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4 @setfilename gccinstall.info
5 @settitle Installing GCC
6 @setchapternewpage odd
7 @c %**end of header
8 @c @end ifnothtml
9
10 @include gcc-common.texi
11
12 @c Specify title for specific html page
13 @ifset indexhtml
14 @settitle Installing GCC
15 @end ifset
16 @ifset specifichtml
17 @settitle Host/Target specific installation notes for GCC
18 @end ifset
19 @ifset prerequisiteshtml
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
30 @end ifset
31 @ifset testhtml
32 @settitle Installing GCC: Testing
33 @end ifset
34 @ifset finalinstallhtml
35 @settitle Installing GCC: Final installation
36 @end ifset
37 @ifset binarieshtml
38 @settitle Installing GCC: Binaries
39 @end ifset
40 @ifset oldhtml
41 @settitle Installing GCC: Old documentation
42 @end ifset
43 @ifset gfdlhtml
44 @settitle Installing GCC: GNU Free Documentation License
45 @end ifset
46
47 @c Copyright (C) 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998,
48 @c 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
49 @c *** Converted to texinfo by Dean Wakerley, dean@wakerley.com
50
51 @c IMPORTANT: whenever you modify this file, run `install.texi2html' to
52 @c test the generation of HTML documents for the gcc.gnu.org web pages.
53 @c
54 @c Do not use @footnote{} in this file as it breaks install.texi2html!
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56 @c Include everything if we're not making html
57 @ifnothtml
58 @set indexhtml
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60 @set prerequisiteshtml
61 @set downloadhtml
62 @set configurehtml
63 @set buildhtml
64 @set testhtml
65 @set finalinstallhtml
66 @set binarieshtml
67 @set oldhtml
68 @set gfdlhtml
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70
71 @c Part 2 Summary Description and Copyright
72 @copying
73 Copyright @copyright{} 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997,
74 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007,
75 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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81 with the Back-Cover Texts being (b) (see below). A copy of the
82 license is included in the section entitled ``@uref{./gfdl.html,,GNU
83 Free Documentation License}''.
84
85 (a) The FSF's Front-Cover Text is:
86
87 A GNU Manual
88
89 (b) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is:
90
91 You have freedom to copy and modify this GNU Manual, like GNU
92 software. Copies published by the Free Software Foundation raise
93 funds for GNU development.
94 @end copying
95 @ifinfo
96 @insertcopying
97 @end ifinfo
98 @dircategory Software development
99 @direntry
100 * gccinstall: (gccinstall). Installing the GNU Compiler Collection.
101 @end direntry
102
103 @c Part 3 Titlepage and Copyright
104 @titlepage
105 @title Installing GCC
106 @versionsubtitle
107
108 @c The following two commands start the copyright page.
109 @page
110 @vskip 0pt plus 1filll
111 @insertcopying
112 @end titlepage
113
114 @c Part 4 Top node, Master Menu, and/or Table of Contents
115 @ifinfo
116 @node Top, , , (dir)
117 @comment node-name, next, Previous, up
118
119 @menu
120 * Installing GCC:: This document describes the generic installation
121 procedure for GCC as well as detailing some target
122 specific installation instructions.
123
124 * Specific:: Host/target specific installation notes for GCC.
125 * Binaries:: Where to get pre-compiled binaries.
126
127 * Old:: Old installation documentation.
128
129 * GNU Free Documentation License:: How you can copy and share this manual.
130 * Concept Index:: This index has two entries.
131 @end menu
132 @end ifinfo
133
134 @iftex
135 @contents
136 @end iftex
137
138 @c Part 5 The Body of the Document
139 @c ***Installing GCC**********************************************************
140 @ifnothtml
141 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
142 @node Installing GCC, Binaries, , Top
143 @end ifnothtml
144 @ifset indexhtml
145 @ifnothtml
146 @chapter Installing GCC
147 @end ifnothtml
148
149 The latest version of this document is always available at
150 @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/install/,,http://gcc.gnu.org/install/}.
151
152 This document describes the generic installation procedure for GCC as well
153 as detailing some target specific installation instructions.
154
155 GCC includes several components that previously were separate distributions
156 with their own installation instructions. This document supersedes all
157 package specific installation instructions.
158
159 @emph{Before} starting the build/install procedure please check the
160 @ifnothtml
161 @ref{Specific, host/target specific installation notes}.
162 @end ifnothtml
163 @ifhtml
164 @uref{specific.html,,host/target specific installation notes}.
165 @end ifhtml
166 We recommend you browse the entire generic installation instructions before
167 you proceed.
168
169 Lists of successful builds for released versions of GCC are
170 available at @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/buildstat.html}.
171 These lists are updated as new information becomes available.
172
173 The installation procedure itself is broken into five steps.
174
175 @ifinfo
176 @menu
177 * Prerequisites::
178 * Downloading the source::
179 * Configuration::
180 * Building::
181 * Testing:: (optional)
182 * Final install::
183 @end menu
184 @end ifinfo
185 @ifhtml
186 @enumerate
187 @item
188 @uref{prerequisites.html,,Prerequisites}
189 @item
190 @uref{download.html,,Downloading the source}
191 @item
192 @uref{configure.html,,Configuration}
193 @item
194 @uref{build.html,,Building}
195 @item
196 @uref{test.html,,Testing} (optional)
197 @item
198 @uref{finalinstall.html,,Final install}
199 @end enumerate
200 @end ifhtml
201
202 Please note that GCC does not support @samp{make uninstall} and probably
203 won't do so in the near future as this would open a can of worms. Instead,
204 we suggest that you install GCC into a directory of its own and simply
205 remove that directory when you do not need that specific version of GCC
206 any longer, and, if shared libraries are installed there as well, no
207 more binaries exist that use them.
208
209 @ifhtml
210 There are also some @uref{old.html,,old installation instructions},
211 which are mostly obsolete but still contain some information which has
212 not yet been merged into the main part of this manual.
213 @end ifhtml
214
215 @html
216 <hr />
217 <p>
218 @end html
219 @ifhtml
220 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
221
222 @insertcopying
223 @end ifhtml
224 @end ifset
225
226 @c ***Prerequisites**************************************************
227 @ifnothtml
228 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
229 @node Prerequisites, Downloading the source, , Installing GCC
230 @end ifnothtml
231 @ifset prerequisiteshtml
232 @ifnothtml
233 @chapter Prerequisites
234 @end ifnothtml
235 @cindex Prerequisites
236
237 GCC requires that various tools and packages be available for use in the
238 build procedure. Modifying GCC sources requires additional tools
239 described below.
240
241 @heading Tools/packages necessary for building GCC
242 @table @asis
243 @item ISO C90 compiler
244 Necessary to bootstrap GCC, although versions of GCC prior
245 to 3.4 also allow bootstrapping with a traditional (K&R) C compiler.
246
247 To build all languages in a cross-compiler or other configuration where
248 3-stage bootstrap is not performed, you need to start with an existing
249 GCC binary (version 2.95 or later) because source code for language
250 frontends other than C might use GCC extensions.
251
252 @item GNAT
253
254 In order to build the Ada compiler (GNAT) you must already have GNAT
255 installed because portions of the Ada frontend are written in Ada (with
256 GNAT extensions.) Refer to the Ada installation instructions for more
257 specific information.
258
259 @item A ``working'' POSIX compatible shell, or GNU bash
260
261 Necessary when running @command{configure} because some
262 @command{/bin/sh} shells have bugs and may crash when configuring the
263 target libraries. In other cases, @command{/bin/sh} or @command{ksh}
264 have disastrous corner-case performance problems. This
265 can cause target @command{configure} runs to literally take days to
266 complete in some cases.
267
268 So on some platforms @command{/bin/ksh} is sufficient, on others it
269 isn't. See the host/target specific instructions for your platform, or
270 use @command{bash} to be sure. Then set @env{CONFIG_SHELL} in your
271 environment to your ``good'' shell prior to running
272 @command{configure}/@command{make}.
273
274 @command{zsh} is not a fully compliant POSIX shell and will not
275 work when configuring GCC@.
276
277 @item A POSIX or SVR4 awk
278
279 Necessary for creating some of the generated source files for GCC@.
280 If in doubt, use a recent GNU awk version, as some of the older ones
281 are broken. GNU awk version 3.1.5 is known to work.
282
283 @item GNU binutils
284
285 Necessary in some circumstances, optional in others. See the
286 host/target specific instructions for your platform for the exact
287 requirements.
288
289 @item gzip version 1.2.4 (or later) or
290 @itemx bzip2 version 1.0.2 (or later)
291
292 Necessary to uncompress GCC @command{tar} files when source code is
293 obtained via FTP mirror sites.
294
295 @item GNU make version 3.80 (or later)
296
297 You must have GNU make installed to build GCC@.
298
299 @item GNU tar version 1.14 (or later)
300
301 Necessary (only on some platforms) to untar the source code. Many
302 systems' @command{tar} programs will also work, only try GNU
303 @command{tar} if you have problems.
304
305 @item GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP) version 4.1 (or later)
306
307 Necessary to build GCC@. If you do not have it installed in your
308 library search path, you will have to configure with the
309 @option{--with-gmp} configure option. See also @option{--with-gmp-lib}
310 and @option{--with-gmp-include}. Alternatively, if a GMP source
311 distribution is found in a subdirectory of your GCC sources named
312 @file{gmp}, it will be built together with GCC@.
313
314 @item MPFR Library version 2.3.2 (or later)
315
316 Necessary to build GCC@. It can be downloaded from
317 @uref{http://www.mpfr.org/}. The version of MPFR that is bundled with
318 GMP 4.1.x contains numerous bugs. Although GCC may appear to function
319 with the buggy versions of MPFR, there are a few bugs that will not be
320 fixed when using this version. It is strongly recommended to upgrade
321 to the recommended version of MPFR.
322
323 The @option{--with-mpfr} configure option should be used if your MPFR
324 Library is not installed in your default library search path. See also
325 @option{--with-mpfr-lib} and @option{--with-mpfr-include}.
326 Alternatively, if a MPFR source distribution is found in a subdirectory
327 of your GCC sources named @file{mpfr}, it will be built together with
328 GCC@.
329
330 @item Parma Polyhedra Library (PPL) version 0.10
331
332 Necessary to build GCC with the Graphite loop optimizations.
333 It can be downloaded from @uref{http://www.cs.unipr.it/ppl/Download/}.
334
335 The @option{--with-ppl} configure option should be used if PPL is not
336 installed in your default library search path.
337
338 @item CLooG-PPL version 0.15
339
340 Necessary to build GCC with the Graphite loop optimizations. It can
341 be downloaded from @uref{ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/}.
342 The code in @file{cloog-ppl-0.15.tar.gz} comes from a branch of CLooG
343 available from @uref{http://repo.or.cz/w/cloog-ppl.git}. CLooG-PPL
344 should be configured with @option{--with-ppl}.
345
346 The @option{--with-cloog} configure option should be used if CLooG is
347 not installed in your default library search path.
348
349 @item @command{jar}, or InfoZIP (@command{zip} and @command{unzip})
350
351 Necessary to build libgcj, the GCJ runtime.
352
353 @end table
354
355
356 @heading Tools/packages necessary for modifying GCC
357 @table @asis
358 @item autoconf version 2.59
359 @itemx GNU m4 version 1.4 (or later)
360
361 Necessary when modifying @file{configure.ac}, @file{aclocal.m4}, etc.@:
362 to regenerate @file{configure} and @file{config.in} files.
363
364 @item automake version 1.9.6
365
366 Necessary when modifying a @file{Makefile.am} file to regenerate its
367 associated @file{Makefile.in}.
368
369 Much of GCC does not use automake, so directly edit the @file{Makefile.in}
370 file. Specifically this applies to the @file{gcc}, @file{intl},
371 @file{libcpp}, @file{libiberty}, @file{libobjc} directories as well
372 as any of their subdirectories.
373
374 For directories that use automake, GCC requires the latest release in
375 the 1.9.x series, which is currently 1.9.6. When regenerating a directory
376 to a newer version, please update all the directories using an older 1.9.x
377 to the latest released version.
378
379 @item gettext version 0.14.5 (or later)
380
381 Needed to regenerate @file{gcc.pot}.
382
383 @item gperf version 2.7.2 (or later)
384
385 Necessary when modifying @command{gperf} input files, e.g.@:
386 @file{gcc/cp/cfns.gperf} to regenerate its associated header file, e.g.@:
387 @file{gcc/cp/cfns.h}.
388
389 @item DejaGnu 1.4.4
390 @itemx Expect
391 @itemx Tcl
392
393 Necessary to run the GCC testsuite; see the section on testing for details.
394
395 @item autogen version 5.5.4 (or later) and
396 @itemx guile version 1.4.1 (or later)
397
398 Necessary to regenerate @file{fixinc/fixincl.x} from
399 @file{fixinc/inclhack.def} and @file{fixinc/*.tpl}.
400
401 Necessary to run @samp{make check} for @file{fixinc}.
402
403 Necessary to regenerate the top level @file{Makefile.in} file from
404 @file{Makefile.tpl} and @file{Makefile.def}.
405
406 @item Flex version 2.5.4 (or later)
407
408 Necessary when modifying @file{*.l} files.
409
410 Necessary to build GCC during development because the generated output
411 files are not included in the SVN repository. They are included in
412 releases.
413
414 @item Texinfo version 4.7 (or later)
415
416 Necessary for running @command{makeinfo} when modifying @file{*.texi}
417 files to test your changes.
418
419 Necessary for running @command{make dvi} or @command{make pdf} to
420 create printable documentation in DVI or PDF format. Texinfo version
421 4.8 or later is required for @command{make pdf}.
422
423 Necessary to build GCC documentation during development because the
424 generated output files are not included in the SVN repository. They are
425 included in releases.
426
427 @item @TeX{} (any working version)
428
429 Necessary for running @command{texi2dvi} and @command{texi2pdf}, which
430 are used when running @command{make dvi} or @command{make pdf} to create
431 DVI or PDF files, respectively.
432
433 @item SVN (any version)
434 @itemx SSH (any version)
435
436 Necessary to access the SVN repository. Public releases and weekly
437 snapshots of the development sources are also available via FTP@.
438
439 @item Perl version 5.6.1 (or later)
440
441 Necessary when regenerating @file{Makefile} dependencies in libiberty.
442 Necessary when regenerating @file{libiberty/functions.texi}.
443 Necessary when generating manpages from Texinfo manuals.
444 Necessary when targetting Darwin, building libstdc++,
445 and not using @option{--disable-symvers}.
446 Used by various scripts to generate some files included in SVN (mainly
447 Unicode-related and rarely changing) from source tables.
448
449 @item GNU diffutils version 2.7 (or later)
450
451 Useful when submitting patches for the GCC source code.
452
453 @item patch version 2.5.4 (or later)
454
455 Necessary when applying patches, created with @command{diff}, to one's
456 own sources.
457
458 @item ecj1
459 @itemx gjavah
460
461 If you wish to modify @file{.java} files in libjava, you will need to
462 configure with @option{--enable-java-maintainer-mode}, and you will need
463 to have executables named @command{ecj1} and @command{gjavah} in your path.
464 The @command{ecj1} executable should run the Eclipse Java compiler via
465 the GCC-specific entry point. You can download a suitable jar from
466 @uref{ftp://sourceware.org/pub/java/}, or by running the script
467 @command{contrib/download_ecj}.
468
469 @item antlr.jar version 2.7.1 (or later)
470 @itemx antlr binary
471
472 If you wish to build the @command{gjdoc} binary in libjava, you will
473 need to have a @file{antlr.jar} library available. The library is
474 searched in system locations but can be configured with
475 @option{--with-antlr-jar=} instead. When configuring with
476 @option{--enable-java-maintainer-mode}, you will need to have one of
477 the executables named @command{cantlr}, @command{runantlr} or
478 @command{antlr} in your path.
479
480 @end table
481
482 @html
483 <hr />
484 <p>
485 @end html
486 @ifhtml
487 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
488 @end ifhtml
489 @end ifset
490
491 @c ***Downloading the source**************************************************
492 @ifnothtml
493 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
494 @node Downloading the source, Configuration, Prerequisites, Installing GCC
495 @end ifnothtml
496 @ifset downloadhtml
497 @ifnothtml
498 @chapter Downloading GCC
499 @end ifnothtml
500 @cindex Downloading GCC
501 @cindex Downloading the Source
502
503 GCC is distributed via @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/svn.html,,SVN} and FTP
504 tarballs compressed with @command{gzip} or
505 @command{bzip2}. It is possible to download a full distribution or specific
506 components.
507
508 Please refer to the @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html,,releases web page}
509 for information on how to obtain GCC@.
510
511 The full distribution includes the C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java,
512 and Ada (in the case of GCC 3.1 and later) compilers. The full
513 distribution also includes runtime libraries for C++, Objective-C,
514 Fortran, and Java. In GCC 3.0 and later versions, the GNU compiler
515 testsuites are also included in the full distribution.
516
517 If you choose to download specific components, you must download the core
518 GCC distribution plus any language specific distributions you wish to
519 use. The core distribution includes the C language front end as well as the
520 shared components. Each language has a tarball which includes the language
521 front end as well as the language runtime (when appropriate).
522
523 Unpack the core distribution as well as any language specific
524 distributions in the same directory.
525
526 If you also intend to build binutils (either to upgrade an existing
527 installation or for use in place of the corresponding tools of your
528 OS), unpack the binutils distribution either in the same directory or
529 a separate one. In the latter case, add symbolic links to any
530 components of the binutils you intend to build alongside the compiler
531 (@file{bfd}, @file{binutils}, @file{gas}, @file{gprof}, @file{ld},
532 @file{opcodes}, @dots{}) to the directory containing the GCC sources.
533
534 Likewise, the GMP and MPFR libraries can be automatically built together
535 with GCC. Unpack the GMP and/or MPFR source distributions in the
536 directory containing the GCC sources and rename their directories to
537 @file{gmp} and @file{mpfr}, respectively (or use symbolic links with the
538 same name).
539
540 @html
541 <hr />
542 <p>
543 @end html
544 @ifhtml
545 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
546 @end ifhtml
547 @end ifset
548
549 @c ***Configuration***********************************************************
550 @ifnothtml
551 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
552 @node Configuration, Building, Downloading the source, Installing GCC
553 @end ifnothtml
554 @ifset configurehtml
555 @ifnothtml
556 @chapter Installing GCC: Configuration
557 @end ifnothtml
558 @cindex Configuration
559 @cindex Installing GCC: Configuration
560
561 Like most GNU software, GCC must be configured before it can be built.
562 This document describes the recommended configuration procedure
563 for both native and cross targets.
564
565 We use @var{srcdir} to refer to the toplevel source directory for
566 GCC; we use @var{objdir} to refer to the toplevel build/object directory.
567
568 If you obtained the sources via SVN, @var{srcdir} must refer to the top
569 @file{gcc} directory, the one where the @file{MAINTAINERS} can be found,
570 and not its @file{gcc} subdirectory, otherwise the build will fail.
571
572 If either @var{srcdir} or @var{objdir} is located on an automounted NFS
573 file system, the shell's built-in @command{pwd} command will return
574 temporary pathnames. Using these can lead to various sorts of build
575 problems. To avoid this issue, set the @env{PWDCMD} environment
576 variable to an automounter-aware @command{pwd} command, e.g.,
577 @command{pawd} or @samp{amq -w}, during the configuration and build
578 phases.
579
580 First, we @strong{highly} recommend that GCC be built into a
581 separate directory than the sources which does @strong{not} reside
582 within the source tree. This is how we generally build GCC; building
583 where @var{srcdir} == @var{objdir} should still work, but doesn't
584 get extensive testing; building where @var{objdir} is a subdirectory
585 of @var{srcdir} is unsupported.
586
587 If you have previously built GCC in the same directory for a
588 different target machine, do @samp{make distclean} to delete all files
589 that might be invalid. One of the files this deletes is @file{Makefile};
590 if @samp{make distclean} complains that @file{Makefile} does not exist
591 or issues a message like ``don't know how to make distclean'' it probably
592 means that the directory is already suitably clean. However, with the
593 recommended method of building in a separate @var{objdir}, you should
594 simply use a different @var{objdir} for each target.
595
596 Second, when configuring a native system, either @command{cc} or
597 @command{gcc} must be in your path or you must set @env{CC} in
598 your environment before running configure. Otherwise the configuration
599 scripts may fail.
600
601 @ignore
602 Note that the bootstrap compiler and the resulting GCC must be link
603 compatible, else the bootstrap will fail with linker errors about
604 incompatible object file formats. Several multilibed targets are
605 affected by this requirement, see
606 @ifnothtml
607 @ref{Specific, host/target specific installation notes}.
608 @end ifnothtml
609 @ifhtml
610 @uref{specific.html,,host/target specific installation notes}.
611 @end ifhtml
612 @end ignore
613
614 To configure GCC:
615
616 @smallexample
617 % mkdir @var{objdir}
618 % cd @var{objdir}
619 % @var{srcdir}/configure [@var{options}] [@var{target}]
620 @end smallexample
621
622 @heading Distributor options
623
624 If you will be distributing binary versions of GCC, with modifications
625 to the source code, you should use the options described in this
626 section to make clear that your version contains modifications.
627
628 @table @code
629 @item --with-pkgversion=@var{version}
630 Specify a string that identifies your package. You may wish
631 to include a build number or build date. This version string will be
632 included in the output of @command{gcc --version}. This suffix does
633 not replace the default version string, only the @samp{GCC} part.
634
635 The default value is @samp{GCC}.
636
637 @item --with-bugurl=@var{url}
638 Specify the URL that users should visit if they wish to report a bug.
639 You are of course welcome to forward bugs reported to you to the FSF,
640 if you determine that they are not bugs in your modifications.
641
642 The default value refers to the FSF's GCC bug tracker.
643
644 @end table
645
646 @heading Target specification
647 @itemize @bullet
648 @item
649 GCC has code to correctly determine the correct value for @var{target}
650 for nearly all native systems. Therefore, we highly recommend you not
651 provide a configure target when configuring a native compiler.
652
653 @item
654 @var{target} must be specified as @option{--target=@var{target}}
655 when configuring a cross compiler; examples of valid targets would be
656 m68k-coff, sh-elf, etc.
657
658 @item
659 Specifying just @var{target} instead of @option{--target=@var{target}}
660 implies that the host defaults to @var{target}.
661 @end itemize
662
663
664 @heading Options specification
665
666 Use @var{options} to override several configure time options for
667 GCC@. A list of supported @var{options} follows; @samp{configure
668 --help} may list other options, but those not listed below may not
669 work and should not normally be used.
670
671 Note that each @option{--enable} option has a corresponding
672 @option{--disable} option and that each @option{--with} option has a
673 corresponding @option{--without} option.
674
675 @table @code
676 @item --prefix=@var{dirname}
677 Specify the toplevel installation
678 directory. This is the recommended way to install the tools into a directory
679 other than the default. The toplevel installation directory defaults to
680 @file{/usr/local}.
