invoked by any version of GCC. A
3669 fix for APAR IX87327 is available from IBM Customer Support and from its
3670 techsupport.services.ibm.com website as PTF U461879. This fix is
3671 incorporated in AIX 4.3.3 and above.
3672
3673 The initial assembler shipped with AIX 4.3.0 generates incorrect
3674 object files. A fix for APAR IX74254 (64BIT DISASSEMBLED OUTPUT FROM
3675 COMPILER FAILS TO ASSEMBLE/BIND) is available from IBM Customer Support
3676 and from its techsupport.services.ibm.com website as PTF U453956. This
3677 fix is incorporated in AIX 4.3.1 and above.
3678
3679 AIX provides National Language Support (NLS). Compilers and
3680 assemblers use NLS to support locale-specific representations of various
3681 data formats including floating-point numbers (e.g., '.' vs ',' for
3682 separating decimal fractions). There have been problems reported where
3683 GCC does not produce the same floating-point formats that the assembler
3684 expects. If one encounters this problem, set the 'LANG' environment
3685 variable to 'C' or 'En_US'.
3686
3687 A default can be specified with the '-mcpu=CPU_TYPE' switch and using
3688 the configure option '--with-cpu-CPU_TYPE'.
3689
3690 iq2000-*-elf
3691 ============
3692
3693 Vitesse IQ2000 processors. These are used in embedded applications.
3694 There are no standard Unix configurations.
3695
3696 lm32-*-elf
3697 ==========
3698
3699 Lattice Mico32 processor. This configuration is intended for embedded
3700 systems.
3701
3702 lm32-*-uclinux
3703 ==============
3704
3705 Lattice Mico32 processor. This configuration is intended for embedded
3706 systems running uClinux.
3707
3708 LoongArch
3709 =========
3710
3711 LoongArch processor. The following LoongArch targets are available:
3712 'loongarch64-linux-gnu*'
3713 LoongArch processor running GNU/Linux. This target triplet may be
3714 coupled with a small set of possible suffixes to identify their
3715 default ABI type:
3716 'f64'
3717 Uses 'lp64d/base' ABI by default.
3718 'f32'
3719 Uses 'lp64f/base' ABI by default.
3720 'sf'
3721 Uses 'lp64s/base' ABI by default.
3722
3723 'loongarch64-linux-gnu'
3724 Same as 'loongarch64-linux-gnuf64', but may be used with
3725 '--with-abi=*' to configure the default ABI type.
3726
3727 More information about LoongArch can be found at
3728 <https://github.com/loongson/LoongArch-Documentation>.
3729
3730 m32c-*-elf
3731 ==========
3732
3733 Renesas M32C processor. This configuration is intended for embedded
3734 systems.
3735
3736 m32r-*-elf
3737 ==========
3738
3739 Renesas M32R processor. This configuration is intended for embedded
3740 systems.
3741
3742 m68k-*-*
3743 ========
3744
3745 By default, 'm68k-*-elf*', 'm68k-*-rtems', 'm68k-*-uclinux' and
3746 'm68k-*-linux' build libraries for both M680x0 and ColdFire processors.
3747 If you only need the M680x0 libraries, you can omit the ColdFire ones by
3748 passing '--with-arch=m68k' to 'configure'. Alternatively, you can omit
3749 the M680x0 libraries by passing '--with-arch=cf' to 'configure'. These
3750 targets default to 5206 or 5475 code as appropriate for the target
3751 system when configured with '--with-arch=cf' and 68020 code otherwise.
3752
3753 The 'm68k-*-netbsd' and 'm68k-*-openbsd' targets also support the
3754 '--with-arch' option. They will generate ColdFire CFV4e code when
3755 configured with '--with-arch=cf' and 68020 code otherwise.
3756
3757 You can override the default processors listed above by configuring
3758 with '--with-cpu=TARGET'. This TARGET can either be a '-mcpu' argument
3759 or one of the following values: 'm68000', 'm68010', 'm68020', 'm68030',
3760 'm68040', 'm68060', 'm68020-40' and 'm68020-60'.
3761
3762 GCC requires at least binutils version 2.17 on these targets.
3763
3764 m68k-*-uclinux
3765 ==============
3766
3767 GCC 4.3 changed the uClinux configuration so that it uses the
3768 'm68k-linux-gnu' ABI rather than the 'm68k-elf' ABI. It also added
3769 improved support for C++ and flat shared libraries, both of which were
3770 ABI changes.
3771
3772 microblaze-*-elf
3773 ================
3774
3775 Xilinx MicroBlaze processor. This configuration is intended for
3776 embedded systems.
