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5 @settitle Installing GCC
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17 @settitle Host/Target specific installation notes for GCC
18 @end ifset
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20 @settitle Prerequisites for GCC
21 @end ifset
22 @ifset downloadhtml
23 @settitle Downloading GCC
24 @end ifset
25 @ifset configurehtml
26 @settitle Installing GCC: Configuration
27 @end ifset
28 @ifset buildhtml
29 @settitle Installing GCC: Building
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31 @ifset testhtml
32 @settitle Installing GCC: Testing
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35 @settitle Installing GCC: Final installation
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38 @settitle Installing GCC: Binaries
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70 @c Part 2 Summary Description and Copyright
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93 @insertcopying
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95 @dircategory Software development
96 @direntry
97 * gccinstall: (gccinstall). Installing the GNU Compiler Collection.
98 @end direntry
99
100 @c Part 3 Titlepage and Copyright
101 @titlepage
102 @title Installing GCC
103 @versionsubtitle
104
105 @c The following two commands start the copyright page.
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110
111 @c Part 4 Top node, Master Menu, and/or Table of Contents
112 @ifinfo
113 @node Top, , , (dir)
114 @comment node-name, next, Previous, up
115
116 @menu
117 * Installing GCC:: This document describes the generic installation
118 procedure for GCC as well as detailing some target
119 specific installation instructions.
120
121 * Specific:: Host/target specific installation notes for GCC.
122 * Binaries:: Where to get pre-compiled binaries.
123
124 * Old:: Old installation documentation.
125
126 * GNU Free Documentation License:: How you can copy and share this manual.
127 * Concept Index:: This index has two entries.
128 @end menu
129 @end ifinfo
130
131 @iftex
132 @contents
133 @end iftex
134
135 @c Part 5 The Body of the Document
136 @c ***Installing GCC**********************************************************
137 @ifnothtml
138 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
139 @node Installing GCC, Binaries, , Top
140 @end ifnothtml
141 @ifset indexhtml
142 @ifnothtml
143 @chapter Installing GCC
144 @end ifnothtml
145
146 The latest version of this document is always available at
147 @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/install/,,http://gcc.gnu.org/install/}.
148 It refers to the current development sources, instructions for
149 specific released versions are included with the sources.
150
151 This document describes the generic installation procedure for GCC as well
152 as detailing some target specific installation instructions.
153
154 GCC includes several components that previously were separate distributions
155 with their own installation instructions. This document supersedes all
156 package-specific installation instructions.
157
158 @emph{Before} starting the build/install procedure please check the
159 @ifnothtml
160 @ref{Specific, host/target specific installation notes}.
161 @end ifnothtml
162 @ifhtml
163 @uref{specific.html,,host/target specific installation notes}.
164 @end ifhtml
165 We recommend you browse the entire generic installation instructions before
166 you proceed.
167
168 Lists of successful builds for released versions of GCC are
169 available at @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/buildstat.html}.
170 These lists are updated as new information becomes available.
171
172 The installation procedure itself is broken into five steps.
173
174 @ifinfo
175 @menu
176 * Prerequisites::
177 * Downloading the source::
178 * Configuration::
179 * Building::
180 * Testing:: (optional)
181 * Final install::
182 @end menu
183 @end ifinfo
184 @ifhtml
185 @enumerate
186 @item
187 @uref{prerequisites.html,,Prerequisites}
188 @item
189 @uref{download.html,,Downloading the source}
190 @item
191 @uref{configure.html,,Configuration}
192 @item
193 @uref{build.html,,Building}
194 @item
195 @uref{test.html,,Testing} (optional)
196 @item
197 @uref{finalinstall.html,,Final install}
198 @end enumerate
199 @end ifhtml
200
201 Please note that GCC does not support @samp{make uninstall} and probably
202 won't do so in the near future as this would open a can of worms. Instead,
203 we suggest that you install GCC into a directory of its own and simply
204 remove that directory when you do not need that specific version of GCC
205 any longer, and, if shared libraries are installed there as well, no
206 more binaries exist that use them.
207
208 @ifhtml
209 There are also some @uref{old.html,,old installation instructions},
210 which are mostly obsolete but still contain some information which has
211 not yet been merged into the main part of this manual.
212 @end ifhtml
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214 @html
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217 @end html
218 @ifhtml
219 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
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221 @insertcopying
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223 @end ifset
224
225 @c ***Prerequisites**************************************************
226 @ifnothtml
227 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
228 @node Prerequisites, Downloading the source, , Installing GCC
229 @end ifnothtml
230 @ifset prerequisiteshtml
231 @ifnothtml
232 @chapter Prerequisites
233 @end ifnothtml
234 @cindex Prerequisites
235
236 GCC requires that various tools and packages be available for use in the
237 build procedure. Modifying GCC sources requires additional tools
238 described below.
239
240 @heading Tools/packages necessary for building GCC
241 @table @asis
242 @item ISO C++98 compiler
243 Necessary to bootstrap GCC, although versions of GCC prior
244 to 4.8 also allow bootstrapping with a ISO C89 compiler and versions
245 of GCC prior to 3.4 also allow bootstrapping with a traditional
246 (K&R) C compiler.
247
248 To build all languages in a cross-compiler or other configuration where
249 3-stage bootstrap is not performed, you need to start with an existing
250 GCC binary (version 3.4 or later) because source code for language
251 frontends other than C might use GCC extensions.
252
253 Note that to bootstrap GCC with versions of GCC earlier than 3.4, you
254 may need to use @option{--disable-stage1-checking}, though
255 bootstrapping the compiler with such earlier compilers is strongly
256 discouraged.
257
258 @item GNAT
259
260 In order to build the Ada compiler (GNAT) you must already have GNAT
261 installed because portions of the Ada frontend are written in Ada (with
262 GNAT extensions.) Refer to the Ada installation instructions for more
263 specific information.
264
265 @item A ``working'' POSIX compatible shell, or GNU bash
266
267 Necessary when running @command{configure} because some
268 @command{/bin/sh} shells have bugs and may crash when configuring the
269 target libraries. In other cases, @command{/bin/sh} or @command{ksh}
270 have disastrous corner-case performance problems. This
271 can cause target @command{configure} runs to literally take days to
272 complete in some cases.
273
274 So on some platforms @command{/bin/ksh} is sufficient, on others it
275 isn't. See the host/target specific instructions for your platform, or
276 use @command{bash} to be sure. Then set @env{CONFIG_SHELL} in your
277 environment to your ``good'' shell prior to running
278 @command{configure}/@command{make}.
279
280 @command{zsh} is not a fully compliant POSIX shell and will not
281 work when configuring GCC@.
282
283 @item A POSIX or SVR4 awk
284
285 Necessary for creating some of the generated source files for GCC@.
286 If in doubt, use a recent GNU awk version, as some of the older ones
287 are broken. GNU awk version 3.1.5 is known to work.
288
289 @item GNU binutils
290
291 Necessary in some circumstances, optional in others. See the
292 host/target specific instructions for your platform for the exact
293 requirements.
294
295 @item gzip version 1.2.4 (or later) or
296 @itemx bzip2 version 1.0.2 (or later)
297
298 Necessary to uncompress GCC @command{tar} files when source code is
299 obtained via FTP mirror sites.
300
301 @item GNU make version 3.80 (or later)
302
303 You must have GNU make installed to build GCC@.
304
305 @item GNU tar version 1.14 (or later)
306
307 Necessary (only on some platforms) to untar the source code. Many
308 systems' @command{tar} programs will also work, only try GNU
309 @command{tar} if you have problems.
310
311 @item Perl version 5.6.1 (or later)
312
313 Necessary when targeting Darwin, building @samp{libstdc++},
314 and not using @option{--disable-symvers}.
315 Necessary when targeting Solaris 2 with Sun @command{ld} and not using
316 @option{--disable-symvers}. The bundled @command{perl} in Solaris@tie{}8
317 and up works.
318
319 Necessary when regenerating @file{Makefile} dependencies in libiberty.
320 Necessary when regenerating @file{libiberty/functions.texi}.
321 Necessary when generating manpages from Texinfo manuals.
322 Used by various scripts to generate some files included in SVN (mainly
323 Unicode-related and rarely changing) from source tables.
324
325 @item @command{jar}, or InfoZIP (@command{zip} and @command{unzip})
326
327 Necessary to build libgcj, the GCJ runtime.
328
329 @end table
330
331 Several support libraries are necessary to build GCC, some are required,
332 others optional. While any sufficiently new version of required tools
333 usually work, library requirements are generally stricter. Newer
334 versions may work in some cases, but it's safer to use the exact
335 versions documented. We appreciate bug reports about problems with
336 newer versions, though. If your OS vendor provides packages for the
337 support libraries then using those packages may be the simplest way to
338 install the libraries.
339
340 @table @asis
341 @item GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP) version 4.3.2 (or later)
342
343 Necessary to build GCC@. If a GMP source distribution is found in a
344 subdirectory of your GCC sources named @file{gmp}, it will be built
345 together with GCC. Alternatively, if GMP is already installed but it
346 is not in your library search path, you will have to configure with the
347 @option{--with-gmp} configure option. See also @option{--with-gmp-lib}
348 and @option{--with-gmp-include}.
349
350 @item MPFR Library version 2.4.2 (or later)
351
352 Necessary to build GCC@. It can be downloaded from
353 @uref{http://www.mpfr.org/}. If an MPFR source distribution is found
354 in a subdirectory of your GCC sources named @file{mpfr}, it will be
355 built together with GCC. Alternatively, if MPFR is already installed
356 but it is not in your default library search path, the
357 @option{--with-mpfr} configure option should be used. See also
358 @option{--with-mpfr-lib} and @option{--with-mpfr-include}.
359
360 @item MPC Library version 0.8.1 (or later)
361
362 Necessary to build GCC@. It can be downloaded from
363 @uref{http://www.multiprecision.org/}. If an MPC source distribution
364 is found in a subdirectory of your GCC sources named @file{mpc}, it
365 will be built together with GCC. Alternatively, if MPC is already
366 installed but it is not in your default library search path, the
367 @option{--with-mpc} configure option should be used. See also
368 @option{--with-mpc-lib} and @option{--with-mpc-include}.
369
370 @item ISL Library version 0.11.1
371
372 Necessary to build GCC with the Graphite loop optimizations.
373 It can be downloaded from @uref{ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/}
374 as @file{isl-0.11.1.tar.bz2}.
375
376 The @option{--with-isl} configure option should be used if ISL is not
377 installed in your default library search path.
378
379 @item CLooG 0.18.0
380
381 Necessary to build GCC with the Graphite loop optimizations. It can be
382 downloaded from @uref{ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/} as
383 @file{cloog-0.18.0.tar.gz}. The @option{--with-cloog} configure option should
384 be used if CLooG is not installed in your default library search path.
385 CLooG needs to be built against ISL 0.11.1. Use @option{--with-isl=system}
386 to direct CLooG to pick up an already installed ISL, otherwise it will use
387 ISL 0.11.1 as bundled with CLooG. CLooG needs to be configured to use GMP
388 internally, use @option{--with-bits=gmp} to direct it to do that.
389
390 @end table
391
392 @heading Tools/packages necessary for modifying GCC
393 @table @asis
394 @item autoconf version 2.64
395 @itemx GNU m4 version 1.4.6 (or later)
396
397 Necessary when modifying @file{configure.ac}, @file{aclocal.m4}, etc.@:
398 to regenerate @file{configure} and @file{config.in} files.
399
400 @item automake version 1.11.1
401
402 Necessary when modifying a @file{Makefile.am} file to regenerate its
403 associated @file{Makefile.in}.
404
405 Much of GCC does not use automake, so directly edit the @file{Makefile.in}
406 file. Specifically this applies to the @file{gcc}, @file{intl},
407 @file{libcpp}, @file{libiberty}, @file{libobjc} directories as well
408 as any of their subdirectories.
409
410 For directories that use automake, GCC requires the latest release in
411 the 1.11 series, which is currently 1.11.1. When regenerating a directory
412 to a newer version, please update all the directories using an older 1.11
413 to the latest released version.
414
415 @item gettext version 0.14.5 (or later)
416
417 Needed to regenerate @file{gcc.pot}.
418
419 @item gperf version 2.7.2 (or later)
420
421 Necessary when modifying @command{gperf} input files, e.g.@:
422 @file{gcc/cp/cfns.gperf} to regenerate its associated header file, e.g.@:
423 @file{gcc/cp/cfns.h}.
424
425 @item DejaGnu 1.4.4
426 @itemx Expect
427 @itemx Tcl
428
429 Necessary to run the GCC testsuite; see the section on testing for
430 details. Tcl 8.6 has a known regression in RE pattern handling that
431 make parts of the testsuite fail. See
432 @uref{http://core.tcl.tk/tcl/tktview/267b7e2334ee2e9de34c4b00d6e72e2f1997085f}
433 for more information.
434
435 @item autogen version 5.5.4 (or later) and
436 @itemx guile version 1.4.1 (or later)
437
438 Necessary to regenerate @file{fixinc/fixincl.x} from
439 @file{fixinc/inclhack.def} and @file{fixinc/*.tpl}.
440
441 Necessary to run @samp{make check} for @file{fixinc}.
442
443 Necessary to regenerate the top level @file{Makefile.in} file from
444 @file{Makefile.tpl} and @file{Makefile.def}.
445
446 @item Flex version 2.5.4 (or later)
447
448 Necessary when modifying @file{*.l} files.
449
450 Necessary to build GCC during development because the generated output
451 files are not included in the SVN repository. They are included in
452 releases.
453
454 @item Texinfo version 4.7 (or later)
455
456 Necessary for running @command{makeinfo} when modifying @file{*.texi}
457 files to test your changes.
458
459 Necessary for running @command{make dvi} or @command{make pdf} to
460 create printable documentation in DVI or PDF format. Texinfo version
461 4.8 or later is required for @command{make pdf}.
462
463 Necessary to build GCC documentation during development because the
464 generated output files are not included in the SVN repository. They are
465 included in releases.
466
467 @item @TeX{} (any working version)
468
469 Necessary for running @command{texi2dvi} and @command{texi2pdf}, which
470 are used when running @command{make dvi} or @command{make pdf} to create
471 DVI or PDF files, respectively.
472
473 @item SVN (any version)
474 @itemx SSH (any version)
475
476 Necessary to access the SVN repository. Public releases and weekly
477 snapshots of the development sources are also available via FTP@.
478
479 @item GNU diffutils version 2.7 (or later)
480
481 Useful when submitting patches for the GCC source code.
482
483 @item patch version 2.5.4 (or later)
484
485 Necessary when applying patches, created with @command{diff}, to one's
486 own sources.
487
488 @item ecj1
489 @itemx gjavah
490
491 If you wish to modify @file{.java} files in libjava, you will need to
492 configure with @option{--enable-java-maintainer-mode}, and you will need
493 to have executables named @command{ecj1} and @command{gjavah} in your path.
494 The @command{ecj1} executable should run the Eclipse Java compiler via
495 the GCC-specific entry point. You can download a suitable jar from
496 @uref{ftp://sourceware.org/pub/java/}, or by running the script
497 @command{contrib/download_ecj}.
498
499 @item antlr.jar version 2.7.1 (or later)
500 @itemx antlr binary
501
502 If you wish to build the @command{gjdoc} binary in libjava, you will
503 need to have an @file{antlr.jar} library available. The library is
504 searched for in system locations but can be specified with
505 @option{--with-antlr-jar=} instead. When configuring with
506 @option{--enable-java-maintainer-mode}, you will need to have one of
507 the executables named @command{cantlr}, @command{runantlr} or
508 @command{antlr} in your path.
509
510 @end table
511
512 @html
513 <hr />
514 <p>
515 @end html
516 @ifhtml
517 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
518 @end ifhtml
519 @end ifset
520
521 @c ***Downloading the source**************************************************
522 @ifnothtml
523 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
524 @node Downloading the source, Configuration, Prerequisites, Installing GCC
525 @end ifnothtml
526 @ifset downloadhtml
527 @ifnothtml
528 @chapter Downloading GCC
529 @end ifnothtml
530 @cindex Downloading GCC
531 @cindex Downloading the Source
532
533 GCC is distributed via @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/svn.html,,SVN} and FTP
534 tarballs compressed with @command{gzip} or
535 @command{bzip2}.
536
537 Please refer to the @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html,,releases web page}
538 for information on how to obtain GCC@.
539
540 The source distribution includes the C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java,
541 and Ada (in the case of GCC 3.1 and later) compilers, as well as
542 runtime libraries for C++, Objective-C, Fortran, and Java.
543 For previous versions these were downloadable as separate components such
544 as the core GCC distribution, which included the C language front end and
545 shared components, and language-specific distributions including the
546 language front end and the language runtime (where appropriate).
547
548 If you also intend to build binutils (either to upgrade an existing
549 installation or for use in place of the corresponding tools of your
550 OS), unpack the binutils distribution either in the same directory or
551 a separate one. In the latter case, add symbolic links to any
552 components of the binutils you intend to build alongside the compiler
553 (@file{bfd}, @file{binutils}, @file{gas}, @file{gprof}, @file{ld},
554 @file{opcodes}, @dots{}) to the directory containing the GCC sources.
555
556 Likewise the GMP, MPFR and MPC libraries can be automatically built
557 together with GCC. Unpack the GMP, MPFR and/or MPC source
558 distributions in the directory containing the GCC sources and rename
559 their directories to @file{gmp}, @file{mpfr} and @file{mpc},
560 respectively (or use symbolic links with the same name).
561
562 @html
563 <hr />
564 <p>
565 @end html
566 @ifhtml
567 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
568 @end ifhtml
569 @end ifset
570
571 @c ***Configuration***********************************************************
572 @ifnothtml
573 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
574 @node Configuration, Building, Downloading the source, Installing GCC
575 @end ifnothtml
576 @ifset configurehtml
577 @ifnothtml
578 @chapter Installing GCC: Configuration
579 @end ifnothtml
580 @cindex Configuration
581 @cindex Installing GCC: Configuration
582
583 Like most GNU software, GCC must be configured before it can be built.
584 This document describes the recommended configuration procedure
585 for both native and cross targets.
586
587 We use @var{srcdir} to refer to the toplevel source directory for
588 GCC; we use @var{objdir} to refer to the toplevel build/object directory.
589
590 If you obtained the sources via SVN, @var{srcdir} must refer to the top
591 @file{gcc} directory, the one where the @file{MAINTAINERS} file can be
592 found, and not its @file{gcc} subdirectory, otherwise the build will fail.
593
594 If either @var{srcdir} or @var{objdir} is located on an automounted NFS
595 file system, the shell's built-in @command{pwd} command will return
596 temporary pathnames. Using these can lead to various sorts of build
597 problems. To avoid this issue, set the @env{PWDCMD} environment
598 variable to an automounter-aware @command{pwd} command, e.g.,
599 @command{pawd} or @samp{amq -w}, during the configuration and build
600 phases.
601
602 First, we @strong{highly} recommend that GCC be built into a
603 separate directory from the sources which does @strong{not} reside
604 within the source tree. This is how we generally build GCC; building
605 where @var{srcdir} == @var{objdir} should still work, but doesn't
606 get extensive testing; building where @var{objdir} is a subdirectory
607 of @var{srcdir} is unsupported.
608
609 If you have previously built GCC in the same directory for a
610 different target machine, do @samp{make distclean} to delete all files
611 that might be invalid. One of the files this deletes is @file{Makefile};
612 if @samp{make distclean} complains that @file{Makefile} does not exist
613 or issues a message like ``don't know how to make distclean'' it probably
614 means that the directory is already suitably clean. However, with the
615 recommended method of building in a separate @var{objdir}, you should
616 simply use a different @var{objdir} for each target.
617
618 Second, when configuring a native system, either @command{cc} or
619 @command{gcc} must be in your path or you must set @env{CC} in
620 your environment before running configure. Otherwise the configuration
621 scripts may fail.
622
623 @ignore
624 Note that the bootstrap compiler and the resulting GCC must be link
625 compatible, else the bootstrap will fail with linker errors about
626 incompatible object file formats. Several multilibed targets are
627 affected by this requirement, see
628 @ifnothtml
629 @ref{Specific, host/target specific installation notes}.
630 @end ifnothtml
631 @ifhtml
632 @uref{specific.html,,host/target specific installation notes}.
633 @end ifhtml
634 @end ignore
635
636 To configure GCC:
637
638 @smallexample
639 % mkdir @var{objdir}
640 % cd @var{objdir}
641 % @var{srcdir}/configure [@var{options}] [@var{target}]
642 @end smallexample
643
644 @heading Distributor options
645
646 If you will be distributing binary versions of GCC, with modifications
647 to the source code, you should use the options described in this
648 section to make clear that your version contains modifications.
649
650 @table @code
651 @item --with-pkgversion=@var{version}
652 Specify a string that identifies your package. You may wish
653 to include a build number or build date. This version string will be
654 included in the output of @command{gcc --version}. This suffix does
655 not replace the default version string, only the @samp{GCC} part.
656
657 The default value is @samp{GCC}.
658
659 @item --with-bugurl=@var{url}
660 Specify the URL that users should visit if they wish to report a bug.
661 You are of course welcome to forward bugs reported to you to the FSF,
662 if you determine that they are not bugs in your modifications.
663
664 The default value refers to the FSF's GCC bug tracker.
665
666 @end table
667
668 @heading Target specification
669 @itemize @bullet
670 @item
671 GCC has code to correctly determine the correct value for @var{target}
672 for nearly all native systems. Therefore, we highly recommend you do
673 not provide a configure target when configuring a native compiler.
674
675 @item
676 @var{target} must be specified as @option{--target=@var{target}}
677 when configuring a cross compiler; examples of valid targets would be
678 m68k-elf, sh-elf, etc.
679
680 @item
681 Specifying just @var{target} instead of @option{--target=@var{target}}
682 implies that the host defaults to @var{target}.
683 @end itemize
684
685
686 @heading Options specification
687
688 Use @var{options} to override several configure time options for
689 GCC@. A list of supported @var{options} follows; @samp{configure
690 --help} may list other options, but those not listed below may not
691 work and should not normally be used.
692
693 Note that each @option{--enable} option has a corresponding
694 @option{--disable} option and that each @option{--with} option has a
695 corresponding @option{--without} option.
696
697 @table @code
698 @item --prefix=@var{dirname}
699 Specify the toplevel installation
700 directory. This is the recommended way to install the tools into a directory
701 other than the default. The toplevel installation directory defaults to
702 @file{/usr/local}.
703
704 We @strong{highly} recommend against @var{dirname} being the same or a
705 subdirectory of @var{objdir} or vice versa. If specifying a directory
706 beneath a user's home directory tree, some shells will not expand
707 @var{dirname} correctly if it contains the @samp{~} metacharacter; use
708 @env{$HOME} instead.
709
710 The following standard @command{autoconf} options are supported. Normally you
711 should not need to use these options.
712 @table @code
713 @item --exec-prefix=@var{dirname}
714 Specify the toplevel installation directory for architecture-dependent
715 files. The default is @file{@var{prefix}}.
716
717 @item --bindir=@var{dirname}
718 Specify the installation directory for the executables called by users
719 (such as @command{gcc} and @command{g++}). The default is
720 @file{@var{exec-prefix}/bin}.
721
722 @item --libdir=@var{dirname}
723 Specify the installation directory for object code libraries and
724 internal data files of GCC@. The default is @file{@var{exec-prefix}/lib}.
725
726 @item --libexecdir=@var{dirname}
727 Specify the installation directory for internal executables of GCC@.
728 The default is @file{@var{exec-prefix}/libexec}.
729
730 @item --with-slibdir=@var{dirname}
731 Specify the installation directory for the shared libgcc library. The
732 default is @file{@var{libdir}}.
733
734 @item --datarootdir=@var{dirname}
735 Specify the root of the directory tree for read-only architecture-independent
736 data files referenced by GCC@. The default is @file{@var{prefix}/share}.
737
738 @item --infodir=@var{dirname}
739 Specify the installation directory for documentation in info format.
740 The default is @file{@var{datarootdir}/info}.
741
742 @item --datadir=@var{dirname}
743 Specify the installation directory for some architecture-independent
744 data files referenced by GCC@. The default is @file{@var{datarootdir}}.
745
746 @item --docdir=@var{dirname}
747 Specify the installation directory for documentation files (other
748 than Info) for GCC@. The default is @file{@var{datarootdir}/doc}.
749
750 @item --htmldir=@var{dirname}
751 Specify the installation directory for HTML documentation files.
752 The default is @file{@var{docdir}}.
753
754 @item --pdfdir=@var{dirname}
755 Specify the installation directory for PDF documentation files.
756 The default is @file{@var{docdir}}.
757
758 @item --mandir=@var{dirname}
759 Specify the installation directory for manual pages. The default is
760 @file{@var{datarootdir}/man}. (Note that the manual pages are only extracts
761 from the full GCC manuals, which are provided in Texinfo format. The manpages
762 are derived by an automatic conversion process from parts of the full
763 manual.)
