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Not all supported hosts and targets are listed 85 1.10 mrg here, only the ones that require host-specific or target-specific 86 1.10 mrg information have to. 87 1.10 mrg </p> 88 1.19 mrg <ul class="itemize mark-bullet"> 89 1.19 mrg <li><a class="uref" href="#aarch64-x-x">aarch64*-*-*</a> 90 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#amdgcn-x-amdhsa">amdgcn-*-amdhsa</a> 91 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#amd64-x-solaris2">amd64-*-solaris2*</a> 92 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#arc-x-elf32">arc-*-elf32</a> 93 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#arc-linux-uclibc">arc-linux-uclibc</a> 94 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#arm-x-eabi">arm-*-eabi</a> 95 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#avr">avr</a> 96 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#bfin">Blackfin</a> 97 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#cris">cris</a> 98 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#dos">DOS</a> 99 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#epiphany-x-elf">epiphany-*-elf</a> 100 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#ft32-x-elf">ft32-*-elf</a> 101 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#x-x-freebsd">*-*-freebsd*</a> 102 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#h8300-hms">h8300-hms</a> 103 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#hppa-hp-hpux">hppa*-hp-hpux*</a> 104 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#hppa-hp-hpux11">hppa*-hp-hpux11</a> 105 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#x-x-linux-gnu">*-*-linux-gnu</a> 106 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#ix86-x-linux">i?86-*-linux*</a> 107 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#ix86-x-solaris2">i?86-*-solaris2*</a> 108 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#ia64-x-linux">ia64-*-linux</a> 109 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#ia64-x-hpux">ia64-*-hpux*</a> 110 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#x-ibm-aix">*-ibm-aix*</a> 111 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#iq2000-x-elf">iq2000-*-elf</a> 112 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#loongarch">loongarch</a> 113 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#lm32-x-elf">lm32-*-elf</a> 114 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#lm32-x-uclinux">lm32-*-uclinux</a> 115 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#m32c-x-elf">m32c-*-elf</a> 116 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#m32r-x-elf">m32r-*-elf</a> 117 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#m68k-x-x">m68k-*-*</a> 118 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#m68k-x-uclinux">m68k-*-uclinux</a> 119 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#microblaze-x-elf">microblaze-*-elf</a> 120 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#mips-x-x">mips-*-*</a> 121 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#moxie-x-elf">moxie-*-elf</a> 122 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#msp430-x-elf">msp430-*-elf</a> 123 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#nds32le-x-elf">nds32le-*-elf</a> 124 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#nds32be-x-elf">nds32be-*-elf</a> 125 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#nvptx-x-none">nvptx-*-none</a> 126 1.19 mrg </li><li><a 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href="#riscv32-x-elf">riscv32-*-elf</a> 139 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#riscv32-x-linux">riscv32-*-linux</a> 140 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#riscv64-x-elf">riscv64-*-elf</a> 141 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#riscv64-x-linux">riscv64-*-linux</a> 142 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#rl78-x-elf">rl78-*-elf</a> 143 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#rx-x-elf">rx-*-elf</a> 144 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#s390-x-linux">s390-*-linux*</a> 145 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#s390x-x-linux">s390x-*-linux*</a> 146 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#s390x-ibm-tpf">s390x-ibm-tpf*</a> 147 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#x-x-solaris2">*-*-solaris2*</a> 148 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#sparc-x-x">sparc*-*-*</a> 149 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#sparc-sun-solaris2">sparc-sun-solaris2*</a> 150 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#sparc-x-linux">sparc-*-linux*</a> 151 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#sparc64-x-solaris2">sparc64-*-solaris2*</a> 152 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#sparcv9-x-solaris2">sparcv9-*-solaris2*</a> 153 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#c6x-x-x">c6x-*-*</a> 154 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#visium-x-elf">visium-*-elf</a> 155 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#x-x-vxworks">*-*-vxworks*</a> 156 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#x86-64-x-x">x86_64-*-*, amd64-*-*</a> 157 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#x86-64-x-solaris2">x86_64-*-solaris2*</a> 158 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#xtensa-x-elf">xtensa*-*-elf</a> 159 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#xtensa-x-linux">xtensa*-*-linux*</a> 160 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#windows">Microsoft Windows</a> 161 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#x-x-cygwin">*-*-cygwin</a> 162 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#x-x-mingw32">*-*-mingw32</a> 163 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#os2">OS/2</a> 164 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="#older">Older systems</a> 165 1.10 mrg </li></ul> 166 1.10 mrg 167 1.19 mrg <ul class="itemize mark-bullet"> 168 1.19 mrg <li><a class="uref" href="#elf">all ELF targets</a> (SVR4, Solaris, etc.) 169 1.10 mrg </li></ul> 170 1.10 mrg 171 1.10 mrg 172 1.10 mrg <!-- -------- host/target specific issues start here ---------------- --> 173 1.10 mrg <hr /> 174 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="aarch64-x-x"></a><h3 class="heading" id="aarch64*-*-*"><span>aarch64*-*-*<a class="copiable-link" href="#aarch64*-*-*"> ¶</a></span></h3> 175 1.19 mrg <p>Binutils pre 2.24 does not have support for selecting <samp class="option">-mabi</samp> and 176 1.10 mrg does not support ILP32. If it is used to build GCC 4.9 or later, GCC will 177 1.19 mrg not support option <samp class="option">-mabi=ilp32</samp>. 178 1.10 mrg </p> 179 1.10 mrg <p>To enable a workaround for the Cortex-A53 erratum number 835769 by default 180 1.10 mrg (for all CPUs regardless of -mcpu option given) at configure time use the 181 1.19 mrg <samp class="option">--enable-fix-cortex-a53-835769</samp> option. This will enable the fix by 182 1.10 mrg default and can be explicitly disabled during compilation by passing the 183 1.19 mrg <samp class="option">-mno-fix-cortex-a53-835769</samp> option. Conversely, 184 1.19 mrg <samp class="option">--disable-fix-cortex-a53-835769</samp> will disable the workaround by 185 1.10 mrg default. The workaround is disabled by default if neither of 186 1.19 mrg <samp class="option">--enable-fix-cortex-a53-835769</samp> or 187 1.19 mrg <samp class="option">--disable-fix-cortex-a53-835769</samp> is given at configure time. 188 1.10 mrg </p> 189 1.10 mrg <p>To enable a workaround for the Cortex-A53 erratum number 843419 by default 190 1.10 mrg (for all CPUs regardless of -mcpu option given) at configure time use the 191 1.19 mrg <samp class="option">--enable-fix-cortex-a53-843419</samp> option. This workaround is applied at 192 1.10 mrg link time. Enabling the workaround will cause GCC to pass the relevant option 193 1.10 mrg to the linker. It can be explicitly disabled during compilation by passing the 194 1.19 mrg <samp class="option">-mno-fix-cortex-a53-843419</samp> option. Conversely, 195 1.19 mrg <samp class="option">--disable-fix-cortex-a53-843419</samp> will disable the workaround by default. 196 1.10 mrg The workaround is disabled by default if neither of 197 1.19 mrg <samp class="option">--enable-fix-cortex-a53-843419</samp> or 198 1.19 mrg <samp class="option">--disable-fix-cortex-a53-843419</samp> is given at configure time. 199 1.10 mrg </p> 200 1.11 mrg <p>To enable Branch Target Identification Mechanism and Return Address Signing by 201 1.19 mrg default at configure time use the <samp class="option">--enable-standard-branch-protection</samp> 202 1.19 mrg option. This is equivalent to having <samp class="option">-mbranch-protection=standard</samp> 203 1.11 mrg during compilation. This can be explicitly disabled during compilation by 204 1.19 mrg passing the <samp class="option">-mbranch-protection=none</samp> option which turns off all 205 1.11 mrg types of branch protections. Conversely, 206 1.19 mrg <samp class="option">--disable-standard-branch-protection</samp> will disable both the 207 1.11 mrg protections by default. This mechanism is turned off by default if neither 208 1.11 mrg of the options are given at configure time. 209 1.11 mrg </p> 210 1.10 mrg <hr /> 211 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="amd64-x-solaris2"></a><h3 class="heading" id="amd64-*-solaris2*"><span>amd64-*-solaris2*<a class="copiable-link" href="#amd64-*-solaris2*"> ¶</a></span></h3> 212 1.19 mrg <p>This is a synonym for ‘<samp class="samp">x86_64-*-solaris2*</samp>’. 213 1.10 mrg </p> 214 1.10 mrg <hr /> 215 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="amdgcn-x-amdhsa"></a><h3 class="heading" id="amdgcn-*-amdhsa"><span>amdgcn-*-amdhsa<a class="copiable-link" href="#amdgcn-*-amdhsa"> ¶</a></span></h3> 216 1.11 mrg <p>AMD GCN GPU target. 217 1.11 mrg </p> 218 1.18 mrg <p>Instead of GNU Binutils, you will need to install LLVM 15, or later, and copy 219 1.19 mrg <samp class="file">bin/llvm-mc</samp> to <samp class="file">amdgcn-amdhsa/bin/as</samp>, 220 1.19 mrg <samp class="file">bin/lld</samp> to <samp class="file">amdgcn-amdhsa/bin/ld</samp>, 221 1.19 mrg <samp class="file">bin/llvm-nm</samp> to <samp class="file">amdgcn-amdhsa/bin/nm</samp>, and 222 1.19 mrg <samp class="file">bin/llvm-ar</samp> to both <samp class="file">bin/amdgcn-amdhsa-ar</samp> and 223 1.19 mrg <samp class="file">bin/amdgcn-amdhsa-ranlib</samp>. Note that LLVM 13.0.1 or LLVM 14 can be used 224 1.19 mrg by specifying a <code class="code">--with-multilib-list=</code> that does not list <code class="code">gfx1100</code> 225 1.19 mrg and <code class="code">gfx1103</code>. 226 1.18 mrg </p> 227 1.18 mrg <p>Use Newlib (4.3.0 or newer; 4.4.0 contains some improvements and git commit 228 1.18 mrg 7dd4eb1db (2025-03-25, post-4.4.0) fixes device console output for GFX10 and 229 1.18 mrg GFX11 devices). 230 1.11 mrg </p> 231 1.11 mrg <p>To run the binaries, install the HSA Runtime from the 232 1.19 mrg <a class="uref" href="https://rocm.docs.amd.com/">ROCm Platform</a>, and use 233 1.19 mrg <samp class="file">libexec/gcc/amdhsa-amdhsa/<var class="var">version</var>/gcn-run</samp> to launch them 234 1.11 mrg on the GPU. 235 1.11 mrg </p> 236 1.18 mrg <p>To enable support for GCN3 Fiji devices (gfx803), GCC has to be configured with 237 1.19 mrg <samp class="option">--with-arch=<code class="code">fiji</code></samp> or 238 1.19 mrg <samp class="option">--with-multilib-list=<code class="code">fiji</code>,...