3777
3778 mips-*-*
3779 ========
3780
3781 If on a MIPS system you get an error message saying "does not have gp
3782 sections for all it's [sic] sectons [sic]", don't worry about it. This
3783 happens whenever you use GAS with the MIPS linker, but there is not
3784 really anything wrong, and it is okay to use the output file. You can
3785 stop such warnings by installing the GNU linker.
3786
3787 It would be nice to extend GAS to produce the gp tables, but they are
3788 optional, and there should not be a warning about their absence.
3789
3790 The libstdc++ atomic locking routines for MIPS targets requires MIPS
3791 II and later. A patch went in just after the GCC 3.3 release to make
3792 'mips*-*-*' use the generic implementation instead. You can also
3793 configure for 'mipsel-elf' as a workaround. The 'mips*-*-linux*' target
3794 continues to use the MIPS II routines. More work on this is expected in
3795 future releases.
3796
3797 The built-in '__sync_*' functions are available on MIPS II and later
3798 systems and others that support the 'll', 'sc' and 'sync' instructions.
3799 This can be overridden by passing '--with-llsc' or '--without-llsc' when
3800 configuring GCC. Since the Linux kernel emulates these instructions if
3801 they are missing, the default for 'mips*-*-linux*' targets is
3802 '--with-llsc'. The '--with-llsc' and '--without-llsc' configure options
3803 may be overridden at compile time by passing the '-mllsc' or '-mno-llsc'
3804 options to the compiler.
3805
3806 MIPS systems check for division by zero (unless
3807 '-mno-check-zero-division' is passed to the compiler) by generating
3808 either a conditional trap or a break instruction. Using trap results in
3809 smaller code, but is only supported on MIPS II and later. Also, some
3810 versions of the Linux kernel have a bug that prevents trap from
3811 generating the proper signal ('SIGFPE'). To enable the use of break,
3812 use the '--with-divide=breaks' 'configure' option when configuring GCC.
3813 The default is to use traps on systems that support them.
3814
3815 moxie-*-elf
3816 ===========
3817
3818 The moxie processor.
3819
3820 msp430-*-elf*
3821 =============
3822
3823 TI MSP430 processor. This configuration is intended for embedded
3824 systems.
3825
3826 'msp430-*-elf' is the standard configuration with most GCC features
3827 enabled by default.
3828
3829 'msp430-*-elfbare' is tuned for a bare-metal environment, and
3830 disables features related to shared libraries and other functionality
3831 not used for this device. This reduces code and data usage of the GCC
3832 libraries, resulting in a minimal run-time environment by default.
3833
3834 Features disabled by default include:
3835 * transactional memory
3836 * __cxa_atexit
3837
3838 nds32le-*-elf
3839 =============
3840
3841 Andes NDS32 target in little endian mode.
3842
3843 nds32be-*-elf
3844 =============
3845
3846 Andes NDS32 target in big endian mode.
3847
3848 nvptx-*-none
3849 ============
3850
3851 Nvidia PTX target.
3852
3853 Instead of GNU binutils, you will need to install nvptx-tools. Tell
3854 GCC where to find it:
3855 '--with-build-time-tools=[install-nvptx-tools]/nvptx-none/bin'.
3856
3857 You will need newlib 3.1.0 or later. It can be automatically built
3858 together with GCC. For this, add a symbolic link to nvptx-newlib's
3859 'newlib' directory to the directory containing the GCC sources.
3860
3861 Use the '--disable-sjlj-exceptions' and
3862 '--enable-newlib-io-long-long' options when configuring.
3863
3864 or1k-*-elf
3865 ==========
3866
3867 The OpenRISC 1000 32-bit processor with delay slots. This configuration
3868 is intended for embedded systems.
3869
3870 or1k-*-linux
3871 ============
3872
3873 The OpenRISC 1000 32-bit processor with delay slots.
3874
3875 powerpc-*-*
3876 ===========
3877
3878 You can specify a default version for the '-mcpu=CPU_TYPE' switch by
3879 using the configure option '--with-cpu-CPU_TYPE'.