764
765 @item --with-gxx-include-dir=@var{dirname}
766 Specify
767 the installation directory for G++ header files. The default depends
768 on other configuration options, and differs between cross and native
769 configurations.
770
771 @item --with-specs=@var{specs}
772 Specify additional command line driver SPECS.
773 This can be useful if you need to turn on a non-standard feature by
774 default without modifying the compiler's source code, for instance
775 @option{--with-specs=%@{!fcommon:%@{!fno-common:-fno-common@}@}}.
776 @ifnothtml
777 @xref{Spec Files,, Specifying subprocesses and the switches to pass to them,
778 gcc, Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)},
779 @end ifnothtml
780 @ifhtml
781 See ``Spec Files'' in the main manual
782 @end ifhtml
783
784 @end table
785
786 @item --program-prefix=@var{prefix}
787 GCC supports some transformations of the names of its programs when
788 installing them. This option prepends @var{prefix} to the names of
789 programs to install in @var{bindir} (see above). For example, specifying
790 @option{--program-prefix=foo-} would result in @samp{gcc}
791 being installed as @file{/usr/local/bin/foo-gcc}.
792
793 @item --program-suffix=@var{suffix}
794 Appends @var{suffix} to the names of programs to install in @var{bindir}
795 (see above). For example, specifying @option{--program-suffix=-3.1}
796 would result in @samp{gcc} being installed as
797 @file{/usr/local/bin/gcc-3.1}.
798
799 @item --program-transform-name=@var{pattern}
800 Applies the @samp{sed} script @var{pattern} to be applied to the names
801 of programs to install in @var{bindir} (see above). @var{pattern} has to
802 consist of one or more basic @samp{sed} editing commands, separated by
803 semicolons. For example, if you want the @samp{gcc} program name to be
804 transformed to the installed program @file{/usr/local/bin/myowngcc} and
805 the @samp{g++} program name to be transformed to
806 @file{/usr/local/bin/gspecial++} without changing other program names,
807 you could use the pattern
808 @option{--program-transform-name='s/^gcc$/myowngcc/; s/^g++$/gspecial++/'}
809 to achieve this effect.
810
811 All three options can be combined and used together, resulting in more
812 complex conversion patterns. As a basic rule, @var{prefix} (and
813 @var{suffix}) are prepended (appended) before further transformations
814 can happen with a special transformation script @var{pattern}.
815
816 As currently implemented, this option only takes effect for native
817 builds; cross compiler binaries' names are not transformed even when a
818 transformation is explicitly asked for by one of these options.
819
820 For native builds, some of the installed programs are also installed
821 with the target alias in front of their name, as in
822 @samp{i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc}. All of the above transformations happen
823 before the target alias is prepended to the name---so, specifying
824 @option{--program-prefix=foo-} and @option{program-suffix=-3.1}, the
825 resulting binary would be installed as
826 @file{/usr/local/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu-foo-gcc-3.1}.
827
828 As a last shortcoming, none of the installed Ada programs are
829 transformed yet, which will be fixed in some time.
830
831 @item --with-local-prefix=@var{dirname}
832 Specify the
833 installation directory for local include files. The default is
834 @file{/usr/local}. Specify this option if you want the compiler to
835 search directory @file{@var{dirname}/include} for locally installed
836 header files @emph{instead} of @file{/usr/local/include}.
837
838 You should specify @option{--with-local-prefix} @strong{only} if your
839 site has a different convention (not @file{/usr/local}) for where to put
840 site-specific files.
841
842 The default value for @option{--with-local-prefix} is @file{/usr/local}
843 regardless of the value of @option{--prefix}. Specifying
844 @option{--prefix} has no effect on which directory GCC searches for
845 local header files. This may seem counterintuitive, but actually it is
846 logical.
847
848 The purpose of @option{--prefix} is to specify where to @emph{install
849 GCC}. The local header files in @file{/usr/local/include}---if you put
850 any in that directory---are not part of GCC@. They are part of other
851 programs---perhaps many others. (GCC installs its own header files in
852 another directory which is based on the @option{--prefix} value.)
853
854 Both the local-prefix include directory and the GCC-prefix include
855 directory are part of GCC's ``system include'' directories. Although these
856 two directories are not fixed, they need to be searched in the proper
857 order for the correct processing of the include_next directive. The
858 local-prefix include directory is searched before the GCC-prefix
859 include directory. Another characteristic of system include directories
860 is that pedantic warnings are turned off for headers in these directories.
861
862 Some autoconf macros add @option{-I @var{directory}} options to the
863 compiler command line, to ensure that directories containing installed
864 packages' headers are searched. When @var{directory} is one of GCC's
865 system include directories, GCC will ignore the option so that system
866 directories continue to be processed in the correct order. This
867 may result in a search order different from what was specified but the
868 directory will still be searched.
869
870 GCC automatically searches for ordinary libraries using
871 @env{GCC_EXEC_PREFIX}. Thus, when the same installation prefix is
872 used for both GCC and packages, GCC will automatically search for
873 both headers and libraries. This provides a configuration that is
874 easy to use. GCC behaves in a manner similar to that when it is
875 installed as a system compiler in @file{/usr}.
876
877 Sites that need to install multiple versions of GCC may not want to
878 use the above simple configuration. It is possible to use the
879 @option{--program-prefix}, @option{--program-suffix} and
880 @option{--program-transform-name} options to install multiple versions
881 into a single directory, but it may be simpler to use different prefixes
882 and the @option{--with-local-prefix} option to specify the location of the
883 site-specific files for each version. It will then be necessary for
884 users to specify explicitly the location of local site libraries
885 (e.g., with @env{LIBRARY_PATH}).
886
887 The same value can be used for both @option{--with-local-prefix} and
888 @option{--prefix} provided it is not @file{/usr}. This can be used
889 to avoid the default search of @file{/usr/local/include}.
890
891 @strong{Do not} specify @file{/usr} as the @option{--with-local-prefix}!
892 The directory you use for @option{--with-local-prefix} @strong{must not}
893 contain any of the system's standard header files. If it did contain
894 them, certain programs would be miscompiled (including GNU Emacs, on
895 certain targets), because this would override and nullify the header
896 file corrections made by the @command{fixincludes} script.
897
898 Indications are that people who use this option use it based on mistaken
899 ideas of what it is for. People use it as if it specified where to
900 install part of GCC@. Perhaps they make this assumption because
901 installing GCC creates the directory.
902
903 @item --with-native-system-header-dir=@var{dirname}
904 Specifies that @var{dirname} is the directory that contains native system
905 header files, rather than @file{/usr/include}. This option is most useful
906 if you are creating a compiler that should be isolated from the system
907 as much as possible. It is most commonly used with the
908 @option{--with-sysroot} option and will cause GCC to search
909 @var{dirname} inside the system root specified by that option.
910
911 @item --enable-shared[=@var{package}[,@dots{}]]
912 Build shared versions of libraries, if shared libraries are supported on
913 the target platform. Unlike GCC 2.95.x and earlier, shared libraries
914 are enabled by default on all platforms that support shared libraries.
915
916 If a list of packages is given as an argument, build shared libraries
917 only for the listed packages. For other packages, only static libraries
918 will be built. Package names currently recognized in the GCC tree are
919 @samp{libgcc} (also known as @samp{gcc}), @samp{libstdc++} (not
920 @samp{libstdc++-v3}), @samp{libffi}, @samp{zlib}, @samp{boehm-gc},
921 @samp{ada}, @samp{libada}, @samp{libjava}, @samp{libgo}, and @samp{libobjc}.
922 Note @samp{libiberty} does not support shared libraries at all.
923
924 Use @option{--disable-shared} to build only static libraries. Note that
925 @option{--disable-shared} does not accept a list of package names as
926 argument, only @option{--enable-shared} does.
927
928 Contrast with @option{--enable-host-shared}, which affects @emph{host}
929 code.
930
931 @item --enable-host-shared
932 Specify that the @emph{host} code should be built into position-independent
933 machine code (with -fPIC), allowing it to be used within shared libraries,
934 but yielding a slightly slower compiler.
935
936 Currently this option is only of use to people developing GCC itself.
937
938 Contrast with @option{--enable-shared}, which affects @emph{target}
939 libraries.
940
941 @item @anchor{with-gnu-as}--with-gnu-as
942 Specify that the compiler should assume that the
943 assembler it finds is the GNU assembler. However, this does not modify
944 the rules to find an assembler and will result in confusion if the
945 assembler found is not actually the GNU assembler. (Confusion may also
946 result if the compiler finds the GNU assembler but has not been
947 configured with @option{--with-gnu-as}.) If you have more than one
948 assembler installed on your system, you may want to use this option in
949 connection with @option{--with-as=@var{pathname}} or
950 @option{--with-build-time-tools=@var{pathname}}.
951
952 The following systems are the only ones where it makes a difference
953 whether you use the GNU assembler. On any other system,
954 @option{--with-gnu-as} has no effect.
955
956 @itemize @bullet
957 @item @samp{hppa1.0-@var{any}-@var{any}}
958 @item @samp{hppa1.1-@var{any}-@var{any}}
959 @item @samp{sparc-sun-solaris2.@var{any}}
960 @item @samp{sparc64-@var{any}-solaris2.@var{any}}
961 @end itemize
962
963 @item @anchor{with-as}--with-as=@var{pathname}
964 Specify that the compiler should use the assembler pointed to by
965 @var{pathname}, rather than the one found by the standard rules to find
966 an assembler, which are:
967 @itemize @bullet
968 @item
969 Unless GCC is being built with a cross compiler, check the
970 @file{@var{libexec}/gcc/@var{target}/@var{version}} directory.
971 @var{libexec} defaults to @file{@var{exec-prefix}/libexec};
972 @var{exec-prefix} defaults to @var{prefix}, which
973 defaults to @file{/usr/local} unless overridden by the
974 @option{--prefix=@var{pathname}} switch described above. @var{target}
975 is the target system triple, such as @samp{sparc-sun-solaris2.7}, and
976 @var{version} denotes the GCC version, such as 3.0.
977
978 @item
979 If the target system is the same that you are building on, check
980 operating system specific directories (e.g.@: @file{/usr/ccs/bin} on
981 Sun Solaris 2).
982
983 @item
984 Check in the @env{PATH} for a tool whose name is prefixed by the
985 target system triple.
986
987 @item
988 Check in the @env{PATH} for a tool whose name is not prefixed by the
989 target system triple, if the host and target system triple are
990 the same (in other words, we use a host tool if it can be used for
991 the target as well).
992 @end itemize
993
994 You may want to use @option{--with-as} if no assembler
995 is installed in the directories listed above, or if you have multiple
996 assemblers installed and want to choose one that is not found by the
997 above rules.
998
999 @item @anchor{with-gnu-ld}--with-gnu-ld
1000 Same as @uref{#with-gnu-as,,@option{--with-gnu-as}}
1001 but for the linker.
1002
1003 @item --with-ld=@var{pathname}
1004 Same as @uref{#with-as,,@option{--with-as}}
1005 but for the linker.
1006
1007 @item --with-stabs
1008 Specify that stabs debugging
1009 information should be used instead of whatever format the host normally
1010 uses. Normally GCC uses the same debug format as the host system.
1011
1012 On MIPS based systems and on Alphas, you must specify whether you want
1013 GCC to create the normal ECOFF debugging format, or to use BSD-style
1014 stabs passed through the ECOFF symbol table. The normal ECOFF debug
1015 format cannot fully handle languages other than C@. BSD stabs format can
1016 handle other languages, but it only works with the GNU debugger GDB@.
1017
1018 Normally, GCC uses the ECOFF debugging format by default; if you
1019 prefer BSD stabs, specify @option{--with-stabs} when you configure GCC@.
1020
1021 No matter which default you choose when you configure GCC, the user
1022 can use the @option{-gcoff} and @option{-gstabs+} options to specify explicitly
1023 the debug format for a particular compilation.
1024
1025 @option{--with-stabs} is meaningful on the ISC system on the 386, also, if
1026 @option{--with-gas} is used. It selects use of stabs debugging
1027 information embedded in COFF output. This kind of debugging information
1028 supports C++ well; ordinary COFF debugging information does not.
1029
1030 @option{--with-stabs} is also meaningful on 386 systems running SVR4. It
1031 selects use of stabs debugging information embedded in ELF output. The
1032 C++ compiler currently (2.6.0) does not support the DWARF debugging
1033 information normally used on 386 SVR4 platforms; stabs provide a
1034 workable alternative. This requires gas and gdb, as the normal SVR4
1035 tools can not generate or interpret stabs.
1036
1037 @item --with-tls=@var{dialect}
1038 Specify the default TLS dialect, for systems were there is a choice.
1039 For ARM targets, possible values for @var{dialect} are @code{gnu} or
1040 @code{gnu2}, which select between the original GNU dialect and the GNU TLS
1041 descriptor-based dialect.
1042
1043 @item --enable-multiarch
1044 Specify whether to enable or disable multiarch support. The default is
1045 to check for glibc start files in a multiarch location, and enable it
1046 if the files are found. The auto detection is enabled for native builds,
1047 and for cross builds configured with @option{--with-sysroot}, and without
1048 @option{--with-native-system-header-dir}.
1049 More documentation about multiarch can be found at
1050 @uref{http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch}.
1051
1052 @item --enable-vtable-verify
1053 Specify whether to enable or disable the vtable verification feature.
1054 Enabling this feature causes libstdc++ to be built with its virtual calls
1055 in verifiable mode. This means that, when linked with libvtv, every
1056 virtual call in libstdc++ will verify the vtable pointer through which the
1057 call will be made before actually making the call. If not linked with libvtv,
1058 the verifier will call stub functions (in libstdc++ itself) and do nothing.
1059 If vtable verification is disabled, then libstdc++ is not built with its
1060 virtual calls in verifiable mode at all. However the libvtv library will
1061 still be built (see @option{--disable-libvtv} to turn off building libvtv).
1062 @option{--disable-vtable-verify} is the default.
1063
1064 @item --disable-multilib
1065 Specify that multiple target
1066 libraries to support different target variants, calling
1067 conventions, etc.@: should not be built. The default is to build a
1068 predefined set of them.
1069
1070 Some targets provide finer-grained control over which multilibs are built
1071 (e.g., @option{--disable-softfloat}):
1072 @table @code
1073 @item arm-*-*
1074 fpu, 26bit, underscore, interwork, biendian, nofmult.
1075
1076 @item m68*-*-*
1077 softfloat, m68881, m68000, m68020.
1078
1079 @item mips*-*-*
1080 single-float, biendian, softfloat.
1081
1082 @item powerpc*-*-*, rs6000*-*-*
1083 aix64, pthread, softfloat, powercpu, powerpccpu, powerpcos, biendian,
1084 sysv, aix.
1085
1086 @end table
1087
1088 @item --with-multilib-list=@var{list}
1089 @itemx --without-multilib-list
1090 Specify what multilibs to build.
1091 Currently only implemented for sh*-*-* and x86-64-*-linux*.
1092
1093 @table @code
1094 @item sh*-*-*
1095 @var{list} is a comma separated list of CPU names. These must be of the
1096 form @code{sh*} or @code{m*} (in which case they match the compiler option
1097 for that processor). The list should not contain any endian options -
1098 these are handled by @option{--with-endian}.
1099
1100 If @var{list} is empty, then there will be no multilibs for extra
1101 processors. The multilib for the secondary endian remains enabled.
1102
1103 As a special case, if an entry in the list starts with a @code{!}
1104 (exclamation point), then it is added to the list of excluded multilibs.
1105 Entries of this sort should be compatible with @samp{MULTILIB_EXCLUDES}
1106 (once the leading @code{!} has been stripped).
1107
1108 If @option{--with-multilib-list} is not given, then a default set of
1109 multilibs is selected based on the value of @option{--target}. This is
1110 usually the complete set of libraries, but some targets imply a more
1111 specialized subset.
1112
1113 Example 1: to configure a compiler for SH4A only, but supporting both
1114 endians, with little endian being the default:
1115 @smallexample
1116 --with-cpu=sh4a --with-endian=little,big --with-multilib-list=
1117 @end smallexample
1118
1119 Example 2: to configure a compiler for both SH4A and SH4AL-DSP, but with
1120 only little endian SH4AL:
1121 @smallexample
1122 --with-cpu=sh4a --with-endian=little,big \
1123 --with-multilib-list=sh4al,!mb/m4al
1124 @end smallexample
1125
1126 @item x86-64-*-linux*
1127 @var{list} is a comma separated list of @code{m32}, @code{m64} and
1128 @code{mx32} to enable 32-bit, 64-bit and x32 run-time libraries,
1129 respectively. If @var{list} is empty, then there will be no multilibs
1130 and only the default run-time library will be enabled.
1131
1132 If @option{--with-multilib-list} is not given, then only 32-bit and
1133 64-bit run-time libraries will be enabled.
1134 @end table
1135
1136 @item --with-endian=@var{endians}
1137 Specify what endians to use.
1138 Currently only implemented for sh*-*-*.
1139
1140 @var{endians} may be one of the following:
1141 @table @code
1142 @item big
1143 Use big endian exclusively.
1144 @item little
1145 Use little endian exclusively.
1146 @item big,little
1147 Use big endian by default. Provide a multilib for little endian.
1148 @item little,big
1149 Use little endian by default. Provide a multilib for big endian.
1150 @end table
1151
1152 @item --enable-threads
1153 Specify that the target
1154 supports threads. This affects the Objective-C compiler and runtime
1155 library, and exception handling for other languages like C++ and Java.
1156 On some systems, this is the default.
1157
1158 In general, the best (and, in many cases, the only known) threading
1159 model available will be configured for use. Beware that on some
1160 systems, GCC has not been taught what threading models are generally
1161 available for the system. In this case, @option{--enable-threads} is an
1162 alias for @option{--enable-threads=single}.
1163
1164 @item --disable-threads
1165 Specify that threading support should be disabled for the system.
1166 This is an alias for @option{--enable-threads=single}.
1167
1168 @item --enable-threads=@var{lib}
1169 Specify that
1170 @var{lib} is the thread support library. This affects the Objective-C
1171 compiler and runtime library, and exception handling for other languages
1172 like C++ and Java. The possibilities for @var{lib} are:
1173
1174 @table @code
1175 @item aix
1176 AIX thread support.
1177 @item dce
1178 DCE thread support.
1179 @item lynx
1180 LynxOS thread support.
1181 @item mipssde
1182 MIPS SDE thread support.
1183 @item no
1184 This is an alias for @samp{single}.
1185 @item posix
1186 Generic POSIX/Unix98 thread support.
1187 @item rtems
1188 RTEMS thread support.
1189 @item single
1190 Disable thread support, should work for all platforms.
1191 @item tpf
1192 TPF thread support.
1193 @item vxworks
1194 VxWorks thread support.
1195 @item win32
1196 Microsoft Win32 API thread support.
1197 @end table
1198
1199 @item --enable-tls
1200 Specify that the target supports TLS (Thread Local Storage). Usually
1201 configure can correctly determine if TLS is supported. In cases where
1202 it guesses incorrectly, TLS can be explicitly enabled or disabled with
1203 @option{--enable-tls} or @option{--disable-tls}. This can happen if
1204 the assembler supports TLS but the C library does not, or if the
1205 assumptions made by the configure test are incorrect.
1206
1207 @item --disable-tls
1208 Specify that the target does not support TLS.
1209 This is an alias for @option{--enable-tls=no}.
1210
1211 @item --with-cpu=@var{cpu}
1212 @itemx --with-cpu-32=@var{cpu}
1213 @itemx --with-cpu-64=@var{cpu}
1214 Specify which cpu variant the compiler should generate code for by default.
1215 @var{cpu} will be used as the default value of the @option{-mcpu=} switch.
1216 This option is only supported on some targets, including ARC, ARM, i386, M68k,
1217 PowerPC, and SPARC@. It is mandatory for ARC@. The @option{--with-cpu-32} and
1218 @option{--with-cpu-64} options specify separate default CPUs for
1219 32-bit and 64-bit modes; these options are only supported for i386,
1220 x86-64 and PowerPC.
1221
1222 @item --with-schedule=@var{cpu}
1223 @itemx --with-arch=@var{cpu}
1224 @itemx --with-arch-32=@var{cpu}
1225 @itemx --with-arch-64=@var{cpu}
1226 @itemx --with-tune=@var{cpu}
1227 @itemx --with-tune-32=@var{cpu}
1228 @itemx --with-tune-64=@var{cpu}
1229 @itemx --with-abi=@var{abi}
1230 @itemx --with-fpu=@var{type}
1231 @itemx --with-float=@var{type}
1232 These configure options provide default values for the @option{-mschedule=},
1233 @option{-march=}, @option{-mtune=}, @option{-mabi=}, and @option{-mfpu=}
1234 options and for @option{-mhard-float} or @option{-msoft-float}. As with
1235 @option{--with-cpu}, which switches will be accepted and acceptable values
1236 of the arguments depend on the target.
1237
1238 @item --with-mode=@var{mode}
1239 Specify if the compiler should default to @option{-marm} or @option{-mthumb}.
1240 This option is only supported on ARM targets.
1241
1242 @item --with-stack-offset=@var{num}
1243 This option sets the default for the -mstack-offset=@var{num} option,
1244 and will thus generally also control the setting of this option for
1245 libraries. This option is only supported on Epiphany targets.
1246
1247 @item --with-fpmath=@var{isa}
1248 This options sets @option{-mfpmath=sse} by default and specifies the default
1249 ISA for floating-point arithmetics. You can select either @samp{sse} which
1250 enables @option{-msse2} or @samp{avx} which enables @option{-mavx} by default.
1251 This option is only supported on i386 and x86-64 targets.
1252
1253 @item --with-nan=@var{encoding}
1254 On MIPS targets, set the default encoding convention to use for the
1255 special not-a-number (NaN) IEEE 754 floating-point data. The
1256 possibilities for @var{encoding} are:
1257 @table @code
1258 @item legacy
1259 Use the legacy encoding, as with the @option{-mnan=legacy} command-line
1260 option.
1261 @item 2008
1262 Use the 754-2008 encoding, as with the @option{-mnan=2008} command-line
1263 option.
1264 @end table
1265 To use this configuration option you must have an assembler version
1266 installed that supports the @option{-mnan=} command-line option too.
1267 In the absence of this configuration option the default convention is
1268 the legacy encoding, as when neither of the @option{-mnan=2008} and
1269 @option{-mnan=legacy} command-line options has been used.
1270
1271 @item --with-divide=@var{type}
1272 Specify how the compiler should generate code for checking for
1273 division by zero. This option is only supported on the MIPS target.
1274 The possibilities for @var{type} are:
1275 @table @code
1276 @item traps
1277 Division by zero checks use conditional traps (this is the default on
1278 systems that support conditional traps).
1279 @item breaks
1280 Division by zero checks use the break instruction.
1281 @end table
1282
1283 @c If you make --with-llsc the default for additional targets,
1284 @c update the --with-llsc description in the MIPS section below.
1285
1286 @item --with-llsc
1287 On MIPS targets, make @option{-mllsc} the default when no
1288 @option{-mno-llsc} option is passed. This is the default for
1289 Linux-based targets, as the kernel will emulate them if the ISA does
1290 not provide them.
1291
1292 @item --without-llsc
1293 On MIPS targets, make @option{-mno-llsc} the default when no
1294 @option{-mllsc} option is passed.
1295
1296 @item --with-synci
1297 On MIPS targets, make @option{-msynci} the default when no
1298 @option{-mno-synci} option is passed.
1299
1300 @item --without-synci
1301 On MIPS targets, make @option{-mno-synci} the default when no
1302 @option{-msynci} option is passed. This is the default.
1303
1304 @item --with-mips-plt
1305 On MIPS targets, make use of copy relocations and PLTs.
1306 These features are extensions to the traditional
1307 SVR4-based MIPS ABIs and require support from GNU binutils
1308 and the runtime C library.
1309
1310 @item --enable-__cxa_atexit
1311 Define if you want to use __cxa_atexit, rather than atexit, to
1312 register C++ destructors for local statics and global objects.
1313 This is essential for fully standards-compliant handling of
1314 destructors, but requires __cxa_atexit in libc. This option is currently
1315 only available on systems with GNU libc. When enabled, this will cause
1316 @option{-fuse-cxa-atexit} to be passed by default.
1317
1318 @item --enable-gnu-indirect-function
1319 Define if you want to enable the @code{ifunc} attribute. This option is
1320 currently only available on systems with GNU libc on certain targets.
1321
1322 @item --enable-target-optspace
1323 Specify that target
1324 libraries should be optimized for code space instead of code speed.
1325 This is the default for the m32r platform.
1326
1327 @item --with-cpp-install-dir=@var{dirname}
1328 Specify that the user visible @command{cpp} program should be installed
1329 in @file{@var{prefix}/@var{dirname}/cpp}, in addition to @var{bindir}.
1330
1331 @item --enable-comdat
1332 Enable COMDAT group support. This is primarily used to override the
1333 automatically detected value.