</samp>. Note that support for Fiji 239 1.18 mrg devices has been removed in ROCm 4.0 and support in LLVM was deprecated and has 240 1.18 mrg been removed in LLVM 18. 241 1.18 mrg </p> 242 1.11 mrg <hr /> 243 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="arc-x-elf32"></a><h3 class="heading" id="arc-*-elf32"><span>arc-*-elf32<a class="copiable-link" href="#arc-*-elf32"> ¶</a></span></h3> 244 1.10 mrg 245 1.19 mrg <p>Use ‘<samp class="samp">configure --target=arc-elf32 --with-cpu=<var class="var">cpu</var> --enable-languages="c,c++"</samp>’ 246 1.19 mrg to configure GCC, with <var class="var">cpu</var> being one of ‘<samp class="samp">arc600</samp>’, ‘<samp class="samp">arc601</samp>’, 247 1.19 mrg or ‘<samp class="samp">arc700</samp>’. 248 1.10 mrg </p> 249 1.10 mrg <hr /> 250 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="arc-linux-uclibc"></a><h3 class="heading" id="arc-linux-uclibc-1"><span>arc-linux-uclibc<a class="copiable-link" href="#arc-linux-uclibc-1"> ¶</a></span></h3> 251 1.10 mrg 252 1.19 mrg <p>Use ‘<samp class="samp">configure --target=arc-linux-uclibc --with-cpu=arc700 --enable-languages="c,c++"</samp>’ to configure GCC. 253 1.10 mrg </p> 254 1.10 mrg <hr /> 255 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="arm-x-eabi"></a><h3 class="heading" id="arm-*-eabi"><span>arm-*-eabi<a class="copiable-link" href="#arm-*-eabi"> ¶</a></span></h3> 256 1.9 mrg <p>ARM-family processors. 257 1.10 mrg </p> 258 1.10 mrg <p>Building the Ada frontend commonly fails (an infinite loop executing 259 1.19 mrg <code class="code">xsinfo</code>) if the host compiler is GNAT 4.8. Host compilers built from the 260 1.7 mrg GNAT 4.6, 4.9 or 5 release branches are known to succeed. 261 1.10 mrg </p> 262 1.10 mrg <hr /> 263 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="avr"></a><h3 class="heading" id="avr-1"><span>avr<a class="copiable-link" href="#avr-1"> ¶</a></span></h3> 264 1.1 mrg <p>ATMEL AVR-family micro controllers. These are used in embedded 265 1.10 mrg applications. There are no standard Unix configurations. 266 1.1 mrg See “AVR Options” in the main manual 267 1.1 mrg for the list of supported MCU types. 268 1.10 mrg </p> 269 1.19 mrg <p>Use ‘<samp class="samp">configure --target=avr --enable-languages="c"</samp>’ to configure GCC. 270 1.10 mrg </p> 271 1.10 mrg <p>Further installation notes and other useful information about AVR tools 272 1.1 mrg can also be obtained from: 273 1.10 mrg </p> 274 1.19 mrg <ul class="itemize mark-bullet"> 275 1.19 mrg <li><a class="uref" href="http://www.nongnu.org/avr/">http://www.nongnu.org/avr/</a> 276 1.19 mrg </li><li><a class="uref" href="http://www.amelek.gda.pl/avr/">http://www.amelek.gda.pl/avr/</a> 277 1.10 mrg </li></ul> 278 1.10 mrg 279 1.10 mrg <p>The following error: 280 1.19 mrg </p><div class="example smallexample"> 281 1.19 mrg <pre class="example-preformatted">Error: register required 282 1.10 mrg </pre></div> 283 1.10 mrg 284 1.10 mrg <p>indicates that you should upgrade to a newer version of the binutils. 285 1.10 mrg </p> 286 1.10 mrg <hr /> 287 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="bfin"></a><h3 class="heading" id="Blackfin"><span>Blackfin<a class="copiable-link" href="#Blackfin"> ¶</a></span></h3> 288 1.10 mrg <p>The Blackfin processor, an Analog Devices DSP. 289 1.1 mrg See “Blackfin Options” in the main manual 290 1.10 mrg </p> 291 1.10 mrg <p>More information, and a version of binutils with support for this processor, 292 1.19 mrg are available at <a class="uref" href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/adi-toolchain/">https://sourceforge.net/projects/adi-toolchain/</a>. 293 1.10 mrg </p> 294 1.10 mrg <hr /> 295 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="cris"></a><h3 class="heading" id="CRIS"><span>CRIS<a class="copiable-link" href="#CRIS"> ¶</a></span></h3> 296 1.15 mrg <p>CRIS is a CPU architecture in Axis Communications systems-on-a-chip, for 297 1.15 mrg example the ETRAX series. These are used in embedded applications. 298 1.10 mrg </p> 299 1.10 mrg <p>See “CRIS Options” in the main manual 300 1.1 mrg for a list of CRIS-specific options. 301 1.10 mrg </p> 302 1.19 mrg <p>Use ‘<samp class="samp">configure --target=cris-elf</samp>’ to configure GCC for building 303 1.15 mrg a cross-compiler for CRIS. 304 1.10 mrg <hr /> 305 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="dos"></a></p><h3 class="heading" id="DOS"><span>DOS<a class="copiable-link" href="#DOS"> ¶</a></span></h3> 306 1.19 mrg <p>Please have a look at the <a class="uref" href="binaries.html">binaries page</a>. 307 1.10 mrg </p> 308 1.10 mrg <p>You cannot install GCC by itself on MSDOS; it will not compile under 309 1.1 mrg any MSDOS compiler except itself. You need to get the complete 310 1.1 mrg compilation package DJGPP, which includes binaries as well as sources, 311 1.1 mrg and includes all the necessary compilation tools and libraries. 312 1.10 mrg </p> 313 1.10 mrg <hr /> 314 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="epiphany-x-elf"></a><h3 class="heading" id="epiphany-*-elf"><span>epiphany-*-elf<a class="copiable-link" href="#epiphany-*-elf"> ¶</a></span></h3> 315 1.10 mrg <p>Adapteva Epiphany. 316 1.3 skrll This configuration is intended for embedded systems. 317 1.10 mrg </p> 318 1.10 mrg <hr /> 319 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="x-x-freebsd"></a><h3 class="heading" id="g_t*-*-freebsd*"><span>*-*-freebsd*<a class="copiable-link" href="#g_t*-*-freebsd*"> ¶</a></span></h3> 320 1.10 mrg <p>We support FreeBSD using the ELF file format with DWARF 2 debugging 321 1.18 mrg for all CPU architectures. There are 322 1.1 mrg no known issues with mixing object files and libraries with different 323 1.18 mrg debugging formats. 324 1.18 mrg </p> 325 1.18 mrg <p>We recommend bootstrapping against the latest GNU binutils or the 326 1.19 mrg version found in the <samp class="file">devel/binutils</samp> port. This also has been 327 1.18 mrg known to enable additional features and improve overall testsuite 328 1.18 mrg results. 329 1.18 mrg </p> 330 1.18 mrg <p>Ada and D (or rather their respective libraries) are broken on 331 1.18 mrg FreeBSD/i386. This also affects building 32-bit libraries on 332 1.19 mrg FreeBSD/amd64, so configure with <samp class="option">--disable-multilib</samp> 333 1.18 mrg there in case you are building one of these front ends. 334 1.18 mrg </p> 335 1.18 mrg <p>Go (or rather libgo) is generally broken on FreeBSD. 336 1.10 mrg </p> 337 1.10 mrg <hr /> 338 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="ft32-x-elf"></a><h3 class="heading" id="ft32-*-elf"><span>ft32-*-elf<a class="copiable-link" href="#ft32-*-elf"> ¶</a></span></h3> 339 1.10 mrg <p>The FT32 processor. 340 1.7 mrg This configuration is intended for embedded systems. 341 1.10 mrg </p> 342 1.10 mrg <hr /> 343 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="h8300-hms"></a><h3 class="heading" id="h8300-hms-1"><span>h8300-hms<a class="copiable-link" href="#h8300-hms-1"> ¶</a></span></h3> 344 1.1 mrg <p>Renesas H8/300 series of processors. 345 1.10 mrg </p> 346 1.19 mrg <p>Please have a look at the <a class="uref" href="binaries.html">binaries page</a>. 347 1.10 mrg </p> 348 1.10 mrg <p>The calling convention and structure layout has changed in release 2.6. 349 1.1 mrg All code must be recompiled. The calling convention now passes the 350 1.1 mrg first three arguments in function calls in registers. Structures are no 351 1.1 mrg longer a multiple of 2 bytes. 352 1.10 mrg </p> 353 1.10 mrg <hr /> 354 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="hppa-hp-hpux"></a><h3 class="heading" id="hppa*-hp-hpux*"><span>hppa*-hp-hpux*<a class="copiable-link" href="#hppa*-hp-hpux*"> ¶</a></span></h3> 355 1.18 mrg <p>We require using gas on all hppa platforms. Version 2.19 or 356 1.1 mrg later is recommended. 357 1.10 mrg </p> 358 1.10 mrg <p>It may be helpful to configure GCC with the 359 1.19 mrg <a class="uref" href="./configure.html#with-gnu-as"><samp class="option">--with-gnu-as</samp></a> and 360 1.19 mrg <samp class="option">--with-as=…</samp> options to ensure that GCC can find GAS. 361 1.10 mrg </p> 362 1.10 mrg <p>There are two default scheduling models for instructions. These are 363 1.1 mrg PROCESSOR_7100LC and PROCESSOR_8000. They are selected from the pa-risc 364 1.10 mrg architecture specified for the target machine when configuring. 365 1.1 mrg PROCESSOR_8000 is the default. PROCESSOR_7100LC is selected when 366 1.19 mrg the target is a ‘<samp class="samp">hppa1*</samp>’ machine. 367 1.10 mrg </p> 368 1.10 mrg <p>The PROCESSOR_8000 model is not well suited to older processors. Thus, 369 1.1 mrg it is important to completely specify the machine architecture when 370 1.1 mrg configuring if you want a model other than PROCESSOR_8000. The macro 371 1.1 mrg TARGET_SCHED_DEFAULT can be defined in BOOT_CFLAGS if a different 372 1.1 mrg default scheduling model is desired. 373 1.10 mrg </p> 374 1.10 mrg <p>As of GCC 4.0, GCC uses the UNIX 95 namespace for HP-UX 10.10 375 1.10 mrg through 11.00, and the UNIX 98 namespace for HP-UX 11.11 and later. 376 1.1 mrg This namespace change might cause problems when bootstrapping with 377 1.1 mrg an earlier version of GCC or the HP compiler as essentially the same 378 1.1 mrg namespace is required for an entire build. This problem can be avoided 379 1.19 mrg in a number of ways. With HP cc, <code class="env">UNIX_STD</code> can be set to ‘<samp class="samp">95</samp>’ 380 1.19 mrg or ‘<samp class="samp">98</samp>’. Another way is to add an appropriate set of predefines 381 1.19 mrg to <code class="env">CC</code>. The description for the <samp class="option">munix=</samp> option contains 382 1.1 mrg a list of the predefines used with each standard. 383 1.10 mrg </p> 384 1.19 mrg <p>More specific information to ‘<samp class="samp">hppa*-hp-hpux*</samp>’ targets follows. 385 1.10 mrg </p> 386 1.10 mrg <hr /> 387 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="hppa-hp-hpux11"></a><h3 class="heading" id="hppa*-hp-hpux11"><span>hppa*-hp-hpux11<a class="copiable-link" href="#hppa*-hp-hpux11"> ¶</a></span></h3> 388 1.19 mrg <p>Refer to <a class="uref" href="binaries.html">binaries</a> for information about obtaining 389 1.1 mrg precompiled GCC binaries for HP-UX. Precompiled binaries must be obtained 390 1.9 mrg to build the Ada language as it cannot be bootstrapped using C. Ada is 391 1.1 mrg only available for the 32-bit PA-RISC runtime. 392 1.10 mrg </p> 393 1.10 mrg <p>Starting with GCC 3.4 an ISO C compiler is required to bootstrap. The 394 1.10 mrg bundled compiler supports only traditional C; you will need either HP’s 395 1.1 mrg unbundled compiler, or a binary distribution of GCC. 396 1.10 mrg </p> 397 1.10 mrg <p>It is possible to build GCC 3.3 starting with the bundled HP compiler, 398 1.1 mrg but the process requires several steps. GCC 3.3 can then be used to 399 1.9 mrg build later versions. 400 1.10 mrg </p> 401 1.10 mrg <p>There are several possible approaches to building the distribution. 402 1.1 mrg Binutils can be built first using the HP tools. Then, the GCC 403 1.1 mrg distribution can be built. The second approach is to build GCC 404 1.10 mrg first using the HP tools, then build binutils, then rebuild GCC. 405 1.1 mrg There have been problems with various binary distributions, so it 406 1.1 mrg is best not to start from a binary distribution. 