3880
3881 You will need GNU binutils 2.20 or newer.
3882
3883 powerpc-*-darwin*
3884 =================
3885
3886 PowerPC running Darwin (Mac OS X kernel).
3887
3888 Pre-installed versions of Mac OS X may not include any developer
3889 tools, meaning that you will not be able to build GCC from source. Tool
3890 binaries are available at <https://opensource.apple.com>.
3891
3892 This version of GCC requires at least cctools-590.36. The
3893 cctools-590.36 package referenced from
3894 <https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2006-03/msg00507.html> will not work on
3895 systems older than 10.3.9 (aka darwin7.9.0).
3896
3897 powerpc-*-elf
3898 =============
3899
3900 PowerPC system in big endian mode, running System V.4.
3901
3902 powerpc*-*-linux-gnu*
3903 =====================
3904
3905 PowerPC system in big endian mode running Linux.
3906
3907 powerpc-*-netbsd*
3908 =================
3909
3910 PowerPC system in big endian mode running NetBSD.
3911
3912 powerpc-*-eabisim
3913 =================
3914
3915 Embedded PowerPC system in big endian mode for use in running under the
3916 PSIM simulator.
3917
3918 powerpc-*-eabi
3919 ==============
3920
3921 Embedded PowerPC system in big endian mode.
3922
3923 powerpcle-*-elf
3924 ===============
3925
3926 PowerPC system in little endian mode, running System V.4.
3927
3928 powerpcle-*-eabisim
3929 ===================
3930
3931 Embedded PowerPC system in little endian mode for use in running under
3932 the PSIM simulator.
3933
3934 powerpcle-*-eabi
3935 ================
3936
3937 Embedded PowerPC system in little endian mode.
3938
3939 rl78-*-elf
3940 ==========
3941
3942 The Renesas RL78 processor. This configuration is intended for embedded
3943 systems.
3944
3945 riscv32-*-elf
3946 =============
3947
3948 The RISC-V RV32 instruction set. This configuration is intended for
3949 embedded systems. This (and all other RISC-V) targets require the
3950 binutils 2.30 release.
3951
3952 riscv32-*-linux
3953 ===============
3954
3955 The RISC-V RV32 instruction set running GNU/Linux. This (and all other
3956 RISC-V) targets require the binutils 2.30 release.
3957
3958 riscv64-*-elf
3959 =============
3960
3961 The RISC-V RV64 instruction set. This configuration is intended for
3962 embedded systems. This (and all other RISC-V) targets require the
3963 binutils 2.30 release.
3964
3965 riscv64-*-linux
3966 ===============
3967
3968 The RISC-V RV64 instruction set running GNU/Linux. This (and all other
3969 RISC-V) targets require the binutils 2.30 release.
3970
3971 rx-*-elf
3972 ========
3973
3974 The Renesas RX processor.
3975
3976 s390-*-linux*
3977 =============
3978
3979 S/390 system running GNU/Linux for S/390.
3980
3981 s390x-*-linux*
3982 ==============
3983
3984 zSeries system (64-bit) running GNU/Linux for zSeries.
3985
3986 s390x-ibm-tpf*
3987 ==============
3988
3989 zSeries system (64-bit) running TPF. This platform is supported as
3990 cross-compilation target only.
3991
3992 *-*-solaris2*
3993 =============
3994
3995 Support for Solaris 10 has been removed in GCC 10. Support for Solaris
3996 9 has been removed in GCC 5. Support for Solaris 8 has been removed in
3997 GCC 4.8. Support for Solaris 7 has been removed in GCC 4.6.
3998
3999 Solaris 11.3 provides GCC 4.5.2, 4.7.3, and 4.8.2 as
4000 '/usr/gcc/4.5/bin/gcc' or similar. Newer Solaris versions provide one
4001 or more of GCC 5, 7, and 9. Alternatively, you can install a pre-built
4002 GCC to bootstrap and install GCC. See the binaries page for details.
4003
4004 The Solaris 2 '/bin/sh' will often fail to configure 'libstdc++-v3'.
4005 We therefore recommend using the following initial sequence of commands
4006
4007 % CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/ksh
4008 % export CONFIG_SHELL
4009
4010 and proceed as described in the configure instructions. In addition we
4011 strongly recommend specifying an absolute path to invoke
4012 'SRCDIR/configure'.
4013
4014 In Solaris 11, you need to check for 'system/header',
4015 'system/linker', and 'developer/assembler' packages.
