Build arm-none-eabi-gcc cross-compiler

build.sh

#!/bin/bash

set -e
set -v

# Install prerequisites
sudo apt-get -y install gcc \
    libgmp-dev \
    libmpfr-dev \
    libmpc-dev \
    libisl-dev \
    libzstd-dev \
    libexpat-dev \
    liblzma-dev \
    libsource-highlight-dev \
    libpython3-dev \
    libbabeltrace-dev \
    libncurses5-dev \
    meson \
    ninja-build \
    texinfo \
    pkg-config \
    python3 \
    python-is-python3 \
    flex \
    diffutils \
    git \
    bison \
    file
# For mingw
# pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain mingw-w64-x86_64-mpc mingw-w64-x86_64-mpfr mingw-w64-x86_64-gmp mingw-w64-x86_64-meson mingw-w64-x86_64-ninja texinfo bison flex diffutils


# Setup build directory
PREFIX=$HOME/gcc-cross-compiler/build
mkdir -p $PREFIX
cd $PREFIX/..


# Clone repositories (may be wise to checkout specific versions i.e. latest release tag)
git clone --depth=1 -b releases/gcc-14.1.0 https://gcc.gnu.org/git/gcc.git
git clone --depth=1 -b newlib-4.4.0 https://sourceware.org/git/newlib-cygwin.git
git clone --depth=1 -b gdb-14.2-release https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git
git clone --depth=1 -b 1.8.6 https://github.com/picolibc/picolibc.git


# Build binutils
cd $PREFIX/.. && mkdir -p binutils-build && cd binutils-build
../binutils-gdb/configure \
    --target=arm-none-eabi \
    --prefix=$PREFIX \
    --with-pkgversion=my-custom-$(date -I) \
    --with-sysroot \
    --with-lzma \
    --with-expat \
    --with-python \
    --with-isl \
    --with-zstd \
    --enable-ld=yes \
    --enable-gold=no \
    --enable-plugins \
    --enable-multilib \
    --enable-lto \
    --enable-source-highlight \
    --disable-werror \
    --disable-nls \
    --disable-warn-rwx-segments
make -j$(nproc)
make install

# Build gcc (state-1), this is so that our libc implementation below (newlib)
# gets compiled with the nice shiny new compiler version as well. This build
# will only build the gcc compiler itself, not all of the libraries like libgcc etc.
# because for that we need a libc implementation... which we haven't built yet.
#
# You could alternatively skip this step by installing a arm-none-eabi-gcc
# compiler from somewhere else (i.e. sudo apt install gcc-arm-none-eabi)
# and use that to compile newlib instead, which will probably work so long as
# it has been compiled with multilib support for at least rmprofile 
# (because of the `--with-multilib-list=rmprofile` below)
cd $PREFIX/.. && mkdir -p gcc-stage1-build && cd gcc-stage1-build
../gcc/configure \
    --prefix=$PREFIX \
    --enable-languages=c \
    --target=arm-none-eabi \
    --with-pkgversion=stage1-my-custom-$(date -I) \
    --with-isl \
    --with-newlib \
    --with-sysroot=$PREFIX/arm-none-eabi \
    --with-multilib-list=rmprofile \
    --without-headers \
    --enable-lto \
    --enable-multiarch \
    --disable-libssp \
    --disable-nls \
    --disable-tls \
    --disable-threads \
    --disable-shared
make -j$(nproc) all-gcc
make install-gcc

export PATH=$PREFIX/bin:$PATH 

# Build newlib using our stage1 compiler (this is essentially newlib-nano)
cd $PREFIX/.. && mkdir -p newlib-build && cd newlib-build
../newlib-cygwin/configure \
    --target=arm-none-eabi \
    --prefix=$PREFIX  \
    --disable-newlib-supplied-syscalls \
    --disable-newlib-io-float \
    --disable-newlib-io-long-double \
    --disable-newlib-io-pos-args \
    --disable-newlib-io-c99-formats \
    --disable-newlib-io-long-long \
    --disable-newlib-multithread \
    --disable-newlib-retargetable-locking \
    --disable-newlib-wide-orient \
    --disable-newlib-fseek-optimization \
    --disable-newlib-fvwrite-in-streamio \
    --disable-newlib-unbuf-stream-opt \
    --disable-newlib-atexit-dynamic-alloc \
    --enable-newlib-nano-malloc \
    --enable-newlib-nano-formatted-io \
    --enable-newlib-global-atexit \
    --enable-lite-exit \
    --enable-newlib-reent-small \
    --enable-libssp \
    --enable-target-optspace
make -j$(nproc)
make install

# Don't care about building big and nano newlib, the one we just compiled is already "newlib-nano"
sed -ie "s/_nano//g" $PREFIX/arm-none-eabi/lib/nano.specs

# Build gcc (stage-2), this builds the whole gcc featureset,
# including the compiler, and all the gnu compiler libraries
cd $PREFIX/.. && mkdir -p gcc-build && cd gcc-build
../gcc/configure \
    --prefix=$PREFIX \
    --enable-languages=c,c++ \
    --target=arm-none-eabi \
    --with-pkgversion=my-custom-$(date -I) \
    --with-newlib \
    --with-sysroot=$PREFIX/arm-none-eabi \
    --with-native-system-header-dir=/include \
    --with-multilib-list=rmprofile \
    --enable-lto \
    --enable-target-optspace \
    --enable-multiarch \
    --disable-libssp \
    --disable-nls \
    --disable-tls \
    --disable-threads \
    --disable-shared

make -j$(nproc)
make install


# Build picolibc
cd $PREFIX/.. && mkdir -p picolibc-build && cd picolibc-build
../picolibc/scripts/do-configure arm-none-eabi \
    -Dsysroot-install=true \
    -Dfast-strcmp=false \
    -Dio-c99-formats=false \
    -Dnewlib-global-atexit=true \
    -Dnewlib-multithread=false \
    -Dnewlib-retargetable-locking=false
ninja
ninja install

# Delete the build directories if you want
# rm -rf $PREFIX/../binutils* $PREFIX/../gcc* $PREFIX/../newlib* $PREFIX/../picolibc*