raspberry-pi-cross-compilers

Full Changelog: https://github.com/abhiTronix/raspberry-pi-cross-compilers/compare/v3.1.1-alpha2...v3.1.1-alpha3

Full Changelog: https://github.com/abhiTronix/raspberry-pi-cross-compilers/compare/v3.1.1-alpha...v3.1.1-alpha2

Full Changelog: https://github.com/abhiTronix/raspberry-pi-cross-compilers/compare/v3.1.0...v3.1.1-alpha

What's Changed

• Update toolchain support for newer GCC versions and Support for Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm 🪱 by @abhiTronix in https://github.com/abhiTronix/raspberry-pi-cross-compilers/pull/119

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Full Changelog: https://github.com/abhiTronix/raspberry-pi-cross-compilers/compare/v3.0.9...v3.1.0

Bug-Fix

🐛 Critical Bug Fixed #90

Full Changelog: https://github.com/abhiTronix/raspberry-pi-cross-compilers/compare/v3.0.8...master

Critical bug-fix for Bullseye Toolchains

• Added workflow to directly download patch Glibc 2.31 source from git
• Fixed critical GCC 10.2.0 PATH_MAX undefined bug
• Fixed environment variables typos
• Replace curl with wget
• Added missing docs files.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/abhiTronix/raspberry-pi-cross-compilers/compare/v3.0.7...v3.0.8

Added support for Raspbian Bullseye OS(Debian 11) ARM/ARM64 Raspberry Pi Toolchains:

• Added GCC version 10.2.0 as Bullseye toolchains base.
• Added Binutils version 2.35.2 as Bullseye toolchains base.
• Added GLIBC version 2.31 as Bullseye toolchains base.
• Updated User and CI bash scripts.
• Updated Binary and Docs Sourceforge deployer.
• Updated complete Docs and links.
• Remove obsolete GCC versions from docs.
• Updated GitHub action workflows.
• Added workflow to update Bullseye Toolchains docs.
• Added patch to disable GCC 10.2.0 builds for non-Bullseye OSes.

Major bugs fixed 🐛

• Fixed GCC_VERSION variable not available for 32-bit binaries in SF_Deployer bash script.
• Added GCC_VERSION variable to 32-bit cross compiler bash scripts.
• Removed old comparison behavior in 64-bit cross compiler bash scripts.
• Added GCC_VERSION to CI workflow matrix.
• Removed redundant code and CI workflow runs.

Maintenance: 🔨

• Modified run logic for CIBB_32b and CIBB_64b scripts workflows.
• Enabled exit with error if compressed file not present after toolchain compilation.
• Fixed GCC version bug in CIBB_64b script.

Bugs fixes 🐛

• Replaced linux kernel tar release download and extraction with git clone.
• Updated Kernel config to kernel8 in 64-bit toolchains.
• Restricted release type to published only.
• Added git dependency in CI.

Upgrades ⚡️

• GCC v10: v10.2.0 ➡ v10.3.0
• GCC v9: v9.3.0 ➡ v9.4.0
• GDB: v9.2 ➡ v10.2
• Binutils: v2.31 ➡ v2.31.1
• Scripts: New SSymlinker bash script to will safely create symlinks on Linux machines.
• Docs: Added SSymlinker bash script usage cases.

Bug-Fixes 🐛

• Fixed major bugs in SSymlinker bash script.
• Added sudo privilege to ln commands in SSymlinker.
• Changed line endings to UNIX.

Major 64-bit env bug fixes and updates:

• Fixed incorrect binary download links in CI bash 64-envs scripts.
• Updated CI scripts to only allow >= 8.3.0 GCC versions.
• Replaced missing RPI_TYPE variable with FOLDER_VERSION.
• Removed 8.3.0 workflow from native builds.
• Updated Docs links and fixed typos.
• Added Github Sponser.

Major Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Patched build-script sysroot:
  • Extended build-script sysroot patch to RTBuilder_32b and RTBuilder_64b.
  • Replaced incorrect RPI_TYPE with FOLDER_VERSION.
  • Replaced OS_TYPE with RPIOS_TYPE in `RTBuilder_64b.
• Added Buster/Stretch OS support for 64-bit envs:
  • Added Buster and Stretch native support for RTBuilder_64b build script.
  • Updated CI Bash scripts with new -o flag to support OS selection.
  • Updated YAMLs to include buster & stretch Pi OS support.
  • Updated and added new docs.
• Strip compiler executables and minor fixes: (Patch by @visglz)
  • Strip on compiler install: This drastically reduces extracted size from 1.7GB to 477MB
• Added Verbose Flag for debugged output: (Patch by @visglz)
  • Set "set -eo pipefail" at top of script. Set "set -v" only for verbose
    mode
  • Fix wget download of Linux kernel: The output of wget was failing because of multiple lines. Only consider
    topmost line with most recent file)
• Removed superfluous line: (Patch by @visglz)
  • "set -eo pipefail" is already set at top of script.
• Updated strip patch for all bash-scripts for smaller binary size.
• Updated assets.
• Updated docs.
• Fixed Minor Typos and additions in Docs

PR Involved

• #62
• #63

A. Sourceforge Docs Handling Redesigned:

• New Workflow docs.yml yaml to specifically handle docs uploads.
• Reformatted SF_docs_deployer util script.
• New docs files.
• Stripped docs uploading for toolchain yamls.
• Properly formatted all bash scripts in the project.