4016
4017 Trying to use the linker and other tools in '/usr/ucb' to install GCC
4018 has been observed to cause trouble. For example, the linker may hang
4019 indefinitely. The fix is to remove '/usr/ucb' from your 'PATH'.
4020
4021 The build process works more smoothly with the legacy Solaris tools
4022 so, if you have '/usr/xpg4/bin' in your 'PATH', we recommend that you
4023 place '/usr/bin' before '/usr/xpg4/bin' for the duration of the build.
4024
4025 We recommend the use of the Solaris assembler or the GNU assembler,
4026 in conjunction with the Solaris linker. The GNU 'as' versions included
4027 in Solaris 11.3, from GNU binutils 2.23.1 or newer (in '/usr/bin/gas'
4028 and '/usr/gnu/bin/as'), are known to work. The current version, from
4029 GNU binutils 2.34, is known to work as well. Note that your mileage may
4030 vary if you use a combination of the GNU tools and the Solaris tools:
4031 while the combination GNU 'as' + Solaris 'ld' should reasonably work,
4032 the reverse combination Solaris 'as' + GNU 'ld' may fail to build or
4033 cause memory corruption at runtime in some cases for C++ programs. GNU
4034 'ld' usually works as well. Again, the current version (2.34) is known
4035 to work, but generally lacks platform specific features, so better stay
4036 with Solaris 'ld'. To use the LTO linker plugin ('-fuse-linker-plugin')
4037 with GNU 'ld', GNU binutils _must_ be configured with
4038 '--enable-largefile'.
4039
4040 To enable symbol versioning in 'libstdc++' with the Solaris linker,
4041 you need to have any version of GNU 'c++filt', which is part of GNU
4042 binutils. 'libstdc++' symbol versioning will be disabled if no
4043 appropriate version is found. Solaris 'c++filt' from the Solaris Studio
4044 compilers does _not_ work.
4045
4046 In order to build the GNU D compiler, GDC, a working 'libphobos' is
4047 needed. That library wasn't built by default in GCC 9-11 on SPARC, or
4048 on x86 when the Solaris assembler is used, but can be enabled by
4049 configuring with '--enable-libphobos'. Also, GDC 9.4.0 is required on
4050 x86, while GDC 9.3.0 is known to work on SPARC.
4051
4052 The versions of the GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP), the MPFR
4053 library and the MPC library bundled with Solaris 11.3 and later are
4054 usually recent enough to match GCC's requirements. There are two
4055 caveats:
4056
4057 * While the version of the GMP library in Solaris 11.3 works with
4058 GCC, you need to configure with
4059 '--with-gmp-include=/usr/include/gmp'.
4060
4061 * The version of the MPFR libary included in Solaris 11.3 is too old;
4062 you need to provide a more recent one.
4063
4064 sparc*-*-*
4065 ==========
4066
4067 This section contains general configuration information for all
4068 SPARC-based platforms. In addition to reading this section, please read
4069 all other sections that match your target.
4070
4071 Newer versions of the GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP), the MPFR
4072 library and the MPC library are known to be miscompiled by earlier
4073 versions of GCC on these platforms. We therefore recommend the use of
4074 the exact versions of these libraries listed as minimal versions in the
4075 prerequisites.
4076
4077 sparc-sun-solaris2*
4078 ===================
4079
4080 When GCC is configured to use GNU binutils 2.14 or later, the binaries
4081 produced are smaller than the ones produced using Solaris native tools;
4082 this difference is quite significant for binaries containing debugging
4083 information.
4084
4085 Starting with Solaris 7, the operating system is capable of executing
4086 64-bit SPARC V9 binaries. GCC 3.1 and later properly supports this; the
4087 '-m64' option enables 64-bit code generation. However, if all you want
4088 is code tuned for the UltraSPARC CPU, you should try the
4089 '-mtune=ultrasparc' option instead, which produces code that, unlike
4090 full 64-bit code, can still run on non-UltraSPARC machines.
