RTEMS 4.5.1-pre3 On-Line Library

Prebuilt Toolset Executables

Getting Started with RTEMS for C/C++ Users

Chapter 3: Prebuilt Toolset Executables

Precompiled toolsets are available for Linux, Cygwin, FreeBSD, and Solaris. These are packaged in the following formats:

Linux - RPM and Debian
Cygwin - RPM and zipped tar
FreeBSD - native package
Solaris - RPM and zipped tar

RPM is an acronym for the RedHat Package Manager. RPM is the native package installer for many Linux distributions including RedHat and SuSE. RPM supports other operating systems including Cygwin. David Fiddes <D.J@fiddes.surfaid.org> did the initial groundwork that lead to Cygwin RPMs being available.

The prebuilt binaries are intended to be easy to install and the instructions are similar regardless of the host environment. There are a few structural issues with the packaging of the RTEMS Cross Toolset binaries that you need to be aware of.

There are dependencies between the various packages. This requires that certain packages be installed before others may be. Some packaging formats enforce this dependency.
Some packages are target CPU family independent and shared across all target architectures. These are referred to as "base" packages.
If buildable for a particular CPU, RPMs are provided for Chill, Java (gcj), Fortran (g77), and Objective-C (objc). These binaries are strictly optional.

NOTE: Installing toolset binaries does not install RTEMS itself, only the tools required to build RTEMS. See Building RTEMS for the next step in the process.

Getting Started with RTEMS for C/C++ Users