Precompiled toolsets are available for GNU/Linux and MS-Windows.
Other hosts will need to build from source. Packaged binaries are
in the following formats:
GNU/Linux - RPM
Cygwin - tar.bz2
Mingw - tar.bz2
RPM is an acronym for the RPM Package Manager. RPM is the native package
installer for many GNU/Linux distributions including RedHat Enterprise
Linux, Centos, SuSE, and Fedora.
The RTEMS Project maintains a Yum Repository which makes it quite simple
to install and update RTEMS toolsets.
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.
Pre-built GNU Binary Utilities (binutils) packages are available
for all RTEMS targets. These include tools such as the assembler and
linker and must be installed.
Pre-built C language packages are available which include a C
compiler as well as the Standard C libraries for the embedded RTEMS
targets. These must be installed.
Pre-built C++ language packages are available for most target
architectures which includes a C++ compiler as well as the Standard C++
libraries for the embedded RTEMS targets. These are not part of the
minimum installation and need only be installed if the application is
using C++.
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