407 1.10 mrg </p> 408 1.10 mrg <p>On 64-bit capable systems, there are two distinct targets. Different 409 1.1 mrg installation prefixes must be used if both are to be installed on 410 1.19 mrg the same system. The ‘<samp class="samp">hppa[1-2]*-hp-hpux11*</samp>’ target generates code 411 1.10 mrg for the 32-bit PA-RISC runtime architecture and uses the HP linker. 412 1.19 mrg The ‘<samp class="samp">hppa64-hp-hpux11*</samp>’ target generates 64-bit code for the 413 1.1 mrg PA-RISC 2.0 architecture. 414 1.10 mrg </p> 415 1.10 mrg <p>The script config.guess now selects the target type based on the compiler 416 1.19 mrg detected during configuration. You must define <code class="env">PATH</code> or <code class="env">CC</code> so 417 1.10 mrg that configure finds an appropriate compiler for the initial bootstrap. 418 1.19 mrg When <code class="env">CC</code> is used, the definition should contain the options that are 419 1.19 mrg needed whenever <code class="env">CC</code> is used. 420 1.10 mrg </p> 421 1.10 mrg <p>Specifically, options that determine the runtime architecture must be 422 1.19 mrg in <code class="env">CC</code> to correctly select the target for the build. It is also 423 1.19 mrg convenient to place many other compiler options in <code class="env">CC</code>. For example, 424 1.19 mrg <code class="env">CC="cc -Ac +DA2.0W -Wp,-H16376 -D_CLASSIC_TYPES -D_HPUX_SOURCE"</code> 425 1.1 mrg can be used to bootstrap the GCC 3.3 branch with the HP compiler in 426 1.19 mrg 64-bit K&R/bundled mode. The <samp class="option">+DA2.0W</samp> option will result in 427 1.19 mrg the automatic selection of the ‘<samp class="samp">hppa64-hp-hpux11*</samp>’ target. The 428 1.1 mrg macro definition table of cpp needs to be increased for a successful 429 1.1 mrg build with the HP compiler. _CLASSIC_TYPES and _HPUX_SOURCE need to 430 1.1 mrg be defined when building with the bundled compiler, or when using the 431 1.19 mrg <samp class="option">-Ac</samp> option. These defines aren’t necessary with <samp class="option">-Ae</samp>. 432 1.10 mrg </p> 433 1.19 mrg <p>It is best to explicitly configure the ‘<samp class="samp">hppa64-hp-hpux11*</samp>’ target 434 1.19 mrg with the <samp class="option">--with-ld=…</samp> option. This overrides the standard 435 1.1 mrg search for ld. The two linkers supported on this target require different 436 1.1 mrg commands. The default linker is determined during configuration. As a 437 1.10 mrg result, it’s not possible to switch linkers in the middle of a GCC build. 438 1.1 mrg This has been reported to sometimes occur in unified builds of binutils 439 1.1 mrg and GCC. 440 1.10 mrg </p> 441 1.10 mrg <p>A recent linker patch must be installed for the correct operation of 442 1.19 mrg GCC 3.3 and later. <code class="code">PHSS_26559</code> and <code class="code">PHSS_24304</code> are the 443 1.1 mrg oldest linker patches that are known to work. They are for HP-UX 444 1.19 mrg 11.00 and 11.11, respectively. <code class="code">PHSS_24303</code>, the companion to 445 1.19 mrg <code class="code">PHSS_24304</code>, might be usable but it hasn’t been tested. These 446 1.1 mrg patches have been superseded. Consult the HP patch database to obtain 447 1.1 mrg the currently recommended linker patch for your system. 448 1.10 mrg </p> 449 1.10 mrg <p>The patches are necessary for the support of weak symbols on the 450 1.1 mrg 32-bit port, and for the running of initializers and finalizers. Weak 451 1.1 mrg symbols are implemented using SOM secondary definition symbols. Prior 452 1.10 mrg to HP-UX 11, there are bugs in the linker support for secondary symbols. 453 1.1 mrg The patches correct a problem of linker core dumps creating shared 454 1.1 mrg libraries containing secondary symbols, as well as various other 455 1.1 mrg linking issues involving secondary symbols. 456 1.10 mrg </p> 457 1.10 mrg <p>GCC 3.3 uses the ELF DT_INIT_ARRAY and DT_FINI_ARRAY capabilities to 458 1.1 mrg run initializers and finalizers on the 64-bit port. The 32-bit port 459 1.19 mrg uses the linker <samp class="option">+init</samp> and <samp class="option">+fini</samp> options for the same 460 1.1 mrg purpose. The patches correct various problems with the +init/+fini 461 1.1 mrg options, including program core dumps. Binutils 2.14 corrects a 462 1.10 mrg problem on the 64-bit port resulting from HP’s non-standard use of 463 1.1 mrg the .init and .fini sections for array initializers and finalizers. 464 1.10 mrg </p> 465 1.19 mrg <p>Only the HP linker is supported for the ‘<samp class="samp">hppa64-hp-hpux11*</samp>’ target. 466 1.10 mrg </p> 467 1.10 mrg <p>At this time, the GNU linker does not support the creation of long 468 1.9 mrg branch stubs. As a result, it cannot successfully link binaries 469 1.1 mrg containing branch offsets larger than 8 megabytes. In addition, 470 1.1 mrg there are problems linking shared libraries, linking executables 471 1.19 mrg with <samp class="option">-static</samp>, and with dwarf2 unwind and exception support. 472 1.10 mrg It also doesn’t provide stubs for internal calls to global functions 473 1.9 mrg in shared libraries, so these calls cannot be overloaded. 474 1.10 mrg </p> 475 1.10 mrg <p>The HP dynamic loader does not support GNU symbol versioning, so symbol 476 1.1 mrg versioning is not supported. It may be necessary to disable symbol 477 1.19 mrg versioning with <samp class="option">--disable-symvers</samp> when using GNU ld. 478 1.10 mrg </p> 479 1.10 mrg <p>POSIX threads are the default. The optional DCE thread library is not 480 1.19 mrg supported, so <samp class="option">--enable-threads=dce</samp> does not work. 481 1.10 mrg </p> 482 1.10 mrg <hr /> 483 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="x-x-linux-gnu"></a><h3 class="heading" id="g_t*-*-linux-gnu"><span>*-*-linux-gnu<a class="copiable-link" href="#g_t*-*-linux-gnu"> ¶</a></span></h3> 484 1.19 mrg <p>The <code class="code">.init_array</code> and <code class="code">.fini_array</code> sections are enabled 485 1.15 mrg unconditionally which requires at least glibc 2.1 and binutils 2.12. 486 1.15 mrg </p> 487 1.1 mrg <p>Versions of libstdc++-v3 starting with 3.2.1 require bug fixes present 488 1.1 mrg in glibc 2.2.5 and later. More information is available in the 489 1.1 mrg libstdc++-v3 documentation. 490 1.10 mrg </p> 491 1.10 mrg <hr /> 492 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="ix86-x-linux"></a><h3 class="heading" id="i_003f86-*-linux*"><span>i?86-*-linux*<a class="copiable-link" href="#i_003f86-*-linux*"> ¶</a></span></h3> 493 1.10 mrg <p>As of GCC 3.3, binutils 2.13.1 or later is required for this platform. 494 1.19 mrg See <a class="uref" href="https://gcc.gnu.org/PR10877">bug 10877</a> for more information. 495 1.10 mrg </p> 496 1.10 mrg <p>If you receive Signal 11 errors when building on GNU/Linux, then it is 497 1.1 mrg possible you have a hardware problem. Further information on this can be 498 1.19 mrg found on <a class="uref" href="https://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/">www.bitwizard.nl</a>. 499 1.10 mrg </p> 500 1.10 mrg <hr /> 501 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="ix86-x-solaris2"></a><h3 class="heading" id="i_003f86-*-solaris2*"><span>i?86-*-solaris2*<a class="copiable-link" href="#i_003f86-*-solaris2*"> ¶</a></span></h3> 502 1.12 mrg <p>Use this for Solaris 11.3 or later on x86 and x86-64 systems. Starting 503 1.19 mrg with GCC 4.7, there is also a 64-bit ‘<samp class="samp">amd64-*-solaris2*</samp>’ or 504 1.19 mrg ‘<samp class="samp">x86_64-*-solaris2*</samp>’ configuration that corresponds to 505 1.19 mrg ‘<samp class="samp">sparcv9-sun-solaris2*</samp>’. 506 1.10 mrg </p> 507 1.10 mrg <hr /> 508 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="ia64-x-linux"></a><h3 class="heading" id="ia64-*-linux"><span>ia64-*-linux<a class="copiable-link" href="#ia64-*-linux"> ¶</a></span></h3> 509 1.1 mrg <p>IA-64 processor (also known as IPF, or Itanium Processor Family) 510 1.1 mrg running GNU/Linux. 511 1.10 mrg </p> 512 1.10 mrg <p>If you are using the installed system libunwind library with 513 1.19 mrg <samp class="option">--with-system-libunwind</samp>, then you must use libunwind 0.98 or 514 1.1 mrg later. 515 1.10 mrg </p> 516 1.10 mrg <hr /> 517 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="ia64-x-hpux"></a><h3 class="heading" id="ia64-*-hpux*"><span>ia64-*-hpux*<a class="copiable-link" href="#ia64-*-hpux*"> ¶</a></span></h3> 518 1.1 mrg <p>Building GCC on this target requires the GNU Assembler. The bundled HP 519 1.1 mrg assembler will not work. To prevent GCC from using the wrong assembler, 520 1.19 mrg the option <samp class="option">--with-gnu-as</samp> may be necessary. 521 1.10 mrg </p> 522 1.10 mrg <hr /> 523 1.10 mrg <!-- rs6000-ibm-aix*, powerpc-ibm-aix* --> 524 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="x-ibm-aix"></a><h3 class="heading" id="g_t*-ibm-aix*"><span>*-ibm-aix*<a class="copiable-link" href="#g_t*-ibm-aix*"> ¶</a></span></h3> 525 1.10 mrg <p>Support for AIX version 3 and older was discontinued in GCC 3.4. 526 1.1 mrg Support for AIX version 4.2 and older was discontinued in GCC 4.5. 527 1.10 mrg </p> 528 1.10 mrg <p>“out of memory” bootstrap failures may indicate a problem with 529 1.1 mrg process resource limits (ulimit). Hard limits are configured in the 530 1.19 mrg <samp class="file">/etc/security/limits</samp> system configuration file. 531 1.10 mrg </p> 532 1.10 mrg <p>GCC 4.9 and above require a C++ compiler for bootstrap. IBM VAC++ / xlC 533 1.7 mrg cannot bootstrap GCC. xlc can bootstrap an older version of GCC and 534 1.7 mrg G++ can bootstrap recent releases of GCC. 535 1.10 mrg </p> 536 1.10 mrg <p>GCC can bootstrap with recent versions of IBM XLC, but bootstrapping 537 1.1 mrg with an earlier release of GCC is recommended. Bootstrapping with XLC 538 1.1 mrg requires a larger data segment, which can be enabled through the 539 1.19 mrg <var class="var">LDR_CNTRL</var> environment variable, e.g., 540 1.10 mrg </p> 541 1.19 mrg <div class="example smallexample"> 542 1.19 mrg <pre class="example-preformatted">% LDR_CNTRL=MAXDATA=0x50000000 543 1.10 mrg % export LDR_CNTRL 544 1.10 mrg </pre></div> 545 1.1 mrg 546 1.10 mrg <p>One can start with a pre-compiled version of GCC to build from 547 1.10 mrg sources. One may delete GCC’s “fixed” header files when starting 548 1.1 mrg with a version of GCC built for an earlier release of AIX. 549 1.10 mrg </p> 550 1.10 mrg <p>To speed up the configuration phases of bootstrapping and installing GCC, 551 1.19 mrg one may use GNU Bash instead of AIX <code class="command">/bin/sh</code>, e.g., 552 1.10 mrg </p> 553 1.19 mrg <div class="example smallexample"> 554 1.19 mrg <pre class="example-preformatted">% CONFIG_SHELL=/opt/freeware/bin/bash 555 1.10 mrg % export CONFIG_SHELL 556 1.10 mrg </pre></div> 557 1.1 mrg 558 1.19 mrg <p>and then proceed as described in <a class="uref" href="build.html">the build 559 1.10 mrg instructions</a>, where we strongly recommend specifying an absolute path 560 1.19 mrg to invoke <var class="var">srcdir</var>/configure. 561 1.10 mrg </p> 562 1.10 mrg <p>Because GCC on AIX is built as a 32-bit executable by default, 563 1.1 mrg (although it can generate 64-bit programs) the GMP and MPFR libraries 564 1.1 mrg required by gfortran must be 32-bit libraries. Building GMP and MPFR 565 1.1 mrg as static archive libraries works better than shared libraries. 