1334
1335 @item --enable-initfini-array
1336 Force the use of sections @code{.init_array} and @code{.fini_array}
1337 (instead of @code{.init} and @code{.fini}) for constructors and
1338 destructors. Option @option{--disable-initfini-array} has the
1339 opposite effect. If neither option is specified, the configure script
1340 will try to guess whether the @code{.init_array} and
1341 @code{.fini_array} sections are supported and, if they are, use them.
1342
1343 @item --enable-link-mutex
1344 When building GCC, use a mutex to avoid linking the compilers for
1345 multiple languages at the same time, to avoid thrashing on build
1346 systems with limited free memory. The default is not to use such a mutex.
1347
1348 @item --enable-maintainer-mode
1349 The build rules that regenerate the Autoconf and Automake output files as
1350 well as the GCC master message catalog @file{gcc.pot} are normally
1351 disabled. This is because it can only be rebuilt if the complete source
1352 tree is present. If you have changed the sources and want to rebuild the
1353 catalog, configuring with @option{--enable-maintainer-mode} will enable
1354 this. Note that you need a recent version of the @code{gettext} tools
1355 to do so.
1356
1357 @item --disable-bootstrap
1358 For a native build, the default configuration is to perform
1359 a 3-stage bootstrap of the compiler when @samp{make} is invoked,
1360 testing that GCC can compile itself correctly. If you want to disable
1361 this process, you can configure with @option{--disable-bootstrap}.
1362
1363 @item --enable-bootstrap
1364 In special cases, you may want to perform a 3-stage build
1365 even if the target and host triplets are different.
1366 This is possible when the host can run code compiled for
1367 the target (e.g.@: host is i686-linux, target is i486-linux).
1368 Starting from GCC 4.2, to do this you have to configure explicitly
1369 with @option{--enable-bootstrap}.
1370
1371 @item --enable-generated-files-in-srcdir
1372 Neither the .c and .h files that are generated from Bison and flex nor the
1373 info manuals and man pages that are built from the .texi files are present
1374 in the SVN development tree. When building GCC from that development tree,
1375 or from one of our snapshots, those generated files are placed in your
1376 build directory, which allows for the source to be in a readonly
1377 directory.
1378
1379 If you configure with @option{--enable-generated-files-in-srcdir} then those
1380 generated files will go into the source directory. This is mainly intended
1381 for generating release or prerelease tarballs of the GCC sources, since it
1382 is not a requirement that the users of source releases to have flex, Bison,
1383 or makeinfo.
1384
1385 @item --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs
1386 Specify
1387 that runtime libraries should be installed in the compiler specific
1388 subdirectory (@file{@var{libdir}/gcc}) rather than the usual places. In
1389 addition, @samp{libstdc++}'s include files will be installed into
1390 @file{@var{libdir}} unless you overruled it by using
1391 @option{--with-gxx-include-dir=@var{dirname}}. Using this option is
1392 particularly useful if you intend to use several versions of GCC in
1393 parallel. This is currently supported by @samp{libgfortran},
1394 @samp{libjava}, @samp{libstdc++}, and @samp{libobjc}.
1395
1396 @item --enable-languages=@var{lang1},@var{lang2},@dots{}
1397 Specify that only a particular subset of compilers and
1398 their runtime libraries should be built. For a list of valid values for
1399 @var{langN} you can issue the following command in the
1400 @file{gcc} directory of your GCC source tree:@*
1401 @smallexample
1402 grep language= */config-lang.in
1403 @end smallexample
1404 Currently, you can use any of the following:
1405 @code{all}, @code{ada}, @code{c}, @code{c++}, @code{fortran},
1406 @code{go}, @code{java}, @code{objc}, @code{obj-c++}.
1407 Building the Ada compiler has special requirements, see below.
1408 If you do not pass this flag, or specify the option @code{all}, then all
1409 default languages available in the @file{gcc} sub-tree will be configured.
1410 Ada, Go and Objective-C++ are not default languages; the rest are.
1411
1412 @item --enable-stage1-languages=@var{lang1},@var{lang2},@dots{}
1413 Specify that a particular subset of compilers and their runtime
1414 libraries should be built with the system C compiler during stage 1 of
1415 the bootstrap process, rather than only in later stages with the
1416 bootstrapped C compiler. The list of valid values is the same as for
1417 @option{--enable-languages}, and the option @code{all} will select all
1418 of the languages enabled by @option{--enable-languages}. This option is
1419 primarily useful for GCC development; for instance, when a development
1420 version of the compiler cannot bootstrap due to compiler bugs, or when
1421 one is debugging front ends other than the C front end. When this
1422 option is used, one can then build the target libraries for the
1423 specified languages with the stage-1 compiler by using @command{make
1424 stage1-bubble all-target}, or run the testsuite on the stage-1 compiler
1425 for the specified languages using @command{make stage1-start check-gcc}.
1426
1427 @item --disable-libada
1428 Specify that the run-time libraries and tools used by GNAT should not
1429 be built. This can be useful for debugging, or for compatibility with
1430 previous Ada build procedures, when it was required to explicitly
1431 do a @samp{make -C gcc gnatlib_and_tools}.
1432
1433 @item --disable-libssp
1434 Specify that the run-time libraries for stack smashing protection
1435 should not be built.
1436
1437 @item --disable-libquadmath
1438 Specify that the GCC quad-precision math library should not be built.
1439 On some systems, the library is required to be linkable when building
1440 the Fortran front end, unless @option{--disable-libquadmath-support}
1441 is used.
1442
1443 @item --disable-libquadmath-support
1444 Specify that the Fortran front end and @code{libgfortran} do not add
1445 support for @code{libquadmath} on systems supporting it.
1446
1447 @item --disable-libgomp
1448 Specify that the run-time libraries used by GOMP should not be built.
1449
1450 @item --disable-libvtv
1451 Specify that the run-time libraries used by vtable verification
1452 should not be built.
1453
1454 @item --with-dwarf2
1455 Specify that the compiler should
1456 use DWARF 2 debugging information as the default.
1457
1458 @item --enable-targets=all
1459 @itemx --enable-targets=@var{target_list}
1460 Some GCC targets, e.g.@: powerpc64-linux, build bi-arch compilers.
1461 These are compilers that are able to generate either 64-bit or 32-bit
1462 code. Typically, the corresponding 32-bit target, e.g.@:
1463 powerpc-linux for powerpc64-linux, only generates 32-bit code. This
1464 option enables the 32-bit target to be a bi-arch compiler, which is
1465 useful when you want a bi-arch compiler that defaults to 32-bit, and
1466 you are building a bi-arch or multi-arch binutils in a combined tree.
1467 On mips-linux, this will build a tri-arch compiler (ABI o32/n32/64),
1468 defaulted to o32.
1469 Currently, this option only affects sparc-linux, powerpc-linux, x86-linux,
1470 mips-linux and s390-linux.
1471
1472 @item --enable-secureplt
1473 This option enables @option{-msecure-plt} by default for powerpc-linux.
1474 @ifnothtml
1475 @xref{RS/6000 and PowerPC Options,, RS/6000 and PowerPC Options, gcc,
1476 Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)},
1477 @end ifnothtml
1478 @ifhtml
1479 See ``RS/6000 and PowerPC Options'' in the main manual
1480 @end ifhtml
1481
1482 @item --enable-cld
1483 This option enables @option{-mcld} by default for 32-bit x86 targets.
1484 @ifnothtml
1485 @xref{i386 and x86-64 Options,, i386 and x86-64 Options, gcc,
1486 Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)},
1487 @end ifnothtml
1488 @ifhtml
1489 See ``i386 and x86-64 Options'' in the main manual
1490 @end ifhtml
1491
1492 @item --enable-win32-registry
1493 @itemx --enable-win32-registry=@var{key}
1494 @itemx --disable-win32-registry
1495 The @option{--enable-win32-registry} option enables Microsoft Windows-hosted GCC
1496 to look up installations paths in the registry using the following key:
1497
1498 @smallexample
1499 @code{HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Free Software Foundation\@var{key}}
1500 @end smallexample
1501
1502 @var{key} defaults to GCC version number, and can be overridden by the
1503 @option{--enable-win32-registry=@var{key}} option. Vendors and distributors
1504 who use custom installers are encouraged to provide a different key,
1505 perhaps one comprised of vendor name and GCC version number, to
1506 avoid conflict with existing installations. This feature is enabled
1507 by default, and can be disabled by @option{--disable-win32-registry}
1508 option. This option has no effect on the other hosts.
1509
1510 @item --nfp
1511 Specify that the machine does not have a floating point unit. This
1512 option only applies to @samp{m68k-sun-sunos@var{n}}. On any other
1513 system, @option{--nfp} has no effect.
1514
1515 @item --enable-werror
1516 @itemx --disable-werror
1517 @itemx --enable-werror=yes
1518 @itemx --enable-werror=no
1519 When you specify this option, it controls whether certain files in the
1520 compiler are built with @option{-Werror} in bootstrap stage2 and later.
1521 If you don't specify it, @option{-Werror} is turned on for the main
1522 development trunk. However it defaults to off for release branches and
1523 final releases. The specific files which get @option{-Werror} are
1524 controlled by the Makefiles.
1525
1526 @item --enable-checking
1527 @itemx --enable-checking=@var{list}
1528 When you specify this option, the compiler is built to perform internal
1529 consistency checks of the requested complexity. This does not change the
1530 generated code, but adds error checking within the compiler. This will
1531 slow down the compiler and may only work properly if you are building
1532 the compiler with GCC@. This is @samp{yes} by default when building
1533 from SVN or snapshots, but @samp{release} for releases. The default
1534 for building the stage1 compiler is @samp{yes}. More control
1535 over the checks may be had by specifying @var{list}. The categories of
1536 checks available are @samp{yes} (most common checks
1537 @samp{assert,misc,tree,gc,rtlflag,runtime}), @samp{no} (no checks at
1538 all), @samp{all} (all but @samp{valgrind}), @samp{release} (cheapest
1539 checks @samp{assert,runtime}) or @samp{none} (same as @samp{no}).
1540 Individual checks can be enabled with these flags @samp{assert},
1541 @samp{df}, @samp{fold}, @samp{gc}, @samp{gcac} @samp{misc}, @samp{rtl},
1542 @samp{rtlflag}, @samp{runtime}, @samp{tree}, and @samp{valgrind}.
1543
1544 The @samp{valgrind} check requires the external @command{valgrind}
1545 simulator, available from @uref{http://valgrind.org/}. The
1546 @samp{df}, @samp{rtl}, @samp{gcac} and @samp{valgrind} checks are very expensive.
1547 To disable all checking, @samp{--disable-checking} or
1548 @samp{--enable-checking=none} must be explicitly requested. Disabling
1549 assertions will make the compiler and runtime slightly faster but
1550 increase the risk of undetected internal errors causing wrong code to be
1551 generated.
1552
1553 @item --disable-stage1-checking
1554 @itemx --enable-stage1-checking
1555 @itemx --enable-stage1-checking=@var{list}
1556 If no @option{--enable-checking} option is specified the stage1
1557 compiler will be built with @samp{yes} checking enabled, otherwise
1558 the stage1 checking flags are the same as specified by
1559 @option{--enable-checking}. To build the stage1 compiler with
1560 different checking options use @option{--enable-stage1-checking}.
1561 The list of checking options is the same as for @option{--enable-checking}.
1562 If your system is too slow or too small to bootstrap a released compiler
1563 with checking for stage1 enabled, you can use @samp{--disable-stage1-checking}
1564 to disable checking for the stage1 compiler.
1565
1566 @item --enable-coverage
1567 @itemx --enable-coverage=@var{level}
1568 With this option, the compiler is built to collect self coverage
1569 information, every time it is run. This is for internal development
1570 purposes, and only works when the compiler is being built with gcc. The
1571 @var{level} argument controls whether the compiler is built optimized or
1572 not, values are @samp{opt} and @samp{noopt}. For coverage analysis you
1573 want to disable optimization, for performance analysis you want to
1574 enable optimization. When coverage is enabled, the default level is
1575 without optimization.
1576
1577 @item --enable-gather-detailed-mem-stats
1578 When this option is specified more detailed information on memory
1579 allocation is gathered. This information is printed when using
1580 @option{-fmem-report}.
1581
1582 @item --enable-nls
1583 @itemx --disable-nls
1584 The @option{--enable-nls} option enables Native Language Support (NLS),
1585 which lets GCC output diagnostics in languages other than American
1586 English. Native Language Support is enabled by default if not doing a
1587 canadian cross build. The @option{--disable-nls} option disables NLS@.
1588
1589 @item --with-included-gettext
1590 If NLS is enabled, the @option{--with-included-gettext} option causes the build
1591 procedure to prefer its copy of GNU @command{gettext}.
1592
1593 @item --with-catgets
1594 If NLS is enabled, and if the host lacks @code{gettext} but has the
1595 inferior @code{catgets} interface, the GCC build procedure normally
1596 ignores @code{catgets} and instead uses GCC's copy of the GNU
1597 @code{gettext} library. The @option{--with-catgets} option causes the
1598 build procedure to use the host's @code{catgets} in this situation.
1599
1600 @item --with-libiconv-prefix=@var{dir}
1601 Search for libiconv header files in @file{@var{dir}/include} and
1602 libiconv library files in @file{@var{dir}/lib}.
1603
1604 @item --enable-obsolete
1605 Enable configuration for an obsoleted system. If you attempt to
1606 configure GCC for a system (build, host, or target) which has been
1607 obsoleted, and you do not specify this flag, configure will halt with an
1608 error message.
1609
1610 All support for systems which have been obsoleted in one release of GCC
1611 is removed entirely in the next major release, unless someone steps
1612 forward to maintain the port.
1613
1614 @item --enable-decimal-float
1615 @itemx --enable-decimal-float=yes
1616 @itemx --enable-decimal-float=no
1617 @itemx --enable-decimal-float=bid
1618 @itemx --enable-decimal-float=dpd
1619 @itemx --disable-decimal-float
1620 Enable (or disable) support for the C decimal floating point extension
1621 that is in the IEEE 754-2008 standard. This is enabled by default only
1622 on PowerPC, i386, and x86_64 GNU/Linux systems. Other systems may also
1623 support it, but require the user to specifically enable it. You can
1624 optionally control which decimal floating point format is used (either
1625 @samp{bid} or @samp{dpd}). The @samp{bid} (binary integer decimal)
1626 format is default on i386 and x86_64 systems, and the @samp{dpd}
1627 (densely packed decimal) format is default on PowerPC systems.
1628
1629 @item --enable-fixed-point
1630 @itemx --disable-fixed-point
1631 Enable (or disable) support for C fixed-point arithmetic.
1632 This option is enabled by default for some targets (such as MIPS) which
1633 have hardware-support for fixed-point operations. On other targets, you
1634 may enable this option manually.
1635
1636 @item --with-long-double-128
1637 Specify if @code{long double} type should be 128-bit by default on selected
1638 GNU/Linux architectures. If using @code{--without-long-double-128},
1639 @code{long double} will be by default 64-bit, the same as @code{double} type.
1640 When neither of these configure options are used, the default will be
1641 128-bit @code{long double} when built against GNU C Library 2.4 and later,
1642 64-bit @code{long double} otherwise.
1643
1644 @item --with-gmp=@var{pathname}
1645 @itemx --with-gmp-include=@var{pathname}
1646 @itemx --with-gmp-lib=@var{pathname}
1647 @itemx --with-mpfr=@var{pathname}
1648 @itemx --with-mpfr-include=@var{pathname}
1649 @itemx --with-mpfr-lib=@var{pathname}
1650 @itemx --with-mpc=@var{pathname}
1651 @itemx --with-mpc-include=@var{pathname}
1652 @itemx --with-mpc-lib=@var{pathname}
1653 If you want to build GCC but do not have the GMP library, the MPFR
1654 library and/or the MPC library installed in a standard location and
1655 do not have their sources present in the GCC source tree then you
1656 can explicitly specify the directory where they are installed
1657 (@samp{--with-gmp=@var{gmpinstalldir}},
1658 @samp{--with-mpfr=@/@var{mpfrinstalldir}},
1659 @samp{--with-mpc=@/@var{mpcinstalldir}}). The
1660 @option{--with-gmp=@/@var{gmpinstalldir}} option is shorthand for
1661 @option{--with-gmp-lib=@/@var{gmpinstalldir}/lib} and
1662 @option{--with-gmp-include=@/@var{gmpinstalldir}/include}. Likewise the
1663 @option{--with-mpfr=@/@var{mpfrinstalldir}} option is shorthand for
1664 @option{--with-mpfr-lib=@/@var{mpfrinstalldir}/lib} and
1665 @option{--with-mpfr-include=@/@var{mpfrinstalldir}/include}, also the
1666 @option{--with-mpc=@/@var{mpcinstalldir}} option is shorthand for
1667 @option{--with-mpc-lib=@/@var{mpcinstalldir}/lib} and
1668 @option{--with-mpc-include=@/@var{mpcinstalldir}/include}. If these
1669 shorthand assumptions are not correct, you can use the explicit
1670 include and lib options directly. You might also need to ensure the
1671 shared libraries can be found by the dynamic linker when building and
1672 using GCC, for example by setting the runtime shared library path
1673 variable (@env{LD_LIBRARY_PATH} on GNU/Linux and Solaris systems).
1674
1675 These flags are applicable to the host platform only. When building
1676 a cross compiler, they will not be used to configure target libraries.
1677
1678 @item --with-isl=@var{pathname}
1679 @itemx --with-isl-include=@var{pathname}
1680 @itemx --with-isl-lib=@var{pathname}
1681 @itemx --with-cloog=@var{pathname}
1682 @itemx --with-cloog-include=@var{pathname}
1683 @itemx --with-cloog-lib=@var{pathname}
1684 If you do not have ISL and the CLooG
1685 libraries installed in a standard location and you want to build GCC,
1686 you can explicitly specify the directory where they are installed
1687 (@samp{--with-isl=@/@var{islinstalldir}},
1688 @samp{--with-cloog=@/@var{clooginstalldir}}). The
1689 @option{--with-isl=@/@var{islinstalldir}} option is shorthand for
1690 @option{--with-isl-lib=@/@var{islinstalldir}/lib} and
1691 @option{--with-isl-include=@/@var{islinstalldir}/include}. Likewise the
1692 @option{--with-cloog=@/@var{clooginstalldir}} option is shorthand for
1693 @option{--with-cloog-lib=@/@var{clooginstalldir}/lib} and
1694 @option{--with-cloog-include=@/@var{clooginstalldir}/include}. If these
1695 shorthand assumptions are not correct, you can use the explicit
1696 include and lib options directly.
1697
1698 These flags are applicable to the host platform only. When building
1699 a cross compiler, they will not be used to configure target libraries.
1700
1701 @item --with-host-libstdcxx=@var{linker-args}
1702 If you are linking with a static copy of PPL, you can use this option
1703 to specify how the linker should find the standard C++ library used
1704 internally by PPL. Typical values of @var{linker-args} might be
1705 @samp{-lstdc++} or @samp{-Wl,-Bstatic,-lstdc++,-Bdynamic -lm}. If you are
1706 linking with a shared copy of PPL, you probably do not need this
1707 option; shared library dependencies will cause the linker to search
1708 for the standard C++ library automatically.
1709
1710 @item --with-stage1-ldflags=@var{flags}
1711 This option may be used to set linker flags to be used when linking
1712 stage 1 of GCC. These are also used when linking GCC if configured with
1713 @option{--disable-bootstrap}. By default no special flags are used.
1714
1715 @item --with-stage1-libs=@var{libs}
1716 This option may be used to set libraries to be used when linking stage 1
1717 of GCC. These are also used when linking GCC if configured with
1718 @option{--disable-bootstrap}. The default is the argument to
1719 @option{--with-host-libstdcxx}, if specified.
1720
1721 @item --with-boot-ldflags=@var{flags}
1722 This option may be used to set linker flags to be used when linking
1723 stage 2 and later when bootstrapping GCC. If neither --with-boot-libs
1724 nor --with-host-libstdcxx is set to a value, then the default is
1725 @samp{-static-libstdc++ -static-libgcc}.
1726
1727 @item --with-boot-libs=@var{libs}
1728 This option may be used to set libraries to be used when linking stage 2
1729 and later when bootstrapping GCC. The default is the argument to
1730 @option{--with-host-libstdcxx}, if specified.
1731
1732 @item --with-debug-prefix-map=@var{map}
1733 Convert source directory names using @option{-fdebug-prefix-map} when
1734 building runtime libraries. @samp{@var{map}} is a space-separated
1735 list of maps of the form @samp{@var{old}=@var{new}}.
1736
1737 @item --enable-linker-build-id
1738 Tells GCC to pass @option{--build-id} option to the linker for all final
1739 links (links performed without the @option{-r} or @option{--relocatable}
1740 option), if the linker supports it. If you specify
1741 @option{--enable-linker-build-id}, but your linker does not
1742 support @option{--build-id} option, a warning is issued and the
1743 @option{--enable-linker-build-id} option is ignored. The default is off.
1744
1745 @item --with-linker-hash-style=@var{choice}
1746 Tells GCC to pass @option{--hash-style=@var{choice}} option to the
1747 linker for all final links. @var{choice} can be one of
1748 @samp{sysv}, @samp{gnu}, and @samp{both} where @samp{sysv} is the default.
1749
1750 @item --enable-gnu-unique-object
1751 @itemx --disable-gnu-unique-object
1752 Tells GCC to use the gnu_unique_object relocation for C++ template
1753 static data members and inline function local statics. Enabled by
1754 default for a native toolchain with an assembler that accepts it and
1755 GLIBC 2.11 or above, otherwise disabled.
1756
1757 @item --enable-lto
1758 @itemx --disable-lto
1759 Enable support for link-time optimization (LTO). This is enabled by
1760 default, and may be disabled using @option{--disable-lto}.
1761
1762 @item --with-plugin-ld=@var{pathname}
1763 Enable an alternate linker to be used at link-time optimization (LTO)
1764 link time when @option{-fuse-linker-plugin} is enabled.
1765 This linker should have plugin support such as gold starting with
1766 version 2.20 or GNU ld starting with version 2.21.
1767 See @option{-fuse-linker-plugin} for details.
1768
1769 @item --enable-canonical-system-headers
1770 @itemx --disable-canonical-system-headers
1771 Enable system header path canonicalization for @file{libcpp}. This can
1772 produce shorter header file paths in diagnostics and dependency output
1773 files, but these changed header paths may conflict with some compilation
1774 environments. Enabled by default, and may be disabled using
1775 @option{--disable-canonical-system-headers}.
1776 @end table
1777
1778 @subheading Cross-Compiler-Specific Options
1779 The following options only apply to building cross compilers.
1780
1781 @table @code
1782 @item --with-sysroot
1783 @itemx --with-sysroot=@var{dir}
1784 Tells GCC to consider @var{dir} as the root of a tree that contains
1785 (a subset of) the root filesystem of the target operating system.
1786 Target system headers, libraries and run-time object files will be
1787 searched for in there. More specifically, this acts as if
1788 @option{--sysroot=@var{dir}} was added to the default options of the built
1789 compiler. The specified directory is not copied into the
1790 install tree, unlike the options @option{--with-headers} and
1791 @option{--with-libs} that this option obsoletes. The default value,
1792 in case @option{--with-sysroot} is not given an argument, is
1793 @option{$@{gcc_tooldir@}/sys-root}. If the specified directory is a
1794 subdirectory of @option{$@{exec_prefix@}}, then it will be found relative to
1795 the GCC binaries if the installation tree is moved.
1796
1797 This option affects the system root for the compiler used to build
1798 target libraries (which runs on the build system) and the compiler newly
1799 installed with @code{make install}; it does not affect the compiler which is
1800 used to build GCC itself.
1801
1802 If you specify the @option{--with-native-system-header-dir=@var{dirname}}
1803 option then the compiler will search that directory within @var{dirname} for
1804 native system headers rather than the default @file{/usr/include}.
1805
1806 @item --with-build-sysroot
1807 @itemx --with-build-sysroot=@var{dir}
1808 Tells GCC to consider @var{dir} as the system root (see
1809 @option{--with-sysroot}) while building target libraries, instead of
1810 the directory specified with @option{--with-sysroot}. This option is
1811 only useful when you are already using @option{--with-sysroot}. You
1812 can use @option{--with-build-sysroot} when you are configuring with
1813 @option{--prefix} set to a directory that is different from the one in
1814 which you are installing GCC and your target libraries.
1815
1816 This option affects the system root for the compiler used to build
1817 target libraries (which runs on the build system); it does not affect
1818 the compiler which is used to build GCC itself.
1819
1820 If you specify the @option{--with-native-system-header-dir=@var{dirname}}
1821 option then the compiler will search that directory within @var{dirname} for
1822 native system headers rather than the default @file{/usr/include}.