681
682 We @strong{highly} recommend against @var{dirname} being the same or a
683 subdirectory of @var{objdir} or vice versa. If specifying a directory
684 beneath a user's home directory tree, some shells will not expand
685 @var{dirname} correctly if it contains the @samp{~} metacharacter; use
686 @env{$HOME} instead.
687
688 The following standard @command{autoconf} options are supported. Normally you
689 should not need to use these options.
690 @table @code
691 @item --exec-prefix=@var{dirname}
692 Specify the toplevel installation directory for architecture-dependent
693 files. The default is @file{@var{prefix}}.
694
695 @item --bindir=@var{dirname}
696 Specify the installation directory for the executables called by users
697 (such as @command{gcc} and @command{g++}). The default is
698 @file{@var{exec-prefix}/bin}.
699
700 @item --libdir=@var{dirname}
701 Specify the installation directory for object code libraries and
702 internal data files of GCC@. The default is @file{@var{exec-prefix}/lib}.
703
704 @item --libexecdir=@var{dirname}
705 Specify the installation directory for internal executables of GCC@.
706 The default is @file{@var{exec-prefix}/libexec}.
707
708 @item --with-slibdir=@var{dirname}
709 Specify the installation directory for the shared libgcc library. The
710 default is @file{@var{libdir}}.
711
712 @item --infodir=@var{dirname}
713 Specify the installation directory for documentation in info format.
714 The default is @file{@var{prefix}/info}.
715
716 @item --datadir=@var{dirname}
717 Specify the installation directory for some architecture-independent
718 data files referenced by GCC@. The default is @file{@var{prefix}/share}.
719
720 @item --mandir=@var{dirname}
721 Specify the installation directory for manual pages. The default is
722 @file{@var{prefix}/man}. (Note that the manual pages are only extracts from
723 the full GCC manuals, which are provided in Texinfo format. The manpages
724 are derived by an automatic conversion process from parts of the full
725 manual.)
726
727 @item --with-gxx-include-dir=@var{dirname}
728 Specify
729 the installation directory for G++ header files. The default is
730 @file{@var{prefix}/include/c++/@var{version}}.
731
732 @end table
733
734 @item --program-prefix=@var{prefix}
735 GCC supports some transformations of the names of its programs when
736 installing them. This option prepends @var{prefix} to the names of
737 programs to install in @var{bindir} (see above). For example, specifying
738 @option{--program-prefix=foo-} would result in @samp{gcc}
739 being installed as @file{/usr/local/bin/foo-gcc}.
740
741 @item --program-suffix=@var{suffix}
742 Appends @var{suffix} to the names of programs to install in @var{bindir}
743 (see above). For example, specifying @option{--program-suffix=-3.1}
744 would result in @samp{gcc} being installed as
745 @file{/usr/local/bin/gcc-3.1}.
746
747 @item --program-transform-name=@var{pattern}
748 Applies the @samp{sed} script @var{pattern} to be applied to the names
749 of programs to install in @var{bindir} (see above). @var{pattern} has to
750 consist of one or more basic @samp{sed} editing commands, separated by
751 semicolons. For example, if you want the @samp{gcc} program name to be
752 transformed to the installed program @file{/usr/local/bin/myowngcc} and
753 the @samp{g++} program name to be transformed to
754 @file{/usr/local/bin/gspecial++} without changing other program names,
755 you could use the pattern
756 @option{--program-transform-name='s/^gcc$/myowngcc/; s/^g++$/gspecial++/'}
757 to achieve this effect.
758
759 All three options can be combined and used together, resulting in more
760 complex conversion patterns. As a basic rule, @var{prefix} (and
761 @var{suffix}) are prepended (appended) before further transformations
762 can happen with a special transformation script @var{pattern}.
763
764 As currently implemented, this option only takes effect for native
765 builds; cross compiler binaries' names are not transformed even when a
766 transformation is explicitly asked for by one of these options.
767
768 For native builds, some of the installed programs are also installed
769 with the target alias in front of their name, as in
770 @samp{i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc}. All of the above transformations happen
771 before the target alias is prepended to the name---so, specifying
772 @option{--program-prefix=foo-} and @option{program-suffix=-3.1}, the
773 resulting binary would be installed as
774 @file{/usr/local/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu-foo-gcc-3.1}.
775
776 As a last shortcoming, none of the installed Ada programs are
777 transformed yet, which will be fixed in some time.
778
779 @item --with-local-prefix=@var{dirname}
780 Specify the
781 installation directory for local include files. The default is
782 @file{/usr/local}. Specify this option if you want the compiler to
783 search directory @file{@var{dirname}/include} for locally installed
784 header files @emph{instead} of @file{/usr/local/include}.
785
786 You should specify @option{--with-local-prefix} @strong{only} if your
787 site has a different convention (not @file{/usr/local}) for where to put
788 site-specific files.
789
790 The default value for @option{--with-local-prefix} is @file{/usr/local}
791 regardless of the value of @option{--prefix}. Specifying
792 @option{--prefix} has no effect on which directory GCC searches for
793 local header files. This may seem counterintuitive, but actually it is
794 logical.
795
796 The purpose of @option{--prefix} is to specify where to @emph{install
797 GCC}. The local header files in @file{/usr/local/include}---if you put
798 any in that directory---are not part of GCC@. They are part of other
799 programs---perhaps many others. (GCC installs its own header files in
800 another directory which is based on the @option{--prefix} value.)
801
802 Both the local-prefix include directory and the GCC-prefix include
803 directory are part of GCC's ``system include'' directories. Although these
804 two directories are not fixed, they need to be searched in the proper
805 order for the correct processing of the include_next directive. The
806 local-prefix include directory is searched before the GCC-prefix
807 include directory. Another characteristic of system include directories
808 is that pedantic warnings are turned off for headers in these directories.
809
810 Some autoconf macros add @option{-I @var{directory}} options to the
811 compiler command line, to ensure that directories containing installed
812 packages' headers are searched. When @var{directory} is one of GCC's
813 system include directories, GCC will ignore the option so that system
814 directories continue to be processed in the correct order. This
815 may result in a search order different from what was specified but the
816 directory will still be searched.
817
818 GCC automatically searches for ordinary libraries using
819 @env{GCC_EXEC_PREFIX}. Thus, when the same installation prefix is
820 used for both GCC and packages, GCC will automatically search for
821 both headers and libraries. This provides a configuration that is
822 easy to use. GCC behaves in a manner similar to that when it is
823 installed as a system compiler in @file{/usr}.
824
825 Sites that need to install multiple versions of GCC may not want to
826 use the above simple configuration. It is possible to use the
827 @option{--program-prefix}, @option{--program-suffix} and
828 @option{--program-transform-name} options to install multiple versions
829 into a single directory, but it may be simpler to use different prefixes
830 and the @option{--with-local-prefix} option to specify the location of the
831 site-specific files for each version. It will then be necessary for
832 users to specify explicitly the location of local site libraries
833 (e.g., with @env{LIBRARY_PATH}).
834
835 The same value can be used for both @option{--with-local-prefix} and
836 @option{--prefix} provided it is not @file{/usr}. This can be used
837 to avoid the default search of @file{/usr/local/include}.
838
839 @strong{Do not} specify @file{/usr} as the @option{--with-local-prefix}!
840 The directory you use for @option{--with-local-prefix} @strong{must not}
841 contain any of the system's standard header files. If it did contain
842 them, certain programs would be miscompiled (including GNU Emacs, on
843 certain targets), because this would override and nullify the header
844 file corrections made by the @command{fixincludes} script.
845
846 Indications are that people who use this option use it based on mistaken
847 ideas of what it is for. People use it as if it specified where to
848 install part of GCC@. Perhaps they make this assumption because
849 installing GCC creates the directory.
850
851 @item --enable-shared[=@var{package}[,@dots{}]]
852 Build shared versions of libraries, if shared libraries are supported on
853 the target platform. Unlike GCC 2.95.x and earlier, shared libraries
854 are enabled by default on all platforms that support shared libraries.
855
856 If a list of packages is given as an argument, build shared libraries
857 only for the listed packages. For other packages, only static libraries
858 will be built. Package names currently recognized in the GCC tree are
859 @samp{libgcc} (also known as @samp{gcc}), @samp{libstdc++} (not
860 @samp{libstdc++-v3}), @samp{libffi}, @samp{zlib}, @samp{boehm-gc},
861 @samp{ada}, @samp{libada}, @samp{libjava} and @samp{libobjc}.
862 Note @samp{libiberty} does not support shared libraries at all.
863
864 Use @option{--disable-shared} to build only static libraries. Note that
865 @option{--disable-shared} does not accept a list of package names as
866 argument, only @option{--enable-shared} does.
867
868 @item @anchor{with-gnu-as}--with-gnu-as
869 Specify that the compiler should assume that the
870 assembler it finds is the GNU assembler. However, this does not modify
871 the rules to find an assembler and will result in confusion if the
872 assembler found is not actually the GNU assembler. (Confusion may also
873 result if the compiler finds the GNU assembler but has not been
874 configured with @option{--with-gnu-as}.) If you have more than one
875 assembler installed on your system, you may want to use this option in
876 connection with @option{--with-as=@var{pathname}} or
877 @option{--with-build-time-tools=@var{pathname}}.
878
879 The following systems are the only ones where it makes a difference
880 whether you use the GNU assembler. On any other system,
881 @option{--with-gnu-as} has no effect.
882
883 @itemize @bullet
884 @item @samp{hppa1.0-@var{any}-@var{any}}
885 @item @samp{hppa1.1-@var{any}-@var{any}}
886 @item @samp{sparc-sun-solaris2.@var{any}}
887 @item @samp{sparc64-@var{any}-solaris2.@var{any}}
888 @end itemize
889
890 @item @anchor{with-as}--with-as=@var{pathname}
891 Specify that the compiler should use the assembler pointed to by
892 @var{pathname}, rather than the one found by the standard rules to find
893 an assembler, which are:
894 @itemize @bullet
895 @item
896 Unless GCC is being built with a cross compiler, check the
897 @file{@var{libexec}/gcc/@var{target}/@var{version}} directory.
898 @var{libexec} defaults to @file{@var{exec-prefix}/libexec};
899 @var{exec-prefix} defaults to @var{prefix}, which
900 defaults to @file{/usr/local} unless overridden by the
901 @option{--prefix=@var{pathname}} switch described above. @var{target}
902 is the target system triple, such as @samp{sparc-sun-solaris2.7}, and
903 @var{version} denotes the GCC version, such as 3.0.
904
905 @item
906 If the target system is the same that you are building on, check
907 operating system specific directories (e.g.@: @file{/usr/ccs/bin} on
908 Sun Solaris 2).
909
910 @item
911 Check in the @env{PATH} for a tool whose name is prefixed by the
912 target system triple.
913
914 @item
915 Check in the @env{PATH} for a tool whose name is not prefixed by the
916 target system triple, if the host and target system triple are
917 the same (in other words, we use a host tool if it can be used for
918 the target as well).
919 @end itemize
920
921 You may want to use @option{--with-as} if no assembler
922 is installed in the directories listed above, or if you have multiple
923 assemblers installed and want to choose one that is not found by the
924 above rules.
925
926 @item @anchor{with-gnu-ld}--with-gnu-ld
927 Same as @uref{#with-gnu-as,,@option{--with-gnu-as}}
928 but for the linker.
929
930 @item --with-ld=@var{pathname}
931 Same as @uref{#with-as,,@option{--with-as}}
932 but for the linker.
933
934 @item --with-stabs
935 Specify that stabs debugging
936 information should be used instead of whatever format the host normally
937 uses. Normally GCC uses the same debug format as the host system.
938
939 On MIPS based systems and on Alphas, you must specify whether you want
940 GCC to create the normal ECOFF debugging format, or to use BSD-style
941 stabs passed through the ECOFF symbol table. The normal ECOFF debug
942 format cannot fully handle languages other than C@. BSD stabs format can
943 handle other languages, but it only works with the GNU debugger GDB@.
944
945 Normally, GCC uses the ECOFF debugging format by default; if you
946 prefer BSD stabs, specify @option{--with-stabs} when you configure GCC@.
947
948 No matter which default you choose when you configure GCC, the user
949 can use the @option{-gcoff} and @option{-gstabs+} options to specify explicitly
950 the debug format for a particular compilation.
951
952 @option{--with-stabs} is meaningful on the ISC system on the 386, also, if
953 @option{--with-gas} is used. It selects use of stabs debugging
954 information embedded in COFF output. This kind of debugging information
955 supports C++ well; ordinary COFF debugging information does not.
956
957 @option{--with-stabs} is also meaningful on 386 systems running SVR4. It
958 selects use of stabs debugging information embedded in ELF output. The
959 C++ compiler currently (2.6.0) does not support the DWARF debugging
960 information normally used on 386 SVR4 platforms; stabs provide a
961 workable alternative. This requires gas and gdb, as the normal SVR4
962 tools can not generate or interpret stabs.
963
964 @item --disable-multilib
965 Specify that multiple target
966 libraries to support different target variants, calling
967 conventions, etc.@: should not be built. The default is to build a
968 predefined set of them.
969
970 Some targets provide finer-grained control over which multilibs are built
971 (e.g., @option{--disable-softfloat}):
972 @table @code
973 @item arc-*-elf*
974 biendian.
975
976 @item arm-*-*
977 fpu, 26bit, underscore, interwork, biendian, nofmult.
978
979 @item m68*-*-*
980 softfloat, m68881, m68000, m68020.
981
982 @item mips*-*-*
983 single-float, biendian, softfloat.
984
985 @item powerpc*-*-*, rs6000*-*-*
986 aix64, pthread, softfloat, powercpu, powerpccpu, powerpcos, biendian,
987 sysv, aix.
988
989 @end table
990
991 @item --enable-threads
992 Specify that the target
993 supports threads. This affects the Objective-C compiler and runtime
994 library, and exception handling for other languages like C++ and Java.
995 On some systems, this is the default.
996
997 In general, the best (and, in many cases, the only known) threading
998 model available will be configured for use. Beware that on some
999 systems, GCC has not been taught what threading models are generally
1000 available for the system. In this case, @option{--enable-threads} is an
1001 alias for @option{--enable-threads=single}.
1002
1003 @item --disable-threads
1004 Specify that threading support should be disabled for the system.
1005 This is an alias for @option{--enable-threads=single}.
1006
1007 @item --enable-threads=@var{lib}
1008 Specify that
1009 @var{lib} is the thread support library. This affects the Objective-C
1010 compiler and runtime library, and exception handling for other languages
1011 like C++ and Java. The possibilities for @var{lib} are:
1012
1013 @table @code
1014 @item aix
1015 AIX thread support.
1016 @item dce
1017 DCE thread support.
1018 @item gnat
1019 Ada tasking support. For non-Ada programs, this setting is equivalent
1020 to @samp{single}. When used in conjunction with the Ada run time, it
1021 causes GCC to use the same thread primitives as Ada uses. This option
1022 is necessary when using both Ada and the back end exception handling,
1023 which is the default for most Ada targets.
1024 @item mach
1025 Generic MACH thread support, known to work on NeXTSTEP@. (Please note
1026 that the file needed to support this configuration, @file{gthr-mach.h}, is
1027 missing and thus this setting will cause a known bootstrap failure.)
1028 @item no
1029 This is an alias for @samp{single}.
1030 @item posix
1031 Generic POSIX/Unix98 thread support.
1032 @item posix95
1033 Generic POSIX/Unix95 thread support.
1034 @item rtems
1035 RTEMS thread support.
1036 @item single
1037 Disable thread support, should work for all platforms.
1038 @item solaris
1039 Sun Solaris 2 thread support.
1040 @item vxworks
1041 VxWorks thread support.
1042 @item win32
1043 Microsoft Win32 API thread support.
1044 @item nks
1045 Novell Kernel Services thread support.
1046 @end table
1047
1048 @item --enable-tls
1049 Specify that the target supports TLS (Thread Local Storage). Usually
1050 configure can correctly determine if TLS is supported. In cases where
1051 it guesses incorrectly, TLS can be explicitly enabled or disabled with
1052 @option{--enable-tls} or @option{--disable-tls}. This can happen if
1053 the assembler supports TLS but the C library does not, or if the
1054 assumptions made by the configure test are incorrect.
1055
1056 @item --disable-tls
1057 Specify that the target does not support TLS.
1058 This is an alias for @option{--enable-tls=no}.
1059
1060 @item --with-cpu=@var{cpu}
1061 @itemx --with-cpu-32=@var{cpu}
1062 @itemx --with-cpu-64=@var{cpu}
1063 Specify which cpu variant the compiler should generate code for by default.
1064 @var{cpu} will be used as the default value of the @option{-mcpu=} switch.
1065 This option is only supported on some targets, including ARM, i386, M68k,
1066 PowerPC, and SPARC@. The @option{--with-cpu-32} and
1067 @option{--with-cpu-64} options specify separate default CPUs for
1068 32-bit and 64-bit modes; these options are only supported for i386 and
1069 x86-64.
1070
1071 @item --with-schedule=@var{cpu}
1072 @itemx --with-arch=@var{cpu}
1073 @itemx --with-arch-32=@var{cpu}
1074 @itemx --with-arch-64=@var{cpu}
1075 @itemx --with-tune=@var{cpu}
1076 @itemx --with-tune-32=@var{cpu}
1077 @itemx --with-tune-64=@var{cpu}
1078 @itemx --with-abi=@var{abi}
1079 @itemx --with-fpu=@var{type}
1080 @itemx --with-float=@var{type}
1081 These configure options provide default values for the @option{-mschedule=},
1082 @option{-march=}, @option{-mtune=}, @option{-mabi=}, and @option{-mfpu=}
1083 options and for @option{-mhard-float} or @option{-msoft-float}. As with
1084 @option{--with-cpu}, which switches will be accepted and acceptable values
1085 of the arguments depend on the target.
1086
1087 @item --with-mode=@var{mode}
1088 Specify if the compiler should default to @option{-marm} or @option{-mthumb}.
1089 This option is only supported on ARM targets.
1090
1091 @item --with-divide=@var{type}
1092 Specify how the compiler should generate code for checking for
1093 division by zero. This option is only supported on the MIPS target.
1094 The possibilities for @var{type} are:
1095 @table @code
1096 @item traps
1097 Division by zero checks use conditional traps (this is the default on
1098 systems that support conditional traps).
1099 @item breaks
1100 Division by zero checks use the break instruction.
1101 @end table
1102
1103 @c If you make --with-llsc the default for additional targets,
1104 @c update the --with-llsc description in the MIPS section below.
1105
1106 @item --with-llsc
1107 On MIPS targets, make @option{-mllsc} the default when no
1108 @option{-mno-lsc} option is passed. This is the default for
1109 Linux-based targets, as the kernel will emulate them if the ISA does
1110 not provide them.
1111
1112 @item --without-llsc
1113 On MIPS targets, make @option{-mno-llsc} the default when no
1114 @option{-mllsc} option is passed.
1115
1116 @item --with-mips-plt
1117 On MIPS targets, make use of copy relocations and PLTs.
1118 These features are extensions to the traditional
1119 SVR4-based MIPS ABIs and require support from GNU binutils
1120 and the runtime C library.
1121
1122 @item --enable-__cxa_atexit
1123 Define if you want to use __cxa_atexit, rather than atexit, to
1124 register C++ destructors for local statics and global objects.
1125 This is essential for fully standards-compliant handling of
1126 destructors, but requires __cxa_atexit in libc. This option is currently
1127 only available on systems with GNU libc. When enabled, this will cause
1128 @option{-fuse-cxa-atexit} to be passed by default.
1129
1130 @item --enable-target-optspace
1131 Specify that target
1132 libraries should be optimized for code space instead of code speed.
1133 This is the default for the m32r platform.
1134
1135 @item --disable-cpp
1136 Specify that a user visible @command{cpp} program should not be installed.
1137
1138 @item --with-cpp-install-dir=@var{dirname}
1139 Specify that the user visible @command{cpp} program should be installed
1140 in @file{@var{prefix}/@var{dirname}/cpp}, in addition to @var{bindir}.
1141
1142 @item --enable-initfini-array
1143 Force the use of sections @code{.init_array} and @code{.fini_array}
1144 (instead of @code{.init} and @code{.fini}) for constructors and
1145 destructors. Option @option{--disable-initfini-array} has the
1146 opposite effect. If neither option is specified, the configure script
1147 will try to guess whether the @code{.init_array} and
1148 @code{.fini_array} sections are supported and, if they are, use them.
1149
1150 @item --enable-maintainer-mode
1151 The build rules that
1152 regenerate the GCC master message catalog @file{gcc.pot} are normally
1153 disabled. This is because it can only be rebuilt if the complete source
1154 tree is present. If you have changed the sources and want to rebuild the
1155 catalog, configuring with @option{--enable-maintainer-mode} will enable
1156 this. Note that you need a recent version of the @code{gettext} tools
1157 to do so.
1158
1159 @item --disable-bootstrap
1160 For a native build, the default configuration is to perform
1161 a 3-stage bootstrap of the compiler when @samp{make} is invoked,
1162 testing that GCC can compile itself correctly. If you want to disable
1163 this process, you can configure with @option{--disable-bootstrap}.
1164
1165 @item --enable-bootstrap
1166 In special cases, you may want to perform a 3-stage build
1167 even if the target and host triplets are different.
1168 This could happen when the host can run code compiled for
1169 the target (e.g.@: host is i686-linux, target is i486-linux).
1170 Starting from GCC 4.2, to do this you have to configure explicitly
1171 with @option{--enable-bootstrap}.
1172
1173 @item --enable-generated-files-in-srcdir
1174 Neither the .c and .h files that are generated from Bison and flex nor the
1175 info manuals and man pages that are built from the .texi files are present
1176 in the SVN development tree. When building GCC from that development tree,
1177 or from one of our snapshots, those generated files are placed in your
1178 build directory, which allows for the source to be in a readonly
1179 directory.
1180
1181 If you configure with @option{--enable-generated-files-in-srcdir} then those
1182 generated files will go into the source directory. This is mainly intended
1183 for generating release or prerelease tarballs of the GCC sources, since it
1184 is not a requirement that the users of source releases to have flex, Bison,
1185 or makeinfo.
1186
1187 @item --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs
1188 Specify
1189 that runtime libraries should be installed in the compiler specific
1190 subdirectory (@file{@var{libdir}/gcc}) rather than the usual places. In
1191 addition, @samp{libstdc++}'s include files will be installed into
1192 @file{@var{libdir}} unless you overruled it by using
1193 @option{--with-gxx-include-dir=@var{dirname}}. Using this option is
1194 particularly useful if you intend to use several versions of GCC in
1195 parallel. This is currently supported by @samp{libgfortran},
1196 @samp{libjava}, @samp{libmudflap}, @samp{libstdc++}, and @samp{libobjc}.
1197
1198 @item --enable-languages=@var{lang1},@var{lang2},@dots{}
1199 Specify that only a particular subset of compilers and
1200 their runtime libraries should be built. For a list of valid values for
1201 @var{langN} you can issue the following command in the
1202 @file{gcc} directory of your GCC source tree:@*
1203 @smallexample
1204 grep language= */config-lang.in
1205 @end smallexample
1206 Currently, you can use any of the following:
1207 @code{all}, @code{ada}, @code{c}, @code{c++}, @code{fortran}, @code{java},
1208 @code{objc}, @code{obj-c++}.