566 1.10 mrg </p> 567 1.19 mrg <p>Errors involving <code class="code">alloca</code> when building GCC generally are due 568 1.19 mrg to an incorrect definition of <code class="code">CC</code> in the Makefile or mixing files 569 1.1 mrg compiled with the native C compiler and GCC. During the stage1 phase of 570 1.19 mrg the build, the native AIX compiler <strong class="strong">must</strong> be invoked as <code class="command">cc</code> 571 1.19 mrg (not <code class="command">xlc</code>). Once <code class="command">configure</code> has been informed of 572 1.19 mrg <code class="command">xlc</code>, one needs to use ‘<samp class="samp">make distclean</samp>’ to remove the 573 1.19 mrg configure cache files and ensure that <code class="env">CC</code> environment variable 574 1.19 mrg does not provide a definition that will confuse <code class="command">configure</code>. 575 1.1 mrg If this error occurs during stage2 or later, then the problem most likely 576 1.1 mrg is the version of Make (see above). 577 1.10 mrg </p> 578 1.19 mrg <p>The native <code class="command">as</code> and <code class="command">ld</code> are recommended for 579 1.3 skrll bootstrapping on AIX. The GNU Assembler, GNU Linker, and GNU 580 1.3 skrll Binutils version 2.20 is the minimum level that supports bootstrap on 581 1.10 mrg AIX 5. The GNU Assembler has not been updated to support AIX 6 or 582 1.3 skrll AIX 7. The native AIX tools do interoperate with GCC. 583 1.10 mrg </p> 584 1.10 mrg <p>AIX 7.1 added partial support for DWARF debugging, but full support 585 1.7 mrg requires AIX 7.1 TL03 SP7 that supports additional DWARF sections and 586 1.7 mrg fixes a bug in the assembler. AIX 7.1 TL03 SP5 distributed a version 587 1.7 mrg of libm.a missing important symbols; a fix for IV77796 will be 588 1.7 mrg included in SP6. 589 1.10 mrg </p> 590 1.10 mrg <p>AIX 5.3 TL10, AIX 6.1 TL05 and AIX 7.1 TL00 introduced an AIX 591 1.3 skrll assembler change that sometimes produces corrupt assembly files 592 1.3 skrll causing AIX linker errors. The bug breaks GCC bootstrap on AIX and 593 1.3 skrll can cause compilation failures with existing GCC installations. An 594 1.3 skrll AIX iFix for AIX 5.3 is available (APAR IZ98385 for AIX 5.3 TL10, APAR 595 1.3 skrll IZ98477 for AIX 5.3 TL11 and IZ98134 for AIX 5.3 TL12). AIX 5.3 TL11 SP8, 596 1.3 skrll AIX 5.3 TL12 SP5, AIX 6.1 TL04 SP11, AIX 6.1 TL05 SP7, AIX 6.1 TL06 SP6, 597 1.3 skrll AIX 6.1 TL07 and AIX 7.1 TL01 should include the fix. 598 1.10 mrg </p> 599 1.19 mrg <p>Building <samp class="file">libstdc++.a</samp> requires a fix for an AIX Assembler bug 600 1.1 mrg APAR IY26685 (AIX 4.3) or APAR IY25528 (AIX 5.1). It also requires a 601 1.1 mrg fix for another AIX Assembler bug and a co-dependent AIX Archiver fix 602 1.1 mrg referenced as APAR IY53606 (AIX 5.2) or as APAR IY54774 (AIX 5.1) 603 1.10 mrg </p> 604 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="TransferAixShobj"></a><p>‘<samp class="samp">libstdc++</samp>’ in GCC 3.4 increments the major version number of the 605 1.19 mrg shared object and GCC installation places the <samp class="file">libstdc++.a</samp> 606 1.1 mrg shared library in a common location which will overwrite the and GCC 607 1.1 mrg 3.3 version of the shared library. Applications either need to be 608 1.1 mrg re-linked against the new shared library or the GCC 3.1 and GCC 3.3 609 1.19 mrg versions of the ‘<samp class="samp">libstdc++</samp>’ shared object needs to be available 610 1.19 mrg to the AIX runtime loader. The GCC 3.1 ‘<samp class="samp">libstdc++.so.4</samp>’, if 611 1.19 mrg present, and GCC 3.3 ‘<samp class="samp">libstdc++.so.5</samp>’ shared objects can be 612 1.1 mrg installed for runtime dynamic loading using the following steps to set 613 1.19 mrg the ‘<samp class="samp">F_LOADONLY</samp>’ flag in the shared object for <em class="emph">each</em> 614 1.19 mrg multilib <samp class="file">libstdc++.a</samp> installed: 615 1.10 mrg </p> 616 1.10 mrg <p>Extract the shared objects from the currently installed 617 1.19 mrg <samp class="file">libstdc++.a</samp> archive: 618 1.19 mrg </p><div class="example smallexample"> 619 1.19 mrg <pre class="example-preformatted">% ar -x libstdc++.a libstdc++.so.4 libstdc++.so.5 620 1.10 mrg </pre></div> 621 1.1 mrg 622 1.19 mrg <p>Enable the ‘<samp class="samp">F_LOADONLY</samp>’ flag so that the shared object will be 623 1.1 mrg available for runtime dynamic loading, but not linking: 624 1.19 mrg </p><div class="example smallexample"> 625 1.19 mrg <pre class="example-preformatted">% strip -e libstdc++.so.4 libstdc++.so.5 626 1.10 mrg </pre></div> 627 1.10 mrg 628 1.10 mrg <p>Archive the runtime-only shared object in the GCC 3.4 629 1.19 mrg <samp class="file">libstdc++.a</samp> archive: 630 1.19 mrg </p><div class="example smallexample"> 631 1.19 mrg <pre class="example-preformatted">% ar -q libstdc++.a libstdc++.so.4 libstdc++.so.5 632 1.10 mrg </pre></div> 633 1.10 mrg 634 1.10 mrg <p>Eventually, the 635 1.19 mrg <a class="uref" href="./configure.html#WithAixSoname"><samp class="option">--with-aix-soname=svr4</samp></a> 636 1.5 mrg configure option may drop the need for this procedure for libraries that 637 1.5 mrg support it. 638 1.10 mrg </p> 639 1.10 mrg <p>Linking executables and shared libraries may produce warnings of 640 1.1 mrg duplicate symbols. The assembly files generated by GCC for AIX always 641 1.1 mrg have included multiple symbol definitions for certain global variable 642 1.1 mrg and function declarations in the original program. The warnings should 643 1.1 mrg not prevent the linker from producing a correct library or runnable 644 1.1 mrg executable. 645 1.10 mrg </p> 646 1.10 mrg <p>AIX 4.3 utilizes a “large format” archive to support both 32-bit and 647 1.1 mrg 64-bit object modules. The routines provided in AIX 4.3.0 and AIX 4.3.1 648 1.10 mrg to parse archive libraries did not handle the new format correctly. 649 1.1 mrg These routines are used by GCC and result in error messages during 650 1.1 mrg linking such as “not a COFF file”. The version of the routines shipped 651 1.19 mrg with AIX 4.3.1 should work for a 32-bit environment. The <samp class="option">-g</samp> 652 1.1 mrg option of the archive command may be used to create archives of 32-bit 653 1.1 mrg objects using the original “small format”. A correct version of the 654 1.1 mrg routines is shipped with AIX 4.3.2 and above. 655 1.10 mrg </p> 656 1.10 mrg <p>Some versions of the AIX binder (linker) can fail with a relocation 657 1.19 mrg overflow severe error when the <samp class="option">-bbigtoc</samp> option is used to link 658 1.1 mrg GCC-produced object files into an executable that overflows the TOC. A fix 659 1.1 mrg for APAR IX75823 (OVERFLOW DURING LINK WHEN USING GCC AND -BBIGTOC) is 660 1.1 mrg available from IBM Customer Support and from its 661 1.19 mrg <a class="uref" href="https://techsupport.services.ibm.com/">techsupport.services.ibm.com</a> 662 1.1 mrg website as PTF U455193. 663 1.10 mrg </p> 664 1.10 mrg <p>The AIX 4.3.2.1 linker (bos.rte.bind_cmds Level 4.3.2.1) will dump core 665 1.1 mrg with a segmentation fault when invoked by any version of GCC. A fix for 666 1.1 mrg APAR IX87327 is available from IBM Customer Support and from its 667 1.19 mrg <a class="uref" href="https://techsupport.services.ibm.com/">techsupport.services.ibm.com</a> 668 1.1 mrg website as PTF U461879. This fix is incorporated in AIX 4.3.3 and above. 669 1.10 mrg </p> 670 1.10 mrg <p>The initial assembler shipped with AIX 4.3.0 generates incorrect object 671 1.1 mrg files. A fix for APAR IX74254 (64BIT DISASSEMBLED OUTPUT FROM COMPILER FAILS 672 1.1 mrg TO ASSEMBLE/BIND) is available from IBM Customer Support and from its 673 1.19 mrg <a class="uref" href="https://techsupport.services.ibm.com/">techsupport.services.ibm.com</a> 674 1.1 mrg website as PTF U453956. This fix is incorporated in AIX 4.3.1 and above. 675 1.10 mrg </p> 676 1.10 mrg <p>AIX provides National Language Support (NLS). Compilers and assemblers 677 1.1 mrg use NLS to support locale-specific representations of various data 678 1.19 mrg formats including floating-point numbers (e.g., ‘<samp class="samp">.</samp>’ vs ‘<samp class="samp">,</samp>’ for 679 1.1 mrg separating decimal fractions). There have been problems reported where 680 1.1 mrg GCC does not produce the same floating-point formats that the assembler 681 1.19 mrg expects. If one encounters this problem, set the <code class="env">LANG</code> 682 1.19 mrg environment variable to ‘<samp class="samp">C</samp>’ or ‘<samp class="samp">En_US</samp>’. 683 1.10 mrg </p> 684 1.19 mrg <p>A default can be specified with the <samp class="option">-mcpu=<var class="var">cpu_type</var></samp> 685 1.19 mrg switch and using the configure option <samp class="option">--with-cpu-<var class="var">cpu_type</var></samp>. 686 1.10 mrg </p> 687 1.10 mrg <hr /> 688 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="iq2000-x-elf"></a><h3 class="heading" id="iq2000-*-elf"><span>iq2000-*-elf<a class="copiable-link" href="#iq2000-*-elf"> ¶</a></span></h3> 689 1.1 mrg <p>Vitesse IQ2000 processors. These are used in embedded 690 1.1 mrg applications. There are no standard Unix configurations. 691 1.10 mrg </p> 692 1.10 mrg <hr /> 693 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="lm32-x-elf"></a><h3 class="heading" id="lm32-*-elf"><span>lm32-*-elf<a class="copiable-link" href="#lm32-*-elf"> ¶</a></span></h3> 694 1.10 mrg <p>Lattice Mico32 processor. 695 1.1 mrg This configuration is intended for embedded systems. 696 1.10 mrg </p> 697 1.10 mrg <hr /> 698 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="lm32-x-uclinux"></a><h3 class="heading" id="lm32-*-uclinux"><span>lm32-*-uclinux<a class="copiable-link" href="#lm32-*-uclinux"> ¶</a></span></h3> 699 1.10 mrg <p>Lattice Mico32 processor. 700 1.1 mrg This configuration is intended for embedded systems running uClinux. 701 1.10 mrg </p> 702 1.10 mrg <hr /> 703 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="loongarch"></a><h3 class="heading" id="LoongArch"><span>LoongArch<a class="copiable-link" href="#LoongArch"> ¶</a></span></h3> 704 1.15 mrg <p>LoongArch processor. 705 1.15 mrg The following LoongArch targets are available: 706 1.19 mrg </p><dl class="table"> 707 1.19 mrg <dt><code class="code">loongarch64-linux-gnu*</code></dt> 708 1.15 mrg <dd><p>LoongArch processor running GNU/Linux. This target triplet may be coupled 709 1.15 mrg with a small set of possible suffixes to identify their default ABI type: 710 1.19 mrg </p><dl class="table"> 711 1.19 mrg <dt><code class="code">f64</code></dt> 712 1.19 mrg <dd><p>Uses <code class="code">lp64d/base</code> ABI by default. 713 1.15 mrg </p></dd> 714 1.19 mrg <dt><code class="code">f32</code></dt> 715 1.19 mrg <dd><p>Uses <code class="code">lp64f/base</code> ABI by default. 716 1.15 mrg </p></dd> 717 1.19 mrg <dt><code class="code">sf</code></dt> 718 1.19 mrg <dd><p>Uses <code class="code">lp64s/base</code> ABI by default. 719 1.15 mrg </p></dd> 720 1.15 mrg </dl> 721 1.15 mrg 722 1.15 mrg </dd> 723 1.19 mrg <dt><code class="code">loongarch64-linux-gnu</code></dt> 724 1.19 mrg <dd><p>Same as <code class="code">loongarch64-linux-gnuf64</code> for legacy support. 725 1.15 mrg </p></dd> 726 1.15 mrg </dl> 727 1.15 mrg 728 1.15 mrg <p>More information about LoongArch can be found at 729 1.19 mrg <a class="uref" href="https://github.com/loongson/LoongArch-Documentation">https://github.com/loongson/LoongArch-Documentation</a>. 