B. New Step-by-step guide for Cross-Compiling Latest QT Framework for Raspberry Pi

C. Bug Fixes:

• YAML: Fixed docs formatting bug
• Docs BASH: Fixed wrong definitions
• CI Sripts: Reverted to ftp.gnu.org/gnu
• Docs BASH: Removed faulty matrices
• BASH Script: Added no-check-certificate flag for GNU downloads.
• Minor formatting Fixes and updates in docs

Enhancements

• Experimantal support for Raspberry Pi Desktop OS toolchains:
  • Added x86_64TB CI build script.
  • Added support x86 & x86_64 Raspberry Pi Desktop OS types.
  • Added Github Action workflow for these toolchains.
  • Added Dependencies for i686 envs.
• Migration to latest GCC 10.2.0 and GDB 9.2.
  • Replaced GCC version 10.1.0 with latest 10.2.0.
  • Removed obselete 9.2.0 from build matrix.
  • Removed obselete GCC 10.1.0 from docs.

Improvements

• Reduced x86/86_64 Pi Desktop builds to GCC v10.2.0 only.
• Replaced unsupported depreciated i386 arch with i686.
• Updated SF_deployer and SF_docs_deployer to include these new changes.
• Removed obselete versions from Docs.
• Updated README.md and added new docs.
• Updated curl to latest v7.72.0
• Minor tweaks in script.

Bug-Fixes

• Fixed Incorrect Variable in curl command.
• Fixed missing root directory in x86_64 matrix.
• Fixed wrong Banner Image URL in docs.
• Fixed x86_64 undefined filename bug.
• Fixed wrong bash-script in x86 envs.
• Fixed x86_64 -Werror=zero-length-bounds bug for gcc-10.
• Reimplemented x86_64TB CI build-script from scratch.
• Fixed -march wrong value on x86_64 machines.
• Different env variables for handling arch names.
• Changed target to more generic *-pc-linux-gnu.
• Fixed undefined patcher bugs.
• Fixed typos.

Fixed Critical Bug:

• Logic bug in with Base Builds in CI yamls.
• '10' is lexicographically less than '2' causes 10.1.0 builds to skip on Buster OSes.
• buster - Truncated decimals for accurate comparison with awk.
• stretch - Removed redundant 8.3.0 builds.

Enhancements

• Added new GCC v10.1.0 to build matrix.
• Merged build jobs into compact form using GitHub Action strategy matrices.
• Re-implemented & improved various jobs build logics.
• Updated CI Base Builder jobs to deploy on publishing.
• Added support for recently released GCC v8.4.0 in build scripts.
• Removed GCC v9.2.0 from Native 32-bit and all 64-bit build matrices(Soon be depreciated).
• Updated project docs with new changes.

Related PR

#42

• Replaced GCC v9.2.0 with newer GCC v9.3.0
• Replaced GDB v8.3.1 with newer GCC v9.1
• Add sysroot to binutils, gdb and glibc builds
• Updated related docs

Related PRs:

#38

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Enhancements: ⚡️

• Introducing OpenSourced build-scripts for auto-generating Toolchains under GPLv3 License:
  • Implemented RTBuilder_32b: Raspberry Pi Toolchains Builder 32-bit script.
  • Implemented RTBuilder_64b: Raspberry Pi Toolchains Builder 64-bit script.
  • Introduced various user-friendly command-line parameters and helper function for scripts.
  • Introduced various environment variables for tweaking builds.
  • Replaced GZIP with PIGZ as TAR backend for faster parallel compressed builds.
• Implemented powerful Github Actions Continuous Integration(CI) environments for generating precompiled Toolchains:
  • Added new GitHub CI workflows for continuous integration with Github Action.
  • Added separate divided CI Native and Cross CLI ARM/ARM64 build-scripts to aid faster workflows.
    • Added support for various GCC versions, Models and Pi Oses.
    • Released Raspbian Buster(Debian 10) ARM/ARM64 Toolchains. (resolve #30)
    • Implemented multiple Linux build matrix for each job.
    • Implemented method to auto-deployer to deploy binaries & docs to the SourceForge server.
• Added Patch and Utils scripts:
  • Implemented curl_stfp_patcher: CURL SFTP patcher script
  • Added SF_deployer: SourceForge deployer script
  • Added new bash utility script SF_docs_deployer for auto deploying docs to SourceForge Server
• Updated Docs:
  • Added new docs directory for storing SourceForge README doc files.
  • Added docs files for build-scripts.
  • Reflected License in the bash code.
  • Revamped README.md with better readability.
  • Added new logos and badges.
  • Added descriptive and beautiful diagrams.
  • Added necessary updated information to docs.

Bug Fixes: 🪲 🔨

• Fixed typos and missing definitions in build-scripts.
• Removed Obsolete Toolchain Binaries.
• Removed GCC 9.1.0 builds and other redundant versions from toolchains.
• Refractored code and squashed bugs.
• Removed redundant information from docs.

Related PR

#33
#35

👉 Compressed Precompiled Binary Files can be download from Sourceforge!

• Introducing Free-Standing Standalone Binaries
• No HardCoded Paths
• Fixed limits.h bug

Tip 💡 Compressed Precompiled Binary Files are available. You can easily download them from Sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/raspberry-pi-cross-compilers/files/