xPack Binary Development Tools (original) (raw)
Welcome to xPack 3rd Party Development Tools!
This GitHub organization groups several projects used to build cross-platform standalone binary packages intended for reproducible builds, with an emphasis on C/C++ and embedded projects.
Support
For support, use the discussions pages associated with each project.
For general discussions on topics not included elsewhere, use the discussions pages of the .github project.
Main packages
The projects, in alphabetical order, are:
aarch64-none-elf-gcc - xPack AArch64 Embedded GCC
arm-none-eabi-gcc - xPack Arm Embedded GCC
clang - xPack LLVM clang
cmake - xPack CMake
gcc - xPack GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)
meson-build - xPack Meson Build
mingw-w64-gcc - xPack MinGW-w64 GCC
ninja-build - xPack Ninja Build
openocd - xPack OpenOCD
qemu-arm - xPack QEMU Arm
qemu-riscv - xPack QEMU RISC-V
riscv-none-elf-gcc - xPack RISC-V Embedded GCC
windows-build-tools - xPack Windows Build Tools
Suplementary packages
Other projects used internally during development, in alphabetical order, are:
bison - xPack GNU bison
m4 - xPack GNU M4
patchelf - xPack NixOS PatchELF
pkg-config - xPack pkg-config
realpath - xPack GNU realpath
sed - xPack GNU sed
wine - xPack WineHQ
Work in progress
flex - xPack GNU flex
texinfo - xPack texinfo
Build helper
Release schedule
Unscheduled
- cmake: upstream (3.X.4 -> 3.(X-1).Y)
- meson: upstream (1.X.0 -> 1.(X-1).Y)
- ninja: upstream
- windows-build-tools: make upstream
January
- arm-none-eabi-gcc, aarch64-none-elf-gcc: [ARM releases](https://developer.arm.com/downloads/-/arm-gnu-toolchain-downloads/, usually mid December and possibly June-July)
February
- wine: upstream (X.0, usually ready mid January)
- clang: even releases upstream (X.0.0 -> (X-1.[01].[567]) (Schedule)
April
- gcc: test X.0.0 pre-release using Iain's macOS branch
May - July
- gcc, mingw-w64-gcc, riscv-none-elf-gcc: X.1.0 prepared, not released
- gcc, mingw-w64-gcc, riscv-none-elf-gcc: (X-1).3, (X-2).4, (X-3).5
July
- arm-none-eabi-gcc, aarch64-none-elf-gcc: [ARM releases](https://developer.arm.com/downloads/-/arm-gnu-toolchain-downloads/, possibly June-July)
August-September
- clang: odd releases upstream (X.0.0 -> (X-1.[01].[567]) (Schedule)
- gcc, mingw-w64-gcc, riscv-none-elf-gcc: X.2.0 upstream
- openocd: upstream (use current git)
- qemu: upstream (X.1.0 -> (X-1).2.Z)
- wine: upstream (X.0.[12], if available)
Seldom
- bison: upstream
- flex: upstream
- m4: upstream
- patchelf: upstream
- pkg-config: upstream
- realpath: upstream
- sed: upstream
More details in the separate RELEASE-SCHEDULE page.
Misc
Pre-releases
Test and experimental binaries are available from the pre-releases project.
Analytics & SEO
Bing
Credit
Credit to Shields IO for the badges.