1823
1824 @item --with-headers
1825 @itemx --with-headers=@var{dir}
1826 Deprecated in favor of @option{--with-sysroot}.
1827 Specifies that target headers are available when building a cross compiler.
1828 The @var{dir} argument specifies a directory which has the target include
1829 files. These include files will be copied into the @file{gcc} install
1830 directory. @emph{This option with the @var{dir} argument is required} when
1831 building a cross compiler, if @file{@var{prefix}/@var{target}/sys-include}
1832 doesn't pre-exist. If @file{@var{prefix}/@var{target}/sys-include} does
1833 pre-exist, the @var{dir} argument may be omitted. @command{fixincludes}
1834 will be run on these files to make them compatible with GCC@.
1835
1836 @item --without-headers
1837 Tells GCC not use any target headers from a libc when building a cross
1838 compiler. When crossing to GNU/Linux, you need the headers so GCC
1839 can build the exception handling for libgcc.
1840
1841 @item --with-libs
1842 @itemx --with-libs="@var{dir1} @var{dir2} @dots{} @var{dirN}"
1843 Deprecated in favor of @option{--with-sysroot}.
1844 Specifies a list of directories which contain the target runtime
1845 libraries. These libraries will be copied into the @file{gcc} install
1846 directory. If the directory list is omitted, this option has no
1847 effect.
1848
1849 @item --with-newlib
1850 Specifies that @samp{newlib} is
1851 being used as the target C library. This causes @code{__eprintf} to be
1852 omitted from @file{libgcc.a} on the assumption that it will be provided by
1853 @samp{newlib}.
1854
1855 @item --with-avrlibc
1856 Specifies that @samp{AVR-Libc} is
1857 being used as the target C library. This causes float support
1858 functions like @code{__addsf3} to be omitted from @file{libgcc.a} on
1859 the assumption that it will be provided by @file{libm.a}. For more
1860 technical details, cf. @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/PR54461,,PR54461}.
1861 This option is only supported for the AVR target. It is not supported for
1862 RTEMS configurations, which currently use newlib. The option is
1863 supported since version 4.7.2 and is the default in 4.8.0 and newer.
1864
1865 @item --with-build-time-tools=@var{dir}
1866 Specifies where to find the set of target tools (assembler, linker, etc.)
1867 that will be used while building GCC itself. This option can be useful
1868 if the directory layouts are different between the system you are building
1869 GCC on, and the system where you will deploy it.
1870
1871 For example, on an @samp{ia64-hp-hpux} system, you may have the GNU
1872 assembler and linker in @file{/usr/bin}, and the native tools in a
1873 different path, and build a toolchain that expects to find the
1874 native tools in @file{/usr/bin}.
1875
1876 When you use this option, you should ensure that @var{dir} includes
1877 @command{ar}, @command{as}, @command{ld}, @command{nm},
1878 @command{ranlib} and @command{strip} if necessary, and possibly
1879 @command{objdump}. Otherwise, GCC may use an inconsistent set of
1880 tools.
1881 @end table
1882
1883 @subheading Java-Specific Options
1884
1885 The following option applies to the build of the Java front end.
1886
1887 @table @code
1888 @item --disable-libgcj
1889 Specify that the run-time libraries
1890 used by GCJ should not be built. This is useful in case you intend
1891 to use GCJ with some other run-time, or you're going to install it
1892 separately, or it just happens not to build on your particular
1893 machine. In general, if the Java front end is enabled, the GCJ
1894 libraries will be enabled too, unless they're known to not work on
1895 the target platform. If GCJ is enabled but @samp{libgcj} isn't built, you
1896 may need to port it; in this case, before modifying the top-level
1897 @file{configure.in} so that @samp{libgcj} is enabled by default on this platform,
1898 you may use @option{--enable-libgcj} to override the default.
1899
1900 @end table
1901
1902 The following options apply to building @samp{libgcj}.
1903
1904 @subsubheading General Options
1905
1906 @table @code
1907 @item --enable-java-maintainer-mode
1908 By default the @samp{libjava} build will not attempt to compile the
1909 @file{.java} source files to @file{.class}. Instead, it will use the
1910 @file{.class} files from the source tree. If you use this option you
1911 must have executables named @command{ecj1} and @command{gjavah} in your path
1912 for use by the build. You must use this option if you intend to
1913 modify any @file{.java} files in @file{libjava}.
1914
1915 @item --with-java-home=@var{dirname}
1916 This @samp{libjava} option overrides the default value of the
1917 @samp{java.home} system property. It is also used to set
1918 @samp{sun.boot.class.path} to @file{@var{dirname}/lib/rt.jar}. By
1919 default @samp{java.home} is set to @file{@var{prefix}} and
1920 @samp{sun.boot.class.path} to
1921 @file{@var{datadir}/java/libgcj-@var{version}.jar}.
1922
1923 @item --with-ecj-jar=@var{filename}
1924 This option can be used to specify the location of an external jar
1925 file containing the Eclipse Java compiler. A specially modified
1926 version of this compiler is used by @command{gcj} to parse
1927 @file{.java} source files. If this option is given, the
1928 @samp{libjava} build will create and install an @file{ecj1} executable
1929 which uses this jar file at runtime.
1930
1931 If this option is not given, but an @file{ecj.jar} file is found in
1932 the topmost source tree at configure time, then the @samp{libgcj}
1933 build will create and install @file{ecj1}, and will also install the
1934 discovered @file{ecj.jar} into a suitable place in the install tree.
1935
1936 If @file{ecj1} is not installed, then the user will have to supply one
1937 on his path in order for @command{gcj} to properly parse @file{.java}
1938 source files. A suitable jar is available from
1939 @uref{ftp://sourceware.org/pub/java/}.
1940
1941 @item --disable-getenv-properties
1942 Don't set system properties from @env{GCJ_PROPERTIES}.
1943
1944 @item --enable-hash-synchronization
1945 Use a global hash table for monitor locks. Ordinarily,
1946 @samp{libgcj}'s @samp{configure} script automatically makes
1947 the correct choice for this option for your platform. Only use
1948 this if you know you need the library to be configured differently.
1949
1950 @item --enable-interpreter
1951 Enable the Java interpreter. The interpreter is automatically
1952 enabled by default on all platforms that support it. This option
1953 is really only useful if you want to disable the interpreter
1954 (using @option{--disable-interpreter}).
1955
1956 @item --disable-java-net
1957 Disable java.net. This disables the native part of java.net only,
1958 using non-functional stubs for native method implementations.
1959
1960 @item --disable-jvmpi
1961 Disable JVMPI support.
1962
1963 @item --disable-libgcj-bc
1964 Disable BC ABI compilation of certain parts of libgcj. By default,
1965 some portions of libgcj are compiled with @option{-findirect-dispatch}
1966 and @option{-fno-indirect-classes}, allowing them to be overridden at
1967 run-time.
1968
1969 If @option{--disable-libgcj-bc} is specified, libgcj is built without
1970 these options. This allows the compile-time linker to resolve
1971 dependencies when statically linking to libgcj. However it makes it
1972 impossible to override the affected portions of libgcj at run-time.
1973
1974 @item --enable-reduced-reflection
1975 Build most of libgcj with @option{-freduced-reflection}. This reduces
1976 the size of libgcj at the expense of not being able to do accurate
1977 reflection on the classes it contains. This option is safe if you
1978 know that code using libgcj will never use reflection on the standard
1979 runtime classes in libgcj (including using serialization, RMI or CORBA).
1980
1981 @item --with-ecos
1982 Enable runtime eCos target support.
1983
1984 @item --without-libffi
1985 Don't use @samp{libffi}. This will disable the interpreter and JNI
1986 support as well, as these require @samp{libffi} to work.
1987
1988 @item --enable-libgcj-debug
1989 Enable runtime debugging code.
1990
1991 @item --enable-libgcj-multifile
1992 If specified, causes all @file{.java} source files to be
1993 compiled into @file{.class} files in one invocation of
1994 @samp{gcj}. This can speed up build time, but is more
1995 resource-intensive. If this option is unspecified or
1996 disabled, @samp{gcj} is invoked once for each @file{.java}
1997 file to compile into a @file{.class} file.
1998
1999 @item --with-libiconv-prefix=DIR
2000 Search for libiconv in @file{DIR/include} and @file{DIR/lib}.
2001
2002 @item --enable-sjlj-exceptions
2003 Force use of the @code{setjmp}/@code{longjmp}-based scheme for exceptions.
2004 @samp{configure} ordinarily picks the correct value based on the platform.
2005 Only use this option if you are sure you need a different setting.
2006
2007 @item --with-system-zlib
2008 Use installed @samp{zlib} rather than that included with GCC@.
2009
2010 @item --with-win32-nlsapi=ansi, unicows or unicode
2011 Indicates how MinGW @samp{libgcj} translates between UNICODE
2012 characters and the Win32 API@.
2013
2014 @item --enable-java-home
2015 If enabled, this creates a JPackage compatible SDK environment during install.
2016 Note that if --enable-java-home is used, --with-arch-directory=ARCH must also
2017 be specified.
2018
2019 @item --with-arch-directory=ARCH
2020 Specifies the name to use for the @file{jre/lib/ARCH} directory in the SDK
2021 environment created when --enable-java-home is passed. Typical names for this
2022 directory include i386, amd64, ia64, etc.
2023
2024 @item --with-os-directory=DIR
2025 Specifies the OS directory for the SDK include directory. This is set to auto
2026 detect, and is typically 'linux'.
2027
2028 @item --with-origin-name=NAME
2029 Specifies the JPackage origin name. This defaults to the 'gcj' in
2030 java-1.5.0-gcj.
2031
2032 @item --with-arch-suffix=SUFFIX
2033 Specifies the suffix for the sdk directory. Defaults to the empty string.
2034 Examples include '.x86_64' in 'java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0.x86_64'.
2035
2036 @item --with-jvm-root-dir=DIR
2037 Specifies where to install the SDK. Default is $(prefix)/lib/jvm.
2038
2039 @item --with-jvm-jar-dir=DIR
2040 Specifies where to install jars. Default is $(prefix)/lib/jvm-exports.
2041
2042 @item --with-python-dir=DIR
2043 Specifies where to install the Python modules used for aot-compile. DIR should
2044 not include the prefix used in installation. For example, if the Python modules
2045 are to be installed in /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages, then
2046 --with-python-dir=/lib/python2.5/site-packages should be passed. If this is
2047 not specified, then the Python modules are installed in $(prefix)/share/python.
2048
2049 @item --enable-aot-compile-rpm
2050 Adds aot-compile-rpm to the list of installed scripts.
2051
2052 @item --enable-browser-plugin
2053 Build the gcjwebplugin web browser plugin.
2054
2055 @item --enable-static-libjava
2056 Build static libraries in libjava. The default is to only build shared
2057 libraries.
2058
2059 @table @code
2060 @item ansi
2061 Use the single-byte @code{char} and the Win32 A functions natively,
2062 translating to and from UNICODE when using these functions. If
2063 unspecified, this is the default.
2064
2065 @item unicows
2066 Use the @code{WCHAR} and Win32 W functions natively. Adds
2067 @code{-lunicows} to @file{libgcj.spec} to link with @samp{libunicows}.
2068 @file{unicows.dll} needs to be deployed on Microsoft Windows 9X machines
2069 running built executables. @file{libunicows.a}, an open-source
2070 import library around Microsoft's @code{unicows.dll}, is obtained from
2071 @uref{http://libunicows.sourceforge.net/}, which also gives details
2072 on getting @file{unicows.dll} from Microsoft.
2073
2074 @item unicode
2075 Use the @code{WCHAR} and Win32 W functions natively. Does @emph{not}
2076 add @code{-lunicows} to @file{libgcj.spec}. The built executables will
2077 only run on Microsoft Windows NT and above.
2078 @end table
2079 @end table
2080
2081 @subsubheading AWT-Specific Options
2082
2083 @table @code
2084 @item --with-x
2085 Use the X Window System.
2086
2087 @item --enable-java-awt=PEER(S)
2088 Specifies the AWT peer library or libraries to build alongside
2089 @samp{libgcj}. If this option is unspecified or disabled, AWT
2090 will be non-functional. Current valid values are @option{gtk} and
2091 @option{xlib}. Multiple libraries should be separated by a
2092 comma (i.e.@: @option{--enable-java-awt=gtk,xlib}).
2093
2094 @item --enable-gtk-cairo
2095 Build the cairo Graphics2D implementation on GTK@.
2096
2097 @item --enable-java-gc=TYPE
2098 Choose garbage collector. Defaults to @option{boehm} if unspecified.
2099
2100 @item --disable-gtktest
2101 Do not try to compile and run a test GTK+ program.
2102
2103 @item --disable-glibtest
2104 Do not try to compile and run a test GLIB program.
2105
2106 @item --with-libart-prefix=PFX
2107 Prefix where libart is installed (optional).
2108
2109 @item --with-libart-exec-prefix=PFX
2110 Exec prefix where libart is installed (optional).
2111
2112 @item --disable-libarttest
2113 Do not try to compile and run a test libart program.
2114
2115 @end table
2116
2117 @subsubheading Overriding @command{configure} test results
2118
2119 Sometimes, it might be necessary to override the result of some
2120 @command{configure} test, for example in order to ease porting to a new
2121 system or work around a bug in a test. The toplevel @command{configure}
2122 script provides three variables for this:
2123
2124 @table @code
2125
2126 @item build_configargs
2127 @cindex @code{build_configargs}
2128 The contents of this variable is passed to all build @command{configure}
2129 scripts.
2130
2131 @item host_configargs
2132 @cindex @code{host_configargs}
2133 The contents of this variable is passed to all host @command{configure}
2134 scripts.
2135
2136 @item target_configargs
2137 @cindex @code{target_configargs}
2138 The contents of this variable is passed to all target @command{configure}
2139 scripts.
2140
2141 @end table
2142
2143 In order to avoid shell and @command{make} quoting issues for complex
2144 overrides, you can pass a setting for @env{CONFIG_SITE} and set
2145 variables in the site file.
2146
2147 @html
2148 <hr />
2149 <p>
2150 @end html
2151 @ifhtml
2152 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
2153 @end ifhtml
2154 @end ifset
2155
2156 @c ***Building****************************************************************
2157 @ifnothtml
2158 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
2159 @node Building, Testing, Configuration, Installing GCC
2160 @end ifnothtml
2161 @ifset buildhtml
2162 @ifnothtml
2163 @chapter Building
2164 @end ifnothtml
2165 @cindex Installing GCC: Building
2166
2167 Now that GCC is configured, you are ready to build the compiler and
2168 runtime libraries.
2169
2170 Some commands executed when making the compiler may fail (return a
2171 nonzero status) and be ignored by @command{make}. These failures, which
2172 are often due to files that were not found, are expected, and can safely
2173 be ignored.
2174
2175 It is normal to have compiler warnings when compiling certain files.
2176 Unless you are a GCC developer, you can generally ignore these warnings
2177 unless they cause compilation to fail. Developers should attempt to fix
2178 any warnings encountered, however they can temporarily continue past
2179 warnings-as-errors by specifying the configure flag
2180 @option{--disable-werror}.
2181
2182 On certain old systems, defining certain environment variables such as
2183 @env{CC} can interfere with the functioning of @command{make}.
2184
2185 If you encounter seemingly strange errors when trying to build the
2186 compiler in a directory other than the source directory, it could be
2187 because you have previously configured the compiler in the source
2188 directory. Make sure you have done all the necessary preparations.
2189
2190 If you build GCC on a BSD system using a directory stored in an old System
2191 V file system, problems may occur in running @command{fixincludes} if the
2192 System V file system doesn't support symbolic links. These problems
2193 result in a failure to fix the declaration of @code{size_t} in
2194 @file{sys/types.h}. If you find that @code{size_t} is a signed type and
2195 that type mismatches occur, this could be the cause.
2196
2197 The solution is not to use such a directory for building GCC@.
2198
2199 Similarly, when building from SVN or snapshots, or if you modify
2200 @file{*.l} files, you need the Flex lexical analyzer generator
2201 installed. If you do not modify @file{*.l} files, releases contain
2202 the Flex-generated files and you do not need Flex installed to build
2203 them. There is still one Flex-based lexical analyzer (part of the
2204 build machinery, not of GCC itself) that is used even if you only
2205 build the C front end.
2206
2207 When building from SVN or snapshots, or if you modify Texinfo
2208 documentation, you need version 4.7 or later of Texinfo installed if you
2209 want Info documentation to be regenerated. Releases contain Info
2210 documentation pre-built for the unmodified documentation in the release.
2211
2212 @section Building a native compiler
2213
2214 For a native build, the default configuration is to perform
2215 a 3-stage bootstrap of the compiler when @samp{make} is invoked.
2216 This will build the entire GCC system and ensure that it compiles
2217 itself correctly. It can be disabled with the @option{--disable-bootstrap}
2218 parameter to @samp{configure}, but bootstrapping is suggested because
2219 the compiler will be tested more completely and could also have
2220 better performance.
2221
2222 The bootstrapping process will complete the following steps:
2223
2224 @itemize @bullet
2225 @item
2226 Build tools necessary to build the compiler.
2227
2228 @item
2229 Perform a 3-stage bootstrap of the compiler. This includes building
2230 three times the target tools for use by the compiler such as binutils
2231 (bfd, binutils, gas, gprof, ld, and opcodes) if they have been
2232 individually linked or moved into the top level GCC source tree before
2233 configuring.
2234
2235 @item
2236 Perform a comparison test of the stage2 and stage3 compilers.
2237
2238 @item
2239 Build runtime libraries using the stage3 compiler from the previous step.
2240
2241 @end itemize
2242
2243 If you are short on disk space you might consider @samp{make
2244 bootstrap-lean} instead. The sequence of compilation is the
2245 same described above, but object files from the stage1 and
2246 stage2 of the 3-stage bootstrap of the compiler are deleted as
2247 soon as they are no longer needed.
2248
2249 If you wish to use non-default GCC flags when compiling the stage2
2250 and stage3 compilers, set @code{BOOT_CFLAGS} on the command line when
2251 doing @samp{make}. For example, if you want to save additional space
2252 during the bootstrap and in the final installation as well, you can
2253 build the compiler binaries without debugging information as in the
2254 following example. This will save roughly 40% of disk space both for
2255 the bootstrap and the final installation. (Libraries will still contain
2256 debugging information.)
2257
2258 @smallexample
2259 make BOOT_CFLAGS='-O' bootstrap
2260 @end smallexample
2261
2262 You can place non-default optimization flags into @code{BOOT_CFLAGS}; they
2263 are less well tested here than the default of @samp{-g -O2}, but should
2264 still work. In a few cases, you may find that you need to specify special
2265 flags such as @option{-msoft-float} here to complete the bootstrap; or,
2266 if the native compiler miscompiles the stage1 compiler, you may need
2267 to work around this, by choosing @code{BOOT_CFLAGS} to avoid the parts
2268 of the stage1 compiler that were miscompiled, or by using @samp{make
2269 bootstrap4} to increase the number of stages of bootstrap.
2270
2271 @code{BOOT_CFLAGS} does not apply to bootstrapped target libraries.
2272 Since these are always compiled with the compiler currently being
2273 bootstrapped, you can use @code{CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET} to modify their
2274 compilation flags, as for non-bootstrapped target libraries.
2275 Again, if the native compiler miscompiles the stage1 compiler, you may
2276 need to work around this by avoiding non-working parts of the stage1
2277 compiler. Use @code{STAGE1_TFLAGS} to this end.
2278
2279 If you used the flag @option{--enable-languages=@dots{}} to restrict
2280 the compilers to be built, only those you've actually enabled will be
2281 built. This will of course only build those runtime libraries, for
2282 which the particular compiler has been built. Please note,
2283 that re-defining @env{LANGUAGES} when calling @samp{make}
2284 @strong{does not} work anymore!
2285
2286 If the comparison of stage2 and stage3 fails, this normally indicates
2287 that the stage2 compiler has compiled GCC incorrectly, and is therefore
2288 a potentially serious bug which you should investigate and report. (On
2289 a few systems, meaningful comparison of object files is impossible; they
2290 always appear ``different''. If you encounter this problem, you will
2291 need to disable comparison in the @file{Makefile}.)
2292
2293 If you do not want to bootstrap your compiler, you can configure with
2294 @option{--disable-bootstrap}. In particular cases, you may want to
2295 bootstrap your compiler even if the target system is not the same as
2296 the one you are building on: for example, you could build a
2297 @code{powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu} toolchain on a
2298 @code{powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu} host. In this case, pass
2299 @option{--enable-bootstrap} to the configure script.
2300
2301 @code{BUILD_CONFIG} can be used to bring in additional customization
2302 to the build. It can be set to a whitespace-separated list of names.
2303 For each such @code{NAME}, top-level @file{config/@code{NAME}.mk} will
2304 be included by the top-level @file{Makefile}, bringing in any settings
2305 it contains. The default @code{BUILD_CONFIG} can be set using the
2306 configure option @option{--with-build-config=@code{NAME}...}. Some
2307 examples of supported build configurations are:
2308
2309 @table @asis
2310 @item @samp{bootstrap-O1}
2311 Removes any @option{-O}-started option from @code{BOOT_CFLAGS}, and adds
2312 @option{-O1} to it. @samp{BUILD_CONFIG=bootstrap-O1} is equivalent to
2313 @samp{BOOT_CFLAGS='-g -O1'}.
2314
2315 @item @samp{bootstrap-O3}
2316 Analogous to @code{bootstrap-O1}.
2317
2318 @item @samp{bootstrap-lto}
2319 Enables Link-Time Optimization for host tools during bootstrapping.
2320 @samp{BUILD_CONFIG=bootstrap-lto} is equivalent to adding
2321 @option{-flto} to @samp{BOOT_CFLAGS}.
2322
2323 @item @samp{bootstrap-debug}
2324 Verifies that the compiler generates the same executable code, whether
2325 or not it is asked to emit debug information. To this end, this
2326 option builds stage2 host programs without debug information, and uses
2327 @file{contrib/compare-debug} to compare them with the stripped stage3
2328 object files. If @code{BOOT_CFLAGS} is overridden so as to not enable
2329 debug information, stage2 will have it, and stage3 won't. This option
2330 is enabled by default when GCC bootstrapping is enabled, if
2331 @code{strip} can turn object files compiled with and without debug
2332 info into identical object files. In addition to better test
2333 coverage, this option makes default bootstraps faster and leaner.
2334
2335 @item @samp{bootstrap-debug-big}
2336 Rather than comparing stripped object files, as in
2337 @code{bootstrap-debug}, this option saves internal compiler dumps
2338 during stage2 and stage3 and compares them as well, which helps catch
2339 additional potential problems, but at a great cost in terms of disk
2340 space. It can be specified in addition to @samp{bootstrap-debug}.
2341
2342 @item @samp{bootstrap-debug-lean}
2343 This option saves disk space compared with @code{bootstrap-debug-big},
2344 but at the expense of some recompilation. Instead of saving the dumps
2345 of stage2 and stage3 until the final compare, it uses
2346 @option{-fcompare-debug} to generate, compare and remove the dumps
2347 during stage3, repeating the compilation that already took place in
2348 stage2, whose dumps were not saved.
2349
2350 @item @samp{bootstrap-debug-lib}
2351 This option tests executable code invariance over debug information
2352 generation on target libraries, just like @code{bootstrap-debug-lean}
2353 tests it on host programs. It builds stage3 libraries with
2354 @option{-fcompare-debug}, and it can be used along with any of the
2355 @code{bootstrap-debug} options above.
2356
2357 There aren't @code{-lean} or @code{-big} counterparts to this option
2358 because most libraries are only build in stage3, so bootstrap compares
2359 would not get significant coverage. Moreover, the few libraries built
2360 in stage2 are used in stage3 host programs, so we wouldn't want to
2361 compile stage2 libraries with different options for comparison purposes.
2362
2363 @item @samp{bootstrap-debug-ckovw}
2364 Arranges for error messages to be issued if the compiler built on any
2365 stage is run without the option @option{-fcompare-debug}. This is
2366 useful to verify the full @option{-fcompare-debug} testing coverage. It
2367 must be used along with @code{bootstrap-debug-lean} and
2368 @code{bootstrap-debug-lib}.
2369
2370 @item @samp{bootstrap-time}
2371 Arranges for the run time of each program started by the GCC driver,
2372 built in any stage, to be logged to @file{time.log}, in the top level of
2373 the build tree.
2374
2375 @end table
2376
2377 @section Building a cross compiler
2378
2379 When building a cross compiler, it is not generally possible to do a
2380 3-stage bootstrap of the compiler. This makes for an interesting problem
2381 as parts of GCC can only be built with GCC@.
2382
2383 To build a cross compiler, we recommend first building and installing a
2384 native compiler. You can then use the native GCC compiler to build the
2385 cross compiler. The installed native compiler needs to be GCC version
2386 2.95 or later.
2387
2388 If the cross compiler is to be built with support for the Java
2389 programming language and the ability to compile .java source files is
2390 desired, the installed native compiler used to build the cross
2391 compiler needs to be the same GCC version as the cross compiler. In
2392 addition the cross compiler needs to be configured with
2393 @option{--with-ecj-jar=@dots{}}.