4091
4092 When configuring the GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP), the MPFR
4093 library or the MPC library on a Solaris 7 or later system, the canonical
4094 target triplet must be specified as the 'build' parameter on the
4095 configure line. This target triplet can be obtained by invoking
4096 './config.guess' in the toplevel source directory of GCC (and not that
4097 of GMP or MPFR or MPC). For example on a Solaris 11 system:
4098
4099 % ./configure --build=sparc-sun-solaris2.11 --prefix=xxx
4100
4101 sparc-*-linux*
4102 ==============
4103
4104 sparc64-*-solaris2*
4105 ===================
4106
4107 When configuring a 64-bit-default GCC on Solaris/SPARC, you must use a
4108 build compiler that generates 64-bit code, either by default or by
4109 specifying 'CC='gcc -m64' CXX='gcc-m64'' to 'configure'. Additionally,
4110 you _must_ pass '--build=sparc64-sun-solaris2.11' or
4111 '--build=sparcv9-sun-solaris2.11' because 'config.guess' misdetects this
4112 situation, which can cause build failures.
4113
4114 When configuring the GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP), the MPFR
4115 library or the MPC library, the canonical target triplet must be
4116 specified as the 'build' parameter on the configure line. For example
4117 on a Solaris 11 system:
4118
4119 % ./configure --build=sparc64-sun-solaris2.11 --prefix=xxx
4120
4121 sparcv9-*-solaris2*
4122 ===================
4123
4124 This is a synonym for 'sparc64-*-solaris2*'.
4125
4126 c6x-*-*
4127 =======
4128
4129 The C6X family of processors. This port requires binutils-2.22 or
4130 newer.
4131
4132 tilegx-*-linux*
4133 ===============
4134
4135 The TILE-Gx processor in little endian mode, running GNU/Linux. This
4136 port requires binutils-2.22 or newer.
4137
4138 tilegxbe-*-linux*
4139 =================
4140
4141 The TILE-Gx processor in big endian mode, running GNU/Linux. This port
4142 requires binutils-2.23 or newer.
4143
4144 tilepro-*-linux*
4145 ================
4146
4147 The TILEPro processor running GNU/Linux. This port requires
4148 binutils-2.22 or newer.
4149
4150 visium-*-elf
4151 ============
4152
4153 CDS VISIUMcore processor. This configuration is intended for embedded
4154 systems.
4155
4156 *-*-vxworks*
4157 ============
4158
4159 Support for VxWorks is in flux. At present GCC supports _only_ the very
4160 recent VxWorks 5.5 (aka Tornado 2.2) release, and only on PowerPC. We
4161 welcome patches for other architectures supported by VxWorks 5.5.
4162 Support for VxWorks AE would also be welcome; we believe this is merely
4163 a matter of writing an appropriate "configlette" (see below). We are
4164 not interested in supporting older, a.out or COFF-based, versions of
4165 VxWorks in GCC 3.
4166
4167 VxWorks comes with an older version of GCC installed in
4168 '$WIND_BASE/host'; we recommend you do not overwrite it. Choose an
4169 installation PREFIX entirely outside $WIND_BASE. Before running
4170 'configure', create the directories 'PREFIX' and 'PREFIX/bin'. Link or
4171 copy the appropriate assembler, linker, etc. into 'PREFIX/bin', and set
4172 your PATH to include that directory while running both 'configure' and
4173 'make'.
4174
4175 You must give 'configure' the '--with-headers=$WIND_BASE/target/h'
4176 switch so that it can find the VxWorks system headers. Since VxWorks is
4177 a cross compilation target only, you must also specify
4178 '--target=TARGET'. 'configure' will attempt to create the directory
4179 'PREFIX/TARGET/sys-include' and copy files into it; make sure the user
4180 running 'configure' has sufficient privilege to do so.
4181
4182 GCC's exception handling runtime requires a special "configlette"
4183 module, 'contrib/gthr_supp_vxw_5x.c'. Follow the instructions in that
4184 file to add the module to your kernel build. (Future versions of
4185 VxWorks will incorporate this module.)
4186
4187 x86_64-*-*, amd64-*-*
4188 =====================
4189
4190 GCC supports the x86-64 architecture implemented by the AMD64 processor
4191 (amd64-*-* is an alias for x86_64-*-*) on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD.
4192 On GNU/Linux the default is a bi-arch compiler which is able to generate
4193 both 64-bit x86-64 and 32-bit x86 code (via the '-m32' switch).
