Welcome
You have found the home page for the Blackfin Toolchain project. This is the central site for all toolchain components. These components consist of:
- The GNU Binutils, which is a collection of binary tools, the main ones being ld (the GNU Linker), and as (the GNU assembler). The mainline binutils project can be found on the GNU pages, where a comprehensive manual can be found.
- The GNU Compiler Collection (gcc), which includes front ends for C (stable), C++ (stable) , Objective-C (Not ported), Fortran (not ported), and Ada (not ported). The mainline gcc project can be found on the GNU pages, where a comprehensive manual can be found.
- The GNU Debugger (gdb),? allows you to see what is going on `inside' another program while it executes -- or what another program was doing at the moment it crashed. The mainline project can be found on the GNU pages, where a comprehensive manual can be found.
- The generation of uClinux's flat format - elf2flt,
- Tools to support embedded file system generation for a variety of types, including:
- Tools to support stand-alone application development and booting - ldrviewer, which takes standard gcc elf files, and converts it into a format which the Blackfin bootloader can understand (called a loader file, or LDR)
- Libraries, including libdsp, newlib, libgloss and uClibc.
- Toolchain components support Canadian Cross Compiler. This means you no longer need to have a Linux host. You can develop bare metal applications, and Linux applications (not kernel) on a Microsoft Windows PC.
- Integrated Development Environments (IDE). The Blackfin GNU Toolchain plugs into many IDEs and graphical debuggers including Eclipse, Insight, DDD, the GNAT Programming Studio, Dev-C++ and Kdevelop or any of your other favorite editors like Kate, emacs, or insert your favorite editor here.
Any of these tools should build on many host system, including all Linux and Unix based OSes, and run on Windows in a coLinux or ming32 environment.
Complete documentation about the GNU toolchain for the Blackfin processor can be found on the Blackfin uClinux ?Wiki.
We encourage everyone to contribute changes?and?help test the Blackfin Toolchain. Our sources are readily and freely available via svn and we provide stable binary releases for many architectures (x86/Linux), and will continue to increase this list.
Bugs
If you see a message like this:
internal compiler error: Segmentation fault
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See <URL:http://blackfin.uclinux.org/gf/project/toolchain> for instructions.
You have come to the correct place - just follow the directions here.
| Recent News |
SVN Trunk Nightly Toolchain Builds
Mike Frysinger
2007-07-28We've set up a machine to automatically build the current SVN trunk of the toolchain and post it to the files section. Keep in mind you'll need a recent Linux distribution to take advantage of it. Also, there is no guarantee this version will even work as this represents a work in progress.
For more information, hop over to our files release page:
http://blackfin.uclinux.org/gf/project/toolc... |
Micromonitor Port by Ed Sutter
Robin Getz
2007-03-07Ed Sutter has recently ported Micromonitor to the Blackfin with the GNU Toolchain.
Micromonitor:
MicroMonitor (i.e. uMon) is a free embedded system boot platform centered around an extensible embedded flash file system called TFS. With TFS in the monitor, data transfer protocols like XMODEM and TFTP (also in the monitor) can refer to filenames instead of address space. The whole boot-up strate... |
Blackfin added to GCC Code-size Benchmark Environment
Maggie Nakhla
2005-01-20The University of Szeged (Department of Software Engineering) in Szeged, Hungary recently added Blackfin to their GCC Code-Size Benchmark Environment (CSiBE). CSiBE is a code size benchmark for the GCC compiler. The main measurement of this benchmark is code density, which is important for embedded developers, as it directly relates to cost of the system (size of the flash).
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