2394
2395 Assuming you have already installed a native copy of GCC and configured
2396 your cross compiler, issue the command @command{make}, which performs the
2397 following steps:
2398
2399 @itemize @bullet
2400 @item
2401 Build host tools necessary to build the compiler.
2402
2403 @item
2404 Build target tools for use by the compiler such as binutils (bfd,
2405 binutils, gas, gprof, ld, and opcodes)
2406 if they have been individually linked or moved into the top level GCC source
2407 tree before configuring.
2408
2409 @item
2410 Build the compiler (single stage only).
2411
2412 @item
2413 Build runtime libraries using the compiler from the previous step.
2414 @end itemize
2415
2416 Note that if an error occurs in any step the make process will exit.
2417
2418 If you are not building GNU binutils in the same source tree as GCC,
2419 you will need a cross-assembler and cross-linker installed before
2420 configuring GCC@. Put them in the directory
2421 @file{@var{prefix}/@var{target}/bin}. Here is a table of the tools
2422 you should put in this directory:
2423
2424 @table @file
2425 @item as
2426 This should be the cross-assembler.
2427
2428 @item ld
2429 This should be the cross-linker.
2430
2431 @item ar
2432 This should be the cross-archiver: a program which can manipulate
2433 archive files (linker libraries) in the target machine's format.
2434
2435 @item ranlib
2436 This should be a program to construct a symbol table in an archive file.
2437 @end table
2438
2439 The installation of GCC will find these programs in that directory,
2440 and copy or link them to the proper place to for the cross-compiler to
2441 find them when run later.
2442
2443 The easiest way to provide these files is to build the Binutils package.
2444 Configure it with the same @option{--host} and @option{--target}
2445 options that you use for configuring GCC, then build and install
2446 them. They install their executables automatically into the proper
2447 directory. Alas, they do not support all the targets that GCC
2448 supports.
2449
2450 If you are not building a C library in the same source tree as GCC,
2451 you should also provide the target libraries and headers before
2452 configuring GCC, specifying the directories with
2453 @option{--with-sysroot} or @option{--with-headers} and
2454 @option{--with-libs}. Many targets also require ``start files'' such
2455 as @file{crt0.o} and
2456 @file{crtn.o} which are linked into each executable. There may be several
2457 alternatives for @file{crt0.o}, for use with profiling or other
2458 compilation options. Check your target's definition of
2459 @code{STARTFILE_SPEC} to find out what start files it uses.
2460
2461 @section Building in parallel
2462
2463 GNU Make 3.80 and above, which is necessary to build GCC, support
2464 building in parallel. To activate this, you can use @samp{make -j 2}
2465 instead of @samp{make}. You can also specify a bigger number, and
2466 in most cases using a value greater than the number of processors in
2467 your machine will result in fewer and shorter I/O latency hits, thus
2468 improving overall throughput; this is especially true for slow drives
2469 and network filesystems.
2470
2471 @section Building the Ada compiler
2472
2473 In order to build GNAT, the Ada compiler, you need a working GNAT
2474 compiler (GCC version 4.0 or later).
2475 This includes GNAT tools such as @command{gnatmake} and
2476 @command{gnatlink}, since the Ada front end is written in Ada and
2477 uses some GNAT-specific extensions.
2478
2479 In order to build a cross compiler, it is suggested to install
2480 the new compiler as native first, and then use it to build the cross
2481 compiler.
2482
2483 @command{configure} does not test whether the GNAT installation works
2484 and has a sufficiently recent version; if too old a GNAT version is
2485 installed, the build will fail unless @option{--enable-languages} is
2486 used to disable building the Ada front end.
2487
2488 @env{ADA_INCLUDE_PATH} and @env{ADA_OBJECT_PATH} environment variables
2489 must not be set when building the Ada compiler, the Ada tools, or the
2490 Ada runtime libraries. You can check that your build environment is clean
2491 by verifying that @samp{gnatls -v} lists only one explicit path in each
2492 section.
2493
2494 @section Building with profile feedback
2495
2496 It is possible to use profile feedback to optimize the compiler itself. This
2497 should result in a faster compiler binary. Experiments done on x86 using gcc
2498 3.3 showed approximately 7 percent speedup on compiling C programs. To
2499 bootstrap the compiler with profile feedback, use @code{make profiledbootstrap}.
2500
2501 When @samp{make profiledbootstrap} is run, it will first build a @code{stage1}
2502 compiler. This compiler is used to build a @code{stageprofile} compiler
2503 instrumented to collect execution counts of instruction and branch
2504 probabilities. Then runtime libraries are compiled with profile collected.
2505 Finally a @code{stagefeedback} compiler is built using the information collected.
2506
2507 Unlike standard bootstrap, several additional restrictions apply. The
2508 compiler used to build @code{stage1} needs to support a 64-bit integral type.
2509 It is recommended to only use GCC for this. Also parallel make is currently
2510 not supported since collisions in profile collecting may occur.
2511
2512 @html
2513 <hr />
2514 <p>
2515 @end html
2516 @ifhtml
2517 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
2518 @end ifhtml
2519 @end ifset
2520
2521 @c ***Testing*****************************************************************
2522 @ifnothtml
2523 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
2524 @node Testing, Final install, Building, Installing GCC
2525 @end ifnothtml
2526 @ifset testhtml
2527 @ifnothtml
2528 @chapter Installing GCC: Testing
2529 @end ifnothtml
2530 @cindex Testing
2531 @cindex Installing GCC: Testing
2532 @cindex Testsuite
2533
2534 Before you install GCC, we encourage you to run the testsuites and to
2535 compare your results with results from a similar configuration that have
2536 been submitted to the
2537 @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/,,gcc-testresults mailing list}.
2538 Some of these archived results are linked from the build status lists
2539 at @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/buildstat.html}, although not everyone who
2540 reports a successful build runs the testsuites and submits the results.
2541 This step is optional and may require you to download additional software,
2542 but it can give you confidence in your new GCC installation or point out
2543 problems before you install and start using your new GCC@.
2544
2545 First, you must have @uref{download.html,,downloaded the testsuites}.
2546 These are part of the full distribution, but if you downloaded the
2547 ``core'' compiler plus any front ends, you must download the testsuites
2548 separately.
2549
2550 Second, you must have the testing tools installed. This includes
2551 @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/dejagnu/,,DejaGnu}, Tcl, and Expect;
2552 the DejaGnu site has links to these.
2553
2554 If the directories where @command{runtest} and @command{expect} were
2555 installed are not in the @env{PATH}, you may need to set the following
2556 environment variables appropriately, as in the following example (which
2557 assumes that DejaGnu has been installed under @file{/usr/local}):
2558
2559 @smallexample
2560 TCL_LIBRARY = /usr/local/share/tcl8.0
2561 DEJAGNULIBS = /usr/local/share/dejagnu
2562 @end smallexample
2563
2564 (On systems such as Cygwin, these paths are required to be actual
2565 paths, not mounts or links; presumably this is due to some lack of
2566 portability in the DejaGnu code.)
2567
2568
2569 Finally, you can run the testsuite (which may take a long time):
2570 @smallexample
2571 cd @var{objdir}; make -k check
2572 @end smallexample
2573
2574 This will test various components of GCC, such as compiler
2575 front ends and runtime libraries. While running the testsuite, DejaGnu
2576 might emit some harmless messages resembling
2577 @samp{WARNING: Couldn't find the global config file.} or
2578 @samp{WARNING: Couldn't find tool init file} that can be ignored.
2579
2580 If you are testing a cross-compiler, you may want to run the testsuite
2581 on a simulator as described at @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/simtest-howto.html}.
2582
2583 @section How can you run the testsuite on selected tests?
2584
2585 In order to run sets of tests selectively, there are targets
2586 @samp{make check-gcc} and language specific @samp{make check-c},
2587 @samp{make check-c++}, @samp{make check-fortran}, @samp{make check-java},
2588 @samp{make check-ada}, @samp{make check-objc}, @samp{make check-obj-c++},
2589 @samp{make check-lto}
2590 in the @file{gcc} subdirectory of the object directory. You can also
2591 just run @samp{make check} in a subdirectory of the object directory.
2592
2593
2594 A more selective way to just run all @command{gcc} execute tests in the
2595 testsuite is to use
2596
2597 @smallexample
2598 make check-gcc RUNTESTFLAGS="execute.exp @var{other-options}"
2599 @end smallexample
2600
2601 Likewise, in order to run only the @command{g++} ``old-deja'' tests in
2602 the testsuite with filenames matching @samp{9805*}, you would use
2603
2604 @smallexample
2605 make check-g++ RUNTESTFLAGS="old-deja.exp=9805* @var{other-options}"
2606 @end smallexample
2607
2608 The @file{*.exp} files are located in the testsuite directories of the GCC
2609 source, the most important ones being @file{compile.exp},
2610 @file{execute.exp}, @file{dg.exp} and @file{old-deja.exp}.
2611 To get a list of the possible @file{*.exp} files, pipe the
2612 output of @samp{make check} into a file and look at the
2613 @samp{Running @dots{} .exp} lines.
2614
2615 @section Passing options and running multiple testsuites
2616
2617 You can pass multiple options to the testsuite using the
2618 @samp{--target_board} option of DejaGNU, either passed as part of
2619 @samp{RUNTESTFLAGS}, or directly to @command{runtest} if you prefer to
2620 work outside the makefiles. For example,
2621
2622 @smallexample
2623 make check-g++ RUNTESTFLAGS="--target_board=unix/-O3/-fmerge-constants"
2624 @end smallexample
2625
2626 will run the standard @command{g++} testsuites (``unix'' is the target name
2627 for a standard native testsuite situation), passing
2628 @samp{-O3 -fmerge-constants} to the compiler on every test, i.e.,
2629 slashes separate options.
2630
2631 You can run the testsuites multiple times using combinations of options
2632 with a syntax similar to the brace expansion of popular shells:
2633
2634 @smallexample
2635 @dots{}"--target_board=arm-sim\@{-mhard-float,-msoft-float\@}\@{-O1,-O2,-O3,\@}"
2636 @end smallexample
2637
2638 (Note the empty option caused by the trailing comma in the final group.)
2639 The following will run each testsuite eight times using the @samp{arm-sim}
2640 target, as if you had specified all possible combinations yourself:
2641
2642 @smallexample
2643 --target_board='arm-sim/-mhard-float/-O1 \
2644 arm-sim/-mhard-float/-O2 \
2645 arm-sim/-mhard-float/-O3 \
2646 arm-sim/-mhard-float \
2647 arm-sim/-msoft-float/-O1 \
2648 arm-sim/-msoft-float/-O2 \
2649 arm-sim/-msoft-float/-O3 \
2650 arm-sim/-msoft-float'
2651 @end smallexample
2652
2653 They can be combined as many times as you wish, in arbitrary ways. This
2654 list:
2655
2656 @smallexample
2657 @dots{}"--target_board=unix/-Wextra\@{-O3,-fno-strength\@}\@{-fomit-frame,\@}"
2658 @end smallexample
2659
2660 will generate four combinations, all involving @samp{-Wextra}.
2661
2662 The disadvantage to this method is that the testsuites are run in serial,
2663 which is a waste on multiprocessor systems. For users with GNU Make and
2664 a shell which performs brace expansion, you can run the testsuites in
2665 parallel by having the shell perform the combinations and @command{make}
2666 do the parallel runs. Instead of using @samp{--target_board}, use a
2667 special makefile target:
2668
2669 @smallexample
2670 make -j@var{N} check-@var{testsuite}//@var{test-target}/@var{option1}/@var{option2}/@dots{}
2671 @end smallexample
2672
2673 For example,
2674
2675 @smallexample
2676 make -j3 check-gcc//sh-hms-sim/@{-m1,-m2,-m3,-m3e,-m4@}/@{,-nofpu@}
2677 @end smallexample
2678
2679 will run three concurrent ``make-gcc'' testsuites, eventually testing all
2680 ten combinations as described above. Note that this is currently only
2681 supported in the @file{gcc} subdirectory. (To see how this works, try
2682 typing @command{echo} before the example given here.)
2683
2684
2685 @section Additional testing for Java Class Libraries
2686
2687 The Java runtime tests can be executed via @samp{make check}
2688 in the @file{@var{target}/libjava/testsuite} directory in
2689 the build tree.
2690
2691 The @uref{http://sourceware.org/mauve/,,Mauve Project} provides
2692 a suite of tests for the Java Class Libraries. This suite can be run
2693 as part of libgcj testing by placing the Mauve tree within the libjava
2694 testsuite at @file{libjava/testsuite/libjava.mauve/mauve}, or by
2695 specifying the location of that tree when invoking @samp{make}, as in
2696 @samp{make MAUVEDIR=~/mauve check}.
2697
2698 @section How to interpret test results
2699
2700 The result of running the testsuite are various @file{*.sum} and @file{*.log}
2701 files in the testsuite subdirectories. The @file{*.log} files contain a
2702 detailed log of the compiler invocations and the corresponding
2703 results, the @file{*.sum} files summarize the results. These summaries
2704 contain status codes for all tests:
2705
2706 @itemize @bullet
2707 @item
2708 PASS: the test passed as expected
2709 @item
2710 XPASS: the test unexpectedly passed
2711 @item
2712 FAIL: the test unexpectedly failed
2713 @item
2714 XFAIL: the test failed as expected
2715 @item
2716 UNSUPPORTED: the test is not supported on this platform
2717 @item
2718 ERROR: the testsuite detected an error
2719 @item
2720 WARNING: the testsuite detected a possible problem
2721 @end itemize
2722
2723 It is normal for some tests to report unexpected failures. At the
2724 current time the testing harness does not allow fine grained control
2725 over whether or not a test is expected to fail. This problem should
2726 be fixed in future releases.
2727
2728
2729 @section Submitting test results
2730
2731 If you want to report the results to the GCC project, use the
2732 @file{contrib/test_summary} shell script. Start it in the @var{objdir} with
2733
2734 @smallexample
2735 @var{srcdir}/contrib/test_summary -p your_commentary.txt \
2736 -m gcc-testresults@@gcc.gnu.org |sh
2737 @end smallexample
2738
2739 This script uses the @command{Mail} program to send the results, so
2740 make sure it is in your @env{PATH}. The file @file{your_commentary.txt} is
2741 prepended to the testsuite summary and should contain any special
2742 remarks you have on your results or your build environment. Please
2743 do not edit the testsuite result block or the subject line, as these
2744 messages may be automatically processed.
2745
2746 @html
2747 <hr />
2748 <p>
2749 @end html
2750 @ifhtml
2751 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
2752 @end ifhtml
2753 @end ifset
2754
2755 @c ***Final install***********************************************************
2756 @ifnothtml
2757 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
2758 @node Final install, , Testing, Installing GCC
2759 @end ifnothtml
2760 @ifset finalinstallhtml
2761 @ifnothtml
2762 @chapter Installing GCC: Final installation
2763 @end ifnothtml
2764
2765 Now that GCC has been built (and optionally tested), you can install it with
2766 @smallexample
2767 cd @var{objdir} && make install
2768 @end smallexample
2769
2770 We strongly recommend to install into a target directory where there is
2771 no previous version of GCC present. Also, the GNAT runtime should not
2772 be stripped, as this would break certain features of the debugger that
2773 depend on this debugging information (catching Ada exceptions for
2774 instance).
2775
2776 That step completes the installation of GCC; user level binaries can
2777 be found in @file{@var{prefix}/bin} where @var{prefix} is the value
2778 you specified with the @option{--prefix} to configure (or
2779 @file{/usr/local} by default). (If you specified @option{--bindir},
2780 that directory will be used instead; otherwise, if you specified
2781 @option{--exec-prefix}, @file{@var{exec-prefix}/bin} will be used.)
2782 Headers for the C++ and Java libraries are installed in
2783 @file{@var{prefix}/include}; libraries in @file{@var{libdir}}
2784 (normally @file{@var{prefix}/lib}); internal parts of the compiler in
2785 @file{@var{libdir}/gcc} and @file{@var{libexecdir}/gcc}; documentation
2786 in info format in @file{@var{infodir}} (normally
2787 @file{@var{prefix}/info}).
2788
2789 When installing cross-compilers, GCC's executables
2790 are not only installed into @file{@var{bindir}}, that
2791 is, @file{@var{exec-prefix}/bin}, but additionally into
2792 @file{@var{exec-prefix}/@var{target-alias}/bin}, if that directory
2793 exists. Typically, such @dfn{tooldirs} hold target-specific
2794 binutils, including assembler and linker.
2795
2796 Installation into a temporary staging area or into a @command{chroot}
2797 jail can be achieved with the command
2798
2799 @smallexample
2800 make DESTDIR=@var{path-to-rootdir} install
2801 @end smallexample
2802
2803 @noindent
2804 where @var{path-to-rootdir} is the absolute path of
2805 a directory relative to which all installation paths will be
2806 interpreted. Note that the directory specified by @code{DESTDIR}
2807 need not exist yet; it will be created if necessary.
2808
2809 There is a subtle point with tooldirs and @code{DESTDIR}:
2810 If you relocate a cross-compiler installation with
2811 e.g.@: @samp{DESTDIR=@var{rootdir}}, then the directory
2812 @file{@var{rootdir}/@var{exec-prefix}/@var{target-alias}/bin} will
2813 be filled with duplicated GCC executables only if it already exists,
2814 it will not be created otherwise. This is regarded as a feature,
2815 not as a bug, because it gives slightly more control to the packagers
2816 using the @code{DESTDIR} feature.
2817
2818 You can install stripped programs and libraries with
2819
2820 @smallexample
2821 make install-strip
2822 @end smallexample
2823
2824 If you are bootstrapping a released version of GCC then please
2825 quickly review the build status page for your release, available from
2826 @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/buildstat.html}.
2827 If your system is not listed for the version of GCC that you built,
2828 send a note to
2829 @email{gcc@@gcc.gnu.org} indicating
2830 that you successfully built and installed GCC@.
2831 Include the following information:
2832
2833 @itemize @bullet
2834 @item
2835 Output from running @file{@var{srcdir}/config.guess}. Do not send
2836 that file itself, just the one-line output from running it.
2837
2838 @item
2839 The output of @samp{gcc -v} for your newly installed @command{gcc}.
2840 This tells us which version of GCC you built and the options you passed to
2841 configure.
2842
2843 @item
2844 Whether you enabled all languages or a subset of them. If you used a
2845 full distribution then this information is part of the configure
2846 options in the output of @samp{gcc -v}, but if you downloaded the
2847 ``core'' compiler plus additional front ends then it isn't apparent
2848 which ones you built unless you tell us about it.
2849
2850 @item
2851 If the build was for GNU/Linux, also include:
2852 @itemize @bullet
2853 @item
2854 The distribution name and version (e.g., Red Hat 7.1 or Debian 2.2.3);
2855 this information should be available from @file{/etc/issue}.
2856
2857 @item
2858 The version of the Linux kernel, available from @samp{uname --version}
2859 or @samp{uname -a}.
2860
2861 @item
2862 The version of glibc you used; for RPM-based systems like Red Hat,
2863 Mandrake, and SuSE type @samp{rpm -q glibc} to get the glibc version,
2864 and on systems like Debian and Progeny use @samp{dpkg -l libc6}.
2865 @end itemize
2866 For other systems, you can include similar information if you think it is
2867 relevant.
2868
2869 @item
2870 Any other information that you think would be useful to people building
2871 GCC on the same configuration. The new entry in the build status list
2872 will include a link to the archived copy of your message.
2873 @end itemize
2874
2875 We'd also like to know if the
2876 @ifnothtml
2877 @ref{Specific, host/target specific installation notes}
2878 @end ifnothtml
2879 @ifhtml
2880 @uref{specific.html,,host/target specific installation notes}
2881 @end ifhtml
2882 didn't include your host/target information or if that information is
2883 incomplete or out of date. Send a note to
2884 @email{gcc@@gcc.gnu.org} detailing how the information should be changed.
2885
2886 If you find a bug, please report it following the
2887 @uref{../bugs/,,bug reporting guidelines}.
2888
2889 If you want to print the GCC manuals, do @samp{cd @var{objdir}; make
2890 dvi}. You will need to have @command{texi2dvi} (version at least 4.7)
2891 and @TeX{} installed. This creates a number of @file{.dvi} files in
2892 subdirectories of @file{@var{objdir}}; these may be converted for
2893 printing with programs such as @command{dvips}. Alternately, by using
2894 @samp{make pdf} in place of @samp{make dvi}, you can create documentation
2895 in the form of @file{.pdf} files; this requires @command{texi2pdf}, which
2896 is included with Texinfo version 4.8 and later. You can also
2897 @uref{http://shop.fsf.org/,,buy printed manuals from the
2898 Free Software Foundation}, though such manuals may not be for the most
2899 recent version of GCC@.
2900
2901 If you would like to generate online HTML documentation, do @samp{cd
2902 @var{objdir}; make html} and HTML will be generated for the gcc manuals in
2903 @file{@var{objdir}/gcc/HTML}.
2904
2905 @html
2906 <hr />
2907 <p>
2908 @end html
2909 @ifhtml
2910 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
2911 @end ifhtml
2912 @end ifset
2913
2914 @c ***Binaries****************************************************************
2915 @ifnothtml
2916 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
2917 @node Binaries, Specific, Installing GCC, Top
2918 @end ifnothtml
2919 @ifset binarieshtml
2920 @ifnothtml
2921 @chapter Installing GCC: Binaries
2922 @end ifnothtml
2923 @cindex Binaries
2924 @cindex Installing GCC: Binaries
2925
2926 We are often asked about pre-compiled versions of GCC@. While we cannot
2927 provide these for all platforms, below you'll find links to binaries for
2928 various platforms where creating them by yourself is not easy due to various
2929 reasons.
2930
2931 Please note that we did not create these binaries, nor do we
2932 support them. If you have any problems installing them, please
2933 contact their makers.
2934
2935 @itemize
2936 @item
2937 AIX:
2938 @itemize
2939 @item
2940 @uref{http://www.bullfreeware.com,,Bull's Freeware and Shareware Archive for AIX};
2941
2942 @item
2943 @uref{http://pware.hvcc.edu,,Hudson Valley Community College Open Source Software for IBM System p};
2944
2945 @item
2946 @uref{http://www.perzl.org/aix/,,AIX 5L and 6 Open Source Packages}.
2947 @end itemize
2948
2949 @item
2950 DOS---@uref{http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/,,DJGPP}.
2951
2952 @item
2953 Renesas H8/300[HS]---@uref{http://h8300-hms.sourceforge.net/,,GNU
2954 Development Tools for the Renesas H8/300[HS] Series}.
2955
2956 @item
2957 HP-UX:
2958 @itemize
2959 @item
2960 @uref{http://hpux.connect.org.uk/,,HP-UX Porting Center};
2961
2962 @item
2963 @uref{ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/packages/gcc_hpux/,,Binaries for HP-UX 11.00 at Aachen University of Technology}.
2964 @end itemize
2965
2966 @item
2967 @uref{http://www.sco.com/skunkware/devtools/index.html#gcc,,SCO
2968 OpenServer/Unixware}.
2969
2970 @item
2971 Solaris 2 (SPARC, Intel):
2972 @itemize
2973 @item
2974 @uref{http://www.sunfreeware.com/,,Sunfreeware}
2975
2976 @item
2977 @uref{http://www.blastwave.org/,,Blastwave}
2978
2979 @item
2980 @uref{http://www.opencsw.org/,,OpenCSW}
2981
2982 @item
2983 @uref{http://jupiterrise.com/tgcware/,,TGCware}
2984 @end itemize
2985
2986 @item
2987 Microsoft Windows:
2988 @itemize
2989 @item
2990 The @uref{http://sourceware.org/cygwin/,,Cygwin} project;
2991 @item
2992 The @uref{http://www.mingw.org/,,MinGW} project.
2993 @end itemize
2994
2995 @item
2996 @uref{ftp://ftp.thewrittenword.com/packages/by-name/,,The
2997 Written Word} offers binaries for
2998 AIX 4.3.3, 5.1 and 5.2,
2999 GNU/Linux (i386),
3000 HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, and 11.11, and
3001 Solaris/SPARC 2.5.1, 2.6, 7, 8, 9 and 10.
3002
3003 @item
3004 @uref{http://www.openpkg.org/,,OpenPKG} offers binaries for quite a
3005 number of platforms.
3006
3007 @item
3008 The @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortranBinaries,,GFortran Wiki} has
3009 links to GNU Fortran binaries for several platforms.
3010 @end itemize
3011
3012 @html
3013 <hr />
3014 <p>
3015 @end html
3016 @ifhtml
3017 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
3018 @end ifhtml
3019 @end ifset
3020
3021 @c ***Specific****************************************************************
3022 @ifnothtml
3023 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
3024 @node Specific, Old, Binaries, Top
3025 @end ifnothtml
3026 @ifset specifichtml
3027 @ifnothtml
3028 @chapter Host/target specific installation notes for GCC
3029 @end ifnothtml
3030 @cindex Specific
3031 @cindex Specific installation notes
3032 @cindex Target specific installation
3033 @cindex Host specific installation
3034 @cindex Target specific installation notes
3035
3036 Please read this document carefully @emph{before} installing the
3037 GNU Compiler Collection on your machine.
3038
3039 Note that this list of install notes is @emph{not} a list of supported
3040 hosts or targets. Not all supported hosts and targets are listed
3041 here, only the ones that require host-specific or target-specific
3042 information have to.
