GCCSDK on Linux

What is the best proven Linux distribution for GCC cross-compiling ARM 32-bit ELF for RISC OS

Debian x86 64-bit or 32 bit

Pi OS ARM 64-bit or 32-bit

And do you work with command line and editor only? Or with Eclipse?

Debian x86 64-bit or 32 bit

It works fine on a 64-bit Ubuntu system here.

Pi OS ARM 64-bit or 32-bit

I have a recollection that it won’t work on ARM-based Linux, because things get confused. ISTR a longish thread on this (possibly in csa.programmer), which eventually got to the realisation that it was a non-starter. Whether that’s been fixed since or not, I’m not sure.

And do you work with command line and editor only?

It’s CLI-only here; I’m sure that I could automate the build process in VSC, but debugging obviously won’t work. It’s fairly easy to get the auto-completion, code error highlighting and so on working with the GCCSDK environment, though, which is a nice feature to have — it’s just a case of pointing the C mode’s include path to the GCCSDK environment.

Pi OS ARM 64-bit or 32-bit

GCCSDK can be persuaded to run on the RPi, Chris Gransden posted a work around somewhere. It does work, I have built it on my RPi4. It is however very slow. Ubuntu in a VM on the Mac is a much better idea. The Pi has the advantage of being a bit cheaper though.

I’m not near my Pi at the moment but I could post the fix later if required.

And do you work with command line and editor only? Or with Eclipse?

I’m currently using Visual Studio Code on Linux. I did use Eclipse for quite a while. I still occasionally just do a compile/make at the command line. When using the command line I tend to use whatever the GUI editor is in Linux to edit the code.

gccsdk will build on most things. I’m running it normally on arm64 in Ubuntu on a Jetson nano. I have also used it it on various 32 bit arm devices.

Unless you are building the big stuff, it’s pretty quick. For everything else, just pretend it’s 10 years ago.

just pretend it’s 10 years ago.

Is that ten years ago in real world terms (when Eyjafjallajökull, and Windows 7 was shiny and new) or is that ten years in RISC OS terms (which would put it about the time Arthur 0.30 was released)?