4194
4195 x86_64-*-solaris2*
4196 ==================
4197
4198 GCC also supports the x86-64 architecture implemented by the AMD64
4199 processor ('amd64-*-*' is an alias for 'x86_64-*-*') on Solaris 10 or
4200 later. Unlike other systems, without special options a bi-arch compiler
4201 is built which generates 32-bit code by default, but can generate 64-bit
4202 x86-64 code with the '-m64' switch. Since GCC 4.7, there is also a
4203 configuration that defaults to 64-bit code, but can generate 32-bit code
4204 with '-m32'. To configure and build this way, you have to provide all
4205 support libraries like 'libgmp' as 64-bit code, configure with
4206 '--target=x86_64-pc-solaris2.11' and 'CC=gcc -m64'.
4207
4208 xtensa*-*-elf
4209 =============
4210
4211 This target is intended for embedded Xtensa systems using the 'newlib' C
4212 library. It uses ELF but does not support shared objects.
4213 Designed-defined instructions specified via the Tensilica Instruction
4214 Extension (TIE) language are only supported through inline assembly.
4215
4216 The Xtensa configuration information must be specified prior to
4217 building GCC. The 'include/xtensa-config.h' header file contains the
4218 configuration information. If you created your own Xtensa configuration
4219 with the Xtensa Processor Generator, the downloaded files include a
4220 customized copy of this header file, which you can use to replace the
4221 default header file.
4222
4223 xtensa*-*-linux*
4224 ================
4225
4226 This target is for Xtensa systems running GNU/Linux. It supports ELF
4227 shared objects and the GNU C library (glibc). It also generates
4228 position-independent code (PIC) regardless of whether the '-fpic' or
4229 '-fPIC' options are used. In other respects, this target is the same as
4230 the 'xtensa*-*-elf' target.
4231
4232 Microsoft Windows
4233 =================
4234
4235 Intel 16-bit versions
4236 ---------------------
4237
4238 The 16-bit versions of Microsoft Windows, such as Windows 3.1, are not
4239 supported.
4240
4241 However, the 32-bit port has limited support for Microsoft Windows
4242 3.11 in the Win32s environment, as a target only. See below.
4243
4244 Intel 32-bit versions
4245 ---------------------
4246
4247 The 32-bit versions of Windows, including Windows 95, Windows NT,
4248 Windows XP, and Windows Vista, are supported by several different target
4249 platforms. These targets differ in which Windows subsystem they target
4250 and which C libraries are used.
4251
4252 * Cygwin *-*-cygwin: Cygwin provides a user-space Linux API emulation
4253 layer in the Win32 subsystem.
4254 * MinGW *-*-mingw32: MinGW is a native GCC port for the Win32
4255 subsystem that provides a subset of POSIX.
4256 * MKS i386-pc-mks: NuTCracker from MKS. See
4257 <https://www.mkssoftware.com> for more information.
4258
4259 Intel 64-bit versions
4260 ---------------------
4261
4262 GCC contains support for x86-64 using the mingw-w64 runtime library,
4263 available from <https://www.mingw-w64.org/downloads/>. This library
4264 should be used with the target triple x86_64-pc-mingw32.
4265
4266 Windows CE
4267 ----------
4268
4269 Windows CE is supported as a target only on Hitachi SuperH
4270 (sh-wince-pe), and MIPS (mips-wince-pe).
4271
4272 Other Windows Platforms
4273 -----------------------
4274
4275 GCC no longer supports Windows NT on the Alpha or PowerPC.
4276
4277 GCC no longer supports the Windows POSIX subsystem. However, it does
4278 support the Interix subsystem. See above.
4279
4280 Old target names including *-*-winnt and *-*-windowsnt are no longer
4281 used.
4282
4283 PW32 (i386-pc-pw32) support was never completed, and the project
4284 seems to be inactive. See <http://pw32.sourceforge.net/> for more
4285 information.
4286
4287 UWIN support has been removed due to a lack of maintenance.
4288
4289 *-*-cygwin
4290 ==========
4291
4292 Ports of GCC are included with the Cygwin environment.
4293
4294 GCC will build under Cygwin without modification; it does not build
4295 with Microsoft's C++ compiler and there are no plans to make it do so.
4296
4297 The Cygwin native compiler can be configured to target any 32-bit x86
4298 cpu architecture desired; the default is i686-pc-cygwin. It should be
4299 used with as up-to-date a version of binutils as possible; use either
4300 the latest official GNU binutils release in the Cygwin distribution, or
4301 version 2.20 or above if building your own.