730 1.15 mrg </p> 731 1.15 mrg <hr /> 732 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="m32c-x-elf"></a><h3 class="heading" id="m32c-*-elf"><span>m32c-*-elf<a class="copiable-link" href="#m32c-*-elf"> ¶</a></span></h3> 733 1.10 mrg <p>Renesas M32C processor. 734 1.1 mrg This configuration is intended for embedded systems. 735 1.10 mrg </p> 736 1.10 mrg <hr /> 737 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="m32r-x-elf"></a><h3 class="heading" id="m32r-*-elf"><span>m32r-*-elf<a class="copiable-link" href="#m32r-*-elf"> ¶</a></span></h3> 738 1.10 mrg <p>Renesas M32R processor. 739 1.1 mrg This configuration is intended for embedded systems. 740 1.10 mrg </p> 741 1.10 mrg <hr /> 742 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="m68k-x-x"></a><h3 class="heading" id="m68k-*-*"><span>m68k-*-*<a class="copiable-link" href="#m68k-*-*"> ¶</a></span></h3> 743 1.1 mrg <p>By default, 744 1.19 mrg ‘<samp class="samp">m68k-*-elf*</samp>’, ‘<samp class="samp">m68k-*-rtems</samp>’, ‘<samp class="samp">m68k-*-uclinux</samp>’ and 745 1.19 mrg ‘<samp class="samp">m68k-*-linux</samp>’ 746 1.1 mrg build libraries for both M680x0 and ColdFire processors. If you only 747 1.1 mrg need the M680x0 libraries, you can omit the ColdFire ones by passing 748 1.19 mrg <samp class="option">--with-arch=m68k</samp> to <code class="command">configure</code>. Alternatively, you 749 1.19 mrg can omit the M680x0 libraries by passing <samp class="option">--with-arch=cf</samp> to 750 1.19 mrg <code class="command">configure</code>. These targets default to 5206 or 5475 code as 751 1.1 mrg appropriate for the target system when 752 1.19 mrg configured with <samp class="option">--with-arch=cf</samp> and 68020 code otherwise. 753 1.10 mrg </p> 754 1.19 mrg <p>The ‘<samp class="samp">m68k-*-netbsd</samp>’ and 755 1.19 mrg ‘<samp class="samp">m68k-*-openbsd</samp>’ targets also support the <samp class="option">--with-arch</samp> 756 1.1 mrg option. They will generate ColdFire CFV4e code when configured with 757 1.19 mrg <samp class="option">--with-arch=cf</samp> and 68020 code otherwise. 758 1.10 mrg </p> 759 1.10 mrg <p>You can override the default processors listed above by configuring 760 1.19 mrg with <samp class="option">--with-cpu=<var class="var">target</var></samp>. This <var class="var">target</var> can either 761 1.19 mrg be a <samp class="option">-mcpu</samp> argument or one of the following values: 762 1.19 mrg ‘<samp class="samp">m68000</samp>’, ‘<samp class="samp">m68010</samp>’, ‘<samp class="samp">m68020</samp>’, ‘<samp class="samp">m68030</samp>’, 763 1.19 mrg ‘<samp class="samp">m68040</samp>’, ‘<samp class="samp">m68060</samp>’, ‘<samp class="samp">m68020-40</samp>’ and ‘<samp class="samp">m68020-60</samp>’. 764 1.10 mrg </p> 765 1.10 mrg <p>GCC requires at least binutils version 2.17 on these targets. 766 1.10 mrg </p> 767 1.10 mrg <hr /> 768 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="m68k-x-uclinux"></a><h3 class="heading" id="m68k-*-uclinux"><span>m68k-*-uclinux<a class="copiable-link" href="#m68k-*-uclinux"> ¶</a></span></h3> 769 1.1 mrg <p>GCC 4.3 changed the uClinux configuration so that it uses the 770 1.19 mrg ‘<samp class="samp">m68k-linux-gnu</samp>’ ABI rather than the ‘<samp class="samp">m68k-elf</samp>’ ABI. 771 1.1 mrg It also added improved support for C++ and flat shared libraries, 772 1.3 skrll both of which were ABI changes. 773 1.10 mrg </p> 774 1.10 mrg <hr /> 775 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="microblaze-x-elf"></a><h3 class="heading" id="microblaze-*-elf"><span>microblaze-*-elf<a class="copiable-link" href="#microblaze-*-elf"> ¶</a></span></h3> 776 1.10 mrg <p>Xilinx MicroBlaze processor. 777 1.1 mrg This configuration is intended for embedded systems. 778 1.10 mrg </p> 779 1.10 mrg <hr /> 780 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="mips-x-x"></a><h3 class="heading" id="mips-*-*"><span>mips-*-*<a class="copiable-link" href="#mips-*-*"> ¶</a></span></h3> 781 1.1 mrg <p>If on a MIPS system you get an error message saying “does not have gp 782 1.10 mrg sections for all it’s [sic] sectons [sic]”, don’t worry about it. This 783 1.1 mrg happens whenever you use GAS with the MIPS linker, but there is not 784 1.1 mrg really anything wrong, and it is okay to use the output file. You can 785 1.1 mrg stop such warnings by installing the GNU linker. 786 1.10 mrg </p> 787 1.10 mrg <p>It would be nice to extend GAS to produce the gp tables, but they are 788 1.1 mrg optional, and there should not be a warning about their absence. 789 1.10 mrg </p> 790 1.10 mrg <p>The libstdc++ atomic locking routines for MIPS targets requires MIPS II 791 1.1 mrg and later. A patch went in just after the GCC 3.3 release to 792 1.19 mrg make ‘<samp class="samp">mips*-*-*</samp>’ use the generic implementation instead. You can also 793 1.19 mrg configure for ‘<samp class="samp">mipsel-elf</samp>’ as a workaround. The 794 1.19 mrg ‘<samp class="samp">mips*-*-linux*</samp>’ target continues to use the MIPS II routines. More 795 1.1 mrg work on this is expected in future releases. 796 1.10 mrg </p> 797 1.1 mrg 798 1.19 mrg <p>The built-in <code class="code">__sync_*</code> functions are available on MIPS II and 799 1.19 mrg later systems and others that support the ‘<samp class="samp">ll</samp>’, ‘<samp class="samp">sc</samp>’ and 800 1.19 mrg ‘<samp class="samp">sync</samp>’ instructions. This can be overridden by passing 801 1.19 mrg <samp class="option">--with-llsc</samp> or <samp class="option">--without-llsc</samp> when configuring GCC. 802 1.1 mrg Since the Linux kernel emulates these instructions if they are 803 1.19 mrg missing, the default for ‘<samp class="samp">mips*-*-linux*</samp>’ targets is 804 1.19 mrg <samp class="option">--with-llsc</samp>. The <samp class="option">--with-llsc</samp> and 805 1.19 mrg <samp class="option">--without-llsc</samp> configure options may be overridden at compile 806 1.19 mrg time by passing the <samp class="option">-mllsc</samp> or <samp class="option">-mno-llsc</samp> options to 807 1.1 mrg the compiler. 808 1.10 mrg </p> 809 1.10 mrg <p>MIPS systems check for division by zero (unless 810 1.19 mrg <samp class="option">-mno-check-zero-division</samp> is passed to the compiler) by 811 1.1 mrg generating either a conditional trap or a break instruction. Using 812 1.1 mrg trap results in smaller code, but is only supported on MIPS II and 813 1.1 mrg later. Also, some versions of the Linux kernel have a bug that 814 1.19 mrg prevents trap from generating the proper signal (<code class="code">SIGFPE</code>). To enable 815 1.19 mrg the use of break, use the <samp class="option">--with-divide=breaks</samp> 816 1.19 mrg <code class="command">configure</code> option when configuring GCC. The default is to 817 1.1 mrg use traps on systems that support them. 818 1.10 mrg </p> 819 1.10 mrg <hr /> 820 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="moxie-x-elf"></a><h3 class="heading" id="moxie-*-elf"><span>moxie-*-elf<a class="copiable-link" href="#moxie-*-elf"> ¶</a></span></h3> 821 1.3 skrll <p>The moxie processor. 822 1.10 mrg </p> 823 1.10 mrg <hr /> 824 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="msp430-x-elf"></a><h3 class="heading" id="msp430-*-elf*"><span>msp430-*-elf*<a class="copiable-link" href="#msp430-*-elf*"> ¶</a></span></h3> 825 1.10 mrg <p>TI MSP430 processor. 826 1.5 mrg This configuration is intended for embedded systems. 827 1.10 mrg </p> 828 1.19 mrg <p>‘<samp class="samp">msp430-*-elf</samp>’ is the standard configuration with most GCC 829 1.12 mrg features enabled by default. 830 1.12 mrg </p> 831 1.19 mrg <p>‘<samp class="samp">msp430-*-elfbare</samp>’ is tuned for a bare-metal environment, and disables 832 1.12 mrg features related to shared libraries and other functionality not used for 833 1.12 mrg this device. This reduces code and data usage of the GCC libraries, resulting 834 1.12 mrg in a minimal run-time environment by default. 835 1.12 mrg </p> 836 1.12 mrg <p>Features disabled by default include: 837 1.19 mrg </p><ul class="itemize mark-bullet"> 838 1.19 mrg <li>transactional memory 839 1.19 mrg </li><li>__cxa_atexit 840 1.12 mrg </li></ul> 841 1.12 mrg 842 1.10 mrg <hr /> 843 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="nds32le-x-elf"></a><h3 class="heading" id="nds32le-*-elf"><span>nds32le-*-elf<a class="copiable-link" href="#nds32le-*-elf"> ¶</a></span></h3> 844 1.5 mrg <p>Andes NDS32 target in little endian mode. 845 1.10 mrg </p> 846 1.10 mrg <hr /> 847 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="nds32be-x-elf"></a><h3 class="heading" id="nds32be-*-elf"><span>nds32be-*-elf<a class="copiable-link" href="#nds32be-*-elf"> ¶</a></span></h3> 848 1.5 mrg <p>Andes NDS32 target in big endian mode. 849 1.10 mrg </p> 850 1.10 mrg <hr /> 851 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="nvptx-x-none"></a><h3 class="heading" id="nvptx-*-none"><span>nvptx-*-none<a class="copiable-link" href="#nvptx-*-none"> ¶</a></span></h3> 852 1.5 mrg <p>Nvidia PTX target. 853 1.10 mrg </p> 854 1.10 mrg <p>Instead of GNU binutils, you will need to install 855 1.19 mrg <a class="uref" href="https://github.com/SourceryTools/nvptx-tools">nvptx-tools</a>. 856 1.5 mrg Tell GCC where to find it: 857 1.19 mrg <samp class="option">--with-build-time-tools=[install-nvptx-tools]/nvptx-none/bin</samp>. 858 1.10 mrg </p> 859 1.18 mrg <p>You will need newlib 4.3.0 or later. It can be 860 1.10 mrg automatically built together with GCC. For this, add a symbolic link 861 1.19 mrg to nvptx-newlib’s <samp class="file">newlib</samp> directory to the directory containing 862 1.10 mrg the GCC sources. 863 1.10 mrg </p> 864 1.19 mrg <p>Use the <samp class="option">--disable-sjlj-exceptions</samp> and 865 1.19 mrg <samp class="option">--enable-newlib-io-long-long</samp> options when configuring. 866 1.10 mrg </p> 867 1.19 mrg <p>The <samp class="option">--with-arch</samp> option may be specified to override the 868 1.19 mrg default value for the <samp class="option">-march</samp> option, and to also build 869 1.18 mrg corresponding target libraries. 870 1.19 mrg The default is <samp class="option">--with-arch=sm_30</samp>. 871 1.18 mrg </p> 872 1.19 mrg <p>For example, if <samp class="option">--with-arch=sm_70</samp> is specified, 873 1.19 mrg <samp class="option">-march=sm_30</samp> and <samp class="option">-march=sm_70</samp> target libraries are 874 1.19 mrg built, and code generation defaults to <samp class="option">-march=sm_70</samp>. 875 1.18 mrg </p> 876 1.10 mrg <hr /> 877 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="or1k-x-elf"></a><h3 class="heading" id="or1k-*-elf"><span>or1k-*-elf<a class="copiable-link" href="#or1k-*-elf"> ¶</a></span></h3> 878 1.11 mrg <p>The OpenRISC 1000 32-bit processor with delay slots. 879 1.11 mrg This configuration is intended for embedded systems. 880 1.11 mrg </p> 881 1.11 mrg <hr /> 882 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="or1k-x-linux"></a><h3 class="heading" id="or1k-*-linux"><span>or1k-*-linux<a class="copiable-link" href="#or1k-*-linux"> ¶</a></span></h3> 883 1.11 mrg <p>The OpenRISC 1000 32-bit processor with delay slots. 