1209 Building the Ada compiler has special requirements, see below.
1210 If you do not pass this flag, or specify the option @code{all}, then all
1211 default languages available in the @file{gcc} sub-tree will be configured.
1212 Ada and Objective-C++ are not default languages; the rest are.
1213 Re-defining @code{LANGUAGES} when calling @samp{make} @strong{does not}
1214 work anymore, as those language sub-directories might not have been
1215 configured!
1216
1217 @item --enable-stage1-languages=@var{lang1},@var{lang2},@dots{}
1218 Specify that a particular subset of compilers and their runtime
1219 libraries should be built with the system C compiler during stage 1 of
1220 the bootstrap process, rather than only in later stages with the
1221 bootstrapped C compiler. The list of valid values is the same as for
1222 @option{--enable-languages}, and the option @code{all} will select all
1223 of the languages enabled by @option{--enable-languages}. This option is
1224 primarily useful for GCC development; for instance, when a development
1225 version of the compiler cannot bootstrap due to compiler bugs, or when
1226 one is debugging front ends other than the C front end. When this
1227 option is used, one can then build the target libraries for the
1228 specified languages with the stage-1 compiler by using @command{make
1229 stage1-bubble all-target}, or run the testsuite on the stage-1 compiler
1230 for the specified languages using @command{make stage1-start check-gcc}.
1231
1232 @item --disable-libada
1233 Specify that the run-time libraries and tools used by GNAT should not
1234 be built. This can be useful for debugging, or for compatibility with
1235 previous Ada build procedures, when it was required to explicitly
1236 do a @samp{make -C gcc gnatlib_and_tools}.
1237
1238 @item --disable-libssp
1239 Specify that the run-time libraries for stack smashing protection
1240 should not be built.
1241
1242 @item --disable-libgomp
1243 Specify that the run-time libraries used by GOMP should not be built.
1244
1245 @item --with-dwarf2
1246 Specify that the compiler should
1247 use DWARF 2 debugging information as the default.
1248
1249 @item --enable-targets=all
1250 @itemx --enable-targets=@var{target_list}
1251 Some GCC targets, e.g.@: powerpc64-linux, build bi-arch compilers.
1252 These are compilers that are able to generate either 64-bit or 32-bit
1253 code. Typically, the corresponding 32-bit target, e.g.@:
1254 powerpc-linux for powerpc64-linux, only generates 32-bit code. This
1255 option enables the 32-bit target to be a bi-arch compiler, which is
1256 useful when you want a bi-arch compiler that defaults to 32-bit, and
1257 you are building a bi-arch or multi-arch binutils in a combined tree.
1258 Currently, this option only affects sparc-linux, powerpc-linux and
1259 x86-linux.
1260
1261 @item --enable-secureplt
1262 This option enables @option{-msecure-plt} by default for powerpc-linux.
1263 @ifnothtml
1264 @xref{RS/6000 and PowerPC Options,, RS/6000 and PowerPC Options, gcc,
1265 Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)},
1266 @end ifnothtml
1267 @ifhtml
1268 See ``RS/6000 and PowerPC Options'' in the main manual
1269 @end ifhtml
1270
1271 @item --enable-cld
1272 This option enables @option{-mcld} by default for 32-bit x86 targets.
1273 @ifnothtml
1274 @xref{i386 and x86-64 Options,, i386 and x86-64 Options, gcc,
1275 Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)},
1276 @end ifnothtml
1277 @ifhtml
1278 See ``i386 and x86-64 Options'' in the main manual
1279 @end ifhtml
1280
1281 @item --enable-win32-registry
1282 @itemx --enable-win32-registry=@var{key}
1283 @itemx --disable-win32-registry
1284 The @option{--enable-win32-registry} option enables Microsoft Windows-hosted GCC
1285 to look up installations paths in the registry using the following key:
1286
1287 @smallexample
1288 @code{HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Free Software Foundation\@var{key}}
1289 @end smallexample
1290
1291 @var{key} defaults to GCC version number, and can be overridden by the
1292 @option{--enable-win32-registry=@var{key}} option. Vendors and distributors
1293 who use custom installers are encouraged to provide a different key,
1294 perhaps one comprised of vendor name and GCC version number, to
1295 avoid conflict with existing installations. This feature is enabled
1296 by default, and can be disabled by @option{--disable-win32-registry}
1297 option. This option has no effect on the other hosts.
1298
1299 @item --nfp
1300 Specify that the machine does not have a floating point unit. This
1301 option only applies to @samp{m68k-sun-sunos@var{n}}. On any other
1302 system, @option{--nfp} has no effect.
1303
1304 @item --enable-werror
1305 @itemx --disable-werror
1306 @itemx --enable-werror=yes
1307 @itemx --enable-werror=no
1308 When you specify this option, it controls whether certain files in the
1309 compiler are built with @option{-Werror} in bootstrap stage2 and later.
1310 If you don't specify it, @option{-Werror} is turned on for the main
1311 development trunk. However it defaults to off for release branches and
1312 final releases. The specific files which get @option{-Werror} are
1313 controlled by the Makefiles.
1314
1315 @item --enable-checking
1316 @itemx --enable-checking=@var{list}
1317 When you specify this option, the compiler is built to perform internal
1318 consistency checks of the requested complexity. This does not change the
1319 generated code, but adds error checking within the compiler. This will
1320 slow down the compiler and may only work properly if you are building
1321 the compiler with GCC@. This is @samp{yes} by default when building
1322 from SVN or snapshots, but @samp{release} for releases. The default
1323 for building the stage1 compiler is @samp{yes}. More control
1324 over the checks may be had by specifying @var{list}. The categories of
1325 checks available are @samp{yes} (most common checks
1326 @samp{assert,misc,tree,gc,rtlflag,runtime}), @samp{no} (no checks at
1327 all), @samp{all} (all but @samp{valgrind}), @samp{release} (cheapest
1328 checks @samp{assert,runtime}) or @samp{none} (same as @samp{no}).
1329 Individual checks can be enabled with these flags @samp{assert},
1330 @samp{df}, @samp{fold}, @samp{gc}, @samp{gcac} @samp{misc}, @samp{rtl},
1331 @samp{rtlflag}, @samp{runtime}, @samp{tree}, and @samp{valgrind}.
1332
1333 The @samp{valgrind} check requires the external @command{valgrind}
1334 simulator, available from @uref{http://valgrind.org/}. The
1335 @samp{df}, @samp{rtl}, @samp{gcac} and @samp{valgrind} checks are very expensive.
1336 To disable all checking, @samp{--disable-checking} or
1337 @samp{--enable-checking=none} must be explicitly requested. Disabling
1338 assertions will make the compiler and runtime slightly faster but
1339 increase the risk of undetected internal errors causing wrong code to be
1340 generated.
1341
1342 @item --disable-stage1-checking
1343 @item --enable-stage1-checking
1344 @itemx --enable-stage1-checking=@var{list}
1345 If no @option{--enable-checking} option is specified the stage1
1346 compiler will be built with @samp{yes} checking enabled, otherwise
1347 the stage1 checking flags are the same as specified by
1348 @option{--enable-checking}. To build the stage1 compiler with
1349 different checking options use @option{--enable-stage1-checking}.
1350 The list of checking options is the same as for @option{--enable-checking}.
1351 If your system is too slow or too small to bootstrap a released compiler
1352 with checking for stage1 enabled, you can use @samp{--disable-stage1-checking}
1353 to disable checking for the stage1 compiler.
1354
1355 @item --enable-coverage
1356 @itemx --enable-coverage=@var{level}
1357 With this option, the compiler is built to collect self coverage
1358 information, every time it is run. This is for internal development
1359 purposes, and only works when the compiler is being built with gcc. The
1360 @var{level} argument controls whether the compiler is built optimized or
1361 not, values are @samp{opt} and @samp{noopt}. For coverage analysis you
1362 want to disable optimization, for performance analysis you want to
1363 enable optimization. When coverage is enabled, the default level is
1364 without optimization.
1365
1366 @item --enable-gather-detailed-mem-stats
1367 When this option is specified more detailed information on memory
1368 allocation is gathered. This information is printed when using
1369 @option{-fmem-report}.
1370
1371 @item --with-gc
1372 @itemx --with-gc=@var{choice}
1373 With this option you can specify the garbage collector implementation
1374 used during the compilation process. @var{choice} can be one of
1375 @samp{page} and @samp{zone}, where @samp{page} is the default.
1376
1377 @item --enable-nls
1378 @itemx --disable-nls
1379 The @option{--enable-nls} option enables Native Language Support (NLS),
1380 which lets GCC output diagnostics in languages other than American
1381 English. Native Language Support is enabled by default if not doing a
1382 canadian cross build. The @option{--disable-nls} option disables NLS@.
1383
1384 @item --with-included-gettext
1385 If NLS is enabled, the @option{--with-included-gettext} option causes the build
1386 procedure to prefer its copy of GNU @command{gettext}.
1387
1388 @item --with-catgets
1389 If NLS is enabled, and if the host lacks @code{gettext} but has the
1390 inferior @code{catgets} interface, the GCC build procedure normally
1391 ignores @code{catgets} and instead uses GCC's copy of the GNU
1392 @code{gettext} library. The @option{--with-catgets} option causes the
1393 build procedure to use the host's @code{catgets} in this situation.
1394
1395 @item --with-libiconv-prefix=@var{dir}
1396 Search for libiconv header files in @file{@var{dir}/include} and
1397 libiconv library files in @file{@var{dir}/lib}.
1398
1399 @item --enable-obsolete
1400 Enable configuration for an obsoleted system. If you attempt to
1401 configure GCC for a system (build, host, or target) which has been
1402 obsoleted, and you do not specify this flag, configure will halt with an
1403 error message.
1404
1405 All support for systems which have been obsoleted in one release of GCC
1406 is removed entirely in the next major release, unless someone steps
1407 forward to maintain the port.
1408
1409 @item --enable-decimal-float
1410 @itemx --enable-decimal-float=yes
1411 @itemx --enable-decimal-float=no
1412 @itemx --enable-decimal-float=bid
1413 @itemx --enable-decimal-float=dpd
1414 @itemx --disable-decimal-float
1415 Enable (or disable) support for the C decimal floating point extension
1416 that is in the IEEE 754-2008 standard. This is enabled by default only
1417 on PowerPC, i386, and x86_64 GNU/Linux systems. Other systems may also
1418 support it, but require the user to specifically enable it. You can
1419 optionally control which decimal floating point format is used (either
1420 @samp{bid} or @samp{dpd}). The @samp{bid} (binary integer decimal)
1421 format is default on i386 and x86_64 systems, and the @samp{dpd}
1422 (densely packed decimal) format is default on PowerPC systems.
1423
1424 @item --enable-fixed-point
1425 @itemx --disable-fixed-point
1426 Enable (or disable) support for C fixed-point arithmetic.
1427 This option is enabled by default for some targets (such as MIPS) which
1428 have hardware-support for fixed-point operations. On other targets, you
1429 may enable this option manually.
1430
1431 @item --with-long-double-128
1432 Specify if @code{long double} type should be 128-bit by default on selected
1433 GNU/Linux architectures. If using @code{--without-long-double-128},
1434 @code{long double} will be by default 64-bit, the same as @code{double} type.
1435 When neither of these configure options are used, the default will be
1436 128-bit @code{long double} when built against GNU C Library 2.4 and later,
1437 64-bit @code{long double} otherwise.
1438
1439 @item --with-gmp=@var{pathname}
1440 @itemx --with-gmp-include=@var{pathname}
1441 @itemx --with-gmp-lib=@var{pathname}
1442 @itemx --with-mpfr=@var{pathname}
1443 @itemx --with-mpfr-include=@var{pathname}
1444 @itemx --with-mpfr-lib=@var{pathname}
1445 If you do not have GMP (the GNU Multiple Precision library) and the
1446 MPFR Libraries installed in a standard location and you want to build
1447 GCC, you can explicitly specify the directory where they are installed
1448 (@samp{--with-gmp=@var{gmpinstalldir}},
1449 @samp{--with-mpfr=@var{mpfrinstalldir}}). The
1450 @option{--with-gmp=@var{gmpinstalldir}} option is shorthand for
1451 @option{--with-gmp-lib=@var{gmpinstalldir}/lib} and
1452 @option{--with-gmp-include=@var{gmpinstalldir}/include}. Likewise the
1453 @option{--with-mpfr=@var{mpfrinstalldir}} option is shorthand for
1454 @option{--with-mpfr-lib=@var{mpfrinstalldir}/lib} and
1455 @option{--with-mpfr-include=@var{mpfrinstalldir}/include}. If these
1456 shorthand assumptions are not correct, you can use the explicit
1457 include and lib options directly.
1458
1459 @item --with-ppl=@var{pathname}
1460 @itemx --with-ppl-include=@var{pathname}
1461 @itemx --with-ppl-lib=@var{pathname}
1462 @itemx --with-cloog=@var{pathname}
1463 @itemx --with-cloog-include=@var{pathname}
1464 @itemx --with-cloog-lib=@var{pathname}
1465 If you do not have PPL (the Parma Polyhedra Library) and the CLooG
1466 libraries installed in a standard location and you want to build GCC,
1467 you can explicitly specify the directory where they are installed
1468 (@samp{--with-ppl=@var{pplinstalldir}},
1469 @samp{--with-cloog=@var{clooginstalldir}}). The
1470 @option{--with-ppl=@var{pplinstalldir}} option is shorthand for
1471 @option{--with-ppl-lib=@var{pplinstalldir}/lib} and
1472 @option{--with-ppl-include=@var{pplinstalldir}/include}. Likewise the
1473 @option{--with-cloog=@var{clooginstalldir}} option is shorthand for
1474 @option{--with-cloog-lib=@var{clooginstalldir}/lib} and
1475 @option{--with-cloog-include=@var{clooginstalldir}/include}. If these
1476 shorthand assumptions are not correct, you can use the explicit
1477 include and lib options directly.
1478
1479 @item --with-host-libstdcxx=@var{linker-args}
1480 If you are linking with a static copy of PPL, you can use this option
1481 to specify how the linker should find the standard C++ library used
1482 internally by PPL. Typical values of @var{linker-args} might be
1483 @samp{-lstdc++} or @samp{-Wl,-Bstatic,-lstdc++,-Bdynamic -lm}. If you are
1484 linking with a shared copy of PPL, you probably do not need this
1485 option; shared library dependencies will cause the linker to search
1486 for the standard C++ library automatically.
1487
1488 @item --with-debug-prefix-map=@var{map}
1489 Convert source directory names using @option{-fdebug-prefix-map} when
1490 building runtime libraries. @samp{@var{map}} is a space-separated
1491 list of maps of the form @samp{@var{old}=@var{new}}.
1492
1493 @end table
1494
1495 @subheading Cross-Compiler-Specific Options
1496 The following options only apply to building cross compilers.
1497 @table @code
1498 @item --with-sysroot
1499 @itemx --with-sysroot=@var{dir}
1500 Tells GCC to consider @var{dir} as the root of a tree that contains a
1501 (subset of) the root filesystem of the target operating system.
1502 Target system headers, libraries and run-time object files will be
1503 searched in there. The specified directory is not copied into the
1504 install tree, unlike the options @option{--with-headers} and
1505 @option{--with-libs} that this option obsoletes. The default value,
1506 in case @option{--with-sysroot} is not given an argument, is
1507 @option{$@{gcc_tooldir@}/sys-root}. If the specified directory is a
1508 subdirectory of @option{$@{exec_prefix@}}, then it will be found relative to
1509 the GCC binaries if the installation tree is moved.
1510
1511 @item --with-build-sysroot
1512 @itemx --with-build-sysroot=@var{dir}
1513 Tells GCC to consider @var{dir} as the system root (see
1514 @option{--with-sysroot}) while building target libraries, instead of
1515 the directory specified with @option{--with-sysroot}. This option is
1516 only useful when you are already using @option{--with-sysroot}. You
1517 can use @option{--with-build-sysroot} when you are configuring with
1518 @option{--prefix} set to a directory that is different from the one in
1519 which you are installing GCC and your target libraries.
1520
1521 This option affects the system root for the compiler used to build
1522 target libraries (which runs on the build system); it does not affect
1523 the compiler which is used to build GCC itself.
1524
1525 @item --with-headers
1526 @itemx --with-headers=@var{dir}
1527 Deprecated in favor of @option{--with-sysroot}.
1528 Specifies that target headers are available when building a cross compiler.
1529 The @var{dir} argument specifies a directory which has the target include
1530 files. These include files will be copied into the @file{gcc} install
1531 directory. @emph{This option with the @var{dir} argument is required} when
1532 building a cross compiler, if @file{@var{prefix}/@var{target}/sys-include}
1533 doesn't pre-exist. If @file{@var{prefix}/@var{target}/sys-include} does
1534 pre-exist, the @var{dir} argument may be omitted. @command{fixincludes}
1535 will be run on these files to make them compatible with GCC@.
1536
1537 @item --without-headers
1538 Tells GCC not use any target headers from a libc when building a cross
1539 compiler. When crossing to GNU/Linux, you need the headers so GCC
1540 can build the exception handling for libgcc.
1541
1542 @item --with-libs
1543 @itemx --with-libs=``@var{dir1} @var{dir2} @dots{} @var{dirN}''
1544 Deprecated in favor of @option{--with-sysroot}.
1545 Specifies a list of directories which contain the target runtime
1546 libraries. These libraries will be copied into the @file{gcc} install
1547 directory. If the directory list is omitted, this option has no
1548 effect.
1549
1550 @item --with-newlib
1551 Specifies that @samp{newlib} is
1552 being used as the target C library. This causes @code{__eprintf} to be
1553 omitted from @file{libgcc.a} on the assumption that it will be provided by
1554 @samp{newlib}.
1555
1556 @item --with-build-time-tools=@var{dir}
1557 Specifies where to find the set of target tools (assembler, linker, etc.)
1558 that will be used while building GCC itself. This option can be useful
1559 if the directory layouts are different between the system you are building
1560 GCC on, and the system where you will deploy it.
1561
1562 For example, on a @option{ia64-hp-hpux} system, you may have the GNU
1563 assembler and linker in @file{/usr/bin}, and the native tools in a
1564 different path, and build a toolchain that expects to find the
1565 native tools in @file{/usr/bin}.
1566
1567 When you use this option, you should ensure that @var{dir} includes
1568 @command{ar}, @command{as}, @command{ld}, @command{nm},
1569 @command{ranlib} and @command{strip} if necessary, and possibly
1570 @command{objdump}. Otherwise, GCC may use an inconsistent set of
1571 tools.
1572 @end table
1573
1574 @subheading Java-Specific Options
1575
1576 The following option applies to the build of the Java front end.
1577
1578 @table @code
1579 @item --disable-libgcj
1580 Specify that the run-time libraries
1581 used by GCJ should not be built. This is useful in case you intend
1582 to use GCJ with some other run-time, or you're going to install it
1583 separately, or it just happens not to build on your particular
1584 machine. In general, if the Java front end is enabled, the GCJ
1585 libraries will be enabled too, unless they're known to not work on
1586 the target platform. If GCJ is enabled but @samp{libgcj} isn't built, you
1587 may need to port it; in this case, before modifying the top-level
1588 @file{configure.in} so that @samp{libgcj} is enabled by default on this platform,
1589 you may use @option{--enable-libgcj} to override the default.
1590
1591 @end table
1592
1593 The following options apply to building @samp{libgcj}.
1594
1595 @subsubheading General Options
1596
1597 @table @code
1598 @item --enable-java-maintainer-mode
1599 By default the @samp{libjava} build will not attempt to compile the
1600 @file{.java} source files to @file{.class}. Instead, it will use the
1601 @file{.class} files from the source tree. If you use this option you
1602 must have executables named @command{ecj1} and @command{gjavah} in your path
1603 for use by the build. You must use this option if you intend to
1604 modify any @file{.java} files in @file{libjava}.
1605
1606 @item --with-java-home=@var{dirname}
1607 This @samp{libjava} option overrides the default value of the
1608 @samp{java.home} system property. It is also used to set
1609 @samp{sun.boot.class.path} to @file{@var{dirname}/lib/rt.jar}. By
1610 default @samp{java.home} is set to @file{@var{prefix}} and
1611 @samp{sun.boot.class.path} to
1612 @file{@var{datadir}/java/libgcj-@var{version}.jar}.
1613
1614 @item --with-ecj-jar=@var{filename}
1615 This option can be used to specify the location of an external jar
1616 file containing the Eclipse Java compiler. A specially modified
1617 version of this compiler is used by @command{gcj} to parse
1618 @file{.java} source files. If this option is given, the
1619 @samp{libjava} build will create and install an @file{ecj1} executable
1620 which uses this jar file at runtime.
1621
1622 If this option is not given, but an @file{ecj.jar} file is found in
1623 the topmost source tree at configure time, then the @samp{libgcj}
1624 build will create and install @file{ecj1}, and will also install the
1625 discovered @file{ecj.jar} into a suitable place in the install tree.
1626
1627 If @file{ecj1} is not installed, then the user will have to supply one
1628 on his path in order for @command{gcj} to properly parse @file{.java}
1629 source files. A suitable jar is available from
1630 @uref{ftp://sourceware.org/pub/java/}.
1631
1632 @item --disable-getenv-properties
1633 Don't set system properties from @env{GCJ_PROPERTIES}.
1634
1635 @item --enable-hash-synchronization
1636 Use a global hash table for monitor locks. Ordinarily,
1637 @samp{libgcj}'s @samp{configure} script automatically makes
1638 the correct choice for this option for your platform. Only use
1639 this if you know you need the library to be configured differently.
1640
1641 @item --enable-interpreter
1642 Enable the Java interpreter. The interpreter is automatically
1643 enabled by default on all platforms that support it. This option
1644 is really only useful if you want to disable the interpreter
1645 (using @option{--disable-interpreter}).
1646
1647 @item --disable-java-net
1648 Disable java.net. This disables the native part of java.net only,
1649 using non-functional stubs for native method implementations.
1650
1651 @item --disable-jvmpi
1652 Disable JVMPI support.
1653
1654 @item --disable-libgcj-bc
1655 Disable BC ABI compilation of certain parts of libgcj. By default,
1656 some portions of libgcj are compiled with @option{-findirect-dispatch}
1657 and @option{-fno-indirect-classes}, allowing them to be overridden at
1658 run-time.
1659
1660 If @option{--disable-libgcj-bc} is specified, libgcj is built without
1661 these options. This allows the compile-time linker to resolve
1662 dependencies when statically linking to libgcj. However it makes it
1663 impossible to override the affected portions of libgcj at run-time.
1664
1665 @item --enable-reduced-reflection
1666 Build most of libgcj with @option{-freduced-reflection}. This reduces
1667 the size of libgcj at the expense of not being able to do accurate
1668 reflection on the classes it contains. This option is safe if you
1669 know that code using libgcj will never use reflection on the standard
1670 runtime classes in libgcj (including using serialization, RMI or CORBA).
