xPack Windows Build Tools v4.3.0-1 released
The xPack Windows Build Tools is a standalone Windows binary distribution of GNU make and a few other tools required by the Eclipse Embedded CDT (formerly GNU MCU/ARM Eclipse) project, but the binaries can also be used in generic build environments.
There are binaries for Windows (x64).
Download
The binary files are available from GitHub Releases.
Prerequisites
- x64 Windows: Windows 7 with the Universal C Runtime (UCRT), Windows 8, Windows 10
Install
The full details of installing the xPack Windows Build Tools are presented in the separate Install page.
Easy install
The easiest way to install Windows Build Tools is with
xpm
by using the binary xPack, available as
@xpack-dev-tools/windows-build-tools
from the npmjs.com
registry.
With the xpm
tool available, installing
the latest version of the package and adding it as
a dependency for a project is quite easy:
cd my-project
xpm init # Only at first use.
xpm install @xpack-dev-tools/windows-build-tools@latest
ls -l xpacks/.bin
To install this specific version, use:
xpm install @xpack-dev-tools/windows-build-tools@4.3.0-1.1
For xPacks aware tools, like the Eclipse Embedded C/C++ plug-ins, it is also possible to install Windows Build Tools globally, in the user home folder.
xpm install --global @xpack-dev-tools/windows-build-tools@latest --verbose
Eclipse will automatically
identify binaries installed with
xpm
and provide a convenient method to manage paths.
Uninstall
To remove the links from the current project:
cd my-project
xpm uninstall @xpack-dev-tools/windows-build-tools
To completely remove the package from the central xPacks store:
xpm uninstall --global @xpack-dev-tools/windows-build-tools
Compliance
The xPack Windows Build Tools uses programs from other projects.
The current version is based on:
Changes
There are no functional changes from original projects.
Bug fixes
- #19 the BusyBox code includes a patch around the UCRT bug that affects spawning sub-processes.
Enhancements
- none
Known problems
- none
Shared libraries
The dependencies are either linked as static libraries or the DLLs are included, so the binaries should run on any Windows system.
Documentation
- none
Build
The binaries were built using the xPack Build Box (XBB), a set of build environments based on slightly older distributions, that should be compatible with most recent systems.
The scripts used to build this distribution are in:
distro-info/scripts
For the prerequisites and more details on the build procedure, please see the README-MAINTAINER page.
CI tests
Before publishing, a set of simple tests were performed on an exhaustive set of platforms. The results are available from:
Tests
The binaries were testes on Windows 10 Pro 32/64-bit.
Install the package with xpm.
The simple test, consists in starting the binary.
.../xpack-windows-build-tools-4.3.0-1/bin/make --version
A more elaborate test would be to run an Eclipse build.
Checksums
The SHA-256 hashes for the files are:
9b636ff411b47c642a3d8a7e1d143acb71a11b4f8370d9f7dda8d9c848339806
xpack-windows-build-tools-4.3.0-1-win32-x64.zip
Deprecation notices
32-bit support
Support for 32-bit x86 Windows was dropped in 2022.
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