884 1.11 mrg </p> 885 1.11 mrg <hr /> 886 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="powerpc-x-x"></a><h3 class="heading" id="powerpc-*-*"><span>powerpc-*-*<a class="copiable-link" href="#powerpc-*-*"> ¶</a></span></h3> 887 1.19 mrg <p>You can specify a default version for the <samp class="option">-mcpu=<var class="var">cpu_type</var></samp> 888 1.19 mrg switch by using the configure option <samp class="option">--with-cpu-<var class="var">cpu_type</var></samp>. 889 1.10 mrg </p> 890 1.12 mrg <p>You will need GNU binutils 2.20 or newer. 891 1.10 mrg </p> 892 1.10 mrg <hr /> 893 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="powerpc-x-darwin"></a><h3 class="heading" id="powerpc-*-darwin*"><span>powerpc-*-darwin*<a class="copiable-link" href="#powerpc-*-darwin*"> ¶</a></span></h3> 894 1.1 mrg <p>PowerPC running Darwin (Mac OS X kernel). 895 1.10 mrg </p> 896 1.10 mrg <p>Pre-installed versions of Mac OS X may not include any developer tools, 897 1.1 mrg meaning that you will not be able to build GCC from source. Tool 898 1.1 mrg binaries are available at 899 1.19 mrg <a class="uref" href="https://opensource.apple.com">https://opensource.apple.com</a>. 900 1.10 mrg </p> 901 1.10 mrg <p>This version of GCC requires at least cctools-590.36. The 902 1.1 mrg cctools-590.36 package referenced from 903 1.19 mrg <a class="uref" href="https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2006-03/msg00507.html">https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2006-03/msg00507.html</a> will not work 904 1.1 mrg on systems older than 10.3.9 (aka darwin7.9.0). 905 1.10 mrg </p> 906 1.10 mrg <hr /> 907 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="powerpc-x-elf"></a><h3 class="heading" id="powerpc-*-elf"><span>powerpc-*-elf<a class="copiable-link" href="#powerpc-*-elf"> ¶</a></span></h3> 908 1.1 mrg <p>PowerPC system in big endian mode, running System V.4. 909 1.10 mrg </p> 910 1.10 mrg <hr /> 911 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="powerpc-x-linux-gnu"></a><h3 class="heading" id="powerpc*-*-linux-gnu*"><span>powerpc*-*-linux-gnu*<a class="copiable-link" href="#powerpc*-*-linux-gnu*"> ¶</a></span></h3> 912 1.1 mrg <p>PowerPC system in big endian mode running Linux. 913 1.10 mrg </p> 914 1.10 mrg <hr /> 915 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="powerpc-x-netbsd"></a><h3 class="heading" id="powerpc-*-netbsd*"><span>powerpc-*-netbsd*<a class="copiable-link" href="#powerpc-*-netbsd*"> ¶</a></span></h3> 916 1.1 mrg <p>PowerPC system in big endian mode running NetBSD. 917 1.10 mrg </p> 918 1.10 mrg <hr /> 919 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="powerpc-x-eabisim"></a><h3 class="heading" id="powerpc-*-eabisim"><span>powerpc-*-eabisim<a class="copiable-link" href="#powerpc-*-eabisim"> ¶</a></span></h3> 920 1.1 mrg <p>Embedded PowerPC system in big endian mode for use in running under the 921 1.1 mrg PSIM simulator. 922 1.10 mrg </p> 923 1.10 mrg <hr /> 924 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="powerpc-x-eabi"></a><h3 class="heading" id="powerpc-*-eabi"><span>powerpc-*-eabi<a class="copiable-link" href="#powerpc-*-eabi"> ¶</a></span></h3> 925 1.1 mrg <p>Embedded PowerPC system in big endian mode. 926 1.10 mrg </p> 927 1.10 mrg <hr /> 928 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="powerpcle-x-elf"></a><h3 class="heading" id="powerpcle-*-elf"><span>powerpcle-*-elf<a class="copiable-link" href="#powerpcle-*-elf"> ¶</a></span></h3> 929 1.1 mrg <p>PowerPC system in little endian mode, running System V.4. 930 1.10 mrg </p> 931 1.10 mrg <hr /> 932 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="powerpcle-x-eabisim"></a><h3 class="heading" id="powerpcle-*-eabisim"><span>powerpcle-*-eabisim<a class="copiable-link" href="#powerpcle-*-eabisim"> ¶</a></span></h3> 933 1.1 mrg <p>Embedded PowerPC system in little endian mode for use in running under 934 1.1 mrg the PSIM simulator. 935 1.10 mrg </p> 936 1.10 mrg <hr /> 937 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="powerpcle-x-eabi"></a><h3 class="heading" id="powerpcle-*-eabi"><span>powerpcle-*-eabi<a class="copiable-link" href="#powerpcle-*-eabi"> ¶</a></span></h3> 938 1.1 mrg <p>Embedded PowerPC system in little endian mode. 939 1.10 mrg </p> 940 1.10 mrg <hr /> 941 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="rl78-x-elf"></a><h3 class="heading" id="rl78-*-elf"><span>rl78-*-elf<a class="copiable-link" href="#rl78-*-elf"> ¶</a></span></h3> 942 1.10 mrg <p>The Renesas RL78 processor. 943 1.10 mrg This configuration is intended for embedded systems. 944 1.10 mrg </p> 945 1.10 mrg <hr /> 946 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="riscv32-x-elf"></a><h3 class="heading" id="riscv32-*-elf"><span>riscv32-*-elf<a class="copiable-link" href="#riscv32-*-elf"> ¶</a></span></h3> 947 1.10 mrg <p>The RISC-V RV32 instruction set. 948 1.3 skrll This configuration is intended for embedded systems. 949 1.12 mrg This (and all other RISC-V) targets require the binutils 2.30 release. 950 1.10 mrg </p> 951 1.10 mrg <hr /> 952 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="riscv32-x-linux"></a><h3 class="heading" id="riscv32-*-linux"><span>riscv32-*-linux<a class="copiable-link" href="#riscv32-*-linux"> ¶</a></span></h3> 953 1.10 mrg <p>The RISC-V RV32 instruction set running GNU/Linux. 954 1.12 mrg This (and all other RISC-V) targets require the binutils 2.30 release. 955 1.10 mrg </p> 956 1.10 mrg <hr /> 957 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="riscv64-x-elf"></a><h3 class="heading" id="riscv64-*-elf"><span>riscv64-*-elf<a class="copiable-link" href="#riscv64-*-elf"> ¶</a></span></h3> 958 1.10 mrg <p>The RISC-V RV64 instruction set. 959 1.10 mrg This configuration is intended for embedded systems. 960 1.12 mrg This (and all other RISC-V) targets require the binutils 2.30 release. 961 1.10 mrg </p> 962 1.10 mrg <hr /> 963 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="riscv64-x-linux"></a><h3 class="heading" id="riscv64-*-linux"><span>riscv64-*-linux<a class="copiable-link" href="#riscv64-*-linux"> ¶</a></span></h3> 964 1.10 mrg <p>The RISC-V RV64 instruction set running GNU/Linux. 965 1.12 mrg This (and all other RISC-V) targets require the binutils 2.30 release. 966 1.10 mrg </p> 967 1.10 mrg <hr /> 968 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="rx-x-elf"></a><h3 class="heading" id="rx-*-elf"><span>rx-*-elf<a class="copiable-link" href="#rx-*-elf"> ¶</a></span></h3> 969 1.9 mrg <p>The Renesas RX processor. 970 1.10 mrg </p> 971 1.10 mrg <hr /> 972 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="s390-x-linux"></a><h3 class="heading" id="s390-*-linux*"><span>s390-*-linux*<a class="copiable-link" href="#s390-*-linux*"> ¶</a></span></h3> 973 1.1 mrg <p>S/390 system running GNU/Linux for S/390. 974 1.10 mrg </p> 975 1.10 mrg <hr /> 976 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="s390x-x-linux"></a><h3 class="heading" id="s390x-*-linux*"><span>s390x-*-linux*<a class="copiable-link" href="#s390x-*-linux*"> ¶</a></span></h3> 977 1.1 mrg <p>zSeries system (64-bit) running GNU/Linux for zSeries. 978 1.10 mrg </p> 979 1.10 mrg <hr /> 980 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="s390x-ibm-tpf"></a><h3 class="heading" id="s390x-ibm-tpf*"><span>s390x-ibm-tpf*<a class="copiable-link" href="#s390x-ibm-tpf*"> ¶</a></span></h3> 981 1.1 mrg <p>zSeries system (64-bit) running TPF. This platform is 982 1.1 mrg supported as cross-compilation target only. 983 1.10 mrg </p> 984 1.10 mrg <hr /> 985 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="x-x-solaris2"></a><h3 class="heading" id="g_t*-*-solaris2*"><span>*-*-solaris2*<a class="copiable-link" href="#g_t*-*-solaris2*"> ¶</a></span></h3> 986 1.18 mrg <p>Support for Solaris 11.3 and earlier has been obsoleted in GCC 13, but 987 1.19 mrg can still be enabled by configuring with <samp class="option">--enable-obsolete</samp>. 988 1.18 mrg Support for Solaris 10 has been removed in GCC 10. Support for Solaris 989 1.12 mrg 9 has been removed in GCC 5. Support for Solaris 8 has been removed in 990 1.12 mrg GCC 4.8. Support for Solaris 7 has been removed in GCC 4.6. 991 1.12 mrg </p> 992 1.12 mrg <p>Solaris 11.3 provides GCC 4.5.2, 4.7.3, and 4.8.2 as 993 1.19 mrg <code class="command">/usr/gcc/4.5/bin/gcc</code> or similar. Solaris 11.4 994 1.18 mrg provides one or more of GCC 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, and 12. 995 1.18 mrg </p> 996 1.19 mrg <p>You need to install the <code class="code">system/header</code>, <code class="code">system/linker</code>, and 997 1.19 mrg <code class="code">developer/assembler</code> packages. 998 1.10 mrg </p> 999 1.19 mrg <p>Trying to use the compatibility tools in <samp class="file">/usr/ucb</samp>, from the 1000 1.19 mrg <code class="code">compatibility/ucb</code> package, to install GCC has been observed to 1001 1.19 mrg cause trouble. The fix is to remove <samp class="file">/usr/ucb</samp> from your 1002 1.19 mrg <code class="env">PATH</code>. 1003 1.18 mrg </p> 1004 1.18 mrg <p>The build process works more smoothly with the legacy Solaris tools so, 1005 1.19 mrg if you have <samp class="file">/usr/xpg4/bin</samp> in your <code class="env">PATH</code>, we recommend that 1006 1.19 mrg you place <samp class="file">/usr/bin</samp> before <samp class="file">/usr/xpg4/bin</samp> for the duration 1007 1.18 mrg of the build. 1008 1.10 mrg </p> 1009 1.10 mrg <p>We recommend the use of the Solaris assembler or the GNU assembler, in 1010 1.18 mrg conjunction with the Solaris linker. 1011 1.18 mrg </p> 1012 1.19 mrg <p>The GNU <code class="command">as</code> versions included in Solaris 11.3, from GNU 1013 1.19 mrg binutils 2.23.1 or newer (in <samp class="file">/usr/bin/gas</samp> and 1014 1.19 mrg <samp class="file">/usr/gnu/bin/as</samp>), are known to work. The version from GNU 1015 1.18 mrg binutils 2.40 is known to work as well. Recent versions of the Solaris 1016 1.19 mrg assembler in <samp class="file">/usr/bin/as</samp> work almost as well, though. To use GNU 1017 1.19 mrg <code class="command">as</code>, configure with the options <samp class="option">--with-gnu-as 1018 1.18 mrg --with-as=/usr/gnu/bin/as</samp>. 1019 1.18 mrg </p> 1020 1.18 mrg <p>For linking, the Solaris linker is preferred. If you want to use the 1021 1.18 mrg GNU linker instead, the version in Solaris 11.3, from GNU binutils 1022 1.19 mrg 2.23.1 or newer (in <samp class="file">/usr/gnu/bin/ld</samp> and <samp class="file">/usr/bin/gld</samp>), 1023 1.18 mrg works, as does the version from GNU binutils 2.40. However, it 1024 1.18 mrg generally lacks platform specific features, so better stay with Solaris 1025 1.19 mrg <code class="command">ld</code>. To use the LTO linker plugin 1026 1.19 mrg (<samp class="option">-fuse-linker-plugin</samp>) with GNU <code class="command">ld</code>, GNU binutils 1027 1.19 mrg <em class="emph">must</em> be configured with <samp class="option">--enable-largefile</samp>. To use 1028 1.19 mrg Solaris <code class="command">ld</code>, we recommend to configure with 1029 1.19 mrg <samp class="option">--without-gnu-ld --with-ld=/usr/bin/ld</samp> to guarantee the 1030 1.19 mrg right linker is found irrespective of the user’s <code class="env">PATH</code>. 1031 1.18 mrg </p> 1032 1.18 mrg <p>Note that your mileage may vary if you use a combination of the GNU 1033 1.19 mrg tools and the Solaris tools: while the combination GNU <code class="command">as</code> and 1034 1.19 mrg Solaris <code class="command">ld</code> works well, the reverse combination Solaris 1035 1.19 mrg <code class="command">as</code> with GNU <code class="command">ld</code> may fail to build or cause memory 1036 1.18 mrg corruption at runtime in some cases for C++ programs. 