1671
1672 @item --with-ecos
1673 Enable runtime eCos target support.
1674
1675 @item --without-libffi
1676 Don't use @samp{libffi}. This will disable the interpreter and JNI
1677 support as well, as these require @samp{libffi} to work.
1678
1679 @item --enable-libgcj-debug
1680 Enable runtime debugging code.
1681
1682 @item --enable-libgcj-multifile
1683 If specified, causes all @file{.java} source files to be
1684 compiled into @file{.class} files in one invocation of
1685 @samp{gcj}. This can speed up build time, but is more
1686 resource-intensive. If this option is unspecified or
1687 disabled, @samp{gcj} is invoked once for each @file{.java}
1688 file to compile into a @file{.class} file.
1689
1690 @item --with-libiconv-prefix=DIR
1691 Search for libiconv in @file{DIR/include} and @file{DIR/lib}.
1692
1693 @item --enable-sjlj-exceptions
1694 Force use of the @code{setjmp}/@code{longjmp}-based scheme for exceptions.
1695 @samp{configure} ordinarily picks the correct value based on the platform.
1696 Only use this option if you are sure you need a different setting.
1697
1698 @item --with-system-zlib
1699 Use installed @samp{zlib} rather than that included with GCC@.
1700
1701 @item --with-win32-nlsapi=ansi, unicows or unicode
1702 Indicates how MinGW @samp{libgcj} translates between UNICODE
1703 characters and the Win32 API@.
1704
1705 @item --enable-java-home
1706 If enabled, this creates a JPackage compatible SDK environment during install.
1707 Note that if --enable-java-home is used, --with-arch-directory=ARCH must also
1708 be specified.
1709
1710 @item --with-arch-directory=ARCH
1711 Specifies the name to use for the @file{jre/lib/ARCH} directory in the SDK
1712 environment created when --enable-java-home is passed. Typical names for this
1713 directory include i386, amd64, ia64, etc.
1714
1715 @item --with-os-directory=DIR
1716 Specifies the OS directory for the SDK include directory. This is set to auto
1717 detect, and is typically 'linux'.
1718
1719 @item --with-origin-name=NAME
1720 Specifies the JPackage origin name. This defaults to the 'gcj' in
1721 java-1.5.0-gcj.
1722
1723 @item --with-arch-suffix=SUFFIX
1724 Specifies the suffix for the sdk directory. Defaults to the empty string.
1725 Examples include '.x86_64' in 'java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0.x86_64'.
1726
1727 @item --with-jvm-root-dir=DIR
1728 Specifies where to install the SDK. Default is $(prefix)/lib/jvm.
1729
1730 @item --with-jvm-jar-dir=DIR
1731 Specifies where to install jars. Default is $(prefix)/lib/jvm-exports.
1732
1733 @item --with-python-dir=DIR
1734 Specifies where to install the Python modules used for aot-compile. DIR should
1735 not include the prefix used in installation. For example, if the Python modules
1736 are to be installed in /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages, then
1737 --with-python-dir=/lib/python2.5/site-packages should be passed. If this is
1738 not specified, then the Python modules are installed in $(prefix)/share/python.
1739
1740 @item --enable-aot-compile-rpm
1741 Adds aot-compile-rpm to the list of installed scripts.
1742
1743 @table @code
1744 @item ansi
1745 Use the single-byte @code{char} and the Win32 A functions natively,
1746 translating to and from UNICODE when using these functions. If
1747 unspecified, this is the default.
1748
1749 @item unicows
1750 Use the @code{WCHAR} and Win32 W functions natively. Adds
1751 @code{-lunicows} to @file{libgcj.spec} to link with @samp{libunicows}.
1752 @file{unicows.dll} needs to be deployed on Microsoft Windows 9X machines
1753 running built executables. @file{libunicows.a}, an open-source
1754 import library around Microsoft's @code{unicows.dll}, is obtained from
1755 @uref{http://libunicows.sourceforge.net/}, which also gives details
1756 on getting @file{unicows.dll} from Microsoft.
1757
1758 @item unicode
1759 Use the @code{WCHAR} and Win32 W functions natively. Does @emph{not}
1760 add @code{-lunicows} to @file{libgcj.spec}. The built executables will
1761 only run on Microsoft Windows NT and above.
1762 @end table
1763 @end table
1764
1765 @subsubheading AWT-Specific Options
1766
1767 @table @code
1768 @item --with-x
1769 Use the X Window System.
1770
1771 @item --enable-java-awt=PEER(S)
1772 Specifies the AWT peer library or libraries to build alongside
1773 @samp{libgcj}. If this option is unspecified or disabled, AWT
1774 will be non-functional. Current valid values are @option{gtk} and
1775 @option{xlib}. Multiple libraries should be separated by a
1776 comma (i.e.@: @option{--enable-java-awt=gtk,xlib}).
1777
1778 @item --enable-gtk-cairo
1779 Build the cairo Graphics2D implementation on GTK@.
1780
1781 @item --enable-java-gc=TYPE
1782 Choose garbage collector. Defaults to @option{boehm} if unspecified.
1783
1784 @item --disable-gtktest
1785 Do not try to compile and run a test GTK+ program.
1786
1787 @item --disable-glibtest
1788 Do not try to compile and run a test GLIB program.
1789
1790 @item --with-libart-prefix=PFX
1791 Prefix where libart is installed (optional).
1792
1793 @item --with-libart-exec-prefix=PFX
1794 Exec prefix where libart is installed (optional).
1795
1796 @item --disable-libarttest
1797 Do not try to compile and run a test libart program.
1798
1799 @end table
1800
1801 @html
1802 <hr />
1803 <p>
1804 @end html
1805 @ifhtml
1806 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
1807 @end ifhtml
1808 @end ifset
1809
1810 @c ***Building****************************************************************
1811 @ifnothtml
1812 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
1813 @node Building, Testing, Configuration, Installing GCC
1814 @end ifnothtml
1815 @ifset buildhtml
1816 @ifnothtml
1817 @chapter Building
1818 @end ifnothtml
1819 @cindex Installing GCC: Building
1820
1821 Now that GCC is configured, you are ready to build the compiler and
1822 runtime libraries.
1823
1824 Some commands executed when making the compiler may fail (return a
1825 nonzero status) and be ignored by @command{make}. These failures, which
1826 are often due to files that were not found, are expected, and can safely
1827 be ignored.
1828
1829 It is normal to have compiler warnings when compiling certain files.
1830 Unless you are a GCC developer, you can generally ignore these warnings
1831 unless they cause compilation to fail. Developers should attempt to fix
1832 any warnings encountered, however they can temporarily continue past
1833 warnings-as-errors by specifying the configure flag
1834 @option{--disable-werror}.
1835
1836 On certain old systems, defining certain environment variables such as
1837 @env{CC} can interfere with the functioning of @command{make}.
1838
1839 If you encounter seemingly strange errors when trying to build the
1840 compiler in a directory other than the source directory, it could be
1841 because you have previously configured the compiler in the source
1842 directory. Make sure you have done all the necessary preparations.
1843
1844 If you build GCC on a BSD system using a directory stored in an old System
1845 V file system, problems may occur in running @command{fixincludes} if the
1846 System V file system doesn't support symbolic links. These problems
1847 result in a failure to fix the declaration of @code{size_t} in
1848 @file{sys/types.h}. If you find that @code{size_t} is a signed type and
1849 that type mismatches occur, this could be the cause.
1850
1851 The solution is not to use such a directory for building GCC@.
1852
1853 Similarly, when building from SVN or snapshots, or if you modify
1854 @file{*.l} files, you need the Flex lexical analyzer generator
1855 installed. If you do not modify @file{*.l} files, releases contain
1856 the Flex-generated files and you do not need Flex installed to build
1857 them. There is still one Flex-based lexical analyzer (part of the
1858 build machinery, not of GCC itself) that is used even if you only
1859 build the C front end.
1860
1861 When building from SVN or snapshots, or if you modify Texinfo
1862 documentation, you need version 4.7 or later of Texinfo installed if you
1863 want Info documentation to be regenerated. Releases contain Info
1864 documentation pre-built for the unmodified documentation in the release.
1865
1866 @section Building a native compiler
1867
1868 For a native build, the default configuration is to perform
1869 a 3-stage bootstrap of the compiler when @samp{make} is invoked.
1870 This will build the entire GCC system and ensure that it compiles
1871 itself correctly. It can be disabled with the @option{--disable-bootstrap}
1872 parameter to @samp{configure}, but bootstrapping is suggested because
1873 the compiler will be tested more completely and could also have
1874 better performance.
1875
1876 The bootstrapping process will complete the following steps:
1877
1878 @itemize @bullet
1879 @item
1880 Build tools necessary to build the compiler.
1881
1882 @item
1883 Perform a 3-stage bootstrap of the compiler. This includes building
1884 three times the target tools for use by the compiler such as binutils
1885 (bfd, binutils, gas, gprof, ld, and opcodes) if they have been
1886 individually linked or moved into the top level GCC source tree before
1887 configuring.
1888
1889 @item
1890 Perform a comparison test of the stage2 and stage3 compilers.
1891
1892 @item
1893 Build runtime libraries using the stage3 compiler from the previous step.
1894
1895 @end itemize
1896
1897 If you are short on disk space you might consider @samp{make
1898 bootstrap-lean} instead. The sequence of compilation is the
1899 same described above, but object files from the stage1 and
1900 stage2 of the 3-stage bootstrap of the compiler are deleted as
1901 soon as they are no longer needed.
1902
1903 If you wish to use non-default GCC flags when compiling the stage2
1904 and stage3 compilers, set @code{BOOT_CFLAGS} on the command line when
1905 doing @samp{make}. For example, if you want to save additional space
1906 during the bootstrap and in the final installation as well, you can
1907 build the compiler binaries without debugging information as in the
1908 following example. This will save roughly 40% of disk space both for
1909 the bootstrap and the final installation. (Libraries will still contain
1910 debugging information.)
1911
1912 @smallexample
1913 make BOOT_CFLAGS='-O' bootstrap
1914 @end smallexample
1915
1916 You can place non-default optimization flags into @code{BOOT_CFLAGS}; they
1917 are less well tested here than the default of @samp{-g -O2}, but should
1918 still work. In a few cases, you may find that you need to specify special
1919 flags such as @option{-msoft-float} here to complete the bootstrap; or,
1920 if the native compiler miscompiles the stage1 compiler, you may need
1921 to work around this, by choosing @code{BOOT_CFLAGS} to avoid the parts
1922 of the stage1 compiler that were miscompiled, or by using @samp{make
1923 bootstrap4} to increase the number of stages of bootstrap.
1924
1925 @code{BOOT_CFLAGS} does not apply to bootstrapped target libraries.
1926 Since these are always compiled with the compiler currently being
1927 bootstrapped, you can use @code{CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET} to modify their
1928 compilation flags, as for non-bootstrapped target libraries.
1929 Again, if the native compiler miscompiles the stage1 compiler, you may
1930 need to work around this by avoiding non-working parts of the stage1
1931 compiler. Use @code{STAGE1_LIBCFLAGS} to this end.
1932
1933 If you used the flag @option{--enable-languages=@dots{}} to restrict
1934 the compilers to be built, only those you've actually enabled will be
1935 built. This will of course only build those runtime libraries, for
1936 which the particular compiler has been built. Please note,
1937 that re-defining @env{LANGUAGES} when calling @samp{make}
1938 @strong{does not} work anymore!
1939
1940 If the comparison of stage2 and stage3 fails, this normally indicates
1941 that the stage2 compiler has compiled GCC incorrectly, and is therefore
1942 a potentially serious bug which you should investigate and report. (On
1943 a few systems, meaningful comparison of object files is impossible; they
1944 always appear ``different''. If you encounter this problem, you will
1945 need to disable comparison in the @file{Makefile}.)
1946
1947 If you do not want to bootstrap your compiler, you can configure with
1948 @option{--disable-bootstrap}. In particular cases, you may want to
1949 bootstrap your compiler even if the target system is not the same as
1950 the one you are building on: for example, you could build a
1951 @code{powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu} toolchain on a
1952 @code{powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu} host. In this case, pass
1953 @option{--enable-bootstrap} to the configure script.
1954
1955
1956 @section Building a cross compiler
1957
1958 When building a cross compiler, it is not generally possible to do a
1959 3-stage bootstrap of the compiler. This makes for an interesting problem
1960 as parts of GCC can only be built with GCC@.
1961
1962 To build a cross compiler, we first recommend building and installing a
1963 native compiler. You can then use the native GCC compiler to build the
1964 cross compiler. The installed native compiler needs to be GCC version
1965 2.95 or later.
1966
1967 If the cross compiler is to be built with support for the Java
1968 programming language and the ability to compile .java source files is
1969 desired, the installed native compiler used to build the cross
1970 compiler needs to be the same GCC version as the cross compiler. In
1971 addition the cross compiler needs to be configured with
1972 @option{--with-ecj-jar=@dots{}}.
1973
1974 Assuming you have already installed a native copy of GCC and configured
1975 your cross compiler, issue the command @command{make}, which performs the
1976 following steps:
1977
1978 @itemize @bullet
1979 @item
1980 Build host tools necessary to build the compiler.
1981
1982 @item
1983 Build target tools for use by the compiler such as binutils (bfd,
1984 binutils, gas, gprof, ld, and opcodes)
1985 if they have been individually linked or moved into the top level GCC source
1986 tree before configuring.
1987
1988 @item
1989 Build the compiler (single stage only).
1990
1991 @item
1992 Build runtime libraries using the compiler from the previous step.
1993 @end itemize
1994
1995 Note that if an error occurs in any step the make process will exit.
1996
1997 If you are not building GNU binutils in the same source tree as GCC,
1998 you will need a cross-assembler and cross-linker installed before
1999 configuring GCC@. Put them in the directory
2000 @file{@var{prefix}/@var{target}/bin}. Here is a table of the tools
2001 you should put in this directory:
2002
2003 @table @file
2004 @item as
2005 This should be the cross-assembler.
2006
2007 @item ld
2008 This should be the cross-linker.
2009
2010 @item ar
2011 This should be the cross-archiver: a program which can manipulate
2012 archive files (linker libraries) in the target machine's format.
2013
2014 @item ranlib
2015 This should be a program to construct a symbol table in an archive file.
2016 @end table
2017
2018 The installation of GCC will find these programs in that directory,
2019 and copy or link them to the proper place to for the cross-compiler to
2020 find them when run later.
2021
2022 The easiest way to provide these files is to build the Binutils package.
2023 Configure it with the same @option{--host} and @option{--target}
2024 options that you use for configuring GCC, then build and install
2025 them. They install their executables automatically into the proper
2026 directory. Alas, they do not support all the targets that GCC
2027 supports.
2028
2029 If you are not building a C library in the same source tree as GCC,
2030 you should also provide the target libraries and headers before
2031 configuring GCC, specifying the directories with
2032 @option{--with-sysroot} or @option{--with-headers} and
2033 @option{--with-libs}. Many targets also require ``start files'' such
2034 as @file{crt0.o} and
2035 @file{crtn.o} which are linked into each executable. There may be several
2036 alternatives for @file{crt0.o}, for use with profiling or other
2037 compilation options. Check your target's definition of
2038 @code{STARTFILE_SPEC} to find out what start files it uses.
2039
2040 @section Building in parallel
2041
2042 GNU Make 3.79 and above, which is necessary to build GCC, support
2043 building in parallel. To activate this, you can use @samp{make -j 2}
2044 instead of @samp{make}. You can also specify a bigger number, and
2045 in most cases using a value greater than the number of processors in
2046 your machine will result in fewer and shorter I/O latency hits, thus
2047 improving overall throughput; this is especially true for slow drives
2048 and network filesystems.
2049
2050 @section Building the Ada compiler
2051
2052 In order to build GNAT, the Ada compiler, you need a working GNAT
2053 compiler (GCC version 3.4 or later).
2054 This includes GNAT tools such as @command{gnatmake} and
2055 @command{gnatlink}, since the Ada front end is written in Ada and
2056 uses some GNAT-specific extensions.
2057
2058 In order to build a cross compiler, it is suggested to install
2059 the new compiler as native first, and then use it to build the cross
2060 compiler.
2061
2062 @command{configure} does not test whether the GNAT installation works
2063 and has a sufficiently recent version; if too old a GNAT version is
2064 installed, the build will fail unless @option{--enable-languages} is
2065 used to disable building the Ada front end.
2066
2067 @env{ADA_INCLUDE_PATH} and @env{ADA_OBJECT_PATH} environment variables
2068 must not be set when building the Ada compiler, the Ada tools, or the
2069 Ada runtime libraries. You can check that your build environment is clean
2070 by verifying that @samp{gnatls -v} lists only one explicit path in each
2071 section.
2072
2073 @section Building with profile feedback
2074
2075 It is possible to use profile feedback to optimize the compiler itself. This
2076 should result in a faster compiler binary. Experiments done on x86 using gcc
2077 3.3 showed approximately 7 percent speedup on compiling C programs. To
2078 bootstrap the compiler with profile feedback, use @code{make profiledbootstrap}.
2079
2080 When @samp{make profiledbootstrap} is run, it will first build a @code{stage1}
2081 compiler. This compiler is used to build a @code{stageprofile} compiler
2082 instrumented to collect execution counts of instruction and branch
2083 probabilities. Then runtime libraries are compiled with profile collected.
2084 Finally a @code{stagefeedback} compiler is built using the information collected.
2085
2086 Unlike standard bootstrap, several additional restrictions apply. The
2087 compiler used to build @code{stage1} needs to support a 64-bit integral type.
2088 It is recommended to only use GCC for this. Also parallel make is currently
2089 not supported since collisions in profile collecting may occur.
2090
2091 @html
2092 <hr />
2093 <p>
2094 @end html
2095 @ifhtml
2096 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
2097 @end ifhtml
2098 @end ifset
2099
2100 @c ***Testing*****************************************************************
2101 @ifnothtml
2102 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
2103 @node Testing, Final install, Building, Installing GCC
2104 @end ifnothtml
2105 @ifset testhtml
2106 @ifnothtml
2107 @chapter Installing GCC: Testing
2108 @end ifnothtml
2109 @cindex Testing
2110 @cindex Installing GCC: Testing
2111 @cindex Testsuite
2112
2113 Before you install GCC, we encourage you to run the testsuites and to
2114 compare your results with results from a similar configuration that have
2115 been submitted to the
2116 @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/,,gcc-testresults mailing list}.
2117 Some of these archived results are linked from the build status lists
2118 at @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/buildstat.html}, although not everyone who
2119 reports a successful build runs the testsuites and submits the results.
2120 This step is optional and may require you to download additional software,
2121 but it can give you confidence in your new GCC installation or point out
2122 problems before you install and start using your new GCC@.
2123
2124 First, you must have @uref{download.html,,downloaded the testsuites}.
2125 These are part of the full distribution, but if you downloaded the
2126 ``core'' compiler plus any front ends, you must download the testsuites
2127 separately.
2128
2129 Second, you must have the testing tools installed. This includes
2130 @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/dejagnu/,,DejaGnu}, Tcl, and Expect;
2131 the DejaGnu site has links to these.
2132
2133 If the directories where @command{runtest} and @command{expect} were
2134 installed are not in the @env{PATH}, you may need to set the following
2135 environment variables appropriately, as in the following example (which
2136 assumes that DejaGnu has been installed under @file{/usr/local}):
2137
2138 @smallexample
2139 TCL_LIBRARY = /usr/local/share/tcl8.0
2140 DEJAGNULIBS = /usr/local/share/dejagnu
2141 @end smallexample
2142
2143 (On systems such as Cygwin, these paths are required to be actual
2144 paths, not mounts or links; presumably this is due to some lack of
2145 portability in the DejaGnu code.)
2146
2147
2148 Finally, you can run the testsuite (which may take a long time):
2149 @smallexample
2150 cd @var{objdir}; make -k check
2151 @end smallexample
2152
2153 This will test various components of GCC, such as compiler
2154 front ends and runtime libraries. While running the testsuite, DejaGnu
2155 might emit some harmless messages resembling
2156 @samp{WARNING: Couldn't find the global config file.} or
2157 @samp{WARNING: Couldn't find tool init file} that can be ignored.
2158
2159 If you are testing a cross-compiler, you may want to run the testsuite
2160 on a simulator as described at @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/simtest-howto.html}.
2161
2162 @section How can you run the testsuite on selected tests?
2163
2164 In order to run sets of tests selectively, there are targets
2165 @samp{make check-gcc} and @samp{make check-g++}
2166 in the @file{gcc} subdirectory of the object directory. You can also
2167 just run @samp{make check} in a subdirectory of the object directory.
2168
2169
2170 A more selective way to just run all @command{gcc} execute tests in the
2171 testsuite is to use
2172
2173 @smallexample
2174 make check-gcc RUNTESTFLAGS="execute.exp @var{other-options}"
2175 @end smallexample
2176
2177 Likewise, in order to run only the @command{g++} ``old-deja'' tests in
2178 the testsuite with filenames matching @samp{9805*}, you would use
2179
2180 @smallexample
2181 make check-g++ RUNTESTFLAGS="old-deja.exp=9805* @var{other-options}"
2182 @end smallexample
2183
2184 The @file{*.exp} files are located in the testsuite directories of the GCC
2185 source, the most important ones being @file{compile.exp},
2186 @file{execute.exp}, @file{dg.exp} and @file{old-deja.exp}.
2187 To get a list of the possible @file{*.exp} files, pipe the
2188 output of @samp{make check} into a file and look at the
2189 @samp{Running @dots{} .exp} lines.
2190
2191 @section Passing options and running multiple testsuites
2192
2193 You can pass multiple options to the testsuite using the
2194 @samp{--target_board} option of DejaGNU, either passed as part of
2195 @samp{RUNTESTFLAGS}, or directly to @command{runtest} if you prefer to
2196 work outside the makefiles. For example,
2197
2198 @smallexample
2199 make check-g++ RUNTESTFLAGS="--target_board=unix/-O3/-fmerge-constants"
2200 @end smallexample
2201
2202 will run the standard @command{g++} testsuites (``unix'' is the target name
2203 for a standard native testsuite situation), passing
2204 @samp{-O3 -fmerge-constants} to the compiler on every test, i.e.,
2205 slashes separate options.
2206
2207 You can run the testsuites multiple times using combinations of options
2208 with a syntax similar to the brace expansion of popular shells:
2209
2210 @smallexample
2211 @dots{}"--target_board=arm-sim\@{-mhard-float,-msoft-float\@}\@{-O1,-O2,-O3,\@}"
2212 @end smallexample
2213
2214 (Note the empty option caused by the trailing comma in the final group.)
2215 The following will run each testsuite eight times using the @samp{arm-sim}
2216 target, as if you had specified all possible combinations yourself:
2217
2218 @smallexample
2219 --target_board=arm-sim/-mhard-float/-O1
2220 --target_board=arm-sim/-mhard-float/-O2
2221 --target_board=arm-sim/-mhard-float/-O3
2222 --target_board=arm-sim/-mhard-float
2223 --target_board=arm-sim/-msoft-float/-O1
2224 --target_board=arm-sim/-msoft-float/-O2
2225 --target_board=arm-sim/-msoft-float/-O3
2226 --target_board=arm-sim/-msoft-float
2227 @end smallexample
2228
2229 They can be combined as many times as you wish, in arbitrary ways. This
2230 list:
2231
2232 @smallexample
2233 @dots{}"--target_board=unix/-Wextra\@{-O3,-fno-strength\@}\@{-fomit-frame,\@}"
2234 @end smallexample
2235
2236 will generate four combinations, all involving @samp{-Wextra}.