4302
4303 *-*-mingw32
4304 ===========
4305
4306 GCC will build with and support only MinGW runtime 3.12 and later.
4307 Earlier versions of headers are incompatible with the new default
4308 semantics of 'extern inline' in '-std=c99' and '-std=gnu99' modes.
4309
4310 To support emitting DWARF debugging info you need to use GNU binutils
4311 version 2.16 or above containing support for the '.secrel32' assembler
4312 pseudo-op.
4313
4314 Older systems
4315 =============
4316
4317 GCC contains support files for many older (1980s and early 1990s) Unix
4318 variants. For the most part, support for these systems has not been
4319 deliberately removed, but it has not been maintained for several years
4320 and may suffer from bitrot.
4321
4322 Starting with GCC 3.1, each release has a list of "obsoleted"
4323 systems. Support for these systems is still present in that release,
4324 but 'configure' will fail unless the '--enable-obsolete' option is
4325 given. Unless a maintainer steps forward, support for these systems
4326 will be removed from the next release of GCC.
4327
4328 Support for old systems as hosts for GCC can cause problems if the
4329 workarounds for compiler, library and operating system bugs affect the
4330 cleanliness or maintainability of the rest of GCC. In some cases, to
4331 bring GCC up on such a system, if still possible with current GCC, may
4332 require first installing an old version of GCC which did work on that
4333 system, and using it to compile a more recent GCC, to avoid bugs in the
4334 vendor compiler. Old releases of GCC 1 and GCC 2 are available in the
4335 'old-releases' directory on the GCC mirror sites. Header bugs may
4336 generally be avoided using 'fixincludes', but bugs or deficiencies in
4337 libraries and the operating system may still cause problems.
4338
4339 Support for older systems as targets for cross-compilation is less
4340 problematic than support for them as hosts for GCC; if an enthusiast
4341 wishes to make such a target work again (including resurrecting any of
4342 the targets that never worked with GCC 2, starting from the last version
4343 before they were removed), patches following the usual requirements
4344 would be likely to be accepted, since they should not affect the support
4345 for more modern targets.
4346
4347 For some systems, old versions of GNU binutils may also be useful,
4348 and are available from 'pub/binutils/old-releases' on sourceware.org
4349 mirror sites.
4350
4351 Some of the information on specific systems above relates to such
4352 older systems, but much of the information about GCC on such systems
4353 (which may no longer be applicable to current GCC) is to be found in the
4354 GCC texinfo manual.
4355
4356 all ELF targets (SVR4, Solaris 2, etc.)
4357 =======================================
4358
4359 C++ support is significantly better on ELF targets if you use the GNU
4360 linker; duplicate copies of inlines, vtables and template instantiations
4361 will be discarded automatically.
4362
4363
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4365
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4846 File: gccinstall.info, Node: Concept Index, Prev: GNU Free Documentation License, Up: Top
4847
4848 Concept Index
4849 *************
4850
4851 [index]
4852 * Menu:
4853
4854 * Binaries: Binaries. (line 6)
4855 * build_configargs: Configuration. (line 1833)
4856 * Configuration: Configuration. (line 6)
4857 * Downloading GCC: Downloading the source.
4858 (line 6)
4859 * Downloading the Source: Downloading the source.
4860 (line 6)
4861 * FDL, GNU Free Documentation License: GNU Free Documentation License.