3043
3044 @ifhtml
3045 @itemize
3046 @item
3047 @uref{#alpha-x-x,,alpha*-*-*}
3048 @item
3049 @uref{#alpha-dec-osf51,,alpha*-dec-osf5.1}
3050 @item
3051 @uref{#amd64-x-solaris210,,amd64-*-solaris2.10}
3052 @item
3053 @uref{#arm-x-eabi,,arm-*-eabi}
3054 @item
3055 @uref{#avr,,avr}
3056 @item
3057 @uref{#bfin,,Blackfin}
3058 @item
3059 @uref{#dos,,DOS}
3060 @item
3061 @uref{#x-x-freebsd,,*-*-freebsd*}
3062 @item
3063 @uref{#h8300-hms,,h8300-hms}
3064 @item
3065 @uref{#hppa-hp-hpux,,hppa*-hp-hpux*}
3066 @item
3067 @uref{#hppa-hp-hpux10,,hppa*-hp-hpux10}
3068 @item
3069 @uref{#hppa-hp-hpux11,,hppa*-hp-hpux11}
3070 @item
3071 @uref{#x-x-linux-gnu,,*-*-linux-gnu}
3072 @item
3073 @uref{#ix86-x-linux,,i?86-*-linux*}
3074 @item
3075 @uref{#ix86-x-solaris289,,i?86-*-solaris2.9}
3076 @item
3077 @uref{#ix86-x-solaris210,,i?86-*-solaris2.10}
3078 @item
3079 @uref{#ia64-x-linux,,ia64-*-linux}
3080 @item
3081 @uref{#ia64-x-hpux,,ia64-*-hpux*}
3082 @item
3083 @uref{#x-ibm-aix,,*-ibm-aix*}
3084 @item
3085 @uref{#iq2000-x-elf,,iq2000-*-elf}
3086 @item
3087 @uref{#lm32-x-elf,,lm32-*-elf}
3088 @item
3089 @uref{#lm32-x-uclinux,,lm32-*-uclinux}
3090 @item
3091 @uref{#m32c-x-elf,,m32c-*-elf}
3092 @item
3093 @uref{#m32r-x-elf,,m32r-*-elf}
3094 @item
3095 @uref{#m68k-x-x,,m68k-*-*}
3096 @item
3097 @uref{#m68k-uclinux,,m68k-uclinux}
3098 @item
3099 @uref{#mep-x-elf,,mep-*-elf}
3100 @item
3101 @uref{#microblaze-x-elf,,microblaze-*-elf}
3102 @item
3103 @uref{#mips-x-x,,mips-*-*}
3104 @item
3105 @uref{#mips-sgi-irix5,,mips-sgi-irix5}
3106 @item
3107 @uref{#mips-sgi-irix6,,mips-sgi-irix6}
3108 @item
3109 @uref{#powerpc-x-x,,powerpc*-*-*}
3110 @item
3111 @uref{#powerpc-x-darwin,,powerpc-*-darwin*}
3112 @item
3113 @uref{#powerpc-x-elf,,powerpc-*-elf}
3114 @item
3115 @uref{#powerpc-x-linux-gnu,,powerpc*-*-linux-gnu*}
3116 @item
3117 @uref{#powerpc-x-netbsd,,powerpc-*-netbsd*}
3118 @item
3119 @uref{#powerpc-x-eabisim,,powerpc-*-eabisim}
3120 @item
3121 @uref{#powerpc-x-eabi,,powerpc-*-eabi}
3122 @item
3123 @uref{#powerpcle-x-elf,,powerpcle-*-elf}
3124 @item
3125 @uref{#powerpcle-x-eabisim,,powerpcle-*-eabisim}
3126 @item
3127 @uref{#powerpcle-x-eabi,,powerpcle-*-eabi}
3128 @item
3129 @uref{#s390-x-linux,,s390-*-linux*}
3130 @item
3131 @uref{#s390x-x-linux,,s390x-*-linux*}
3132 @item
3133 @uref{#s390x-ibm-tpf,,s390x-ibm-tpf*}
3134 @item
3135 @uref{#x-x-solaris2,,*-*-solaris2*}
3136 @item
3137 @uref{#sparc-x-x,,sparc*-*-*}
3138 @item
3139 @uref{#sparc-sun-solaris2,,sparc-sun-solaris2*}
3140 @item
3141 @uref{#sparc-sun-solaris210,,sparc-sun-solaris2.10}
3142 @item
3143 @uref{#sparc-x-linux,,sparc-*-linux*}
3144 @item
3145 @uref{#sparc64-x-solaris2,,sparc64-*-solaris2*}
3146 @item
3147 @uref{#sparcv9-x-solaris2,,sparcv9-*-solaris2*}
3148 @item
3149 @uref{#c6x-x-x,,c6x-*-*}
3150 @item
3151 @uref{#tilegx-x-linux,,tilegx-*-linux*}
3152 @item
3153 @uref{#tilepro-x-linux,,tilepro-*-linux*}
3154 @item
3155 @uref{#x-x-vxworks,,*-*-vxworks*}
3156 @item
3157 @uref{#x86-64-x-x,,x86_64-*-*, amd64-*-*}
3158 @item
3159 @uref{#x86-64-x-solaris210,,x86_64-*-solaris2.1[0-9]*}
3160 @item
3161 @uref{#xtensa-x-elf,,xtensa*-*-elf}
3162 @item
3163 @uref{#xtensa-x-linux,,xtensa*-*-linux*}
3164 @item
3165 @uref{#windows,,Microsoft Windows}
3166 @item
3167 @uref{#x-x-cygwin,,*-*-cygwin}
3168 @item
3169 @uref{#x-x-interix,,*-*-interix}
3170 @item
3171 @uref{#x-x-mingw32,,*-*-mingw32}
3172 @item
3173 @uref{#os2,,OS/2}
3174 @item
3175 @uref{#older,,Older systems}
3176 @end itemize
3177
3178 @itemize
3179 @item
3180 @uref{#elf,,all ELF targets} (SVR4, Solaris 2, etc.)
3181 @end itemize
3182 @end ifhtml
3183
3184
3185 @html
3186 <!-- -------- host/target specific issues start here ---------------- -->
3187 <hr />
3188 @end html
3189 @anchor{alpha-x-x}
3190 @heading alpha*-*-*
3191 This section contains general configuration information for all
3192 alpha-based platforms using ELF (in particular, ignore this section for
3193 DEC OSF/1, Digital UNIX and Tru64 UNIX)@. In addition to reading this
3194 section, please read all other sections that match your target.
3195
3196 We require binutils 2.11.2 or newer.
3197 Previous binutils releases had a number of problems with DWARF 2
3198 debugging information, not the least of which is incorrect linking of
3199 shared libraries.
3200
3201 @html
3202 <hr />
3203 @end html
3204 @anchor{alpha-dec-osf51}
3205 @heading alpha*-dec-osf5.1
3206 Systems using processors that implement the DEC Alpha architecture and
3207 are running the DEC/Compaq/HP Unix (DEC OSF/1, Digital UNIX, or Compaq/HP
3208 Tru64 UNIX) operating system, for example the DEC Alpha AXP systems.
3209
3210 Support for Tru64 UNIX V5.1 has been removed in GCC 4.8. As of GCC 4.6,
3211 support for Tru64 UNIX V4.0 and V5.0 has been removed. As of GCC 3.2,
3212 versions before @code{alpha*-dec-osf4} are no longer supported. (These
3213 are the versions which identify themselves as DEC OSF/1.)
3214
3215 @html
3216 <hr />
3217 @end html
3218 @anchor{amd64-x-solaris210}
3219 @heading amd64-*-solaris2.1[0-9]*
3220 This is a synonym for @samp{x86_64-*-solaris2.1[0-9]*}.
3221
3222 @html
3223 <hr />
3224 @end html
3225 @anchor{arc-x-elf32}
3226 @heading arc-*-elf32
3227
3228 Use @samp{configure --target=arc-elf32 --with-cpu=@var{cpu} --enable-languages="c,c++"}
3229 to configure GCC, with @var{cpu} being one of @samp{arc600}, @samp{arc601},
3230 or @samp{arc700}@.
3231
3232 @html
3233 <hr />
3234 @end html
3235 @anchor{arc-linux-uclibc}
3236 @heading arc-linux-uclibc
3237
3238 Use @samp{configure --target=arc-linux-uclibc --with-cpu=arc700 --enable-languages="c,c++"} to configure GCC@.
3239
3240 @html
3241 <hr />
3242 @end html
3243 @anchor{arm-x-eabi}
3244 @heading arm-*-eabi
3245 ARM-family processors. Subtargets that use the ELF object format
3246 require GNU binutils 2.13 or newer. Such subtargets include:
3247 @code{arm-*-netbsdelf}, @code{arm-*-*linux-*}
3248 and @code{arm-*-rtemseabi}.
3249
3250 @html
3251 <hr />
3252 @end html
3253 @anchor{avr}
3254 @heading avr
3255 ATMEL AVR-family micro controllers. These are used in embedded
3256 applications. There are no standard Unix configurations.
3257 @ifnothtml
3258 @xref{AVR Options,, AVR Options, gcc, Using the GNU Compiler
3259 Collection (GCC)},
3260 @end ifnothtml
3261 @ifhtml
3262 See ``AVR Options'' in the main manual
3263 @end ifhtml
3264 for the list of supported MCU types.
3265
3266 Use @samp{configure --target=avr --enable-languages="c"} to configure GCC@.
3267
3268 Further installation notes and other useful information about AVR tools
3269 can also be obtained from:
3270
3271 @itemize @bullet
3272 @item
3273 @uref{http://www.nongnu.org/avr/,,http://www.nongnu.org/avr/}
3274 @item
3275 @uref{http://www.amelek.gda.pl/avr/,,http://www.amelek.gda.pl/avr/}
3276 @end itemize
3277
3278 We @emph{strongly} recommend using binutils 2.13 or newer.
3279
3280 The following error:
3281 @smallexample
3282 Error: register required
3283 @end smallexample
3284
3285 indicates that you should upgrade to a newer version of the binutils.
3286
3287 @html
3288 <hr />
3289 @end html
3290 @anchor{bfin}
3291 @heading Blackfin
3292 The Blackfin processor, an Analog Devices DSP.
3293 @ifnothtml
3294 @xref{Blackfin Options,, Blackfin Options, gcc, Using the GNU Compiler
3295 Collection (GCC)},
3296 @end ifnothtml
3297 @ifhtml
3298 See ``Blackfin Options'' in the main manual
3299 @end ifhtml
3300
3301 More information, and a version of binutils with support for this processor,
3302 is available at @uref{http://blackfin.uclinux.org}
3303
3304 @html
3305 <hr />
3306 @end html
3307 @anchor{cr16}
3308 @heading CR16
3309 The CR16 CompactRISC architecture is a 16-bit architecture. This
3310 architecture is used in embedded applications.
3311
3312 @ifnothtml
3313 @xref{CR16 Options,, CR16 Options, gcc, Using and Porting the GNU Compiler
3314 Collection (GCC)},
3315 @end ifnothtml
3316
3317 @ifhtml
3318 See ``CR16 Options'' in the main manual for a list of CR16-specific options.
3319 @end ifhtml
3320
3321 Use @samp{configure --target=cr16-elf --enable-languages=c,c++} to configure
3322 GCC@ for building a CR16 elf cross-compiler.
3323
3324 Use @samp{configure --target=cr16-uclinux --enable-languages=c,c++} to
3325 configure GCC@ for building a CR16 uclinux cross-compiler.
3326
3327 @html
3328 <hr />
3329 @end html
3330 @anchor{cris}
3331 @heading CRIS
3332 CRIS is the CPU architecture in Axis Communications ETRAX system-on-a-chip
3333 series. These are used in embedded applications.
3334
3335 @ifnothtml
3336 @xref{CRIS Options,, CRIS Options, gcc, Using the GNU Compiler
3337 Collection (GCC)},
3338 @end ifnothtml
3339 @ifhtml
3340 See ``CRIS Options'' in the main manual
3341 @end ifhtml
3342 for a list of CRIS-specific options.
3343
3344 There are a few different CRIS targets:
3345 @table @code
3346 @item cris-axis-elf
3347 Mainly for monolithic embedded systems. Includes a multilib for the
3348 @samp{v10} core used in @samp{ETRAX 100 LX}.
3349 @item cris-axis-linux-gnu
3350 A GNU/Linux port for the CRIS architecture, currently targeting
3351 @samp{ETRAX 100 LX} by default.
3352 @end table
3353
3354 For @code{cris-axis-elf} you need binutils 2.11
3355 or newer. For @code{cris-axis-linux-gnu} you need binutils 2.12 or newer.
3356
3357 Pre-packaged tools can be obtained from
3358 @uref{ftp://ftp.axis.com/@/pub/@/axis/@/tools/@/cris/@/compiler-kit/}. More
3359 information about this platform is available at
3360 @uref{http://developer.axis.com/}.
3361
3362 @html
3363 <hr />
3364 @end html
3365 @anchor{dos}
3366 @heading DOS
3367 Please have a look at the @uref{binaries.html,,binaries page}.
3368
3369 You cannot install GCC by itself on MSDOS; it will not compile under
3370 any MSDOS compiler except itself. You need to get the complete
3371 compilation package DJGPP, which includes binaries as well as sources,
3372 and includes all the necessary compilation tools and libraries.
3373
3374 @html
3375 <hr />
3376 @end html
3377 @anchor{epiphany-x-elf}
3378 @heading epiphany-*-elf
3379 Adapteva Epiphany.
3380 This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
3381
3382 @html
3383 <hr />
3384 @end html
3385 @anchor{x-x-freebsd}
3386 @heading *-*-freebsd*
3387 Support for FreeBSD 1 was discontinued in GCC 3.2. Support for
3388 FreeBSD 2 (and any mutant a.out variants of FreeBSD 3) was
3389 discontinued in GCC 4.0.
3390
3391 In order to better utilize FreeBSD base system functionality and match
3392 the configuration of the system compiler, GCC 4.5 and above as well as
3393 GCC 4.4 past 2010-06-20 leverage SSP support in libc (which is present
3394 on FreeBSD 7 or later) and the use of @code{__cxa_atexit} by default
3395 (on FreeBSD 6 or later). The use of @code{dl_iterate_phdr} inside
3396 @file{libgcc_s.so.1} and boehm-gc (on FreeBSD 7 or later) is enabled
3397 by GCC 4.5 and above.
3398
3399 We support FreeBSD using the ELF file format with DWARF 2 debugging
3400 for all CPU architectures. You may use @option{-gstabs} instead of
3401 @option{-g}, if you really want the old debugging format. There are
3402 no known issues with mixing object files and libraries with different
3403 debugging formats. Otherwise, this release of GCC should now match
3404 more of the configuration used in the stock FreeBSD configuration of
3405 GCC@. In particular, @option{--enable-threads} is now configured by
3406 default. However, as a general user, do not attempt to replace the
3407 system compiler with this release. Known to bootstrap and check with
3408 good results on FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE@. In the past, known to bootstrap
3409 and check with good results on FreeBSD 3.0, 3.4, 4.0, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4,
3410 4.5, 4.8, 4.9 and 5-CURRENT@.
3411
3412 The version of binutils installed in @file{/usr/bin} probably works
3413 with this release of GCC@. Bootstrapping against the latest GNU
3414 binutils and/or the version found in @file{/usr/ports/devel/binutils} has
3415 been known to enable additional features and improve overall testsuite
3416 results. However, it is currently known that boehm-gc (which itself
3417 is required for java) may not configure properly on FreeBSD prior to
3418 the FreeBSD 7.0 release with GNU binutils after 2.16.1.
3419
3420 @html
3421 <hr />
3422 @end html
3423 @anchor{h8300-hms}
3424 @heading h8300-hms
3425 Renesas H8/300 series of processors.
3426
3427 Please have a look at the @uref{binaries.html,,binaries page}.
3428
3429 The calling convention and structure layout has changed in release 2.6.
3430 All code must be recompiled. The calling convention now passes the
3431 first three arguments in function calls in registers. Structures are no
3432 longer a multiple of 2 bytes.
3433
3434 @html
3435 <hr />
3436 @end html
3437 @anchor{hppa-hp-hpux}
3438 @heading hppa*-hp-hpux*
3439 Support for HP-UX version 9 and older was discontinued in GCC 3.4.
3440
3441 We require using gas/binutils on all hppa platforms. Version 2.19 or
3442 later is recommended.
3443
3444 It may be helpful to configure GCC with the
3445 @uref{./configure.html#with-gnu-as,,@option{--with-gnu-as}} and
3446 @option{--with-as=@dots{}} options to ensure that GCC can find GAS@.
3447
3448 The HP assembler should not be used with GCC. It is rarely tested and may
3449 not work. It shouldn't be used with any languages other than C due to its
3450 many limitations.
3451
3452 Specifically, @option{-g} does not work (HP-UX uses a peculiar debugging
3453 format which GCC does not know about). It also inserts timestamps
3454 into each object file it creates, causing the 3-stage comparison test to
3455 fail during a bootstrap. You should be able to continue by saying
3456 @samp{make all-host all-target} after getting the failure from @samp{make}.
3457
3458 Various GCC features are not supported. For example, it does not support weak
3459 symbols or alias definitions. As a result, explicit template instantiations
3460 are required when using C++. This makes it difficult if not impossible to
3461 build many C++ applications.
3462
3463 There are two default scheduling models for instructions. These are
3464 PROCESSOR_7100LC and PROCESSOR_8000. They are selected from the pa-risc
3465 architecture specified for the target machine when configuring.
3466 PROCESSOR_8000 is the default. PROCESSOR_7100LC is selected when
3467 the target is a @samp{hppa1*} machine.
3468
3469 The PROCESSOR_8000 model is not well suited to older processors. Thus,
3470 it is important to completely specify the machine architecture when
3471 configuring if you want a model other than PROCESSOR_8000. The macro
3472 TARGET_SCHED_DEFAULT can be defined in BOOT_CFLAGS if a different
3473 default scheduling model is desired.
3474
3475 As of GCC 4.0, GCC uses the UNIX 95 namespace for HP-UX 10.10
3476 through 11.00, and the UNIX 98 namespace for HP-UX 11.11 and later.
3477 This namespace change might cause problems when bootstrapping with
3478 an earlier version of GCC or the HP compiler as essentially the same
3479 namespace is required for an entire build. This problem can be avoided
3480 in a number of ways. With HP cc, @env{UNIX_STD} can be set to @samp{95}
3481 or @samp{98}. Another way is to add an appropriate set of predefines
3482 to @env{CC}. The description for the @option{munix=} option contains
3483 a list of the predefines used with each standard.
3484
3485 More specific information to @samp{hppa*-hp-hpux*} targets follows.
3486
3487 @html
3488 <hr />
3489 @end html
3490 @anchor{hppa-hp-hpux10}
3491 @heading hppa*-hp-hpux10
3492 For hpux10.20, we @emph{highly} recommend you pick up the latest sed patch
3493 @code{PHCO_19798} from HP@.
3494
3495 The C++ ABI has changed incompatibly in GCC 4.0. COMDAT subspaces are
3496 used for one-only code and data. This resolves many of the previous
3497 problems in using C++ on this target. However, the ABI is not compatible
3498 with the one implemented under HP-UX 11 using secondary definitions.
3499
3500 @html
3501 <hr />
3502 @end html
3503 @anchor{hppa-hp-hpux11}
3504 @heading hppa*-hp-hpux11
3505 GCC 3.0 and up support HP-UX 11. GCC 2.95.x is not supported and cannot
3506 be used to compile GCC 3.0 and up.
3507
3508 The libffi and libjava libraries haven't been ported to 64-bit HP-UX@
3509 and don't build.
3510
3511 Refer to @uref{binaries.html,,binaries} for information about obtaining
3512 precompiled GCC binaries for HP-UX@. Precompiled binaries must be obtained
3513 to build the Ada language as it can't be bootstrapped using C@. Ada is
3514 only available for the 32-bit PA-RISC runtime.
3515
3516 Starting with GCC 3.4 an ISO C compiler is required to bootstrap. The
3517 bundled compiler supports only traditional C; you will need either HP's
3518 unbundled compiler, or a binary distribution of GCC@.
3519
3520 It is possible to build GCC 3.3 starting with the bundled HP compiler,
3521 but the process requires several steps. GCC 3.3 can then be used to
3522 build later versions. The fastjar program contains ISO C code and
3523 can't be built with the HP bundled compiler. This problem can be
3524 avoided by not building the Java language. For example, use the
3525 @option{--enable-languages="c,c++,f77,objc"} option in your configure
3526 command.
3527
3528 There are several possible approaches to building the distribution.
3529 Binutils can be built first using the HP tools. Then, the GCC
3530 distribution can be built. The second approach is to build GCC
3531 first using the HP tools, then build binutils, then rebuild GCC@.
3532 There have been problems with various binary distributions, so it
3533 is best not to start from a binary distribution.
3534
3535 On 64-bit capable systems, there are two distinct targets. Different
3536 installation prefixes must be used if both are to be installed on
3537 the same system. The @samp{hppa[1-2]*-hp-hpux11*} target generates code
3538 for the 32-bit PA-RISC runtime architecture and uses the HP linker.
3539 The @samp{hppa64-hp-hpux11*} target generates 64-bit code for the
3540 PA-RISC 2.0 architecture.
3541
3542 The script config.guess now selects the target type based on the compiler
3543 detected during configuration. You must define @env{PATH} or @env{CC} so
3544 that configure finds an appropriate compiler for the initial bootstrap.
3545 When @env{CC} is used, the definition should contain the options that are
3546 needed whenever @env{CC} is used.
3547
3548 Specifically, options that determine the runtime architecture must be
3549 in @env{CC} to correctly select the target for the build. It is also
3550 convenient to place many other compiler options in @env{CC}. For example,
3551 @env{CC="cc -Ac +DA2.0W -Wp,-H16376 -D_CLASSIC_TYPES -D_HPUX_SOURCE"}
3552 can be used to bootstrap the GCC 3.3 branch with the HP compiler in
3553 64-bit K&R/bundled mode. The @option{+DA2.0W} option will result in
3554 the automatic selection of the @samp{hppa64-hp-hpux11*} target. The
3555 macro definition table of cpp needs to be increased for a successful
3556 build with the HP compiler. _CLASSIC_TYPES and _HPUX_SOURCE need to
3557 be defined when building with the bundled compiler, or when using the
3558 @option{-Ac} option. These defines aren't necessary with @option{-Ae}.
3559
3560 It is best to explicitly configure the @samp{hppa64-hp-hpux11*} target
3561 with the @option{--with-ld=@dots{}} option. This overrides the standard
3562 search for ld. The two linkers supported on this target require different
3563 commands. The default linker is determined during configuration. As a
3564 result, it's not possible to switch linkers in the middle of a GCC build.
3565 This has been reported to sometimes occur in unified builds of binutils
3566 and GCC@.
3567
3568 A recent linker patch must be installed for the correct operation of
3569 GCC 3.3 and later. @code{PHSS_26559} and @code{PHSS_24304} are the
3570 oldest linker patches that are known to work. They are for HP-UX
3571 11.00 and 11.11, respectively. @code{PHSS_24303}, the companion to
3572 @code{PHSS_24304}, might be usable but it hasn't been tested. These
3573 patches have been superseded. Consult the HP patch database to obtain
3574 the currently recommended linker patch for your system.
3575
3576 The patches are necessary for the support of weak symbols on the
3577 32-bit port, and for the running of initializers and finalizers. Weak
3578 symbols are implemented using SOM secondary definition symbols. Prior
3579 to HP-UX 11, there are bugs in the linker support for secondary symbols.
3580 The patches correct a problem of linker core dumps creating shared
3581 libraries containing secondary symbols, as well as various other
3582 linking issues involving secondary symbols.
3583
3584 GCC 3.3 uses the ELF DT_INIT_ARRAY and DT_FINI_ARRAY capabilities to
3585 run initializers and finalizers on the 64-bit port. The 32-bit port
3586 uses the linker @option{+init} and @option{+fini} options for the same
3587 purpose. The patches correct various problems with the +init/+fini
3588 options, including program core dumps. Binutils 2.14 corrects a
3589 problem on the 64-bit port resulting from HP's non-standard use of
3590 the .init and .fini sections for array initializers and finalizers.
3591
3592 Although the HP and GNU linkers are both supported for the
3593 @samp{hppa64-hp-hpux11*} target, it is strongly recommended that the
3594 HP linker be used for link editing on this target.
3595
3596 At this time, the GNU linker does not support the creation of long
3597 branch stubs. As a result, it can't successfully link binaries
3598 containing branch offsets larger than 8 megabytes. In addition,
3599 there are problems linking shared libraries, linking executables
3600 with @option{-static}, and with dwarf2 unwind and exception support.