2237
2238 The disadvantage to this method is that the testsuites are run in serial,
2239 which is a waste on multiprocessor systems. For users with GNU Make and
2240 a shell which performs brace expansion, you can run the testsuites in
2241 parallel by having the shell perform the combinations and @command{make}
2242 do the parallel runs. Instead of using @samp{--target_board}, use a
2243 special makefile target:
2244
2245 @smallexample
2246 make -j@var{N} check-@var{testsuite}//@var{test-target}/@var{option1}/@var{option2}/@dots{}
2247 @end smallexample
2248
2249 For example,
2250
2251 @smallexample
2252 make -j3 check-gcc//sh-hms-sim/@{-m1,-m2,-m3,-m3e,-m4@}/@{,-nofpu@}
2253 @end smallexample
2254
2255 will run three concurrent ``make-gcc'' testsuites, eventually testing all
2256 ten combinations as described above. Note that this is currently only
2257 supported in the @file{gcc} subdirectory. (To see how this works, try
2258 typing @command{echo} before the example given here.)
2259
2260
2261 @section Additional testing for Java Class Libraries
2262
2263 The Java runtime tests can be executed via @samp{make check}
2264 in the @file{@var{target}/libjava/testsuite} directory in
2265 the build tree.
2266
2267 The @uref{http://sourceware.org/mauve/,,Mauve Project} provides
2268 a suite of tests for the Java Class Libraries. This suite can be run
2269 as part of libgcj testing by placing the Mauve tree within the libjava
2270 testsuite at @file{libjava/testsuite/libjava.mauve/mauve}, or by
2271 specifying the location of that tree when invoking @samp{make}, as in
2272 @samp{make MAUVEDIR=~/mauve check}.
2273
2274 @section How to interpret test results
2275
2276 The result of running the testsuite are various @file{*.sum} and @file{*.log}
2277 files in the testsuite subdirectories. The @file{*.log} files contain a
2278 detailed log of the compiler invocations and the corresponding
2279 results, the @file{*.sum} files summarize the results. These summaries
2280 contain status codes for all tests:
2281
2282 @itemize @bullet
2283 @item
2284 PASS: the test passed as expected
2285 @item
2286 XPASS: the test unexpectedly passed
2287 @item
2288 FAIL: the test unexpectedly failed
2289 @item
2290 XFAIL: the test failed as expected
2291 @item
2292 UNSUPPORTED: the test is not supported on this platform
2293 @item
2294 ERROR: the testsuite detected an error
2295 @item
2296 WARNING: the testsuite detected a possible problem
2297 @end itemize
2298
2299 It is normal for some tests to report unexpected failures. At the
2300 current time the testing harness does not allow fine grained control
2301 over whether or not a test is expected to fail. This problem should
2302 be fixed in future releases.
2303
2304
2305 @section Submitting test results
2306
2307 If you want to report the results to the GCC project, use the
2308 @file{contrib/test_summary} shell script. Start it in the @var{objdir} with
2309
2310 @smallexample
2311 @var{srcdir}/contrib/test_summary -p your_commentary.txt \
2312 -m gcc-testresults@@gcc.gnu.org |sh
2313 @end smallexample
2314
2315 This script uses the @command{Mail} program to send the results, so
2316 make sure it is in your @env{PATH}. The file @file{your_commentary.txt} is
2317 prepended to the testsuite summary and should contain any special
2318 remarks you have on your results or your build environment. Please
2319 do not edit the testsuite result block or the subject line, as these
2320 messages may be automatically processed.
2321
2322 @html
2323 <hr />
2324 <p>
2325 @end html
2326 @ifhtml
2327 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
2328 @end ifhtml
2329 @end ifset
2330
2331 @c ***Final install***********************************************************
2332 @ifnothtml
2333 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
2334 @node Final install, , Testing, Installing GCC
2335 @end ifnothtml
2336 @ifset finalinstallhtml
2337 @ifnothtml
2338 @chapter Installing GCC: Final installation
2339 @end ifnothtml
2340
2341 Now that GCC has been built (and optionally tested), you can install it with
2342 @smallexample
2343 cd @var{objdir}; make install
2344 @end smallexample
2345
2346 We strongly recommend to install into a target directory where there is
2347 no previous version of GCC present. Also, the GNAT runtime should not
2348 be stripped, as this would break certain features of the debugger that
2349 depend on this debugging information (catching Ada exceptions for
2350 instance).
2351
2352 That step completes the installation of GCC; user level binaries can
2353 be found in @file{@var{prefix}/bin} where @var{prefix} is the value
2354 you specified with the @option{--prefix} to configure (or
2355 @file{/usr/local} by default). (If you specified @option{--bindir},
2356 that directory will be used instead; otherwise, if you specified
2357 @option{--exec-prefix}, @file{@var{exec-prefix}/bin} will be used.)
2358 Headers for the C++ and Java libraries are installed in
2359 @file{@var{prefix}/include}; libraries in @file{@var{libdir}}
2360 (normally @file{@var{prefix}/lib}); internal parts of the compiler in
2361 @file{@var{libdir}/gcc} and @file{@var{libexecdir}/gcc}; documentation
2362 in info format in @file{@var{infodir}} (normally
2363 @file{@var{prefix}/info}).
2364
2365 When installing cross-compilers, GCC's executables
2366 are not only installed into @file{@var{bindir}}, that
2367 is, @file{@var{exec-prefix}/bin}, but additionally into
2368 @file{@var{exec-prefix}/@var{target-alias}/bin}, if that directory
2369 exists. Typically, such @dfn{tooldirs} hold target-specific
2370 binutils, including assembler and linker.
2371
2372 Installation into a temporary staging area or into a @command{chroot}
2373 jail can be achieved with the command
2374
2375 @smallexample
2376 make DESTDIR=@var{path-to-rootdir} install
2377 @end smallexample
2378
2379 @noindent where @var{path-to-rootdir} is the absolute path of
2380 a directory relative to which all installation paths will be
2381 interpreted. Note that the directory specified by @code{DESTDIR}
2382 need not exist yet; it will be created if necessary.
2383
2384 There is a subtle point with tooldirs and @code{DESTDIR}:
2385 If you relocate a cross-compiler installation with
2386 e.g.@: @samp{DESTDIR=@var{rootdir}}, then the directory
2387 @file{@var{rootdir}/@var{exec-prefix}/@var{target-alias}/bin} will
2388 be filled with duplicated GCC executables only if it already exists,
2389 it will not be created otherwise. This is regarded as a feature,
2390 not as a bug, because it gives slightly more control to the packagers
2391 using the @code{DESTDIR} feature.
2392
2393 If you are bootstrapping a released version of GCC then please
2394 quickly review the build status page for your release, available from
2395 @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/buildstat.html}.
2396 If your system is not listed for the version of GCC that you built,
2397 send a note to
2398 @email{gcc@@gcc.gnu.org} indicating
2399 that you successfully built and installed GCC@.
2400 Include the following information:
2401
2402 @itemize @bullet
2403 @item
2404 Output from running @file{@var{srcdir}/config.guess}. Do not send
2405 that file itself, just the one-line output from running it.
2406
2407 @item
2408 The output of @samp{gcc -v} for your newly installed @command{gcc}.
2409 This tells us which version of GCC you built and the options you passed to
2410 configure.
2411
2412 @item
2413 Whether you enabled all languages or a subset of them. If you used a
2414 full distribution then this information is part of the configure
2415 options in the output of @samp{gcc -v}, but if you downloaded the
2416 ``core'' compiler plus additional front ends then it isn't apparent
2417 which ones you built unless you tell us about it.
2418
2419 @item
2420 If the build was for GNU/Linux, also include:
2421 @itemize @bullet
2422 @item
2423 The distribution name and version (e.g., Red Hat 7.1 or Debian 2.2.3);
2424 this information should be available from @file{/etc/issue}.
2425
2426 @item
2427 The version of the Linux kernel, available from @samp{uname --version}
2428 or @samp{uname -a}.
2429
2430 @item
2431 The version of glibc you used; for RPM-based systems like Red Hat,
2432 Mandrake, and SuSE type @samp{rpm -q glibc} to get the glibc version,
2433 and on systems like Debian and Progeny use @samp{dpkg -l libc6}.
2434 @end itemize
2435 For other systems, you can include similar information if you think it is
2436 relevant.
2437
2438 @item
2439 Any other information that you think would be useful to people building
2440 GCC on the same configuration. The new entry in the build status list
2441 will include a link to the archived copy of your message.
2442 @end itemize
2443
2444 We'd also like to know if the
2445 @ifnothtml
2446 @ref{Specific, host/target specific installation notes}
2447 @end ifnothtml
2448 @ifhtml
2449 @uref{specific.html,,host/target specific installation notes}
2450 @end ifhtml
2451 didn't include your host/target information or if that information is
2452 incomplete or out of date. Send a note to
2453 @email{gcc@@gcc.gnu.org} detailing how the information should be changed.
2454
2455 If you find a bug, please report it following the
2456 @uref{../bugs.html,,bug reporting guidelines}.
2457
2458 If you want to print the GCC manuals, do @samp{cd @var{objdir}; make
2459 dvi}. You will need to have @command{texi2dvi} (version at least 4.7)
2460 and @TeX{} installed. This creates a number of @file{.dvi} files in
2461 subdirectories of @file{@var{objdir}}; these may be converted for
2462 printing with programs such as @command{dvips}. Alternately, by using
2463 @samp{make pdf} in place of @samp{make dvi}, you can create documentation
2464 in the form of @file{.pdf} files; this requires @command{texi2pdf}, which
2465 is included with Texinfo version 4.8 and later. You can also
2466 @uref{http://www.gnu.org/order/order.html,,buy printed manuals from the
2467 Free Software Foundation}, though such manuals may not be for the most
2468 recent version of GCC@.
2469
2470 If you would like to generate online HTML documentation, do @samp{cd
2471 @var{objdir}; make html} and HTML will be generated for the gcc manuals in
2472 @file{@var{objdir}/gcc/HTML}.
2473
2474 @html
2475 <hr />
2476 <p>
2477 @end html
2478 @ifhtml
2479 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
2480 @end ifhtml
2481 @end ifset
2482
2483 @c ***Binaries****************************************************************
2484 @ifnothtml
2485 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
2486 @node Binaries, Specific, Installing GCC, Top
2487 @end ifnothtml
2488 @ifset binarieshtml
2489 @ifnothtml
2490 @chapter Installing GCC: Binaries
2491 @end ifnothtml
2492 @cindex Binaries
2493 @cindex Installing GCC: Binaries
2494
2495 We are often asked about pre-compiled versions of GCC@. While we cannot
2496 provide these for all platforms, below you'll find links to binaries for
2497 various platforms where creating them by yourself is not easy due to various
2498 reasons.
2499
2500 Please note that we did not create these binaries, nor do we
2501 support them. If you have any problems installing them, please
2502 contact their makers.
2503
2504 @itemize
2505 @item
2506 AIX:
2507 @itemize
2508 @item
2509 @uref{http://www.bullfreeware.com,,Bull's Freeware and Shareware Archive for AIX};
2510
2511 @item
2512 @uref{http://pware.hvcc.edu,,Hudson Valley Community College Open Source Software for IBM System p};
2513
2514 @item
2515 @uref{http://www.perzl.org/aix,,AIX 5L and 6 Open Source Packages}.
2516 @end itemize
2517
2518 @item
2519 DOS---@uref{http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/,,DJGPP}.
2520
2521 @item
2522 Renesas H8/300[HS]---@uref{http://h8300-hms.sourceforge.net/,,GNU
2523 Development Tools for the Renesas H8/300[HS] Series}.
2524
2525 @item
2526 HP-UX:
2527 @itemize
2528 @item
2529 @uref{http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/,,HP-UX Porting Center};
2530
2531 @item
2532 @uref{ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/packages/gcc_hpux/,,Binaries for HP-UX 11.00 at Aachen University of Technology}.
2533 @end itemize
2534
2535 @item
2536 Motorola 68HC11/68HC12---@uref{http://www.gnu-m68hc11.org,,GNU
2537 Development Tools for the Motorola 68HC11/68HC12}.
2538
2539 @item
2540 @uref{http://www.sco.com/skunkware/devtools/index.html#gcc,,SCO
2541 OpenServer/Unixware}.
2542
2543 @item
2544 Solaris 2 (SPARC, Intel)---@uref{http://www.sunfreeware.com/,,Sunfreeware}.
2545
2546 @item
2547 SGI---@uref{http://freeware.sgi.com/,,SGI Freeware}.
2548
2549 @item
2550 Microsoft Windows:
2551 @itemize
2552 @item
2553 The @uref{http://sourceware.org/cygwin/,,Cygwin} project;
2554 @item
2555 The @uref{http://www.mingw.org/,,MinGW} project.
2556 @end itemize
2557
2558 @item
2559 @uref{ftp://ftp.thewrittenword.com/packages/by-name/,,The
2560 Written Word} offers binaries for
2561 AIX 4.3.3, 5.1 and 5.2,
2562 IRIX 6.5,
2563 Tru64 UNIX 4.0D and 5.1,
2564 GNU/Linux (i386),
2565 HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, and 11.11, and
2566 Solaris/SPARC 2.5.1, 2.6, 7, 8, 9 and 10.
2567
2568 @item
2569 @uref{http://www.openpkg.org/,,OpenPKG} offers binaries for quite a
2570 number of platforms.
2571
2572 @item
2573 The @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortranBinaries,,GFortran Wiki} has
2574 links to GNU Fortran binaries for several platforms.
2575 @end itemize
2576
2577 In addition to those specific offerings, you can get a binary
2578 distribution CD-ROM from the
2579 @uref{http://www.gnu.org/order/order.html,,Free Software Foundation}.
2580 It contains binaries for a number of platforms, and
2581 includes not only GCC, but other stuff as well. The current CD does
2582 not contain the latest version of GCC, but it should allow
2583 bootstrapping the compiler. An updated version of that disk is in the
2584 works.
2585
2586 @html
2587 <hr />
2588 <p>
2589 @end html
2590 @ifhtml
2591 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
2592 @end ifhtml
2593 @end ifset
2594
2595 @c ***Specific****************************************************************
2596 @ifnothtml
2597 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
2598 @node Specific, Old, Binaries, Top
2599 @end ifnothtml
2600 @ifset specifichtml
2601 @ifnothtml
2602 @chapter Host/target specific installation notes for GCC
2603 @end ifnothtml
2604 @cindex Specific
2605 @cindex Specific installation notes
2606 @cindex Target specific installation
2607 @cindex Host specific installation
2608 @cindex Target specific installation notes
2609
2610 Please read this document carefully @emph{before} installing the
2611 GNU Compiler Collection on your machine.
2612
2613 Note that this list of install notes is @emph{not} a list of supported
2614 hosts or targets. Not all supported hosts and targets are listed
2615 here, only the ones that require host-specific or target-specific
2616 information are.
2617
2618 @ifhtml
2619 @itemize
2620 @item
2621 @uref{#alpha-x-x,,alpha*-*-*}
2622 @item
2623 @uref{#alpha-dec-osf,,alpha*-dec-osf*}
2624 @item
2625 @uref{#arc-x-elf,,arc-*-elf}
2626 @item
2627 @uref{#arm-x-elf,,arm-*-elf}
2628 @uref{#arm-x-coff,,arm-*-coff}
2629 @uref{#arm-x-aout,,arm-*-aout}
2630 @item
2631 @uref{#avr,,avr}
2632 @item
2633 @uref{#bfin,,Blackfin}
2634 @item
2635 @uref{#dos,,DOS}
2636 @item
2637 @uref{#x-x-freebsd,,*-*-freebsd*}
2638 @item
2639 @uref{#h8300-hms,,h8300-hms}
2640 @item
2641 @uref{#hppa-hp-hpux,,hppa*-hp-hpux*}
2642 @item
2643 @uref{#hppa-hp-hpux10,,hppa*-hp-hpux10}
2644 @item
2645 @uref{#hppa-hp-hpux11,,hppa*-hp-hpux11}
2646 @item
2647 @uref{#x-x-linux-gnu,,*-*-linux-gnu}
2648 @item
2649 @uref{#ix86-x-linux,,i?86-*-linux*}
2650 @item
2651 @uref{#ix86-x-solaris210,,i?86-*-solaris2.10}
2652 @item
2653 @uref{#ia64-x-linux,,ia64-*-linux}
2654 @item
2655 @uref{#ia64-x-hpux,,ia64-*-hpux*}
2656 @item
2657 @uref{#x-ibm-aix,,*-ibm-aix*}
2658 @item
2659 @uref{#iq2000-x-elf,,iq2000-*-elf}
2660 @item
2661 @uref{#m32c-x-elf,,m32c-*-elf}
2662 @item
2663 @uref{#m32r-x-elf,,m32r-*-elf}
2664 @item
2665 @uref{#m6811-elf,,m6811-elf}
2666 @item
2667 @uref{#m6812-elf,,m6812-elf}
2668 @item
2669 @uref{#m68k-x-x,,m68k-*-*}
2670 @item
2671 @uref{#m68k-uclinux,,m68k-uclinux}
2672 @item
2673 @uref{#mips-x-x,,mips-*-*}
2674 @item
2675 @uref{#mips-sgi-irix5,,mips-sgi-irix5}
2676 @item
2677 @uref{#mips-sgi-irix6,,mips-sgi-irix6}
2678 @item
2679 @uref{#powerpc-x-x,,powerpc*-*-*}
2680 @item
2681 @uref{#powerpc-x-darwin,,powerpc-*-darwin*}
2682 @item
2683 @uref{#powerpc-x-elf,,powerpc-*-elf}
2684 @item
2685 @uref{#powerpc-x-linux-gnu,,powerpc*-*-linux-gnu*}
2686 @item
2687 @uref{#powerpc-x-netbsd,,powerpc-*-netbsd*}
2688 @item
2689 @uref{#powerpc-x-eabisim,,powerpc-*-eabisim}
2690 @item
2691 @uref{#powerpc-x-eabi,,powerpc-*-eabi}
2692 @item
2693 @uref{#powerpcle-x-elf,,powerpcle-*-elf}
2694 @item
2695 @uref{#powerpcle-x-eabisim,,powerpcle-*-eabisim}
2696 @item
2697 @uref{#powerpcle-x-eabi,,powerpcle-*-eabi}
2698 @item
2699 @uref{#s390-x-linux,,s390-*-linux*}
2700 @item
2701 @uref{#s390x-x-linux,,s390x-*-linux*}
2702 @item
2703 @uref{#s390x-ibm-tpf,,s390x-ibm-tpf*}
2704 @item
2705 @uref{#x-x-solaris2,,*-*-solaris2*}
2706 @item
2707 @uref{#sparc-sun-solaris2,,sparc-sun-solaris2*}
2708 @item
2709 @uref{#sparc-sun-solaris27,,sparc-sun-solaris2.7}
2710 @item
2711 @uref{#sparc-x-linux,,sparc-*-linux*}
2712 @item
2713 @uref{#sparc64-x-solaris2,,sparc64-*-solaris2*}
2714 @item
2715 @uref{#sparcv9-x-solaris2,,sparcv9-*-solaris2*}
2716 @item
2717 @uref{#x-x-vxworks,,*-*-vxworks*}
2718 @item
2719 @uref{#x86-64-x-x,,x86_64-*-*, amd64-*-*}
2720 @item
2721 @uref{#xtensa-x-elf,,xtensa*-*-elf}
2722 @item
2723 @uref{#xtensa-x-linux,,xtensa*-*-linux*}
2724 @item
2725 @uref{#windows,,Microsoft Windows}
2726 @item
2727 @uref{#x-x-cygwin,,*-*-cygwin}
2728 @item
2729 @uref{#x-x-interix,,*-*-interix}
2730 @item
2731 @uref{#x-x-mingw,,*-*-mingw}
2732 @item
2733 @uref{#os2,,OS/2}
2734 @item
2735 @uref{#older,,Older systems}
2736 @end itemize
2737
2738 @itemize
2739 @item
2740 @uref{#elf,,all ELF targets} (SVR4, Solaris 2, etc.)
2741 @end itemize
2742 @end ifhtml
2743
2744
2745 @html
2746 <!-- -------- host/target specific issues start here ---------------- -->
2747 <hr />
2748 @end html
2749 @heading @anchor{alpha-x-x}alpha*-*-*
2750
2751 This section contains general configuration information for all
2752 alpha-based platforms using ELF (in particular, ignore this section for
2753 DEC OSF/1, Digital UNIX and Tru64 UNIX)@. In addition to reading this
2754 section, please read all other sections that match your target.
2755
2756 We require binutils 2.11.2 or newer.
2757 Previous binutils releases had a number of problems with DWARF 2
2758 debugging information, not the least of which is incorrect linking of
2759 shared libraries.
2760
2761 @html
2762 <hr />
2763 @end html
2764 @heading @anchor{alpha-dec-osf}alpha*-dec-osf*
2765 Systems using processors that implement the DEC Alpha architecture and
2766 are running the DEC/Compaq Unix (DEC OSF/1, Digital UNIX, or Compaq
2767 Tru64 UNIX) operating system, for example the DEC Alpha AXP systems.
2768
2769 As of GCC 3.2, versions before @code{alpha*-dec-osf4} are no longer
2770 supported. (These are the versions which identify themselves as DEC
2771 OSF/1.)
2772
2773 In Digital Unix V4.0, virtual memory exhausted bootstrap failures
2774 may be fixed by configuring with @option{--with-gc=simple},
2775 reconfiguring Kernel Virtual Memory and Swap parameters
2776 per the @command{/usr/sbin/sys_check} Tuning Suggestions,
2777 or applying the patch in
2778 @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-08/msg00822.html}.
2779
2780 In Tru64 UNIX V5.1, Compaq introduced a new assembler that does not
2781 currently (2001-06-13) work with @command{mips-tfile}. As a workaround,
2782 we need to use the old assembler, invoked via the barely documented
2783 @option{-oldas} option. To bootstrap GCC, you either need to use the
2784 Compaq C Compiler:
2785
2786 @smallexample
2787 % CC=cc @var{srcdir}/configure [@var{options}] [@var{target}]
2788 @end smallexample
2789
2790 or you can use a copy of GCC 2.95.3 or higher built on Tru64 UNIX V4.0:
2791
2792 @smallexample
2793 % CC=gcc -Wa,-oldas @var{srcdir}/configure [@var{options}] [@var{target}]
2794 @end smallexample
2795
2796 As of GNU binutils 2.11.2, neither GNU @command{as} nor GNU @command{ld}
2797 are supported on Tru64 UNIX, so you must not configure GCC with
2798 @option{--with-gnu-as} or @option{--with-gnu-ld}.