1037 1.18 mrg </p> 1038 1.19 mrg <p>To enable symbol versioning in ‘<samp class="samp">libstdc++</samp>’ and other runtime 1039 1.18 mrg libraries with the Solaris linker, you need to have any version of GNU 1040 1.19 mrg <code class="command">c++filt</code>, which is part of GNU binutils. Symbol versioning 1041 1.18 mrg will be disabled if no appropriate version is found. Solaris 1042 1.19 mrg <code class="command">c++filt</code> from the Solaris Studio compilers does <em class="emph">not</em> 1043 1.18 mrg work. 1044 1.18 mrg </p> 1045 1.18 mrg <p>In order to build the GNU Ada compiler, GNAT, a working GNAT is needed. 1046 1.18 mrg Since Solaris 11.4 SRU 39, GNAT 11 or 12 is bundled in the 1047 1.19 mrg <code class="code">developer/gcc/gcc-gnat</code> package. 1048 1.10 mrg </p> 1049 1.19 mrg <p>In order to build the GNU D compiler, GDC, a working ‘<samp class="samp">libphobos</samp>’ is 1050 1.15 mrg needed. That library wasn’t built by default in GCC 9–11 on SPARC, or 1051 1.15 mrg on x86 when the Solaris assembler is used, but can be enabled by 1052 1.19 mrg configuring with <samp class="option">--enable-libphobos</samp>. Also, GDC 9.4.0 is 1053 1.15 mrg required on x86, while GDC 9.3.0 is known to work on SPARC. 1054 1.15 mrg </p> 1055 1.12 mrg <p>The versions of the GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP), the MPFR 1056 1.12 mrg library and the MPC library bundled with Solaris 11.3 and later are 1057 1.12 mrg usually recent enough to match GCC’s requirements. There are two 1058 1.12 mrg caveats: 1059 1.10 mrg </p> 1060 1.19 mrg <ul class="itemize mark-bullet"> 1061 1.19 mrg <li>While the version of the GMP library in Solaris 11.3 works with GCC, you 1062 1.19 mrg need to configure with <samp class="option">--with-gmp-include=/usr/include/gmp</samp>. 1063 1.12 mrg 1064 1.19 mrg </li><li>The version of the MPFR libary included in Solaris 11.3 is too old; you 1065 1.12 mrg need to provide a more recent one. 1066 1.15 mrg 1067 1.12 mrg </li></ul> 1068 1.12 mrg 1069 1.10 mrg <hr /> 1070 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="sparc-x-x"></a><h3 class="heading" id="sparc*-*-*"><span>sparc*-*-*<a class="copiable-link" href="#sparc*-*-*"> ¶</a></span></h3> 1071 1.3 skrll <p>This section contains general configuration information for all 1072 1.3 skrll SPARC-based platforms. In addition to reading this section, please 1073 1.3 skrll read all other sections that match your target. 1074 1.10 mrg </p> 1075 1.10 mrg <p>Newer versions of the GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP), the MPFR 1076 1.3 skrll library and the MPC library are known to be miscompiled by earlier 1077 1.3 skrll versions of GCC on these platforms. We therefore recommend the use 1078 1.3 skrll of the exact versions of these libraries listed as minimal versions 1079 1.19 mrg in <a class="uref" href="prerequisites.html">the prerequisites</a>. 1080 1.10 mrg </p> 1081 1.10 mrg <hr /> 1082 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="sparc-sun-solaris2"></a><h3 class="heading" id="sparc-sun-solaris2*"><span>sparc-sun-solaris2*<a class="copiable-link" href="#sparc-sun-solaris2*"> ¶</a></span></h3> 1083 1.1 mrg <p>When GCC is configured to use GNU binutils 2.14 or later, the binaries 1084 1.12 mrg produced are smaller than the ones produced using Solaris native tools; 1085 1.1 mrg this difference is quite significant for binaries containing debugging 1086 1.1 mrg information. 1087 1.10 mrg </p> 1088 1.10 mrg <p>Starting with Solaris 7, the operating system is capable of executing 1089 1.1 mrg 64-bit SPARC V9 binaries. GCC 3.1 and later properly supports 1090 1.19 mrg this; the <samp class="option">-m64</samp> option enables 64-bit code generation. 1091 1.10 mrg </p> 1092 1.10 mrg <p>When configuring the GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP), the MPFR 1093 1.18 mrg library or the MPC library on Solaris, the canonical target triplet must 1094 1.19 mrg be specified as the <code class="command">build</code> parameter on the <code class="command">configure</code> 1095 1.18 mrg line. This target triplet can be obtained by invoking 1096 1.19 mrg <code class="command">./config.guess</code> in the toplevel source directory of GCC (and 1097 1.18 mrg not that of GMP or MPFR or MPC). For example: 1098 1.10 mrg </p> 1099 1.19 mrg <div class="example smallexample"> 1100 1.19 mrg <pre class="example-preformatted">% <var class="var">srcdir</var>/configure --build=sparc-sun-solaris2.11 --prefix=<var class="var">dirname</var> 1101 1.10 mrg </pre></div> 1102 1.10 mrg 1103 1.10 mrg <hr /> 1104 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="sparc-x-linux"></a><h3 class="heading" id="sparc-*-linux*"><span>sparc-*-linux*<a class="copiable-link" href="#sparc-*-linux*"> ¶</a></span></h3> 1105 1.10 mrg 1106 1.10 mrg <hr /> 1107 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="sparc64-x-solaris2"></a><h3 class="heading" id="sparc64-*-solaris2*"><span>sparc64-*-solaris2*<a class="copiable-link" href="#sparc64-*-solaris2*"> ¶</a></span></h3> 1108 1.19 mrg <p>This is a synonym for ‘<samp class="samp">sparcv9-*-solaris2*</samp>’. 1109 1.18 mrg </p> 1110 1.18 mrg <hr /> 1111 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="sparcv9-x-solaris2"></a><h3 class="heading" id="sparcv9-*-solaris2*"><span>sparcv9-*-solaris2*<a class="copiable-link" href="#sparcv9-*-solaris2*"> ¶</a></span></h3> 1112 1.18 mrg 1113 1.12 mrg <p>When configuring a 64-bit-default GCC on Solaris/SPARC, you must use a 1114 1.12 mrg build compiler that generates 64-bit code, either by default or by 1115 1.19 mrg specifying ‘<samp class="samp">CC='gcc -m64' CXX='g++ -m64' GDC='gdc -m64'</samp>’ to <code class="command">configure</code>. 1116 1.19 mrg Additionally, you <em class="emph">must</em> pass <samp class="option">--build=sparcv9-sun-solaris2.11</samp> 1117 1.19 mrg or <samp class="option">--build=sparc64-sun-solaris2.11</samp> because <samp class="file">config.guess</samp> 1118 1.12 mrg misdetects this situation, which can cause build failures. 1119 1.12 mrg </p> 1120 1.3 skrll <p>When configuring the GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP), the MPFR 1121 1.3 skrll library or the MPC library, the canonical target triplet must be specified 1122 1.19 mrg as the <code class="command">build</code> parameter on the <code class="command">configure</code> line. For example: 1123 1.10 mrg </p> 1124 1.19 mrg <div class="example smallexample"> 1125 1.19 mrg <pre class="example-preformatted">% <var class="var">srcdir</var>/configure --build=sparcv9-sun-solaris2.11 --prefix=<var class="var">dirname</var> 1126 1.10 mrg </pre></div> 1127 1.10 mrg 1128 1.10 mrg <hr /> 1129 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="c6x-x-x"></a><h3 class="heading" id="c6x-*-*"><span>c6x-*-*<a class="copiable-link" href="#c6x-*-*"> ¶</a></span></h3> 1130 1.3 skrll <p>The C6X family of processors. This port requires binutils-2.22 or newer. 1131 1.10 mrg </p> 1132 1.10 mrg <hr /> 1133 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="visium-x-elf"></a><h3 class="heading" id="visium-*-elf"><span>visium-*-elf<a class="copiable-link" href="#visium-*-elf"> ¶</a></span></h3> 1134 1.10 mrg <p>CDS VISIUMcore processor. 1135 1.5 mrg This configuration is intended for embedded systems. 1136 1.10 mrg </p> 1137 1.10 mrg <hr /> 1138 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="x-x-vxworks"></a><h3 class="heading" id="g_t*-*-vxworks*"><span>*-*-vxworks*<a class="copiable-link" href="#g_t*-*-vxworks*"> ¶</a></span></h3> 1139 1.19 mrg <p>Support for VxWorks is in flux. At present GCC supports <em class="emph">only</em> the 1140 1.10 mrg very recent VxWorks 5.5 (aka Tornado 2.2) release, and only on PowerPC. 1141 1.10 mrg We welcome patches for other architectures supported by VxWorks 5.5. 1142 1.1 mrg Support for VxWorks AE would also be welcome; we believe this is merely 1143 1.1 mrg a matter of writing an appropriate “configlette” (see below). We are 1144 1.1 mrg not interested in supporting older, a.out or COFF-based, versions of 1145 1.1 mrg VxWorks in GCC 3. 1146 1.10 mrg </p> 1147 1.10 mrg <p>VxWorks comes with an older version of GCC installed in 1148 1.19 mrg <samp class="file"><var class="var">$WIND_BASE</var>/host</samp>; we recommend you do not overwrite it. 1149 1.19 mrg Choose an installation <var class="var">prefix</var> entirely outside <var class="var">$WIND_BASE</var>. 1150 1.19 mrg Before running <code class="command">configure</code>, create the directories <samp class="file"><var class="var">prefix</var></samp> 1151 1.19 mrg and <samp class="file"><var class="var">prefix</var>/bin</samp>. Link or copy the appropriate assembler, 1152 1.19 mrg linker, etc. into <samp class="file"><var class="var">prefix</var>/bin</samp>, and set your <var class="var">PATH</var> to 1153 1.19 mrg include that directory while running both <code class="command">configure</code> and 1154 1.19 mrg <code class="command">make</code>. 1155 1.10 mrg </p> 1156 1.19 mrg <p>You must give <code class="command">configure</code> the 1157 1.19 mrg <samp class="option">--with-headers=<var class="var">$WIND_BASE</var>/target/h</samp> switch so that it can 1158 1.1 mrg find the VxWorks system headers. Since VxWorks is a cross compilation 1159 1.19 mrg target only, you must also specify <samp class="option">--target=<var class="var">target</var></samp>. 1160 1.19 mrg <code class="command">configure</code> will attempt to create the directory 1161 1.19 mrg <samp class="file"><var class="var">prefix</var>/<var class="var">target</var>/sys-include</samp> and copy files into it; 1162 1.19 mrg make sure the user running <code class="command">configure</code> has sufficient privilege 1163 1.1 mrg to do so. 1164 1.10 mrg </p> 1165 1.10 mrg <p>GCC’s exception handling runtime requires a special “configlette” 1166 1.19 mrg module, <samp class="file">contrib/gthr_supp_vxw_5x.c</samp>. Follow the instructions in 1167 1.1 mrg that file to add the module to your kernel build. (Future versions of 1168 1.1 mrg VxWorks will incorporate this module.) 1169 1.10 mrg </p> 1170 1.10 mrg <hr /> 1171 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="x86-64-x-x"></a><h3 class="heading" id="x86_005f64-*-*_002c-amd64-*-*"><span>x86_64-*-*, amd64-*-*<a class="copiable-link" href="#x86_005f64-*-*_002c-amd64-*-*"> ¶</a></span></h3> 1172 1.1 mrg <p>GCC supports the x86-64 architecture implemented by the AMD64 processor 1173 1.10 mrg (amd64-*-* is an alias for x86_64-*-*) on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD. 1174 1.1 mrg On GNU/Linux the default is a bi-arch compiler which is able to generate 1175 1.19 mrg both 64-bit x86-64 and 32-bit x86 code (via the <samp class="option">-m32</samp> switch). 1176 1.10 mrg </p> 1177 1.10 mrg <hr /> 1178 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="x86-64-x-solaris2"></a><h3 class="heading" id="x86_005f64-*-solaris2*"><span>x86_64-*-solaris2*<a class="copiable-link" href="#x86_005f64-*-solaris2*"> ¶</a></span></h3> 1179 1.3 skrll <p>GCC also supports the x86-64 architecture implemented by the AMD64 1180 1.19 mrg processor (‘<samp class="samp">amd64-*-*</samp>’ is an alias for ‘<samp class="samp">x86_64-*-*</samp>’). 