3601 It also doesn't provide stubs for internal calls to global functions
3602 in shared libraries, so these calls can't be overloaded.
3603
3604 The HP dynamic loader does not support GNU symbol versioning, so symbol
3605 versioning is not supported. It may be necessary to disable symbol
3606 versioning with @option{--disable-symvers} when using GNU ld.
3607
3608 POSIX threads are the default. The optional DCE thread library is not
3609 supported, so @option{--enable-threads=dce} does not work.
3610
3611 @html
3612 <hr />
3613 @end html
3614 @anchor{x-x-linux-gnu}
3615 @heading *-*-linux-gnu
3616 Versions of libstdc++-v3 starting with 3.2.1 require bug fixes present
3617 in glibc 2.2.5 and later. More information is available in the
3618 libstdc++-v3 documentation.
3619
3620 @html
3621 <hr />
3622 @end html
3623 @anchor{ix86-x-linux}
3624 @heading i?86-*-linux*
3625 As of GCC 3.3, binutils 2.13.1 or later is required for this platform.
3626 See @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/PR10877,,bug 10877} for more information.
3627
3628 If you receive Signal 11 errors when building on GNU/Linux, then it is
3629 possible you have a hardware problem. Further information on this can be
3630 found on @uref{http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/,,www.bitwizard.nl}.
3631
3632 @html
3633 <hr />
3634 @end html
3635 @anchor{ix86-x-solaris29}
3636 @heading i?86-*-solaris2.9
3637 The Sun assembler in Solaris 9 has several bugs and limitations.
3638 While GCC works around them, several features are missing, so it is
3639 @c FIXME: which ones?
3640 recommended to use the GNU assembler instead. There is no bundled
3641 version, but the current version, from GNU binutils 2.22, is known to
3642 work.
3643
3644 Solaris@tie{}2/x86 doesn't support the execution of SSE/SSE2 instructions
3645 before Solaris@tie{}9 4/04, even if the CPU supports them. Programs will
3646 receive @code{SIGILL} if they try. The fix is available both in
3647 Solaris@tie{}9 Update@tie{}6 and kernel patch 112234-12 or newer. To
3648 avoid this problem,
3649 @option{-march} defaults to @samp{pentiumpro} on Solaris 9. If
3650 you have the patch installed, you can configure GCC with an appropriate
3651 @option{--with-arch} option, but need GNU @command{as} for SSE2 support.
3652
3653 @html
3654 <hr />
3655 @end html
3656 @anchor{ix86-x-solaris210}
3657 @heading i?86-*-solaris2.10
3658 Use this for Solaris 10 or later on x86 and x86-64 systems. Starting
3659 with GCC 4.7, there is also a 64-bit @samp{amd64-*-solaris2.1[0-9]*} or
3660 @samp{x86_64-*-solaris2.1[0-9]*} configuration that corresponds to
3661 @samp{sparcv9-sun-solaris2*}.
3662
3663 It is recommended that you configure GCC to use the GNU assembler, in
3664 @file{/usr/sfw/bin/gas}. The versions included in Solaris 10, from GNU
3665 binutils 2.15, and Solaris 11, from GNU binutils 2.19, work fine,
3666 although the current version, from GNU binutils
3667 2.22, is known to work, too. Recent versions of the Sun assembler in
3668 @file{/usr/ccs/bin/as} work almost as well, though.
3669 @c FIXME: as patch requirements?
3670
3671 For linking, the Sun linker, is preferred. If you want to use the GNU
3672 linker instead, which is available in @file{/usr/sfw/bin/gld}, note that
3673 due to a packaging bug the version in Solaris 10, from GNU binutils
3674 2.15, cannot be used, while the version in Solaris 11, from GNU binutils
3675 2.19, works, as does the latest version, from GNU binutils 2.22.
3676
3677 To use GNU @command{as}, configure with the options
3678 @option{--with-gnu-as --with-as=@//usr/@/sfw/@/bin/@/gas}. It may be necessary
3679 to configure with @option{--without-gnu-ld --with-ld=@//usr/@/ccs/@/bin/@/ld} to
3680 guarantee use of Sun @command{ld}.
3681 @c FIXME: why --without-gnu-ld --with-ld?
3682
3683 @html
3684 <hr />
3685 @end html
3686 @anchor{ia64-x-linux}
3687 @heading ia64-*-linux
3688 IA-64 processor (also known as IPF, or Itanium Processor Family)
3689 running GNU/Linux.
3690
3691 If you are using the installed system libunwind library with
3692 @option{--with-system-libunwind}, then you must use libunwind 0.98 or
3693 later.
3694
3695 None of the following versions of GCC has an ABI that is compatible
3696 with any of the other versions in this list, with the exception that
3697 Red Hat 2.96 and Trillian 000171 are compatible with each other:
3698 3.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.1, 3.0, Red Hat 2.96, and Trillian 000717.
3699 This primarily affects C++ programs and programs that create shared libraries.
3700 GCC 3.1 or later is recommended for compiling linux, the kernel.
3701 As of version 3.1 GCC is believed to be fully ABI compliant, and hence no
3702 more major ABI changes are expected.
3703
3704 @html
3705 <hr />
3706 @end html
3707 @anchor{ia64-x-hpux}
3708 @heading ia64-*-hpux*
3709 Building GCC on this target requires the GNU Assembler. The bundled HP
3710 assembler will not work. To prevent GCC from using the wrong assembler,
3711 the option @option{--with-gnu-as} may be necessary.
3712
3713 The GCC libunwind library has not been ported to HPUX@. This means that for
3714 GCC versions 3.2.3 and earlier, @option{--enable-libunwind-exceptions}
3715 is required to build GCC@. For GCC 3.3 and later, this is the default.
3716 For gcc 3.4.3 and later, @option{--enable-libunwind-exceptions} is
3717 removed and the system libunwind library will always be used.
3718
3719 @html
3720 <hr />
3721 <!-- rs6000-ibm-aix*, powerpc-ibm-aix* -->
3722 @end html
3723 @anchor{x-ibm-aix}
3724 @heading *-ibm-aix*
3725 Support for AIX version 3 and older was discontinued in GCC 3.4.
3726 Support for AIX version 4.2 and older was discontinued in GCC 4.5.
3727
3728 ``out of memory'' bootstrap failures may indicate a problem with
3729 process resource limits (ulimit). Hard limits are configured in the
3730 @file{/etc/security/limits} system configuration file.
3731
3732 GCC can bootstrap with recent versions of IBM XLC, but bootstrapping
3733 with an earlier release of GCC is recommended. Bootstrapping with XLC
3734 requires a larger data segment, which can be enabled through the
3735 @var{LDR_CNTRL} environment variable, e.g.,
3736
3737 @smallexample
3738 % LDR_CNTRL=MAXDATA=0x50000000
3739 % export LDR_CNTRL
3740 @end smallexample
3741
3742 One can start with a pre-compiled version of GCC to build from
3743 sources. One may delete GCC's ``fixed'' header files when starting
3744 with a version of GCC built for an earlier release of AIX.
3745
3746 To speed up the configuration phases of bootstrapping and installing GCC,
3747 one may use GNU Bash instead of AIX @command{/bin/sh}, e.g.,
3748
3749 @smallexample
3750 % CONFIG_SHELL=/opt/freeware/bin/bash
3751 % export CONFIG_SHELL
3752 @end smallexample
3753
3754 and then proceed as described in @uref{build.html,,the build
3755 instructions}, where we strongly recommend specifying an absolute path
3756 to invoke @var{srcdir}/configure.
3757
3758 Because GCC on AIX is built as a 32-bit executable by default,
3759 (although it can generate 64-bit programs) the GMP and MPFR libraries
3760 required by gfortran must be 32-bit libraries. Building GMP and MPFR
3761 as static archive libraries works better than shared libraries.
3762
3763 Errors involving @code{alloca} when building GCC generally are due
3764 to an incorrect definition of @code{CC} in the Makefile or mixing files
3765 compiled with the native C compiler and GCC@. During the stage1 phase of
3766 the build, the native AIX compiler @strong{must} be invoked as @command{cc}
3767 (not @command{xlc}). Once @command{configure} has been informed of
3768 @command{xlc}, one needs to use @samp{make distclean} to remove the
3769 configure cache files and ensure that @env{CC} environment variable
3770 does not provide a definition that will confuse @command{configure}.
3771 If this error occurs during stage2 or later, then the problem most likely
3772 is the version of Make (see above).
3773
3774 The native @command{as} and @command{ld} are recommended for
3775 bootstrapping on AIX@. The GNU Assembler, GNU Linker, and GNU
3776 Binutils version 2.20 is the minimum level that supports bootstrap on
3777 AIX 5@. The GNU Assembler has not been updated to support AIX 6@ or
3778 AIX 7. The native AIX tools do interoperate with GCC@.
3779
3780 AIX 5.3 TL10, AIX 6.1 TL05 and AIX 7.1 TL00 introduced an AIX
3781 assembler change that sometimes produces corrupt assembly files
3782 causing AIX linker errors. The bug breaks GCC bootstrap on AIX and
3783 can cause compilation failures with existing GCC installations. An
3784 AIX iFix for AIX 5.3 is available (APAR IZ98385 for AIX 5.3 TL10, APAR
3785 IZ98477 for AIX 5.3 TL11 and IZ98134 for AIX 5.3 TL12). AIX 5.3 TL11 SP8,
3786 AIX 5.3 TL12 SP5, AIX 6.1 TL04 SP11, AIX 6.1 TL05 SP7, AIX 6.1 TL06 SP6,
3787 AIX 6.1 TL07 and AIX 7.1 TL01 should include the fix.
3788
3789 Building @file{libstdc++.a} requires a fix for an AIX Assembler bug
3790 APAR IY26685 (AIX 4.3) or APAR IY25528 (AIX 5.1). It also requires a
3791 fix for another AIX Assembler bug and a co-dependent AIX Archiver fix
3792 referenced as APAR IY53606 (AIX 5.2) or as APAR IY54774 (AIX 5.1)
3793
3794 @samp{libstdc++} in GCC 3.4 increments the major version number of the
3795 shared object and GCC installation places the @file{libstdc++.a}
3796 shared library in a common location which will overwrite the and GCC
3797 3.3 version of the shared library. Applications either need to be
3798 re-linked against the new shared library or the GCC 3.1 and GCC 3.3
3799 versions of the @samp{libstdc++} shared object needs to be available
3800 to the AIX runtime loader. The GCC 3.1 @samp{libstdc++.so.4}, if
3801 present, and GCC 3.3 @samp{libstdc++.so.5} shared objects can be
3802 installed for runtime dynamic loading using the following steps to set
3803 the @samp{F_LOADONLY} flag in the shared object for @emph{each}
3804 multilib @file{libstdc++.a} installed:
3805
3806 Extract the shared objects from the currently installed
3807 @file{libstdc++.a} archive:
3808 @smallexample
3809 % ar -x libstdc++.a libstdc++.so.4 libstdc++.so.5
3810 @end smallexample
3811
3812 Enable the @samp{F_LOADONLY} flag so that the shared object will be
3813 available for runtime dynamic loading, but not linking:
3814 @smallexample
3815 % strip -e libstdc++.so.4 libstdc++.so.5
3816 @end smallexample
3817
3818 Archive the runtime-only shared object in the GCC 3.4
3819 @file{libstdc++.a} archive:
3820 @smallexample
3821 % ar -q libstdc++.a libstdc++.so.4 libstdc++.so.5
3822 @end smallexample
3823
3824 Linking executables and shared libraries may produce warnings of
3825 duplicate symbols. The assembly files generated by GCC for AIX always
3826 have included multiple symbol definitions for certain global variable
3827 and function declarations in the original program. The warnings should
3828 not prevent the linker from producing a correct library or runnable
3829 executable.
3830
3831 AIX 4.3 utilizes a ``large format'' archive to support both 32-bit and
3832 64-bit object modules. The routines provided in AIX 4.3.0 and AIX 4.3.1
3833 to parse archive libraries did not handle the new format correctly.
3834 These routines are used by GCC and result in error messages during
3835 linking such as ``not a COFF file''. The version of the routines shipped
3836 with AIX 4.3.1 should work for a 32-bit environment. The @option{-g}
3837 option of the archive command may be used to create archives of 32-bit
3838 objects using the original ``small format''. A correct version of the
3839 routines is shipped with AIX 4.3.2 and above.
3840
3841 Some versions of the AIX binder (linker) can fail with a relocation
3842 overflow severe error when the @option{-bbigtoc} option is used to link
3843 GCC-produced object files into an executable that overflows the TOC@. A fix
3844 for APAR IX75823 (OVERFLOW DURING LINK WHEN USING GCC AND -BBIGTOC) is
3845 available from IBM Customer Support and from its
3846 @uref{http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/,,techsupport.services.ibm.com}
3847 website as PTF U455193.
3848
3849 The AIX 4.3.2.1 linker (bos.rte.bind_cmds Level 4.3.2.1) will dump core
3850 with a segmentation fault when invoked by any version of GCC@. A fix for
3851 APAR IX87327 is available from IBM Customer Support and from its
3852 @uref{http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/,,techsupport.services.ibm.com}
3853 website as PTF U461879. This fix is incorporated in AIX 4.3.3 and above.
3854
3855 The initial assembler shipped with AIX 4.3.0 generates incorrect object
3856 files. A fix for APAR IX74254 (64BIT DISASSEMBLED OUTPUT FROM COMPILER FAILS
3857 TO ASSEMBLE/BIND) is available from IBM Customer Support and from its
3858 @uref{http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/,,techsupport.services.ibm.com}
3859 website as PTF U453956. This fix is incorporated in AIX 4.3.1 and above.
3860
3861 AIX provides National Language Support (NLS)@. Compilers and assemblers
3862 use NLS to support locale-specific representations of various data
3863 formats including floating-point numbers (e.g., @samp{.} vs @samp{,} for
3864 separating decimal fractions). There have been problems reported where
3865 GCC does not produce the same floating-point formats that the assembler
3866 expects. If one encounters this problem, set the @env{LANG}
3867 environment variable to @samp{C} or @samp{En_US}.
3868
3869 A default can be specified with the @option{-mcpu=@var{cpu_type}}
3870 switch and using the configure option @option{--with-cpu-@var{cpu_type}}.
3871
3872 @html
3873 <hr />
3874 @end html
3875 @anchor{iq2000-x-elf}
3876 @heading iq2000-*-elf
3877 Vitesse IQ2000 processors. These are used in embedded
3878 applications. There are no standard Unix configurations.
3879
3880 @html
3881 <hr />
3882 @end html
3883 @anchor{lm32-x-elf}
3884 @heading lm32-*-elf
3885 Lattice Mico32 processor.
3886 This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
3887
3888 @html
3889 <hr />
3890 @end html
3891 @anchor{lm32-x-uclinux}
3892 @heading lm32-*-uclinux
3893 Lattice Mico32 processor.
3894 This configuration is intended for embedded systems running uClinux.
3895
3896 @html
3897 <hr />
3898 @end html
3899 @anchor{m32c-x-elf}
3900 @heading m32c-*-elf
3901 Renesas M32C processor.
3902 This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
3903
3904 @html
3905 <hr />
3906 @end html
3907 @anchor{m32r-x-elf}
3908 @heading m32r-*-elf
3909 Renesas M32R processor.
3910 This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
3911
3912 @html
3913 <hr />
3914 @end html
3915 @anchor{m68k-x-x}
3916 @heading m68k-*-*
3917 By default,
3918 @samp{m68k-*-elf*}, @samp{m68k-*-rtems}, @samp{m68k-*-uclinux} and
3919 @samp{m68k-*-linux}
3920 build libraries for both M680x0 and ColdFire processors. If you only
3921 need the M680x0 libraries, you can omit the ColdFire ones by passing
3922 @option{--with-arch=m68k} to @command{configure}. Alternatively, you
3923 can omit the M680x0 libraries by passing @option{--with-arch=cf} to
3924 @command{configure}. These targets default to 5206 or 5475 code as
3925 appropriate for the target system when
3926 configured with @option{--with-arch=cf} and 68020 code otherwise.
3927
3928 The @samp{m68k-*-netbsd} and
3929 @samp{m68k-*-openbsd} targets also support the @option{--with-arch}
3930 option. They will generate ColdFire CFV4e code when configured with
3931 @option{--with-arch=cf} and 68020 code otherwise.
3932
3933 You can override the default processors listed above by configuring
3934 with @option{--with-cpu=@var{target}}. This @var{target} can either
3935 be a @option{-mcpu} argument or one of the following values:
3936 @samp{m68000}, @samp{m68010}, @samp{m68020}, @samp{m68030},
3937 @samp{m68040}, @samp{m68060}, @samp{m68020-40} and @samp{m68020-60}.
3938
3939 GCC requires at least binutils version 2.17 on these targets.
3940
3941 @html
3942 <hr />
3943 @end html
3944 @anchor{m68k-x-uclinux}
3945 @heading m68k-*-uclinux
3946 GCC 4.3 changed the uClinux configuration so that it uses the
3947 @samp{m68k-linux-gnu} ABI rather than the @samp{m68k-elf} ABI.
3948 It also added improved support for C++ and flat shared libraries,
3949 both of which were ABI changes.
3950
3951 @html
3952 <hr />
3953 @end html
3954 @anchor{mep-x-elf}
3955 @heading mep-*-elf
3956 Toshiba Media embedded Processor.
3957 This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
3958
3959 @html
3960 <hr />
3961 @end html
3962 @anchor{microblaze-x-elf}
3963 @heading microblaze-*-elf
3964 Xilinx MicroBlaze processor.
3965 This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
3966
3967 @html
3968 <hr />
3969 @end html
3970 @anchor{mips-x-x}
3971 @heading mips-*-*
3972 If on a MIPS system you get an error message saying ``does not have gp
3973 sections for all it's [sic] sectons [sic]'', don't worry about it. This
3974 happens whenever you use GAS with the MIPS linker, but there is not
3975 really anything wrong, and it is okay to use the output file. You can
3976 stop such warnings by installing the GNU linker.
3977
3978 It would be nice to extend GAS to produce the gp tables, but they are
3979 optional, and there should not be a warning about their absence.
3980
3981 The libstdc++ atomic locking routines for MIPS targets requires MIPS II
3982 and later. A patch went in just after the GCC 3.3 release to
3983 make @samp{mips*-*-*} use the generic implementation instead. You can also
3984 configure for @samp{mipsel-elf} as a workaround. The
3985 @samp{mips*-*-linux*} target continues to use the MIPS II routines. More
3986 work on this is expected in future releases.
3987
3988 @c If you make --with-llsc the default for another target, please also
3989 @c update the description of the --with-llsc option.
3990
3991 The built-in @code{__sync_*} functions are available on MIPS II and
3992 later systems and others that support the @samp{ll}, @samp{sc} and
3993 @samp{sync} instructions. This can be overridden by passing
3994 @option{--with-llsc} or @option{--without-llsc} when configuring GCC.
3995 Since the Linux kernel emulates these instructions if they are
3996 missing, the default for @samp{mips*-*-linux*} targets is
3997 @option{--with-llsc}. The @option{--with-llsc} and
3998 @option{--without-llsc} configure options may be overridden at compile
3999 time by passing the @option{-mllsc} or @option{-mno-llsc} options to
4000 the compiler.
4001
4002 MIPS systems check for division by zero (unless
4003 @option{-mno-check-zero-division} is passed to the compiler) by
4004 generating either a conditional trap or a break instruction. Using
4005 trap results in smaller code, but is only supported on MIPS II and
4006 later. Also, some versions of the Linux kernel have a bug that
4007 prevents trap from generating the proper signal (@code{SIGFPE}). To enable
4008 the use of break, use the @option{--with-divide=breaks}
4009 @command{configure} option when configuring GCC@. The default is to
4010 use traps on systems that support them.
4011
4012 The assembler from GNU binutils 2.17 and earlier has a bug in the way
4013 it sorts relocations for REL targets (o32, o64, EABI). This can cause
4014 bad code to be generated for simple C++ programs. Also the linker
4015 from GNU binutils versions prior to 2.17 has a bug which causes the
4016 runtime linker stubs in very large programs, like @file{libgcj.so}, to
4017 be incorrectly generated. GNU Binutils 2.18 and later (and snapshots
4018 made after Nov. 9, 2006) should be free from both of these problems.
4019
4020 @html
4021 <hr />
4022 @end html
4023 @anchor{mips-sgi-irix5}
4024 @heading mips-sgi-irix5
4025 Support for IRIX 5 has been removed in GCC 4.6.
4026
4027 @html
4028 <hr />
4029 @end html
4030 @anchor{mips-sgi-irix6}
4031 @heading mips-sgi-irix6
4032 Support for IRIX 6.5 has been removed in GCC 4.8. Support for IRIX 6
4033 releases before 6.5 has been removed in GCC 4.6, as well as support for
4034 the O32 ABI.
4035
4036 @html
4037 <hr />
4038 @end html
4039 @anchor{moxie-x-elf}
4040 @heading moxie-*-elf
4041 The moxie processor.
4042
4043 @html
4044 <hr />
4045 @end html
4046 @anchor{msp430-x-elf}
4047 @heading msp430-*-elf
4048 TI MSP430 processor.
4049 This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
4050
4051 @html
4052 <hr />
4053 @end html
4054 @anchor{powerpc-x-x}
4055 @heading powerpc-*-*
4056 You can specify a default version for the @option{-mcpu=@var{cpu_type}}
4057 switch by using the configure option @option{--with-cpu-@var{cpu_type}}.
4058
4059 You will need
4060 @uref{ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils,,binutils 2.15}
4061 or newer for a working GCC@.
4062
4063 @html
4064 <hr />
4065 @end html
4066 @anchor{powerpc-x-darwin}
4067 @heading powerpc-*-darwin*
4068 PowerPC running Darwin (Mac OS X kernel).
4069
4070 Pre-installed versions of Mac OS X may not include any developer tools,
4071 meaning that you will not be able to build GCC from source. Tool
4072 binaries are available at
4073 @uref{http://opensource.apple.com/}.
4074
4075 This version of GCC requires at least cctools-590.36. The
4076 cctools-590.36 package referenced from
4077 @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2006-03/msg00507.html} will not work
4078 on systems older than 10.3.9 (aka darwin7.9.0).
4079
4080 @html
4081 <hr />
4082 @end html
4083 @anchor{powerpc-x-elf}
4084 @heading powerpc-*-elf
4085 PowerPC system in big endian mode, running System V.4.
4086
4087 @html
4088 <hr />
4089 @end html
4090 @anchor{powerpc-x-linux-gnu}
4091 @heading powerpc*-*-linux-gnu*
4092 PowerPC system in big endian mode running Linux.
4093
4094 @html
4095 <hr />
4096 @end html
4097 @anchor{powerpc-x-netbsd}
4098 @heading powerpc-*-netbsd*
4099 PowerPC system in big endian mode running NetBSD@.
4100
4101 @html
4102 <hr />
4103 @end html
4104 @anchor{powerpc-x-eabisim}
4105 @heading powerpc-*-eabisim
4106 Embedded PowerPC system in big endian mode for use in running under the
4107 PSIM simulator.
4108
4109 @html
4110 <hr />
4111 @end html
4112 @anchor{powerpc-x-eabi}
4113 @heading powerpc-*-eabi
4114 Embedded PowerPC system in big endian mode.
4115
4116 @html
4117 <hr />
4118 @end html
4119 @anchor{powerpcle-x-elf}
4120 @heading powerpcle-*-elf
4121 PowerPC system in little endian mode, running System V.4.
4122
4123 @html
4124 <hr />
4125 @end html
4126 @anchor{powerpcle-x-eabisim}
4127 @heading powerpcle-*-eabisim
4128 Embedded PowerPC system in little endian mode for use in running under
4129 the PSIM simulator.
4130
4131 @html
4132 <hr />
4133 @end html
4134 @anchor{powerpcle-x-eabi}
4135 @heading powerpcle-*-eabi
4136 Embedded PowerPC system in little endian mode.
4137
4138 @html
4139 <hr />
4140 @end html
4141 @anchor{rl78-x-elf}
4142 @heading rl78-*-elf
4143 The Renesas RL78 processor.
4144 This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
4145
4146 @html
4147 <hr />
4148 @end html
4149 @anchor{rx-x-elf}
4150 @heading rx-*-elf
4151 The Renesas RX processor. See
4152 @uref{http://eu.renesas.com/fmwk.jsp?cnt=rx600_series_landing.jsp&fp=/products/mpumcu/rx_family/rx600_series}
4153 for more information about this processor.
4154
4155 @html
4156 <hr />
4157 @end html
4158 @anchor{s390-x-linux}
4159 @heading s390-*-linux*
4160 S/390 system running GNU/Linux for S/390@.
4161
4162 @html
4163 <hr />
4164 @end html
4165 @anchor{s390x-x-linux}
4166 @heading s390x-*-linux*
4167 zSeries system (64-bit) running GNU/Linux for zSeries@.