2799
2800 GCC writes a @samp{.verstamp} directive to the assembler output file
2801 unless it is built as a cross-compiler. It gets the version to use from
2802 the system header file @file{/usr/include/stamp.h}. If you install a
2803 new version of DEC Unix, you should rebuild GCC to pick up the new version
2804 stamp.
2805
2806 @samp{make compare} may fail on old versions of DEC Unix unless you add
2807 @option{-save-temps} to @code{BOOT_CFLAGS}. On these systems, the name
2808 of the assembler input file is stored in the object file, and that makes
2809 comparison fail if it differs between the @code{stage1} and
2810 @code{stage2} compilations. The option @option{-save-temps} forces a
2811 fixed name to be used for the assembler input file, instead of a
2812 randomly chosen name in @file{/tmp}. Do not add @option{-save-temps}
2813 unless the comparisons fail without that option. If you add
2814 @option{-save-temps}, you will have to manually delete the @samp{.i} and
2815 @samp{.s} files after each series of compilations.
2816
2817 GCC now supports both the native (ECOFF) debugging format used by DBX
2818 and GDB and an encapsulated STABS format for use only with GDB@. See the
2819 discussion of the @option{--with-stabs} option of @file{configure} above
2820 for more information on these formats and how to select them.
2821
2822 There is a bug in DEC's assembler that produces incorrect line numbers
2823 for ECOFF format when the @samp{.align} directive is used. To work
2824 around this problem, GCC will not emit such alignment directives
2825 while writing ECOFF format debugging information even if optimization is
2826 being performed. Unfortunately, this has the very undesirable
2827 side-effect that code addresses when @option{-O} is specified are
2828 different depending on whether or not @option{-g} is also specified.
2829
2830 To avoid this behavior, specify @option{-gstabs+} and use GDB instead of
2831 DBX@. DEC is now aware of this problem with the assembler and hopes to
2832 provide a fix shortly.
2833
2834 @html
2835 <hr />
2836 @end html
2837 @heading @anchor{arc-x-elf}arc-*-elf
2838 Argonaut ARC processor.
2839 This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
2840
2841 @html
2842 <hr />
2843 @end html
2844 @heading @anchor{arm-x-elf}arm-*-elf
2845 ARM-family processors. Subtargets that use the ELF object format
2846 require GNU binutils 2.13 or newer. Such subtargets include:
2847 @code{arm-*-freebsd}, @code{arm-*-netbsdelf}, @code{arm-*-*linux}
2848 and @code{arm-*-rtems}.
2849
2850 @html
2851 <hr />
2852 @end html
2853 @heading @anchor{arm-x-coff}arm-*-coff
2854 ARM-family processors. Note that there are two different varieties
2855 of PE format subtarget supported: @code{arm-wince-pe} and
2856 @code{arm-pe} as well as a standard COFF target @code{arm-*-coff}.
2857
2858 @html
2859 <hr />
2860 @end html
2861 @heading @anchor{arm-x-aout}arm-*-aout
2862 ARM-family processors. These targets support the AOUT file format:
2863 @code{arm-*-aout}, @code{arm-*-netbsd}.
2864
2865 @html
2866 <hr />
2867 @end html
2868 @heading @anchor{avr}avr
2869
2870 ATMEL AVR-family micro controllers. These are used in embedded
2871 applications. There are no standard Unix configurations.
2872 @ifnothtml
2873 @xref{AVR Options,, AVR Options, gcc, Using the GNU Compiler
2874 Collection (GCC)},
2875 @end ifnothtml
2876 @ifhtml
2877 See ``AVR Options'' in the main manual
2878 @end ifhtml
2879 for the list of supported MCU types.
2880
2881 Use @samp{configure --target=avr --enable-languages="c"} to configure GCC@.
2882
2883 Further installation notes and other useful information about AVR tools
2884 can also be obtained from:
2885
2886 @itemize @bullet
2887 @item
2888 @uref{http://www.nongnu.org/avr/,,http://www.nongnu.org/avr/}
2889 @item
2890 @uref{http://home.overta.ru/users/denisc/,,http://home.overta.ru/users/denisc/}
2891 @item
2892 @uref{http://www.amelek.gda.pl/avr/,,http://www.amelek.gda.pl/avr/}
2893 @end itemize
2894
2895 We @emph{strongly} recommend using binutils 2.13 or newer.
2896
2897 The following error:
2898 @smallexample
2899 Error: register required
2900 @end smallexample
2901
2902 indicates that you should upgrade to a newer version of the binutils.
2903
2904 @html
2905 <hr />
2906 @end html
2907 @heading @anchor{bfin}Blackfin
2908
2909 The Blackfin processor, an Analog Devices DSP.
2910 @ifnothtml
2911 @xref{Blackfin Options,, Blackfin Options, gcc, Using the GNU Compiler
2912 Collection (GCC)},
2913 @end ifnothtml
2914 @ifhtml
2915 See ``Blackfin Options'' in the main manual
2916 @end ifhtml
2917
2918 More information, and a version of binutils with support for this processor,
2919 is available at @uref{http://blackfin.uclinux.org}
2920
2921 @html
2922 <hr />
2923 @end html
2924 @heading @anchor{cris}CRIS
2925
2926 CRIS is the CPU architecture in Axis Communications ETRAX system-on-a-chip
2927 series. These are used in embedded applications.
2928
2929 @ifnothtml
2930 @xref{CRIS Options,, CRIS Options, gcc, Using the GNU Compiler
2931 Collection (GCC)},
2932 @end ifnothtml
2933 @ifhtml
2934 See ``CRIS Options'' in the main manual
2935 @end ifhtml
2936 for a list of CRIS-specific options.
2937
2938 There are a few different CRIS targets:
2939 @table @code
2940 @item cris-axis-elf
2941 Mainly for monolithic embedded systems. Includes a multilib for the
2942 @samp{v10} core used in @samp{ETRAX 100 LX}.
2943 @item cris-axis-linux-gnu
2944 A GNU/Linux port for the CRIS architecture, currently targeting
2945 @samp{ETRAX 100 LX} by default.
2946 @end table
2947
2948 For @code{cris-axis-elf} you need binutils 2.11
2949 or newer. For @code{cris-axis-linux-gnu} you need binutils 2.12 or newer.
2950
2951 Pre-packaged tools can be obtained from
2952 @uref{ftp://ftp.axis.com/pub/axis/tools/cris/compiler-kit/}. More
2953 information about this platform is available at
2954 @uref{http://developer.axis.com/}.
2955
2956 @html
2957 <hr />
2958 @end html
2959 @heading @anchor{crx}CRX
2960
2961 The CRX CompactRISC architecture is a low-power 32-bit architecture with
2962 fast context switching and architectural extensibility features.
2963
2964 @ifnothtml
2965 @xref{CRX Options,, CRX Options, gcc, Using and Porting the GNU Compiler
2966 Collection (GCC)},
2967 @end ifnothtml
2968
2969 @ifhtml
2970 See ``CRX Options'' in the main manual for a list of CRX-specific options.
2971 @end ifhtml
2972
2973 Use @samp{configure --target=crx-elf --enable-languages=c,c++} to configure
2974 GCC@ for building a CRX cross-compiler. The option @samp{--target=crx-elf}
2975 is also used to build the @samp{newlib} C library for CRX.
2976
2977 It is also possible to build libstdc++-v3 for the CRX architecture. This
2978 needs to be done in a separate step with the following configure settings:
2979 @samp{gcc/libstdc++-v3/configure --host=crx-elf --with-newlib
2980 --enable-sjlj-exceptions --enable-cxx-flags='-fexceptions -frtti'}
2981
2982 @html
2983 <hr />
2984 @end html
2985 @heading @anchor{dos}DOS
2986
2987 Please have a look at the @uref{binaries.html,,binaries page}.
2988
2989 You cannot install GCC by itself on MSDOS; it will not compile under
2990 any MSDOS compiler except itself. You need to get the complete
2991 compilation package DJGPP, which includes binaries as well as sources,
2992 and includes all the necessary compilation tools and libraries.
2993
2994 @html
2995 <hr />
2996 @end html
2997 @heading @anchor{x-x-freebsd}*-*-freebsd*
2998
2999 The version of binutils installed in @file{/usr/bin} probably works with
3000 this release of GCC@. However, on FreeBSD 4, bootstrapping against the
3001 latest FSF binutils is known to improve overall testsuite results; and,
3002 on FreeBSD/alpha, using binutils 2.14 or later is required to build libjava.
3003
3004 Support for FreeBSD 1 was discontinued in GCC 3.2.
3005
3006 Support for FreeBSD 2 will be discontinued after GCC 3.4. The
3007 following was true for GCC 3.1 but the current status is unknown.
3008 For FreeBSD 2 or any mutant a.out versions of FreeBSD 3: All
3009 configuration support and files as shipped with GCC 2.95 are still in
3010 place. FreeBSD 2.2.7 has been known to bootstrap completely; however,
3011 it is unknown which version of binutils was used (it is assumed that it
3012 was the system copy in @file{/usr/bin}) and C++ EH failures were noted.
3013
3014 For FreeBSD using the ELF file format: DWARF 2 debugging is now the
3015 default for all CPU architectures. It had been the default on
3016 FreeBSD/alpha since its inception. You may use @option{-gstabs} instead
3017 of @option{-g}, if you really want the old debugging format. There are
3018 no known issues with mixing object files and libraries with different
3019 debugging formats. Otherwise, this release of GCC should now match more
3020 of the configuration used in the stock FreeBSD configuration of GCC@. In
3021 particular, @option{--enable-threads} is now configured by default.
3022 However, as a general user, do not attempt to replace the system
3023 compiler with this release. Known to bootstrap and check with good
3024 results on FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE and 5-CURRENT@. In the past, known to
3025 bootstrap and check with good results on FreeBSD 3.0, 3.4, 4.0, 4.2,
3026 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.8-STABLE@.
3027
3028 In principle, @option{--enable-threads} is now compatible with
3029 @option{--enable-libgcj} on FreeBSD@. However, it has only been built
3030 and tested on @samp{i386-*-freebsd[45]} and @samp{alpha-*-freebsd[45]}.
3031 The static
3032 library may be incorrectly built (symbols are missing at link time).
3033 There is a rare timing-based startup hang (probably involves an
3034 assumption about the thread library). Multi-threaded boehm-gc (required for
3035 libjava) exposes severe threaded signal-handling bugs on FreeBSD before
3036 4.5-RELEASE@. Other CPU architectures
3037 supported by FreeBSD will require additional configuration tuning in, at
3038 the very least, both boehm-gc and libffi.
3039
3040 Shared @file{libgcc_s.so} is now built and installed by default.
3041
3042 @html
3043 <hr />
3044 @end html
3045 @heading @anchor{h8300-hms}h8300-hms
3046 Renesas H8/300 series of processors.
3047
3048 Please have a look at the @uref{binaries.html,,binaries page}.
3049
3050 The calling convention and structure layout has changed in release 2.6.
3051 All code must be recompiled. The calling convention now passes the
3052 first three arguments in function calls in registers. Structures are no
3053 longer a multiple of 2 bytes.
3054
3055 @html
3056 <hr />
3057 @end html
3058 @heading @anchor{hppa-hp-hpux}hppa*-hp-hpux*
3059 Support for HP-UX version 9 and older was discontinued in GCC 3.4.
3060
3061 We require using gas/binutils on all hppa platforms. Version 2.19 or
3062 later is recommended.
3063
3064 It may be helpful to configure GCC with the
3065 @uref{./configure.html#with-gnu-as,,@option{--with-gnu-as}} and
3066 @option{--with-as=@dots{}} options to ensure that GCC can find GAS@.
3067
3068 The HP assembler should not be used with GCC. It is rarely tested and may
3069 not work. It shouldn't be used with any languages other than C due to its
3070 many limitations.
3071
3072 Specifically, @option{-g} does not work (HP-UX uses a peculiar debugging
3073 format which GCC does not know about). It also inserts timestamps
3074 into each object file it creates, causing the 3-stage comparison test to
3075 fail during a bootstrap. You should be able to continue by saying
3076 @samp{make all-host all-target} after getting the failure from @samp{make}.
3077
3078 Various GCC features are not supported. For example, it does not support weak
3079 symbols or alias definitions. As a result, explicit template instantiations
3080 are required when using C++. This makes it difficult if not impossible to
3081 build many C++ applications.
3082
3083 There are two default scheduling models for instructions. These are
3084 PROCESSOR_7100LC and PROCESSOR_8000. They are selected from the pa-risc
3085 architecture specified for the target machine when configuring.
3086 PROCESSOR_8000 is the default. PROCESSOR_7100LC is selected when
3087 the target is a @samp{hppa1*} machine.
3088
3089 The PROCESSOR_8000 model is not well suited to older processors. Thus,
3090 it is important to completely specify the machine architecture when
3091 configuring if you want a model other than PROCESSOR_8000. The macro
3092 TARGET_SCHED_DEFAULT can be defined in BOOT_CFLAGS if a different
3093 default scheduling model is desired.
3094
3095 As of GCC 4.0, GCC uses the UNIX 95 namespace for HP-UX 10.10
3096 through 11.00, and the UNIX 98 namespace for HP-UX 11.11 and later.
3097 This namespace change might cause problems when bootstrapping with
3098 an earlier version of GCC or the HP compiler as essentially the same
3099 namespace is required for an entire build. This problem can be avoided
3100 in a number of ways. With HP cc, @env{UNIX_STD} can be set to @samp{95}
3101 or @samp{98}. Another way is to add an appropriate set of predefines
3102 to @env{CC}. The description for the @option{munix=} option contains
3103 a list of the predefines used with each standard.
3104
3105 More specific information to @samp{hppa*-hp-hpux*} targets follows.
3106
3107 @html
3108 <hr />
3109 @end html
3110 @heading @anchor{hppa-hp-hpux10}hppa*-hp-hpux10
3111
3112 For hpux10.20, we @emph{highly} recommend you pick up the latest sed patch
3113 @code{PHCO_19798} from HP@. HP has two sites which provide patches free of
3114 charge:
3115
3116 @itemize @bullet
3117 @item
3118 @html
3119 <a href="http://us.itrc.hp.com/service/home/home.do">US, Canada, Asia-Pacific, and
3120 Latin-America</a>
3121 @end html
3122 @ifnothtml
3123 @uref{http://us.itrc.hp.com/service/home/home.do,,} US, Canada, Asia-Pacific,
3124 and Latin-America.
3125 @end ifnothtml
3126 @item
3127 @uref{http://europe.itrc.hp.com/service/home/home.do,,} Europe.
3128 @end itemize
3129
3130 The C++ ABI has changed incompatibly in GCC 4.0. COMDAT subspaces are
3131 used for one-only code and data. This resolves many of the previous
3132 problems in using C++ on this target. However, the ABI is not compatible
3133 with the one implemented under HP-UX 11 using secondary definitions.
3134
3135 @html
3136 <hr />
3137 @end html
3138 @heading @anchor{hppa-hp-hpux11}hppa*-hp-hpux11
3139
3140 GCC 3.0 and up support HP-UX 11. GCC 2.95.x is not supported and cannot
3141 be used to compile GCC 3.0 and up.
3142
3143 The libffi and libjava libraries haven't been ported to 64-bit HP-UX@
3144 and don't build.
3145
3146 Refer to @uref{binaries.html,,binaries} for information about obtaining
3147 precompiled GCC binaries for HP-UX@. Precompiled binaries must be obtained
3148 to build the Ada language as it can't be bootstrapped using C@. Ada is
3149 only available for the 32-bit PA-RISC runtime.
3150
3151 Starting with GCC 3.4 an ISO C compiler is required to bootstrap. The
3152 bundled compiler supports only traditional C; you will need either HP's
3153 unbundled compiler, or a binary distribution of GCC@.
3154
3155 It is possible to build GCC 3.3 starting with the bundled HP compiler,
3156 but the process requires several steps. GCC 3.3 can then be used to
3157 build later versions. The fastjar program contains ISO C code and
3158 can't be built with the HP bundled compiler. This problem can be
3159 avoided by not building the Java language. For example, use the
3160 @option{--enable-languages="c,c++,f77,objc"} option in your configure
3161 command.
3162
3163 There are several possible approaches to building the distribution.
3164 Binutils can be built first using the HP tools. Then, the GCC
3165 distribution can be built. The second approach is to build GCC
3166 first using the HP tools, then build binutils, then rebuild GCC@.
3167 There have been problems with various binary distributions, so it
3168 is best not to start from a binary distribution.
3169
3170 On 64-bit capable systems, there are two distinct targets. Different
3171 installation prefixes must be used if both are to be installed on
3172 the same system. The @samp{hppa[1-2]*-hp-hpux11*} target generates code
3173 for the 32-bit PA-RISC runtime architecture and uses the HP linker.
3174 The @samp{hppa64-hp-hpux11*} target generates 64-bit code for the
3175 PA-RISC 2.0 architecture.
3176
3177 The script config.guess now selects the target type based on the compiler
3178 detected during configuration. You must define @env{PATH} or @env{CC} so
3179 that configure finds an appropriate compiler for the initial bootstrap.
3180 When @env{CC} is used, the definition should contain the options that are
3181 needed whenever @env{CC} is used.
3182
3183 Specifically, options that determine the runtime architecture must be
3184 in @env{CC} to correctly select the target for the build. It is also
3185 convenient to place many other compiler options in @env{CC}. For example,
3186 @env{CC="cc -Ac +DA2.0W -Wp,-H16376 -D_CLASSIC_TYPES -D_HPUX_SOURCE"}
3187 can be used to bootstrap the GCC 3.3 branch with the HP compiler in
3188 64-bit K&R/bundled mode. The @option{+DA2.0W} option will result in
3189 the automatic selection of the @samp{hppa64-hp-hpux11*} target. The
3190 macro definition table of cpp needs to be increased for a successful
3191 build with the HP compiler. _CLASSIC_TYPES and _HPUX_SOURCE need to
3192 be defined when building with the bundled compiler, or when using the
3193 @option{-Ac} option. These defines aren't necessary with @option{-Ae}.
3194
3195 It is best to explicitly configure the @samp{hppa64-hp-hpux11*} target
3196 with the @option{--with-ld=@dots{}} option. This overrides the standard
3197 search for ld. The two linkers supported on this target require different
3198 commands. The default linker is determined during configuration. As a
3199 result, it's not possible to switch linkers in the middle of a GCC build.
3200 This has been reported to sometimes occur in unified builds of binutils
3201 and GCC@.
3202
3203 A recent linker patch must be installed for the correct operation of
3204 GCC 3.3 and later. @code{PHSS_26559} and @code{PHSS_24304} are the
3205 oldest linker patches that are known to work. They are for HP-UX
3206 11.00 and 11.11, respectively. @code{PHSS_24303}, the companion to
3207 @code{PHSS_24304}, might be usable but it hasn't been tested. These
3208 patches have been superseded. Consult the HP patch database to obtain
3209 the currently recommended linker patch for your system.
3210
3211 The patches are necessary for the support of weak symbols on the
3212 32-bit port, and for the running of initializers and finalizers. Weak
3213 symbols are implemented using SOM secondary definition symbols. Prior
3214 to HP-UX 11, there are bugs in the linker support for secondary symbols.
3215 The patches correct a problem of linker core dumps creating shared
3216 libraries containing secondary symbols, as well as various other
3217 linking issues involving secondary symbols.
3218
3219 GCC 3.3 uses the ELF DT_INIT_ARRAY and DT_FINI_ARRAY capabilities to
3220 run initializers and finalizers on the 64-bit port. The 32-bit port
3221 uses the linker @option{+init} and @option{+fini} options for the same
3222 purpose. The patches correct various problems with the +init/+fini
3223 options, including program core dumps. Binutils 2.14 corrects a
3224 problem on the 64-bit port resulting from HP's non-standard use of
3225 the .init and .fini sections for array initializers and finalizers.
3226
3227 Although the HP and GNU linkers are both supported for the
3228 @samp{hppa64-hp-hpux11*} target, it is strongly recommended that the
3229 HP linker be used for link editing on this target.
3230
3231 At this time, the GNU linker does not support the creation of long
3232 branch stubs. As a result, it can't successfully link binaries
3233 containing branch offsets larger than 8 megabytes. In addition,
3234 there are problems linking shared libraries, linking executables
3235 with @option{-static}, and with dwarf2 unwind and exception support.
3236 It also doesn't provide stubs for internal calls to global functions
3237 in shared libraries, so these calls can't be overloaded.
3238
3239 The HP dynamic loader does not support GNU symbol versioning, so symbol
3240 versioning is not supported. It may be necessary to disable symbol
3241 versioning with @option{--disable-symvers} when using GNU ld.
3242
3243 POSIX threads are the default. The optional DCE thread library is not
3244 supported, so @option{--enable-threads=dce} does not work.
3245
3246 @html
3247 <hr />
3248 @end html
3249 @heading @anchor{x-x-linux-gnu}*-*-linux-gnu
3250
3251 Versions of libstdc++-v3 starting with 3.2.1 require bug fixes present
3252 in glibc 2.2.5 and later. More information is available in the
3253 libstdc++-v3 documentation.
3254
3255 @html
3256 <hr />
3257 @end html
3258 @heading @anchor{ix86-x-linux}i?86-*-linux*
3259
3260 As of GCC 3.3, binutils 2.13.1 or later is required for this platform.
3261 See @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/PR10877,,bug 10877} for more information.
3262
3263 If you receive Signal 11 errors when building on GNU/Linux, then it is
3264 possible you have a hardware problem. Further information on this can be
3265 found on @uref{http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/,,www.bitwizard.nl}.
3266
3267 @html
3268 <hr />
3269 @end html
3270 @heading @anchor{ix86-x-solaris210}i?86-*-solaris2.10
3271 Use this for Solaris 10 or later on x86 and x86-64 systems. This
3272 configuration is supported by GCC 4.0 and later versions only.
3273
3274 It is recommended that you configure GCC to use the GNU assembler in
3275 @file{/usr/sfw/bin/gas} but the Sun linker, using the options
3276 @option{--with-gnu-as --with-as=/usr/sfw/bin/gas --without-gnu-ld
3277 --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld}.
3278
3279 @html
3280 <hr />
3281 @end html
3282 @heading @anchor{ia64-x-linux}ia64-*-linux
3283 IA-64 processor (also known as IPF, or Itanium Processor Family)
3284 running GNU/Linux.
3285
3286 If you are using the installed system libunwind library with
3287 @option{--with-system-libunwind}, then you must use libunwind 0.98 or
3288 later.
3289
3290 None of the following versions of GCC has an ABI that is compatible
3291 with any of the other versions in this list, with the exception that
3292 Red Hat 2.96 and Trillian 000171 are compatible with each other:
3293 3.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.1, 3.0, Red Hat 2.96, and Trillian 000717.
3294 This primarily affects C++ programs and programs that create shared libraries.
3295 GCC 3.1 or later is recommended for compiling linux, the kernel.
3296 As of version 3.1 GCC is believed to be fully ABI compliant, and hence no
3297 more major ABI changes are expected.
