curious about the possibilities for out-of-the box binary toolchains
suitable for building for BBB ... the first choice is, unsurprisingly,
the one recommended by RCN here:
https://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone+Black#BeagleBoneBlack-ARMCrossCompiler:GCC
whose only minimal drawback is that it's a 32-bit toolchain so one
needs to have the 32-bit libs installed for that, but that's not a big
deal.
now, as i recall, RCN mentioned not that long ago that linaro was
discontinuing their binary builds, but i tripped over this directory:
http://releases.linaro.org/14.11/components/toolchain/binaries/arm-linux-gnueabihf
which *seems* to have a 64-bit, BBB-compatible toolchain:
gcc-linaro-4.9-2014.11-x86_64_arm-linux-gnueabihf.tar.xz
althought the size of that tarball is considerably larger than the
original one listed by RCN, and it appears to properly compile a
"hello, world" file into an ARM executable, so does anyone know if
this is an acceptable toolchain if i don't want to mess with 32-bit
libs? (i'll do a bit more reading to see why the massive difference in
tarball sizes.)
finally, there are the pre-built yocto project toolchains:
http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-1.7.1/toolchain/x86_64/
which one assumes should work just fine.
any other recommendations for ready-to-go toolchains for the BBB? i
just like to have choices. thanks.
rday