4168
4169 @html
4170 <hr />
4171 @end html
4172 @anchor{s390x-ibm-tpf}
4173 @heading s390x-ibm-tpf*
4174 zSeries system (64-bit) running TPF@. This platform is
4175 supported as cross-compilation target only.
4176
4177 @html
4178 <hr />
4179 @end html
4180 @c Please use Solaris 2 to refer to all release of Solaris, starting
4181 @c with 2.0 until 2.6, 7, 8, etc. Solaris 1 was a marketing name for
4182 @c SunOS 4 releases which we don't use to avoid confusion. Solaris
4183 @c alone is too unspecific and must be avoided.
4184 @anchor{x-x-solaris2}
4185 @heading *-*-solaris2*
4186 Support for Solaris 9 has been obsoleted in GCC 4.9, but can still be
4187 enabled by configuring with @option{--enable-obsolete}. Support will be
4188 removed in GCC 4.10. Support for Solaris 8 has removed in GCC 4.8.
4189 Support for Solaris 7 has been removed in GCC 4.6.
4190
4191 Sun does not ship a C compiler with Solaris 2 before Solaris 10, though
4192 you can download the Sun Studio compilers for free. In Solaris 10 and
4193 11, GCC 3.4.3 is available as @command{/usr/sfw/bin/gcc}. Solaris 11
4194 also provides GCC 4.5.2 as @command{/usr/gcc/4.5/bin/gcc}. Alternatively,
4195 you can install a pre-built GCC to bootstrap and install GCC. See the
4196 @uref{binaries.html,,binaries page} for details.
4197
4198 The Solaris 2 @command{/bin/sh} will often fail to configure
4199 @samp{libstdc++-v3}, @samp{boehm-gc} or @samp{libjava}. We therefore
4200 recommend using the following initial sequence of commands
4201
4202 @smallexample
4203 % CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/ksh
4204 % export CONFIG_SHELL
4205 @end smallexample
4206
4207 @noindent
4208 and proceed as described in @uref{configure.html,,the configure instructions}.
4209 In addition we strongly recommend specifying an absolute path to invoke
4210 @command{@var{srcdir}/configure}.
4211
4212 Solaris 2 comes with a number of optional OS packages. Some of these
4213 are needed to use GCC fully, namely @code{SUNWarc},
4214 @code{SUNWbtool}, @code{SUNWesu}, @code{SUNWhea}, @code{SUNWlibm},
4215 @code{SUNWsprot}, and @code{SUNWtoo}. If you did not install all
4216 optional packages when installing Solaris 2, you will need to verify that
4217 the packages that GCC needs are installed.
4218
4219 To check whether an optional package is installed, use
4220 the @command{pkginfo} command. To add an optional package, use the
4221 @command{pkgadd} command. For further details, see the Solaris 2
4222 documentation.
4223
4224 Trying to use the linker and other tools in
4225 @file{/usr/ucb} to install GCC has been observed to cause trouble.
4226 For example, the linker may hang indefinitely. The fix is to remove
4227 @file{/usr/ucb} from your @env{PATH}.
4228
4229 The build process works more smoothly with the legacy Sun tools so, if you
4230 have @file{/usr/xpg4/bin} in your @env{PATH}, we recommend that you place
4231 @file{/usr/bin} before @file{/usr/xpg4/bin} for the duration of the build.
4232
4233 We recommend the use of the Sun assembler or the GNU assembler, in
4234 conjunction with the Sun linker. The GNU @command{as}
4235 versions included in Solaris 10, from GNU binutils 2.15, and Solaris 11,
4236 from GNU binutils 2.19, are known to work. They can be found in
4237 @file{/usr/sfw/bin/gas}. Current versions of GNU binutils (2.22)
4238 are known to work as well. Note that your mileage may vary
4239 if you use a combination of the GNU tools and the Sun tools: while the
4240 combination GNU @command{as} + Sun @command{ld} should reasonably work,
4241 the reverse combination Sun @command{as} + GNU @command{ld} may fail to
4242 build or cause memory corruption at runtime in some cases for C++ programs.
4243 @c FIXME: still?
4244 GNU @command{ld} usually works as well, although the version included in
4245 Solaris 10 cannot be used due to several bugs. Again, the current
4246 version (2.22) is known to work, but generally lacks platform specific
4247 features, so better stay with Sun @command{ld}. To use the LTO linker
4248 plugin (@option{-fuse-linker-plugin}) with GNU @command{ld}, GNU
4249 binutils @emph{must} be configured with @option{--enable-largefile}.
4250
4251 To enable symbol versioning in @samp{libstdc++} with Sun @command{ld},
4252 you need to have any version of GNU @command{c++filt}, which is part of
4253 GNU binutils. @samp{libstdc++} symbol versioning will be disabled if no
4254 appropriate version is found. Sun @command{c++filt} from the Sun Studio
4255 compilers does @emph{not} work.
4256
4257 Sun bug 4296832 turns up when compiling X11 headers with GCC 2.95 or
4258 newer: @command{g++} will complain that types are missing. These headers
4259 assume that omitting the type means @code{int}; this assumption worked for
4260 C90 but is wrong for C++, and is now wrong for C99 also.
4261
4262 Sun bug 4927647 sometimes causes random spurious testsuite failures
4263 related to missing diagnostic output. This bug doesn't affect GCC
4264 itself, rather it is a kernel bug triggered by the @command{expect}
4265 program which is used only by the GCC testsuite driver. When the bug
4266 causes the @command{expect} program to miss anticipated output, extra
4267 testsuite failures appear.
4268
4269 There are patches for Solaris 9 (117171-11 or newer for
4270 SPARC, 117172-11 or newer for Intel) that address this problem.
4271
4272 Thread-local storage (TLS) is supported in Solaris@tie{}9, but requires
4273 some patches. The @samp{libthread} patches provide the
4274 @code{__tls_get_addr} (SPARC, 64-bit x86) resp.@ @code{___tls_get_addr}
4275 (32-bit x86) functions. On Solaris@tie{}9, the necessary support
4276 on SPARC is present since FCS, while 114432-05 or newer is required on
4277 Intel. Additionally, on Solaris@tie{}9/x86, patch 113986-02 or newer is
4278 required for the Sun @command{ld} and runtime linker (@command{ld.so.1})
4279 support, while Solaris@tie{}9/SPARC works since FCS. The linker
4280 patches must be installed even if GNU @command{ld} is used. Sun
4281 @command{as} in Solaris@tie{}9 doesn't support the necessary
4282 relocations, so GNU @command{as} must be used. The @command{configure}
4283 script checks for those prerequisites and automatically enables TLS
4284 support if they are met. Although those minimal patch versions should
4285 work, it is recommended to use the latest patch versions which include
4286 additional bug fixes.
4287
4288 @html
4289 <hr />
4290 @end html
4291 @anchor{sparc-x-x}
4292 @heading sparc*-*-*
4293 This section contains general configuration information for all
4294 SPARC-based platforms. In addition to reading this section, please
4295 read all other sections that match your target.
4296
4297 Newer versions of the GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP), the MPFR
4298 library and the MPC library are known to be miscompiled by earlier
4299 versions of GCC on these platforms. We therefore recommend the use
4300 of the exact versions of these libraries listed as minimal versions
4301 in @uref{prerequisites.html,,the prerequisites}.
4302
4303 @html
4304 <hr />
4305 @end html
4306 @anchor{sparc-sun-solaris2}
4307 @heading sparc-sun-solaris2*
4308 When GCC is configured to use GNU binutils 2.14 or later, the binaries
4309 produced are smaller than the ones produced using Sun's native tools;
4310 this difference is quite significant for binaries containing debugging
4311 information.
4312
4313 Starting with Solaris 7, the operating system is capable of executing
4314 64-bit SPARC V9 binaries. GCC 3.1 and later properly supports
4315 this; the @option{-m64} option enables 64-bit code generation.
4316 However, if all you want is code tuned for the UltraSPARC CPU, you
4317 should try the @option{-mtune=ultrasparc} option instead, which produces
4318 code that, unlike full 64-bit code, can still run on non-UltraSPARC
4319 machines.
4320
4321 When configuring on a Solaris 7 or later system that is running a kernel
4322 that supports only 32-bit binaries, one must configure with
4323 @option{--disable-multilib}, since we will not be able to build the
4324 64-bit target libraries.
4325
4326 GCC 3.3 and GCC 3.4 trigger code generation bugs in earlier versions of
4327 the GNU compiler (especially GCC 3.0.x versions), which lead to the
4328 miscompilation of the stage1 compiler and the subsequent failure of the
4329 bootstrap process. A workaround is to use GCC 3.2.3 as an intermediary
4330 stage, i.e.@: to bootstrap that compiler with the base compiler and then
4331 use it to bootstrap the final compiler.
4332
4333 GCC 3.4 triggers a code generation bug in versions 5.4 (Sun ONE Studio 7)
4334 and 5.5 (Sun ONE Studio 8) of the Sun compiler, which causes a bootstrap
4335 failure in form of a miscompilation of the stage1 compiler by the Sun
4336 compiler. This is Sun bug 4974440. This is fixed with patch 112760-07.
4337
4338 GCC 3.4 changed the default debugging format from Stabs to DWARF-2 for
4339 32-bit code on Solaris 7 and later. If you use the Sun assembler, this
4340 change apparently runs afoul of Sun bug 4910101 (which is referenced as
4341 an x86-only problem by Sun, probably because they do not use DWARF-2).
4342 A symptom of the problem is that you cannot compile C++ programs like
4343 @command{groff} 1.19.1 without getting messages similar to the following:
4344
4345 @smallexample
4346 ld: warning: relocation error: R_SPARC_UA32: @dots{}
4347 external symbolic relocation against non-allocatable section
4348 .debug_info cannot be processed at runtime: relocation ignored.
4349 @end smallexample
4350
4351 @noindent
4352 To work around this problem, compile with @option{-gstabs+} instead of
4353 plain @option{-g}.
4354
4355 When configuring the GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP), the MPFR
4356 library or the MPC library on a Solaris 7 or later system, the canonical
4357 target triplet must be specified as the @command{build} parameter on the
4358 configure line. This target triplet can be obtained by invoking @command{./config.guess} in the toplevel source directory of GCC (and
4359 not that of GMP or MPFR or MPC). For example on a Solaris 9 system:
4360
4361 @smallexample
4362 % ./configure --build=sparc-sun-solaris2.9 --prefix=xxx
4363 @end smallexample
4364
4365 @html
4366 <hr />
4367 @end html
4368 @anchor{sparc-sun-solaris210}
4369 @heading sparc-sun-solaris2.10
4370 There is a bug in older versions of the Sun assembler which breaks
4371 thread-local storage (TLS). A typical error message is
4372
4373 @smallexample
4374 ld: fatal: relocation error: R_SPARC_TLS_LE_HIX22: file /var/tmp//ccamPA1v.o:
4375 symbol <unknown>: bad symbol type SECT: symbol type must be TLS
4376 @end smallexample
4377
4378 @noindent
4379 This bug is fixed in Sun patch 118683-03 or later.
4380
4381 @html
4382 <hr />
4383 @end html
4384 @anchor{sparc-x-linux}
4385 @heading sparc-*-linux*
4386
4387 GCC versions 3.0 and higher require binutils 2.11.2 and glibc 2.2.4
4388 or newer on this platform. All earlier binutils and glibc
4389 releases mishandled unaligned relocations on @code{sparc-*-*} targets.
4390
4391
4392 @html
4393 <hr />
4394 @end html
4395 @anchor{sparc64-x-solaris2}
4396 @heading sparc64-*-solaris2*
4397 When configuring the GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP), the MPFR
4398 library or the MPC library, the canonical target triplet must be specified
4399 as the @command{build} parameter on the configure line. For example
4400 on a Solaris 9 system:
4401
4402 @smallexample
4403 % ./configure --build=sparc64-sun-solaris2.9 --prefix=xxx
4404 @end smallexample
4405
4406 The following compiler flags must be specified in the configure
4407 step in order to bootstrap this target with the Sun compiler:
4408
4409 @smallexample
4410 % CC="cc -xarch=v9 -xildoff" @var{srcdir}/configure [@var{options}] [@var{target}]
4411 @end smallexample
4412
4413 @noindent
4414 @option{-xarch=v9} specifies the SPARC-V9 architecture to the Sun toolchain
4415 and @option{-xildoff} turns off the incremental linker.
4416
4417 @html
4418 <hr />
4419 @end html
4420 @anchor{sparcv9-x-solaris2}
4421 @heading sparcv9-*-solaris2*
4422 This is a synonym for @samp{sparc64-*-solaris2*}.
4423
4424 @html
4425 <hr />
4426 @end html
4427 @anchor{c6x-x-x}
4428 @heading c6x-*-*
4429 The C6X family of processors. This port requires binutils-2.22 or newer.
4430
4431 @html
4432 <hr />
4433 @end html
4434 @anchor{tilegx-*-linux}
4435 @heading tilegx-*-linux*
4436 The TILE-Gx processor running GNU/Linux. This port requires
4437 binutils-2.22 or newer.
4438
4439 @html
4440 <hr />
4441 @end html
4442 @anchor{tilepro-*-linux}
4443 @heading tilepro-*-linux*
4444 The TILEPro processor running GNU/Linux. This port requires
4445 binutils-2.22 or newer.
4446
4447 @html
4448 <hr />
4449 @end html
4450 @anchor{x-x-vxworks}
4451 @heading *-*-vxworks*
4452 Support for VxWorks is in flux. At present GCC supports @emph{only} the
4453 very recent VxWorks 5.5 (aka Tornado 2.2) release, and only on PowerPC@.
4454 We welcome patches for other architectures supported by VxWorks 5.5.
4455 Support for VxWorks AE would also be welcome; we believe this is merely
4456 a matter of writing an appropriate ``configlette'' (see below). We are
4457 not interested in supporting older, a.out or COFF-based, versions of
4458 VxWorks in GCC 3.
4459
4460 VxWorks comes with an older version of GCC installed in
4461 @file{@var{$WIND_BASE}/host}; we recommend you do not overwrite it.
4462 Choose an installation @var{prefix} entirely outside @var{$WIND_BASE}.
4463 Before running @command{configure}, create the directories @file{@var{prefix}}
4464 and @file{@var{prefix}/bin}. Link or copy the appropriate assembler,
4465 linker, etc.@: into @file{@var{prefix}/bin}, and set your @var{PATH} to
4466 include that directory while running both @command{configure} and
4467 @command{make}.
4468
4469 You must give @command{configure} the
4470 @option{--with-headers=@var{$WIND_BASE}/target/h} switch so that it can
4471 find the VxWorks system headers. Since VxWorks is a cross compilation
4472 target only, you must also specify @option{--target=@var{target}}.
4473 @command{configure} will attempt to create the directory
4474 @file{@var{prefix}/@var{target}/sys-include} and copy files into it;
4475 make sure the user running @command{configure} has sufficient privilege
4476 to do so.
4477
4478 GCC's exception handling runtime requires a special ``configlette''
4479 module, @file{contrib/gthr_supp_vxw_5x.c}. Follow the instructions in
4480 that file to add the module to your kernel build. (Future versions of
4481 VxWorks will incorporate this module.)
4482
4483 @html
4484 <hr />
4485 @end html
4486 @anchor{x86-64-x-x}
4487 @heading x86_64-*-*, amd64-*-*
4488 GCC supports the x86-64 architecture implemented by the AMD64 processor
4489 (amd64-*-* is an alias for x86_64-*-*) on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD@.
4490 On GNU/Linux the default is a bi-arch compiler which is able to generate
4491 both 64-bit x86-64 and 32-bit x86 code (via the @option{-m32} switch).
4492
4493 @html
4494 <hr />
4495 @end html
4496 @anchor{x86-64-x-solaris210}
4497 @heading x86_64-*-solaris2.1[0-9]*
4498 GCC also supports the x86-64 architecture implemented by the AMD64
4499 processor (@samp{amd64-*-*} is an alias for @samp{x86_64-*-*}) on
4500 Solaris 10 or later. Unlike other systems, without special options a
4501 bi-arch compiler is built which generates 32-bit code by default, but
4502 can generate 64-bit x86-64 code with the @option{-m64} switch. Since
4503 GCC 4.7, there is also configuration that defaults to 64-bit code, but
4504 can generate 32-bit code with @option{-m32}. To configure and build
4505 this way, you have to provide all support libraries like @file{libgmp}
4506 as 64-bit code, configure with @option{--target=x86_64-pc-solaris2.1x}
4507 and @samp{CC=gcc -m64}.
4508
4509 @html
4510 <hr />
4511 @end html
4512 @anchor{xtensa-x-elf}
4513 @heading xtensa*-*-elf
4514 This target is intended for embedded Xtensa systems using the
4515 @samp{newlib} C library. It uses ELF but does not support shared
4516 objects. Designed-defined instructions specified via the
4517 Tensilica Instruction Extension (TIE) language are only supported
4518 through inline assembly.
4519
4520 The Xtensa configuration information must be specified prior to
4521 building GCC@. The @file{include/xtensa-config.h} header
4522 file contains the configuration information. If you created your
4523 own Xtensa configuration with the Xtensa Processor Generator, the
4524 downloaded files include a customized copy of this header file,
4525 which you can use to replace the default header file.
4526
4527 @html
4528 <hr />
4529 @end html
4530 @anchor{xtensa-x-linux}
4531 @heading xtensa*-*-linux*
4532 This target is for Xtensa systems running GNU/Linux. It supports ELF
4533 shared objects and the GNU C library (glibc). It also generates
4534 position-independent code (PIC) regardless of whether the
4535 @option{-fpic} or @option{-fPIC} options are used. In other
4536 respects, this target is the same as the
4537 @uref{#xtensa*-*-elf,,@samp{xtensa*-*-elf}} target.
4538
4539 @html
4540 <hr />
4541 @end html
4542 @anchor{windows}
4543 @heading Microsoft Windows
4544
4545 @subheading Intel 16-bit versions
4546 The 16-bit versions of Microsoft Windows, such as Windows 3.1, are not
4547 supported.
4548
4549 However, the 32-bit port has limited support for Microsoft
4550 Windows 3.11 in the Win32s environment, as a target only. See below.
4551
4552 @subheading Intel 32-bit versions
4553 The 32-bit versions of Windows, including Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows
4554 XP, and Windows Vista, are supported by several different target
4555 platforms. These targets differ in which Windows subsystem they target
4556 and which C libraries are used.
4557
4558 @itemize
4559 @item Cygwin @uref{#x-x-cygwin,,*-*-cygwin}: Cygwin provides a user-space
4560 Linux API emulation layer in the Win32 subsystem.
4561 @item Interix @uref{#x-x-interix,,*-*-interix}: The Interix subsystem
4562 provides native support for POSIX.
4563 @item MinGW @uref{#x-x-mingw32,,*-*-mingw32}: MinGW is a native GCC port for
4564 the Win32 subsystem that provides a subset of POSIX.
4565 @item MKS i386-pc-mks: NuTCracker from MKS. See
4566 @uref{http://www.mkssoftware.com/} for more information.
4567 @end itemize
4568
4569 @subheading Intel 64-bit versions
4570 GCC contains support for x86-64 using the mingw-w64
4571 runtime library, available from @uref{http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/}.
4572 This library should be used with the target triple x86_64-pc-mingw32.
4573
4574 Presently Windows for Itanium is not supported.
4575
4576 @subheading Windows CE
4577 Windows CE is supported as a target only on Hitachi
4578 SuperH (sh-wince-pe), and MIPS (mips-wince-pe).
4579
4580 @subheading Other Windows Platforms
4581 GCC no longer supports Windows NT on the Alpha or PowerPC.
4582
4583 GCC no longer supports the Windows POSIX subsystem. However, it does
4584 support the Interix subsystem. See above.
4585
4586 Old target names including *-*-winnt and *-*-windowsnt are no longer used.
4587
4588 PW32 (i386-pc-pw32) support was never completed, and the project seems to
4589 be inactive. See @uref{http://pw32.sourceforge.net/} for more information.
4590
4591 UWIN support has been removed due to a lack of maintenance.
4592
4593 @html
4594 <hr />
4595 @end html
4596 @anchor{x-x-cygwin}
4597 @heading *-*-cygwin
4598 Ports of GCC are included with the
4599 @uref{http://www.cygwin.com/,,Cygwin environment}.
4600
4601 GCC will build under Cygwin without modification; it does not build
4602 with Microsoft's C++ compiler and there are no plans to make it do so.
4603
4604 The Cygwin native compiler can be configured to target any 32-bit x86
4605 cpu architecture desired; the default is i686-pc-cygwin. It should be
4606 used with as up-to-date a version of binutils as possible; use either
4607 the latest official GNU binutils release in the Cygwin distribution,
4608 or version 2.20 or above if building your own.
4609
4610 @html
4611 <hr />
4612 @end html
4613 @anchor{x-x-interix}
4614 @heading *-*-interix
4615 The Interix target is used by OpenNT, Interix, Services For UNIX (SFU),
4616 and Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA). Applications compiled
4617 with this target run in the Interix subsystem, which is separate from
4618 the Win32 subsystem. This target was last known to work in GCC 3.3.
4619
4620 @html
4621 <hr />
4622 @end html
4623 @anchor{x-x-mingw32}
4624 @heading *-*-mingw32
4625 GCC will build with and support only MinGW runtime 3.12 and later.
4626 Earlier versions of headers are incompatible with the new default semantics
4627 of @code{extern inline} in @code{-std=c99} and @code{-std=gnu99} modes.
4628
4629 @html
4630 <hr />
4631 @end html
4632 @anchor{older}
4633 @heading Older systems
4634 GCC contains support files for many older (1980s and early
4635 1990s) Unix variants. For the most part, support for these systems
4636 has not been deliberately removed, but it has not been maintained for
4637 several years and may suffer from bitrot.
4638
4639 Starting with GCC 3.1, each release has a list of ``obsoleted'' systems.
4640 Support for these systems is still present in that release, but
4641 @command{configure} will fail unless the @option{--enable-obsolete}
4642 option is given. Unless a maintainer steps forward, support for these
4643 systems will be removed from the next release of GCC@.
4644
4645 Support for old systems as hosts for GCC can cause problems if the
4646 workarounds for compiler, library and operating system bugs affect the
4647 cleanliness or maintainability of the rest of GCC@. In some cases, to
4648 bring GCC up on such a system, if still possible with current GCC, may
4649 require first installing an old version of GCC which did work on that
4650 system, and using it to compile a more recent GCC, to avoid bugs in the
4651 vendor compiler. Old releases of GCC 1 and GCC 2 are available in the
4652 @file{old-releases} directory on the @uref{../mirrors.html,,GCC mirror
4653 sites}. Header bugs may generally be avoided using
4654 @command{fixincludes}, but bugs or deficiencies in libraries and the
4655 operating system may still cause problems.
4656
4657 Support for older systems as targets for cross-compilation is less
4658 problematic than support for them as hosts for GCC; if an enthusiast
4659 wishes to make such a target work again (including resurrecting any of
4660 the targets that never worked with GCC 2, starting from the last
4661 version before they were removed), patches
4662 @uref{../contribute.html,,following the usual requirements} would be
4663 likely to be accepted, since they should not affect the support for more
4664 modern targets.
4665
4666 For some systems, old versions of GNU binutils may also be useful,
4667 and are available from @file{pub/binutils/old-releases} on
4668 @uref{http://sourceware.org/mirrors.html,,sourceware.org mirror sites}.
4669
4670 Some of the information on specific systems above relates to
4671 such older systems, but much of the information
4672 about GCC on such systems (which may no longer be applicable to
4673 current GCC) is to be found in the GCC texinfo manual.
4674
4675 @html
4676 <hr />
4677 @end html
4678 @anchor{elf}
4679 @heading all ELF targets (SVR4, Solaris 2, etc.)
4680 C++ support is significantly better on ELF targets if you use the
4681 @uref{./configure.html#with-gnu-ld,,GNU linker}; duplicate copies of
4682 inlines, vtables and template instantiations will be discarded
4683 automatically.
4684
4685
4686 @html
4687 <hr />
4688 <p>
4689 @end html
4690 @ifhtml
4691 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
4692 @end ifhtml
4693 @end ifset
4694
4695 @c ***Old documentation******************************************************
4696 @ifset oldhtml
4697 @include install-old.texi
4698 @html
4699 <hr />
4700 <p>
4701 @end html
4702 @ifhtml
4703 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
4704 @end ifhtml
4705 @end ifset
4706
4707 @c ***GFDL********************************************************************
4708 @ifset gfdlhtml
4709 @include fdl.texi
4710 @html
4711 <hr />
4712 <p>
4713 @end html
4714 @ifhtml
4715 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
4716 @end ifhtml
4717 @end ifset
4718
4719 @c ***************************************************************************
4720 @c Part 6 The End of the Document
4721 @ifinfo
4722 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
4723 @node Concept Index, , GNU Free Documentation License, Top
4724 @end ifinfo
4725
4726 @ifinfo
4727 @unnumbered Concept Index
4728
4729 @printindex cp
4730
4731 @contents
4732 @end ifinfo
4733 @bye