3298
3299 @html
3300 <hr />
3301 @end html
3302 @heading @anchor{ia64-x-hpux}ia64-*-hpux*
3303 Building GCC on this target requires the GNU Assembler. The bundled HP
3304 assembler will not work. To prevent GCC from using the wrong assembler,
3305 the option @option{--with-gnu-as} may be necessary.
3306
3307 The GCC libunwind library has not been ported to HPUX@. This means that for
3308 GCC versions 3.2.3 and earlier, @option{--enable-libunwind-exceptions}
3309 is required to build GCC@. For GCC 3.3 and later, this is the default.
3310 For gcc 3.4.3 and later, @option{--enable-libunwind-exceptions} is
3311 removed and the system libunwind library will always be used.
3312
3313 @html
3314 <hr />
3315 <!-- rs6000-ibm-aix*, powerpc-ibm-aix* -->
3316 @end html
3317 @heading @anchor{x-ibm-aix}*-ibm-aix*
3318 Support for AIX version 3 and older was discontinued in GCC 3.4.
3319
3320 ``out of memory'' bootstrap failures may indicate a problem with
3321 process resource limits (ulimit). Hard limits are configured in the
3322 @file{/etc/security/limits} system configuration file.
3323
3324 To speed up the configuration phases of bootstrapping and installing GCC,
3325 one may use GNU Bash instead of AIX @command{/bin/sh}, e.g.,
3326
3327 @smallexample
3328 % CONFIG_SHELL=/opt/freeware/bin/bash
3329 % export CONFIG_SHELL
3330 @end smallexample
3331
3332 and then proceed as described in @uref{build.html,,the build
3333 instructions}, where we strongly recommend specifying an absolute path
3334 to invoke @var{srcdir}/configure.
3335
3336 Because GCC on AIX is built as a 32-bit executable by default,
3337 (although it can generate 64-bit programs) the GMP and MPFR libraries
3338 required by gfortran must be 32-bit libraries. Building GMP and MPFR
3339 as static archive libraries works better than shared libraries.
3340
3341 Errors involving @code{alloca} when building GCC generally are due
3342 to an incorrect definition of @code{CC} in the Makefile or mixing files
3343 compiled with the native C compiler and GCC@. During the stage1 phase of
3344 the build, the native AIX compiler @strong{must} be invoked as @command{cc}
3345 (not @command{xlc}). Once @command{configure} has been informed of
3346 @command{xlc}, one needs to use @samp{make distclean} to remove the
3347 configure cache files and ensure that @env{CC} environment variable
3348 does not provide a definition that will confuse @command{configure}.
3349 If this error occurs during stage2 or later, then the problem most likely
3350 is the version of Make (see above).
3351
3352 The native @command{as} and @command{ld} are recommended for bootstrapping
3353 on AIX 4 and required for bootstrapping on AIX 5L@. The GNU Assembler
3354 reports that it supports WEAK symbols on AIX 4, which causes GCC to try to
3355 utilize weak symbol functionality although it is not supported. The GNU
3356 Assembler and Linker do not support AIX 5L sufficiently to bootstrap GCC@.
3357 The native AIX tools do interoperate with GCC@.
3358
3359 Building @file{libstdc++.a} requires a fix for an AIX Assembler bug
3360 APAR IY26685 (AIX 4.3) or APAR IY25528 (AIX 5.1). It also requires a
3361 fix for another AIX Assembler bug and a co-dependent AIX Archiver fix
3362 referenced as APAR IY53606 (AIX 5.2) or a APAR IY54774 (AIX 5.1)
3363
3364 @samp{libstdc++} in GCC 3.4 increments the major version number of the
3365 shared object and GCC installation places the @file{libstdc++.a}
3366 shared library in a common location which will overwrite the and GCC
3367 3.3 version of the shared library. Applications either need to be
3368 re-linked against the new shared library or the GCC 3.1 and GCC 3.3
3369 versions of the @samp{libstdc++} shared object needs to be available
3370 to the AIX runtime loader. The GCC 3.1 @samp{libstdc++.so.4}, if
3371 present, and GCC 3.3 @samp{libstdc++.so.5} shared objects can be
3372 installed for runtime dynamic loading using the following steps to set
3373 the @samp{F_LOADONLY} flag in the shared object for @emph{each}
3374 multilib @file{libstdc++.a} installed:
3375
3376 Extract the shared objects from the currently installed
3377 @file{libstdc++.a} archive:
3378 @smallexample
3379 % ar -x libstdc++.a libstdc++.so.4 libstdc++.so.5
3380 @end smallexample
3381
3382 Enable the @samp{F_LOADONLY} flag so that the shared object will be
3383 available for runtime dynamic loading, but not linking:
3384 @smallexample
3385 % strip -e libstdc++.so.4 libstdc++.so.5
3386 @end smallexample
3387
3388 Archive the runtime-only shared object in the GCC 3.4
3389 @file{libstdc++.a} archive:
3390 @smallexample
3391 % ar -q libstdc++.a libstdc++.so.4 libstdc++.so.5
3392 @end smallexample
3393
3394 Linking executables and shared libraries may produce warnings of
3395 duplicate symbols. The assembly files generated by GCC for AIX always
3396 have included multiple symbol definitions for certain global variable
3397 and function declarations in the original program. The warnings should
3398 not prevent the linker from producing a correct library or runnable
3399 executable.
3400
3401 AIX 4.3 utilizes a ``large format'' archive to support both 32-bit and
3402 64-bit object modules. The routines provided in AIX 4.3.0 and AIX 4.3.1
3403 to parse archive libraries did not handle the new format correctly.
3404 These routines are used by GCC and result in error messages during
3405 linking such as ``not a COFF file''. The version of the routines shipped
3406 with AIX 4.3.1 should work for a 32-bit environment. The @option{-g}
3407 option of the archive command may be used to create archives of 32-bit
3408 objects using the original ``small format''. A correct version of the
3409 routines is shipped with AIX 4.3.2 and above.
3410
3411 Some versions of the AIX binder (linker) can fail with a relocation
3412 overflow severe error when the @option{-bbigtoc} option is used to link
3413 GCC-produced object files into an executable that overflows the TOC@. A fix
3414 for APAR IX75823 (OVERFLOW DURING LINK WHEN USING GCC AND -BBIGTOC) is
3415 available from IBM Customer Support and from its
3416 @uref{http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/,,techsupport.services.ibm.com}
3417 website as PTF U455193.
3418
3419 The AIX 4.3.2.1 linker (bos.rte.bind_cmds Level 4.3.2.1) will dump core
3420 with a segmentation fault when invoked by any version of GCC@. A fix for
3421 APAR IX87327 is available from IBM Customer Support and from its
3422 @uref{http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/,,techsupport.services.ibm.com}
3423 website as PTF U461879. This fix is incorporated in AIX 4.3.3 and above.
3424
3425 The initial assembler shipped with AIX 4.3.0 generates incorrect object
3426 files. A fix for APAR IX74254 (64BIT DISASSEMBLED OUTPUT FROM COMPILER FAILS
3427 TO ASSEMBLE/BIND) is available from IBM Customer Support and from its
3428 @uref{http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/,,techsupport.services.ibm.com}
3429 website as PTF U453956. This fix is incorporated in AIX 4.3.1 and above.
3430
3431 AIX provides National Language Support (NLS)@. Compilers and assemblers
3432 use NLS to support locale-specific representations of various data
3433 formats including floating-point numbers (e.g., @samp{.} vs @samp{,} for
3434 separating decimal fractions). There have been problems reported where
3435 GCC does not produce the same floating-point formats that the assembler
3436 expects. If one encounters this problem, set the @env{LANG}
3437 environment variable to @samp{C} or @samp{En_US}.
3438
3439 By default, GCC for AIX 4.1 and above produces code that can be used on
3440 both Power or PowerPC processors.
3441
3442 A default can be specified with the @option{-mcpu=@var{cpu_type}}
3443 switch and using the configure option @option{--with-cpu-@var{cpu_type}}.
3444
3445 @html
3446 <hr />
3447 @end html
3448 @heading @anchor{iq2000-x-elf}iq2000-*-elf
3449 Vitesse IQ2000 processors. These are used in embedded
3450 applications. There are no standard Unix configurations.
3451
3452 @html
3453 <hr />
3454 @end html
3455 @heading @anchor{m32c-x-elf}m32c-*-elf
3456 Renesas M32C processor.
3457 This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
3458
3459 @html
3460 <hr />
3461 @end html
3462 @heading @anchor{m32r-x-elf}m32r-*-elf
3463 Renesas M32R processor.
3464 This configuration is intended for embedded systems.
3465
3466 @html
3467 <hr />
3468 @end html
3469 @heading @anchor{m6811-elf}m6811-elf
3470 Motorola 68HC11 family micro controllers. These are used in embedded
3471 applications. There are no standard Unix configurations.
3472
3473 @html
3474 <hr />
3475 @end html
3476 @heading @anchor{m6812-elf}m6812-elf
3477 Motorola 68HC12 family micro controllers. These are used in embedded
3478 applications. There are no standard Unix configurations.
3479
3480 @html
3481 <hr />
3482 @end html
3483 @heading @anchor{m68k-x-x}m68k-*-*
3484 By default, @samp{m68k-*-aout}, @samp{m68k-*-coff*},
3485 @samp{m68k-*-elf*}, @samp{m68k-*-rtems}, @samp{m68k-*-uclinux} and
3486 @samp{m68k-*-linux}
3487 build libraries for both M680x0 and ColdFire processors. If you only
3488 need the M680x0 libraries, you can omit the ColdFire ones by passing
3489 @option{--with-arch=m68k} to @command{configure}. Alternatively, you
3490 can omit the M680x0 libraries by passing @option{--with-arch=cf} to
3491 @command{configure}. These targets default to 5206 or 5475 code as
3492 appropriate for the target system when
3493 configured with @option{--with-arch=cf} and 68020 code otherwise.
3494
3495 The @samp{m68k-*-netbsd} and
3496 @samp{m68k-*-openbsd} targets also support the @option{--with-arch}
3497 option. They will generate ColdFire CFV4e code when configured with
3498 @option{--with-arch=cf} and 68020 code otherwise.
3499
3500 You can override the default processors listed above by configuring
3501 with @option{--with-cpu=@var{target}}. This @var{target} can either
3502 be a @option{-mcpu} argument or one of the following values:
3503 @samp{m68000}, @samp{m68010}, @samp{m68020}, @samp{m68030},
3504 @samp{m68040}, @samp{m68060}, @samp{m68020-40} and @samp{m68020-60}.
3505
3506 @html
3507 <hr />
3508 @end html
3509 @heading @anchor{m68k-x-uclinux}m68k-*-uclinux
3510 GCC 4.3 changed the uClinux configuration so that it uses the
3511 @samp{m68k-linux-gnu} ABI rather than the @samp{m68k-elf} ABI.
3512 It also added improved support for C++ and flat shared libraries,
3513 both of which were ABI changes. However, you can still use the
3514 original ABI by configuring for @samp{m68k-uclinuxoldabi} or
3515 @samp{m68k-@var{vendor}-uclinuxoldabi}.
3516
3517 @html
3518 <hr />
3519 @end html
3520 @heading @anchor{mips-x-x}mips-*-*
3521 If on a MIPS system you get an error message saying ``does not have gp
3522 sections for all it's [sic] sectons [sic]'', don't worry about it. This
3523 happens whenever you use GAS with the MIPS linker, but there is not
3524 really anything wrong, and it is okay to use the output file. You can
3525 stop such warnings by installing the GNU linker.
3526
3527 It would be nice to extend GAS to produce the gp tables, but they are
3528 optional, and there should not be a warning about their absence.
3529
3530 The libstdc++ atomic locking routines for MIPS targets requires MIPS II
3531 and later. A patch went in just after the GCC 3.3 release to
3532 make @samp{mips*-*-*} use the generic implementation instead. You can also
3533 configure for @samp{mipsel-elf} as a workaround. The
3534 @samp{mips*-*-linux*} target continues to use the MIPS II routines. More
3535 work on this is expected in future releases.
3536
3537 @c If you make --with-llsc the default for another target, please also
3538 @c update the description of the --with-llsc option.
3539
3540 The built-in @code{__sync_*} functions are available on MIPS II and
3541 later systems and others that support the @samp{ll}, @samp{sc} and
3542 @samp{sync} instructions. This can be overridden by passing
3543 @option{--with-llsc} or @option{--without-llsc} when configuring GCC.
3544 Since the Linux kernel emulates these instructions if they are
3545 missing, the default for @samp{mips*-*-linux*} targets is
3546 @option{--with-llsc}. The @option{--with-llsc} and
3547 @option{--without-llsc} configure options may be overridden at compile
3548 time by passing the @option{-mllsc} or @option{-mno-llsc} options to
3549 the compiler.
3550
3551 MIPS systems check for division by zero (unless
3552 @option{-mno-check-zero-division} is passed to the compiler) by
3553 generating either a conditional trap or a break instruction. Using
3554 trap results in smaller code, but is only supported on MIPS II and
3555 later. Also, some versions of the Linux kernel have a bug that
3556 prevents trap from generating the proper signal (@code{SIGFPE}). To enable
3557 the use of break, use the @option{--with-divide=breaks}
3558 @command{configure} option when configuring GCC@. The default is to
3559 use traps on systems that support them.
3560
3561 Cross-compilers for the MIPS as target using the MIPS assembler
3562 currently do not work, because the auxiliary programs
3563 @file{mips-tdump.c} and @file{mips-tfile.c} can't be compiled on
3564 anything but a MIPS@. It does work to cross compile for a MIPS
3565 if you use the GNU assembler and linker.
3566
3567 The assembler from GNU binutils 2.17 and earlier has a bug in the way
3568 it sorts relocations for REL targets (o32, o64, EABI). This can cause
3569 bad code to be generated for simple C++ programs. Also the linker
3570 from GNU binutils versions prior to 2.17 has a bug which causes the
3571 runtime linker stubs in very large programs, like @file{libgcj.so}, to
3572 be incorrectly generated. GNU Binutils 2.18 and later (and snapshots
3573 made after Nov. 9, 2006) should be free from both of these problems.
3574
3575 @html
3576 <hr />
3577 @end html
3578 @heading @anchor{mips-sgi-irix5}mips-sgi-irix5
3579
3580 In order to compile GCC on an SGI running IRIX 5, the @samp{compiler_dev.hdr}
3581 subsystem must be installed from the IDO CD-ROM supplied by SGI@.
3582 It is also available for download from
3583 @uref{ftp://ftp.sgi.com/sgi/IRIX5.3/iris-development-option-5.3.tardist}.
3584
3585 If you use the MIPS C compiler to bootstrap, it may be necessary
3586 to increase its table size for switch statements with the
3587 @option{-Wf,-XNg1500} option. If you use the @option{-O2}
3588 optimization option, you also need to use @option{-Olimit 3000}.
3589
3590 To enable debugging under IRIX 5, you must use GNU binutils 2.15 or
3591 later, and use the @option{--with-gnu-ld} @command{configure} option
3592 when configuring GCC@. You need to use GNU @command{ar} and @command{nm},
3593 also distributed with GNU binutils.
3594
3595 Some users have reported that @command{/bin/sh} will hang during bootstrap.
3596 This problem can be avoided by running the commands:
3597
3598 @smallexample
3599 % CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/ksh
3600 % export CONFIG_SHELL
3601 @end smallexample
3602
3603 before starting the build.
3604
3605 @html
3606 <hr />
3607 @end html
3608 @heading @anchor{mips-sgi-irix6}mips-sgi-irix6
3609
3610 If you are using SGI's MIPSpro @command{cc} as your bootstrap compiler, you must
3611 ensure that the N32 ABI is in use. To test this, compile a simple C
3612 file with @command{cc} and then run @command{file} on the
3613 resulting object file. The output should look like:
3614
3615 @smallexample
3616 test.o: ELF N32 MSB @dots{}
3617 @end smallexample
3618
3619 If you see:
3620
3621 @smallexample
3622 test.o: ELF 32-bit MSB @dots{}
3623 @end smallexample
3624
3625 or
3626
3627 @smallexample
3628 test.o: ELF 64-bit MSB @dots{}
3629 @end smallexample
3630
3631 then your version of @command{cc} uses the O32 or N64 ABI by default. You
3632 should set the environment variable @env{CC} to @samp{cc -n32}
3633 before configuring GCC@.
3634
3635 If you want the resulting @command{gcc} to run on old 32-bit systems
3636 with the MIPS R4400 CPU, you need to ensure that only code for the @samp{mips3}
3637 instruction set architecture (ISA) is generated. While GCC 3.x does
3638 this correctly, both GCC 2.95 and SGI's MIPSpro @command{cc} may change
3639 the ISA depending on the machine where GCC is built. Using one of them
3640 as the bootstrap compiler may result in @samp{mips4} code, which won't run at
3641 all on @samp{mips3}-only systems. For the test program above, you should see:
3642
3643 @smallexample
3644 test.o: ELF N32 MSB mips-3 @dots{}
3645 @end smallexample
3646
3647 If you get:
3648
3649 @smallexample
3650 test.o: ELF N32 MSB mips-4 @dots{}
3651 @end smallexample
3652
3653 instead, you should set the environment variable @env{CC} to @samp{cc
3654 -n32 -mips3} or @samp{gcc -mips3} respectively before configuring GCC@.
3655
3656 MIPSpro C 7.4 may cause bootstrap failures, due to a bug when inlining
3657 @code{memcmp}. Either add @code{-U__INLINE_INTRINSICS} to the @env{CC}
3658 environment variable as a workaround or upgrade to MIPSpro C 7.4.1m.
3659
3660 GCC on IRIX 6 is usually built to support the N32, O32 and N64 ABIs. If
3661 you build GCC on a system that doesn't have the N64 libraries installed
3662 or cannot run 64-bit binaries,
3663 you need to configure with @option{--disable-multilib} so GCC doesn't
3664 try to use them. This will disable building the O32 libraries, too.
3665 Look for @file{/usr/lib64/libc.so.1} to see if you
3666 have the 64-bit libraries installed.
3667
3668 To enable debugging for the O32 ABI, you must use GNU @command{as} from
3669 GNU binutils 2.15 or later. You may also use GNU @command{ld}, but
3670 this is not required and currently causes some problems with Ada.
3671
3672 The @option{--enable-libgcj}
3673 option is disabled by default: IRIX 6 uses a very low default limit
3674 (20480) for the command line length. Although @command{libtool} contains a
3675 workaround for this problem, at least the N64 @samp{libgcj} is known not
3676 to build despite this, running into an internal error of the native
3677 @command{ld}. A sure fix is to increase this limit (@samp{ncargs}) to
3678 its maximum of 262144 bytes. If you have root access, you can use the
3679 @command{systune} command to do this.
3680
3681 @code{wchar_t} support in @samp{libstdc++} is not available for old
3682 IRIX 6.5.x releases, @math{x < 19}. The problem cannot be autodetected
3683 and in order to build GCC for such targets you need to configure with
3684 @option{--disable-wchar_t}.
3685
3686 See @uref{http://freeware.sgi.com/} for more
3687 information about using GCC on IRIX platforms.
3688
3689 @html
3690 <hr />
3691 @end html
3692 @heading @anchor{powerpc-x-x}powerpc-*-*
3693
3694 You can specify a default version for the @option{-mcpu=@var{cpu_type}}
3695 switch by using the configure option @option{--with-cpu-@var{cpu_type}}.
3696
3697 You will need
3698 @uref{ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils,,binutils 2.15}
3699 or newer for a working GCC@.
3700
3701 @html
3702 <hr />
3703 @end html
3704 @heading @anchor{powerpc-x-darwin}powerpc-*-darwin*
3705 PowerPC running Darwin (Mac OS X kernel).
3706
3707 Pre-installed versions of Mac OS X may not include any developer tools,
3708 meaning that you will not be able to build GCC from source. Tool
3709 binaries are available at
3710 @uref{http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/compiler/} (free
3711 registration required).
3712
3713 This version of GCC requires at least cctools-590.36. The
3714 cctools-590.36 package referenced from
3715 @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2006-03/msg00507.html} will not work
3716 on systems older than 10.3.9 (aka darwin7.9.0).
3717
3718 @html
3719 <hr />
3720 @end html
3721 @heading @anchor{powerpc-x-elf}powerpc-*-elf
3722 PowerPC system in big endian mode, running System V.4.
3723
3724 @html
3725 <hr />
3726 @end html
3727 @heading @anchor{powerpc-x-linux-gnu}powerpc*-*-linux-gnu*
3728
3729 PowerPC system in big endian mode running Linux.
3730
3731 @html
3732 <hr />
3733 @end html
3734 @heading @anchor{powerpc-x-netbsd}powerpc-*-netbsd*
3735 PowerPC system in big endian mode running NetBSD@.
3736
3737 @html
3738 <hr />
3739 @end html
3740 @heading @anchor{powerpc-x-eabisim}powerpc-*-eabisim
3741 Embedded PowerPC system in big endian mode for use in running under the
3742 PSIM simulator.
3743
3744 @html
3745 <hr />
3746 @end html
3747 @heading @anchor{powerpc-x-eabi}powerpc-*-eabi
3748 Embedded PowerPC system in big endian mode.
3749
3750 @html
3751 <hr />
3752 @end html
3753 @heading @anchor{powerpcle-x-elf}powerpcle-*-elf
3754 PowerPC system in little endian mode, running System V.4.
3755
3756 @html
3757 <hr />
3758 @end html
3759 @heading @anchor{powerpcle-x-eabisim}powerpcle-*-eabisim
3760 Embedded PowerPC system in little endian mode for use in running under
3761 the PSIM simulator.
3762
3763 @html
3764 <hr />
3765 @end html
3766 @heading @anchor{powerpcle-x-eabi}powerpcle-*-eabi
3767 Embedded PowerPC system in little endian mode.
3768
3769 @html
3770 <hr />
3771 @end html
3772 @heading @anchor{s390-x-linux}s390-*-linux*
3773 S/390 system running GNU/Linux for S/390@.
3774
3775 @html
3776 <hr />
3777 @end html
3778 @heading @anchor{s390x-x-linux}s390x-*-linux*
3779 zSeries system (64-bit) running GNU/Linux for zSeries@.
3780
3781 @html
3782 <hr />
3783 @end html
3784 @heading @anchor{s390x-ibm-tpf}s390x-ibm-tpf*
3785 zSeries system (64-bit) running TPF@. This platform is
3786 supported as cross-compilation target only.
3787
3788 @html
3789 <hr />
3790 @end html
3791 @c Please use Solaris 2 to refer to all release of Solaris, starting
3792 @c with 2.0 until 2.6, 7, 8, etc. Solaris 1 was a marketing name for
3793 @c SunOS 4 releases which we don't use to avoid confusion. Solaris
3794 @c alone is too unspecific and must be avoided.
3795 @heading @anchor{x-x-solaris2}*-*-solaris2*
3796
3797 Sun does not ship a C compiler with Solaris 2. To bootstrap and install
3798 GCC you first have to install a pre-built compiler, see the
3799 @uref{binaries.html,,binaries page} for details.
