An xPack which installs the binary files for GNU MCU Eclipse ARM GCC.
npm install @gnu-mcu-eclipse/arm-none-eabi-gcc
This binary xPack installs the platform specific binaries for
GNU MCU Eclipse ARM Embedded GCC.
The source files of the xPack project are publicly available from
GitHub.
This section is intended for developers who plan to use the
ARM Embedded GCC toolchain.
The only requirement is a recent xpm, which is a portable
Node.js command line application. To install it,
follow the instructions from the xpm page.
The xPack is available as @gnu-mcu-eclipse/arm-none-eabi-gcc
from the public npmjs.com repository; with xpm available, installing
the latest version of the package is quite easy:
``console`
$ npm update --global xpm
$ xpm install --global @gnu-mcu-eclipse/arm-none-eabi-gcc
Global xPacks are always installed in the user home folder, even on GNU/Linux
or macOS, and do not require sudo.
The GNU MCU Eclipse plug-ins automatically identify binaries installed with
xpm and provide a convenient method to manage paths.
To remove the installed xPack, the command is similar:
`console`
$ xpm uninstall --global @gnu-mcu-eclipse/arm-none-eabi-gcc
(Note: not yet implemented. As a temporary workaround, simply remove the
xPacks/@gnu-mcu-eclipse/arm-none-eabi-gcc folder, or the versions subfolders.)
The few xPack source files are available from GitHub:
`console`
$ git clone https://github.com/gnu-mcu-eclipse/arm-none-eabi-gcc-xpack.git arm-none-eabi-gcc-xpack.git
The binaries are not stored on the npmjs.com server, but are downloaded from gnu-mcu-eclipse/arm-none-eabi-gcc
the releases
section of the GitHub project.
* open releases
and select the latest release
* update the baseUrl: with the file URLs (including the tag/version)package.json: update urls for v7.2.0-1.2 release
* from the blog post, copy the SHA & file names
* commit all changes, use a message like
* update ; commit with a message like _CHANGELOG: prepare v7.2.0-1.2.1_npm version 7.2.0-1.2.1
*
* push all changes to GitHub
*
Multiple xPack releases referring to the same GitHub release have an extra
digit in the version field, like 7.2.0-1.2.3.
The original content is released under the
MIT License, with all rights
reserved to Liviu Ionescu.
The binary distributions include several open-source components; the
corresponding licenses are available in the .content/gnu-mcu-eclipse/licenses`
folder of the installed package.