4862 (line 6)
4863 * Host specific installation: Specific. (line 6)
4864 * host_configargs: Configuration. (line 1837)
4865 * Installing GCC: Binaries: Binaries. (line 6)
4866 * Installing GCC: Building: Building. (line 6)
4867 * Installing GCC: Configuration: Configuration. (line 6)
4868 * Installing GCC: Testing: Testing. (line 6)
4869 * Prerequisites: Prerequisites. (line 6)
4870 * Specific: Specific. (line 6)
4871 * Specific installation notes: Specific. (line 6)
4872 * Target specific installation: Specific. (line 6)
4873 * Target specific installation notes: Specific. (line 6)
4874 * target_configargs: Configuration. (line 1841)
4875 * Testing: Testing. (line 6)
4876 * Testsuite: Testing. (line 6)
4877
4878
4879
4880 Tag Table:
4881 Node: Top1696
4882 Node: Installing GCC2201
4883 Node: Prerequisites3837
4884 Ref: GNAT-prerequisite5825
4885 Ref: GDC-prerequisite7222
4886 Node: Downloading the source16886
4887 Node: Configuration18557
4888 Ref: with-gnu-as36857
4889 Ref: with-as37752
4890 Ref: with-gnu-ld39161
4891 Ref: WithAixSoname64872
4892 Ref: AixLdCommand65533
4893 Node: Building107858
4894 Node: Testing124065
4895 Node: Final install131896
4896 Node: Binaries137197
4897 Node: Specific138304
4898 Ref: aarch64-x-x138838
4899 Ref: alpha-x-x140858
4900 Ref: amd64-x-solaris2141072
4901 Ref: amdgcn-x-amdhsa141154
4902 Ref: arc-x-elf32141680
4903 Ref: arc-linux-uclibc141856
4904 Ref: arm-x-eabi141997
4905 Ref: avr142250
4906 Ref: bfin142831
4907 Ref: cr16143094
4908 Ref: cris143510
4909 Ref: dos143836
4910 Ref: epiphany-x-elf144161
4911 Ref: x-x-freebsd144266
4912 Ref: ft32-x-elf145914
4913 Ref: h8300-hms146012
4914 Ref: hppa-hp-hpux146364
4915 Ref: hppa-hp-hpux10148736
4916 Ref: hppa-hp-hpux11149149
4917 Ref: x-x-linux-gnu154551
4918 Ref: ix86-x-linux154874
4919 Ref: ix86-x-solaris2155187
4920 Ref: ia64-x-linux156263
4921 Ref: ia64-x-hpux156510
4922 Ref: x-ibm-aix157065
4923 Ref: TransferAixShobj160727
4924 Ref: iq2000-x-elf164537
4925 Ref: lm32-x-elf164677
4926 Ref: lm32-x-uclinux164781
4927 Ref: loongarch164909
4928 Ref: m32c-x-elf165603
4929 Ref: m32r-x-elf165705
4930 Ref: m68k-x-x165807
4931 Ref: m68k-x-uclinux166845
4932 Ref: microblaze-x-elf167090
4933 Ref: mips-x-x167209
4934 Ref: moxie-x-elf169119
4935 Ref: msp430-x-elf169166
4936 Ref: nds32le-x-elf169723
4937 Ref: nds32be-x-elf169795
4938 Ref: nvptx-x-none169864
4939 Ref: or1k-x-elf170375
4940 Ref: or1k-x-linux170506
4941 Ref: powerpc-x-x170587
4942 Ref: powerpc-x-darwin170778
4943 Ref: powerpc-x-elf171273
4944 Ref: powerpc-x-linux-gnu171358
4945 Ref: powerpc-x-netbsd171453
4946 Ref: powerpc-x-eabisim171541
4947 Ref: powerpc-x-eabi171667
4948 Ref: powerpcle-x-elf171743
4949 Ref: powerpcle-x-eabisim171835
4950 Ref: powerpcle-x-eabi171968
4951 Ref: rl78-x-elf172051
4952 Ref: riscv32-x-elf172157
4953 Ref: riscv32-x-linux172346
4954 Ref: riscv64-x-elf172503
4955 Ref: riscv64-x-linux172692
4956 Ref: rx-x-elf172849
4957 Ref: s390-x-linux172895
4958 Ref: s390x-x-linux172967
4959 Ref: s390x-ibm-tpf173054
4960 Ref: x-x-solaris2173185
4961 Ref: sparc-x-x176619
4962 Ref: sparc-sun-solaris2177121
4963 Ref: sparc-x-linux178264
4964 Ref: sparc64-x-solaris2178295
4965 Ref: sparcv9-x-solaris2179013
4966 Ref: c6x-x-x179100
4967 Ref: tilegx-*-linux179192
4968 Ref: tilegxbe-*-linux179334
4969 Ref: tilepro-*-linux179477
4970 Ref: visium-x-elf179598
4971 Ref: x-x-vxworks179706
4972 Ref: x86-64-x-x181229
4973 Ref: x86-64-x-solaris2181557
4974 Ref: xtensa-x-elf182207
4975 Ref: xtensa-x-linux182878
4976 Ref: windows183219
4977 Ref: x-x-cygwin185015
4978 Ref: x-x-mingw32185568
4979 Ref: older185950
4980 Ref: elf188067
4981 Node: GNU Free Documentation License188325
4982 Node: Concept Index213460
4983
4984 End Tag Table
4985