3800
3801 The Solaris 2 @command{/bin/sh} will often fail to configure
3802 @file{libstdc++-v3}, @file{boehm-gc} or @file{libjava}. We therefore
3803 recommend using the following initial sequence of commands
3804
3805 @smallexample
3806 % CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/ksh
3807 % export CONFIG_SHELL
3808 @end smallexample
3809
3810 and proceed as described in @uref{configure.html,,the configure instructions}.
3811 In addition we strongly recommend specifying an absolute path to invoke
3812 @var{srcdir}/configure.
3813
3814 Solaris 2 comes with a number of optional OS packages. Some of these
3815 are needed to use GCC fully, namely @code{SUNWarc},
3816 @code{SUNWbtool}, @code{SUNWesu}, @code{SUNWhea}, @code{SUNWlibm},
3817 @code{SUNWsprot}, and @code{SUNWtoo}. If you did not install all
3818 optional packages when installing Solaris 2, you will need to verify that
3819 the packages that GCC needs are installed.
3820
3821 To check whether an optional package is installed, use
3822 the @command{pkginfo} command. To add an optional package, use the
3823 @command{pkgadd} command. For further details, see the Solaris 2
3824 documentation.
3825
3826 Trying to use the linker and other tools in
3827 @file{/usr/ucb} to install GCC has been observed to cause trouble.
3828 For example, the linker may hang indefinitely. The fix is to remove
3829 @file{/usr/ucb} from your @env{PATH}.
3830
3831 The build process works more smoothly with the legacy Sun tools so, if you
3832 have @file{/usr/xpg4/bin} in your @env{PATH}, we recommend that you place
3833 @file{/usr/bin} before @file{/usr/xpg4/bin} for the duration of the build.
3834
3835 We recommend the use of GNU binutils 2.14 or later, or the vendor tools
3836 (Sun @command{as}, Sun @command{ld}). Note that your mileage may vary
3837 if you use a combination of the GNU tools and the Sun tools: while the
3838 combination GNU @command{as} + Sun @command{ld} should reasonably work,
3839 the reverse combination Sun @command{as} + GNU @command{ld} is known to
3840 cause memory corruption at runtime in some cases for C++ programs.
3841
3842 The stock GNU binutils 2.15 release is broken on this platform because of a
3843 single bug. It has been fixed on the 2.15 branch in the CVS repository.
3844 You can obtain a working version by checking out the binutils-2_15-branch
3845 from the CVS repository or applying the patch
3846 @uref{http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils-cvs/2004-09/msg00036.html} to the
3847 release.
3848
3849 We recommend the use of GNU binutils 2.16 or later in conjunction with GCC
3850 4.x, or the vendor tools (Sun @command{as}, Sun @command{ld}). However,
3851 for Solaris 10 and above, an additional patch is required in order for the
3852 GNU linker to be able to cope with a new flavor of shared libraries. You
3853 can obtain a working version by checking out the binutils-2_16-branch from
3854 the CVS repository or applying the patch
3855 @uref{http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils-cvs/2005-07/msg00122.html} to the
3856 release.
3857
3858 Sun bug 4296832 turns up when compiling X11 headers with GCC 2.95 or
3859 newer: @command{g++} will complain that types are missing. These headers
3860 assume that omitting the type means @code{int}; this assumption worked for
3861 C89 but is wrong for C++, and is now wrong for C99 also.
3862
3863 @command{g++} accepts such (invalid) constructs with the option
3864 @option{-fpermissive}; it will assume that any missing type is @code{int}
3865 (as defined by C89).
3866
3867 There are patches for Solaris 7 (108376-21 or newer for SPARC,
3868 108377-20 for Intel), and Solaris 8 (108652-24 or newer for SPARC,
3869 108653-22 for Intel) that fix this bug.
3870
3871 Sun bug 4927647 sometimes causes random spurious testsuite failures
3872 related to missing diagnostic output. This bug doesn't affect GCC
3873 itself, rather it is a kernel bug triggered by the @command{expect}
3874 program which is used only by the GCC testsuite driver. When the bug
3875 causes the @command{expect} program to miss anticipated output, extra
3876 testsuite failures appear.
3877
3878 There are patches for Solaris 8 (117350-12 or newer for SPARC,
3879 117351-12 or newer for Intel) and Solaris 9 (117171-11 or newer for
3880 SPARC, 117172-11 or newer for Intel) that address this problem.
3881
3882 @html
3883 <hr />
3884 @end html
3885 @heading @anchor{sparc-sun-solaris2}sparc-sun-solaris2*
3886
3887 When GCC is configured to use binutils 2.14 or later the binaries
3888 produced are smaller than the ones produced using Sun's native tools;
3889 this difference is quite significant for binaries containing debugging
3890 information.
3891
3892 Starting with Solaris 7, the operating system is capable of executing
3893 64-bit SPARC V9 binaries. GCC 3.1 and later properly supports
3894 this; the @option{-m64} option enables 64-bit code generation.
3895 However, if all you want is code tuned for the UltraSPARC CPU, you
3896 should try the @option{-mtune=ultrasparc} option instead, which produces
3897 code that, unlike full 64-bit code, can still run on non-UltraSPARC
3898 machines.
3899
3900 When configuring on a Solaris 7 or later system that is running a kernel
3901 that supports only 32-bit binaries, one must configure with
3902 @option{--disable-multilib}, since we will not be able to build the
3903 64-bit target libraries.
3904
3905 GCC 3.3 and GCC 3.4 trigger code generation bugs in earlier versions of
3906 the GNU compiler (especially GCC 3.0.x versions), which lead to the
3907 miscompilation of the stage1 compiler and the subsequent failure of the
3908 bootstrap process. A workaround is to use GCC 3.2.3 as an intermediary
3909 stage, i.e.@: to bootstrap that compiler with the base compiler and then
3910 use it to bootstrap the final compiler.
3911
3912 GCC 3.4 triggers a code generation bug in versions 5.4 (Sun ONE Studio 7)
3913 and 5.5 (Sun ONE Studio 8) of the Sun compiler, which causes a bootstrap
3914 failure in form of a miscompilation of the stage1 compiler by the Sun
3915 compiler. This is Sun bug 4974440. This is fixed with patch 112760-07.
3916
3917 GCC 3.4 changed the default debugging format from STABS to DWARF-2 for
3918 32-bit code on Solaris 7 and later. If you use the Sun assembler, this
3919 change apparently runs afoul of Sun bug 4910101 (which is referenced as
3920 a x86-only problem by Sun, probably because they do not use DWARF-2).
3921 A symptom of the problem is that you cannot compile C++ programs like
3922 @command{groff} 1.19.1 without getting messages similar to the following:
3923
3924 @smallexample
3925 ld: warning: relocation error: R_SPARC_UA32: @dots{}
3926 external symbolic relocation against non-allocatable section
3927 .debug_info cannot be processed at runtime: relocation ignored.
3928 @end smallexample
3929
3930 To work around this problem, compile with @option{-gstabs+} instead of
3931 plain @option{-g}.
3932
3933 When configuring the GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP) or the MPFR
3934 library on a Solaris 7 or later system, the canonical target triplet
3935 must be specified as the @command{build} parameter on the configure
3936 line. This triplet can be obtained by invoking ./config.guess in
3937 the toplevel source directory of GCC (and not that of GMP or MPFR).
3938 For example on a Solaris 7 system:
3939
3940 @smallexample
3941 % ./configure --build=sparc-sun-solaris2.7 --prefix=xxx
3942 @end smallexample
3943
3944 @html
3945 <hr />
3946 @end html
3947 @heading @anchor{sparc-sun-solaris27}sparc-sun-solaris2.7
3948
3949 Sun patch 107058-01 (1999-01-13) for Solaris 7/SPARC triggers a bug in
3950 the dynamic linker. This problem (Sun bug 4210064) affects GCC 2.8
3951 and later, including all EGCS releases. Sun formerly recommended
3952 107058-01 for all Solaris 7 users, but around 1999-09-01 it started to
3953 recommend it only for people who use Sun's compilers.
3954
3955 Here are some workarounds to this problem:
3956 @itemize @bullet
3957 @item
3958 Do not install Sun patch 107058-01 until after Sun releases a
3959 complete patch for bug 4210064. This is the simplest course to take,
3960 unless you must also use Sun's C compiler. Unfortunately 107058-01
3961 is preinstalled on some new Solaris 7-based hosts, so you may have to
3962 back it out.
3963
3964 @item
3965 Copy the original, unpatched Solaris 7
3966 @command{/usr/ccs/bin/as} into
3967 @command{/usr/local/libexec/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/3.4/as},
3968 adjusting the latter name to fit your local conventions and software
3969 version numbers.
3970
3971 @item
3972 Install Sun patch 106950-03 (1999-05-25) or later. Nobody with
3973 both 107058-01 and 106950-03 installed has reported the bug with GCC
3974 and Sun's dynamic linker. This last course of action is riskiest,
3975 for two reasons. First, you must install 106950 on all hosts that
3976 run code generated by GCC; it doesn't suffice to install it only on
3977 the hosts that run GCC itself. Second, Sun says that 106950-03 is
3978 only a partial fix for bug 4210064, but Sun doesn't know whether the
3979 partial fix is adequate for GCC@. Revision -08 or later should fix
3980 the bug. The current (as of 2004-05-23) revision is -24, and is included in
3981 the Solaris 7 Recommended Patch Cluster.
3982 @end itemize
3983
3984 GCC 3.3 triggers a bug in version 5.0 Alpha 03/27/98 of the Sun assembler,
3985 which causes a bootstrap failure when linking the 64-bit shared version of
3986 libgcc. A typical error message is:
3987
3988 @smallexample
3989 ld: fatal: relocation error: R_SPARC_32: file libgcc/sparcv9/_muldi3.o:
3990 symbol <unknown>: offset 0xffffffff7ec133e7 is non-aligned.
3991 @end smallexample
3992
3993 This bug has been fixed in the final 5.0 version of the assembler.
3994
3995 A similar problem was reported for version Sun WorkShop 6 99/08/18 of the
3996 Sun assembler, which causes a bootstrap failure with GCC 4.0.0:
3997
3998 @smallexample
3999 ld: fatal: relocation error: R_SPARC_DISP32:
4000 file .libs/libstdc++.lax/libsupc++convenience.a/vterminate.o:
4001 symbol <unknown>: offset 0xfccd33ad is non-aligned
4002 @end smallexample
4003
4004 This bug has been fixed in more recent revisions of the assembler.
4005
4006 @html
4007 <hr />
4008 @end html
4009 @heading @anchor{sparc-x-linux}sparc-*-linux*
4010
4011 GCC versions 3.0 and higher require binutils 2.11.2 and glibc 2.2.4
4012 or newer on this platform. All earlier binutils and glibc
4013 releases mishandled unaligned relocations on @code{sparc-*-*} targets.
4014
4015
4016 @html
4017 <hr />
4018 @end html
4019 @heading @anchor{sparc64-x-solaris2}sparc64-*-solaris2*
4020
4021 When configuring the GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP) or the
4022 MPFR library, the canonical target triplet must be specified as
4023 the @command{build} parameter on the configure line. For example
4024 on a Solaris 7 system:
4025
4026 @smallexample
4027 % ./configure --build=sparc64-sun-solaris2.7 --prefix=xxx
4028 @end smallexample
4029
4030 The following compiler flags must be specified in the configure
4031 step in order to bootstrap this target with the Sun compiler:
4032
4033 @smallexample
4034 % CC="cc -xarch=v9 -xildoff" @var{srcdir}/configure [@var{options}] [@var{target}]
4035 @end smallexample
4036
4037 @option{-xarch=v9} specifies the SPARC-V9 architecture to the Sun toolchain
4038 and @option{-xildoff} turns off the incremental linker.
4039
4040 @html
4041 <hr />
4042 @end html
4043 @heading @anchor{sparcv9-x-solaris2}sparcv9-*-solaris2*
4044
4045 This is a synonym for sparc64-*-solaris2*.
4046
4047 @html
4048 <hr />
4049 @end html
4050 @heading @anchor{x-x-vxworks}*-*-vxworks*
4051 Support for VxWorks is in flux. At present GCC supports @emph{only} the
4052 very recent VxWorks 5.5 (aka Tornado 2.2) release, and only on PowerPC@.
4053 We welcome patches for other architectures supported by VxWorks 5.5.
4054 Support for VxWorks AE would also be welcome; we believe this is merely
4055 a matter of writing an appropriate ``configlette'' (see below). We are
4056 not interested in supporting older, a.out or COFF-based, versions of
4057 VxWorks in GCC 3.
4058
4059 VxWorks comes with an older version of GCC installed in
4060 @file{@var{$WIND_BASE}/host}; we recommend you do not overwrite it.
4061 Choose an installation @var{prefix} entirely outside @var{$WIND_BASE}.
4062 Before running @command{configure}, create the directories @file{@var{prefix}}
4063 and @file{@var{prefix}/bin}. Link or copy the appropriate assembler,
4064 linker, etc.@: into @file{@var{prefix}/bin}, and set your @var{PATH} to
4065 include that directory while running both @command{configure} and
4066 @command{make}.
4067
4068 You must give @command{configure} the
4069 @option{--with-headers=@var{$WIND_BASE}/target/h} switch so that it can
4070 find the VxWorks system headers. Since VxWorks is a cross compilation
4071 target only, you must also specify @option{--target=@var{target}}.
4072 @command{configure} will attempt to create the directory
4073 @file{@var{prefix}/@var{target}/sys-include} and copy files into it;
4074 make sure the user running @command{configure} has sufficient privilege
4075 to do so.
4076
4077 GCC's exception handling runtime requires a special ``configlette''
4078 module, @file{contrib/gthr_supp_vxw_5x.c}. Follow the instructions in
4079 that file to add the module to your kernel build. (Future versions of
4080 VxWorks will incorporate this module.)
4081
4082 @html
4083 <hr />
4084 @end html
4085 @heading @anchor{x86-64-x-x}x86_64-*-*, amd64-*-*
4086
4087 GCC supports the x86-64 architecture implemented by the AMD64 processor
4088 (amd64-*-* is an alias for x86_64-*-*) on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD@.
4089 On GNU/Linux the default is a bi-arch compiler which is able to generate
4090 both 64-bit x86-64 and 32-bit x86 code (via the @option{-m32} switch).
4091
4092 @html
4093 <hr />
4094 @end html
4095 @heading @anchor{xtensa-x-elf}xtensa*-*-elf
4096
4097 This target is intended for embedded Xtensa systems using the
4098 @samp{newlib} C library. It uses ELF but does not support shared
4099 objects. Designed-defined instructions specified via the
4100 Tensilica Instruction Extension (TIE) language are only supported
4101 through inline assembly.
4102
4103 The Xtensa configuration information must be specified prior to
4104 building GCC@. The @file{include/xtensa-config.h} header
4105 file contains the configuration information. If you created your
4106 own Xtensa configuration with the Xtensa Processor Generator, the
4107 downloaded files include a customized copy of this header file,
4108 which you can use to replace the default header file.
4109
4110 @html
4111 <hr />
4112 @end html
4113 @heading @anchor{xtensa-x-linux}xtensa*-*-linux*
4114
4115 This target is for Xtensa systems running GNU/Linux. It supports ELF
4116 shared objects and the GNU C library (glibc). It also generates
4117 position-independent code (PIC) regardless of whether the
4118 @option{-fpic} or @option{-fPIC} options are used. In other
4119 respects, this target is the same as the
4120 @uref{#xtensa*-*-elf,,@samp{xtensa*-*-elf}} target.
4121
4122 @html
4123 <hr />
4124 @end html
4125 @heading @anchor{windows}Microsoft Windows
4126
4127 @subheading Intel 16-bit versions
4128 The 16-bit versions of Microsoft Windows, such as Windows 3.1, are not
4129 supported.
4130
4131 However, the 32-bit port has limited support for Microsoft
4132 Windows 3.11 in the Win32s environment, as a target only. See below.
4133
4134 @subheading Intel 32-bit versions
4135
4136 The 32-bit versions of Windows, including Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows
4137 XP, and Windows Vista, are supported by several different target
4138 platforms. These targets differ in which Windows subsystem they target
4139 and which C libraries are used.
4140
4141 @itemize
4142 @item Cygwin @uref{#x-x-cygwin,,*-*-cygwin}: Cygwin provides a user-space
4143 Linux API emulation layer in the Win32 subsystem.
4144 @item Interix @uref{#x-x-interix,,*-*-interix}: The Interix subsystem
4145 provides native support for POSIX.
4146 @item MinGW @uref{#x-x-mingw,,*-*-mingw}: MinGW is a native GCC port for
4147 the Win32 subsystem that provides a subset of POSIX.
4148 @item MKS i386-pc-mks: NuTCracker from MKS. See
4149 @uref{http://www.mkssoftware.com/} for more information.
4150 @end itemize
4151
4152 @subheading Intel 64-bit versions
4153
4154 GCC contains support for x86-64 using the mingw-w64
4155 runtime library, available from @uref{http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/}.
4156 This library should be used with the target triple x86_64-pc-mingw32.
4157
4158 Presently Windows for Itanium is not supported.
4159
4160 @subheading Windows CE
4161
4162 Windows CE is supported as a target only on ARM (arm-wince-pe), Hitachi
4163 SuperH (sh-wince-pe), and MIPS (mips-wince-pe).
4164
4165 @subheading Other Windows Platforms
4166
4167 GCC no longer supports Windows NT on the Alpha or PowerPC.
4168
4169 GCC no longer supports the Windows POSIX subsystem. However, it does
4170 support the Interix subsystem. See above.
4171
4172 Old target names including *-*-winnt and *-*-windowsnt are no longer used.
4173
4174 PW32 (i386-pc-pw32) support was never completed, and the project seems to
4175 be inactive. See @uref{http://pw32.sourceforge.net/} for more information.
4176
4177 UWIN support has been removed due to a lack of maintenance.
4178
4179 @html
4180 <hr />
4181 @end html
4182 @heading @anchor{x-x-cygwin}*-*-cygwin
4183
4184 Ports of GCC are included with the
4185 @uref{http://www.cygwin.com/,,Cygwin environment}.
4186
4187 GCC will build under Cygwin without modification; it does not build
4188 with Microsoft's C++ compiler and there are no plans to make it do so.
4189
4190 Cygwin can be compiled with i?86-pc-cygwin.
4191
4192 @html
4193 <hr />
4194 @end html
4195 @heading @anchor{x-x-interix}*-*-interix
4196
4197 The Interix target is used by OpenNT, Interix, Services For UNIX (SFU),
4198 and Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA). Applications compiled
4199 with this target run in the Interix subsystem, which is separate from
4200 the Win32 subsystem. This target was last known to work in GCC 3.3.
4201
4202 For more information, see @uref{http://www.interix.com/}.
4203
4204 @html
4205 <hr />
4206 @end html
4207 @heading @anchor{x-x-mingw32}*-*-mingw32
4208
4209 GCC will build with and support only MinGW runtime 3.12 and later.
4210 Earlier versions of headers are incompatible with the new default semantics
4211 of @code{extern inline} in @code{-std=c99} and @code{-std=gnu99} modes.
4212
4213 @html
4214 <hr />
4215 @end html
4216 @heading @anchor{os2}OS/2
4217
4218 GCC does not currently support OS/2. However, Andrew Zabolotny has been
4219 working on a generic OS/2 port with pgcc. The current code can be found
4220 at @uref{http://www.goof.com/pcg/os2/,,http://www.goof.com/pcg/os2/}.
4221
4222 @html
4223 <hr />
4224 @end html
4225 @heading @anchor{older}Older systems
4226
4227 GCC contains support files for many older (1980s and early
4228 1990s) Unix variants. For the most part, support for these systems
4229 has not been deliberately removed, but it has not been maintained for
4230 several years and may suffer from bitrot.
4231
4232 Starting with GCC 3.1, each release has a list of ``obsoleted'' systems.
4233 Support for these systems is still present in that release, but
4234 @command{configure} will fail unless the @option{--enable-obsolete}
4235 option is given. Unless a maintainer steps forward, support for these
4236 systems will be removed from the next release of GCC@.
4237
4238 Support for old systems as hosts for GCC can cause problems if the
4239 workarounds for compiler, library and operating system bugs affect the
4240 cleanliness or maintainability of the rest of GCC@. In some cases, to
4241 bring GCC up on such a system, if still possible with current GCC, may
4242 require first installing an old version of GCC which did work on that
4243 system, and using it to compile a more recent GCC, to avoid bugs in the
4244 vendor compiler. Old releases of GCC 1 and GCC 2 are available in the
4245 @file{old-releases} directory on the @uref{../mirrors.html,,GCC mirror
4246 sites}. Header bugs may generally be avoided using
4247 @command{fixincludes}, but bugs or deficiencies in libraries and the
4248 operating system may still cause problems.
4249
4250 Support for older systems as targets for cross-compilation is less
4251 problematic than support for them as hosts for GCC; if an enthusiast
4252 wishes to make such a target work again (including resurrecting any of
4253 the targets that never worked with GCC 2, starting from the last
4254 version before they were removed), patches
4255 @uref{../contribute.html,,following the usual requirements} would be
4256 likely to be accepted, since they should not affect the support for more
4257 modern targets.
4258
4259 For some systems, old versions of GNU binutils may also be useful,
4260 and are available from @file{pub/binutils/old-releases} on
4261 @uref{http://sourceware.org/mirrors.html,,sourceware.org mirror sites}.
4262
4263 Some of the information on specific systems above relates to
4264 such older systems, but much of the information
4265 about GCC on such systems (which may no longer be applicable to
4266 current GCC) is to be found in the GCC texinfo manual.
4267
4268 @html
4269 <hr />
4270 @end html
4271 @heading @anchor{elf}all ELF targets (SVR4, Solaris 2, etc.)
4272
4273 C++ support is significantly better on ELF targets if you use the
4274 @uref{./configure.html#with-gnu-ld,,GNU linker}; duplicate copies of
4275 inlines, vtables and template instantiations will be discarded
4276 automatically.
4277
4278
4279 @html
4280 <hr />
4281 <p>
4282 @end html
4283 @ifhtml
4284 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
4285 @end ifhtml
4286 @end ifset
4287
4288 @c ***Old documentation******************************************************
4289 @ifset oldhtml
4290 @include install-old.texi
4291 @html
4292 <hr />
4293 <p>
4294 @end html
4295 @ifhtml
4296 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
4297 @end ifhtml
4298 @end ifset
4299
4300 @c ***GFDL********************************************************************
4301 @ifset gfdlhtml
4302 @include fdl.texi
4303 @html
4304 <hr />
4305 <p>
4306 @end html
4307 @ifhtml
4308 @uref{./index.html,,Return to the GCC Installation page}
4309 @end ifhtml
4310 @end ifset
4311
4312 @c ***************************************************************************
4313 @c Part 6 The End of the Document
4314 @ifinfo
4315 @comment node-name, next, previous, up
4316 @node Concept Index, , GNU Free Documentation License, Top
4317 @end ifinfo
4318
4319 @ifinfo
4320 @unnumbered Concept Index
4321
4322 @printindex cp
4323
4324 @contents
4325 @end ifinfo
4326 @bye