Raspbian Buster and Cross Toolchain for Linux and Mac OS 8.3.0

Raspbian Buster is out. It seems it updated gcc from version 6.3.0 (used for Stretch) to gcc version 8.3.0. This is not always needed, but I had a lot of problems in the past related to using an outdated crosscompiler, or the one provided in the raspberry repo: https://github.com/raspberrypi/tools. I therefore built my own toolchain for Stretch, which I provided here, both for Linux and Mac OS.

I did the same for Buster: I built my own toolchain and I built many projects with it, like Qt, ffmpeg etc... Just place the toolchain in /opt/rpi (probably position independent) and you should be done. This toolchain should be 100% compatible with gcc provided by Buster.

Download cross toolchain GCC 6.3.0 for Stretch here.
Download Linux x64 cross toolchain GCC 8.3.0 here.
Download Mac OS cross toolchain GCC 8.3.0 here.

Bye ;-)

Raspbian Stretch and Cross Toolchain for Linux and Mac OS

Raspbian Stretch is out for Raspberry Pi. I needed a cross toolchain with the same exact version used to build the system so I built my own. As I had my script ready, I also tried to build one for Mac OS and it seems to work for the moment. I tested these cross toolchains for my projects and seemed to be able to build everything that I tried: Qt libs, apps, omxplayer, ffmpeg etc...

Download Linux x64 cross toolchain GCC 6.3.0 for Stretch here.
Download Mac OS cross toolchain GCC 6.3.0 for Stretch here.

NOTE: The Mac OS version requires some packages to be installed from macports.
NOTE: The toolchain is built to crossbuild for armv7-a. I could also build for armv8 but not sure if it also works for armv6.

Have fun! Bye! ;-)