1181 1.18 mrg Unlike other systems, without special options a 1182 1.3 skrll bi-arch compiler is built which generates 32-bit code by default, but 1183 1.19 mrg can generate 64-bit x86-64 code with the <samp class="option">-m64</samp> switch. Since 1184 1.7 mrg GCC 4.7, there is also a configuration that defaults to 64-bit code, but 1185 1.19 mrg can generate 32-bit code with <samp class="option">-m32</samp>. To configure and build 1186 1.19 mrg this way, you have to provide all support libraries like <samp class="file">libgmp</samp> 1187 1.19 mrg as 64-bit code, configure with <samp class="option">--target=x86_64-pc-solaris2.11</samp> 1188 1.19 mrg and ‘<samp class="samp">CC=gcc -m64</samp>’. 1189 1.10 mrg </p> 1190 1.10 mrg <hr /> 1191 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="xtensa-x-elf"></a><h3 class="heading" id="xtensa*-*-elf"><span>xtensa*-*-elf<a class="copiable-link" href="#xtensa*-*-elf"> ¶</a></span></h3> 1192 1.1 mrg <p>This target is intended for embedded Xtensa systems using the 1193 1.19 mrg ‘<samp class="samp">newlib</samp>’ C library. It uses ELF but does not support shared 1194 1.1 mrg objects. Designed-defined instructions specified via the 1195 1.1 mrg Tensilica Instruction Extension (TIE) language are only supported 1196 1.1 mrg through inline assembly. 1197 1.10 mrg </p> 1198 1.10 mrg <p>The Xtensa configuration information must be specified prior to 1199 1.19 mrg building GCC. The <samp class="file">include/xtensa-config.h</samp> header 1200 1.1 mrg file contains the configuration information. If you created your 1201 1.1 mrg own Xtensa configuration with the Xtensa Processor Generator, the 1202 1.1 mrg downloaded files include a customized copy of this header file, 1203 1.1 mrg which you can use to replace the default header file. 1204 1.10 mrg </p> 1205 1.10 mrg <hr /> 1206 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="xtensa-x-linux"></a><h3 class="heading" id="xtensa*-*-linux*"><span>xtensa*-*-linux*<a class="copiable-link" href="#xtensa*-*-linux*"> ¶</a></span></h3> 1207 1.1 mrg <p>This target is for Xtensa systems running GNU/Linux. It supports ELF 1208 1.1 mrg shared objects and the GNU C library (glibc). It also generates 1209 1.1 mrg position-independent code (PIC) regardless of whether the 1210 1.19 mrg <samp class="option">-fpic</samp> or <samp class="option">-fPIC</samp> options are used. In other 1211 1.1 mrg respects, this target is the same as the 1212 1.19 mrg <a class="uref" href="#xtensa*-*-elf">‘<samp class="samp">xtensa*-*-elf</samp>’</a> target. 1213 1.10 mrg </p> 1214 1.10 mrg <hr /> 1215 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="windows"></a><h3 class="heading" id="Microsoft-Windows"><span>Microsoft Windows<a class="copiable-link" href="#Microsoft-Windows"> ¶</a></span></h3> 1216 1.1 mrg 1217 1.19 mrg <h4 class="subheading" id="Intel-16-bit-versions"><span>Intel 16-bit versions<a class="copiable-link" href="#Intel-16-bit-versions"> ¶</a></span></h4> 1218 1.1 mrg <p>The 16-bit versions of Microsoft Windows, such as Windows 3.1, are not 1219 1.1 mrg supported. 1220 1.10 mrg </p> 1221 1.10 mrg <p>However, the 32-bit port has limited support for Microsoft 1222 1.1 mrg Windows 3.11 in the Win32s environment, as a target only. See below. 1223 1.10 mrg </p> 1224 1.19 mrg <h4 class="subheading" id="Intel-32-bit-versions"><span>Intel 32-bit versions<a class="copiable-link" href="#Intel-32-bit-versions"> ¶</a></span></h4> 1225 1.1 mrg <p>The 32-bit versions of Windows, including Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows 1226 1.1 mrg XP, and Windows Vista, are supported by several different target 1227 1.1 mrg platforms. These targets differ in which Windows subsystem they target 1228 1.1 mrg and which C libraries are used. 1229 1.10 mrg </p> 1230 1.19 mrg <ul class="itemize mark-bullet"> 1231 1.19 mrg <li>Cygwin <a class="uref" href="#x-x-cygwin">*-*-cygwin</a>: Cygwin provides a user-space 1232 1.10 mrg Linux API emulation layer in the Win32 subsystem. 1233 1.19 mrg </li><li>MinGW <a class="uref" href="#x-x-mingw32">*-*-mingw32</a>: MinGW is a native GCC port for 1234 1.10 mrg the Win32 subsystem that provides a subset of POSIX. 1235 1.19 mrg </li><li>MKS i386-pc-mks: NuTCracker from MKS. See 1236 1.19 mrg <a class="uref" href="https://www.mkssoftware.com">https://www.mkssoftware.com</a> for more information. 1237 1.10 mrg </li></ul> 1238 1.1 mrg 1239 1.19 mrg <h4 class="subheading" id="Intel-64-bit-versions"><span>Intel 64-bit versions<a class="copiable-link" href="#Intel-64-bit-versions"> ¶</a></span></h4> 1240 1.1 mrg <p>GCC contains support for x86-64 using the mingw-w64 1241 1.19 mrg runtime library, available from <a class="uref" href="https://www.mingw-w64.org/downloads/">https://www.mingw-w64.org/downloads/</a>. 1242 1.1 mrg This library should be used with the target triple x86_64-pc-mingw32. 1243 1.10 mrg </p> 1244 1.19 mrg <h4 class="subheading" id="Windows-CE"><span>Windows CE<a class="copiable-link" href="#Windows-CE"> ¶</a></span></h4> 1245 1.3 skrll <p>Windows CE is supported as a target only on Hitachi 1246 1.1 mrg SuperH (sh-wince-pe), and MIPS (mips-wince-pe). 1247 1.10 mrg </p> 1248 1.19 mrg <h4 class="subheading" id="Other-Windows-Platforms"><span>Other Windows Platforms<a class="copiable-link" href="#Other-Windows-Platforms"> ¶</a></span></h4> 1249 1.1 mrg <p>GCC no longer supports Windows NT on the Alpha or PowerPC. 1250 1.10 mrg </p> 1251 1.10 mrg <p>GCC no longer supports the Windows POSIX subsystem. However, it does 1252 1.1 mrg support the Interix subsystem. See above. 1253 1.10 mrg </p> 1254 1.10 mrg <p>Old target names including *-*-winnt and *-*-windowsnt are no longer used. 1255 1.10 mrg </p> 1256 1.10 mrg <p>UWIN support has been removed due to a lack of maintenance. 1257 1.10 mrg </p> 1258 1.10 mrg <hr /> 1259 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="x-x-cygwin"></a><h3 class="heading" id="g_t*-*-cygwin"><span>*-*-cygwin<a class="copiable-link" href="#g_t*-*-cygwin"> ¶</a></span></h3> 1260 1.1 mrg <p>Ports of GCC are included with the 1261 1.19 mrg <a class="uref" href="http://www.cygwin.com/">Cygwin environment</a>. 1262 1.10 mrg </p> 1263 1.10 mrg <p>GCC will build under Cygwin without modification; it does not build 1264 1.10 mrg with Microsoft’s C++ compiler and there are no plans to make it do so. 1265 1.10 mrg </p> 1266 1.10 mrg <p>The Cygwin native compiler can be configured to target any 32-bit x86 1267 1.1 mrg cpu architecture desired; the default is i686-pc-cygwin. It should be 1268 1.1 mrg used with as up-to-date a version of binutils as possible; use either 1269 1.1 mrg the latest official GNU binutils release in the Cygwin distribution, 1270 1.1 mrg or version 2.20 or above if building your own. 1271 1.10 mrg </p> 1272 1.10 mrg <hr /> 1273 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="x-x-mingw32"></a><h3 class="heading" id="g_t*-*-mingw32"><span>*-*-mingw32<a class="copiable-link" href="#g_t*-*-mingw32"> ¶</a></span></h3> 1274 1.10 mrg <p>GCC will build with and support only MinGW runtime 3.12 and later. 1275 1.1 mrg Earlier versions of headers are incompatible with the new default semantics 1276 1.19 mrg of <code class="code">extern inline</code> in <code class="code">-std=c99</code> and <code class="code">-std=gnu99</code> modes. 1277 1.10 mrg </p> 1278 1.15 mrg <p>To support emitting DWARF debugging info you need to use GNU binutils 1279 1.19 mrg version 2.16 or above containing support for the <code class="code">.secrel32</code> 1280 1.15 mrg assembler pseudo-op. 1281 1.15 mrg </p> 1282 1.10 mrg <hr /> 1283 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="older"></a><h3 class="heading" id="Older-systems"><span>Older systems<a class="copiable-link" href="#Older-systems"> ¶</a></span></h3> 1284 1.1 mrg <p>GCC contains support files for many older (1980s and early 1285 1.1 mrg 1990s) Unix variants. For the most part, support for these systems 1286 1.1 mrg has not been deliberately removed, but it has not been maintained for 1287 1.1 mrg several years and may suffer from bitrot. 1288 1.10 mrg </p> 1289 1.10 mrg <p>Starting with GCC 3.1, each release has a list of “obsoleted” systems. 1290 1.1 mrg Support for these systems is still present in that release, but 1291 1.19 mrg <code class="command">configure</code> will fail unless the <samp class="option">--enable-obsolete</samp> 1292 1.1 mrg option is given. Unless a maintainer steps forward, support for these 1293 1.1 mrg systems will be removed from the next release of GCC. 1294 1.10 mrg </p> 1295 1.10 mrg <p>Support for old systems as hosts for GCC can cause problems if the 1296 1.1 mrg workarounds for compiler, library and operating system bugs affect the 1297 1.1 mrg cleanliness or maintainability of the rest of GCC. In some cases, to 1298 1.1 mrg bring GCC up on such a system, if still possible with current GCC, may 1299 1.1 mrg require first installing an old version of GCC which did work on that 1300 1.1 mrg system, and using it to compile a more recent GCC, to avoid bugs in the 1301 1.1 mrg vendor compiler. Old releases of GCC 1 and GCC 2 are available in the 1302 1.19 mrg <samp class="file">old-releases</samp> directory on the <a class="uref" href="../mirrors.html">GCC mirror 1303 1.10 mrg sites</a>. Header bugs may generally be avoided using 1304 1.19 mrg <code class="command">fixincludes</code>, but bugs or deficiencies in libraries and the 1305 1.1 mrg operating system may still cause problems. 1306 1.10 mrg </p> 1307 1.10 mrg <p>Support for older systems as targets for cross-compilation is less 1308 1.1 mrg problematic than support for them as hosts for GCC; if an enthusiast 1309 1.1 mrg wishes to make such a target work again (including resurrecting any of 1310 1.1 mrg the targets that never worked with GCC 2, starting from the last 1311 1.1 mrg version before they were removed), patches 1312 1.19 mrg <a class="uref" href="../contribute.html">following the usual requirements</a> would be 1313 1.1 mrg likely to be accepted, since they should not affect the support for more 1314 1.1 mrg modern targets. 1315 1.10 mrg </p> 1316 1.10 mrg <p>For some systems, old versions of GNU binutils may also be useful, 1317 1.19 mrg and are available from <samp class="file">pub/binutils/old-releases</samp> on 1318 1.19 mrg <a class="uref" href="https://sourceware.org/mirrors.html">sourceware.org mirror sites</a>. 1319 1.10 mrg </p> 1320 1.10 mrg <p>Some of the information on specific systems above relates to 1321 1.1 mrg such older systems, but much of the information 1322 1.1 mrg about GCC on such systems (which may no longer be applicable to 1323 1.1 mrg current GCC) is to be found in the GCC texinfo manual. 1324 1.10 mrg </p> 1325 1.10 mrg <hr /> 1326 1.19 mrg <a class="anchor" id="elf"></a><h3 class="heading" id="all-ELF-targets-_0028SVR4_002c-Solaris_002c-etc_002e_0029"><span>all ELF targets (SVR4, Solaris, etc.)<a class="copiable-link" href="#all-ELF-targets-_0028SVR4_002c-Solaris_002c-etc_002e_0029"> ¶</a></span></h3> 1327 1.1 mrg <p>C++ support is significantly better on ELF targets if you use the 1328 1.19 mrg <a class="uref" href="./configure.html#with-gnu-ld">GNU linker</a>; duplicate copies of 1329 1.1 mrg inlines, vtables and template instantiations will be discarded 1330 1.1 mrg automatically. 1331 1.10 mrg </p> 1332 1.1 mrg 1333 1.10 mrg <hr /> 1334 1.10 mrg <p> 1335 1.19 mrg <p><a class="uref" href="./index.html">Return to the GCC Installation page</a> 1336 1.10 mrg </p> 1337 1.10 mrg 1338 1.10 mrg 1339 1.10 mrg 1340 1.10 mrg 1341 1.1 mrg 1342 1.10 mrg </body> 1343 1.10 mrg </html> 1344