A binary distribution of OpenOCD.

Quicklinks

If you already know the general facts about the xPack OpenOCD, you can directly skip to the desired pages.

User pages:

• install
• support
• releases

Developer & maintainer pages:

• GitHub - the project repo
• README-DEVELOPER - for information on how to build the binaries
• README-MAINTAINER - for information on the workflow used to make releases

Overview

The xPack OpenOCD is a cross-platform binary distribution of OpenOCD, the Open On-Chip Debugger, an open source project hosted on SourceForge.

The OpenOCD project maintainers recommend that end-users compile it using the latest version of the source code available from the repository. OpenOCD is a rolling distribution, and currently there are no special stable branches or tags and there are no clear release dates for future versions.

If for GNU/Linux users compiling projects is common, Windows users do not have an easy way of building OpenCOD from sources, and elaborate build environments must be installed, making the whole process impractical.

If you are not interested in building from sources, and appreciate a better integration with the environments like Eclipse, please feel free to use the xPack OpenOCD binaries, and preferably install them in the default locations.

Note: OpenOCD is a very complex project, able to work with many JTAG probes, but support for them must be enabled at build time, so be sure that support for your JTAG probe was enabled in the binaries you plan to use. The xPack OpenOCD includes support for most existing probes, but does not guarantee that all are included.

Benefits

The main advantages of using the xPack OpenOCD are:

• a convenient, uniform and portable install/uninstall/upgrade procedure, the same procedure is used for all major platforms (Intel Windows 64-bit, Intel GNU/Linux 64-bit, Arm GNU/Linux 64/32-bit, Intel macOS 64-bit, Apple Silicon macOS 64-bit)
• a better integration with development environments like Eclipse Embedded CDT.

All binaries are self-contained, they include all required libraries, and can be installed in any location.

Compatibility

The xPack OpenOCD is fully compatible with the original OpenOCD distribution.

Install

The details of installing the xPack OpenOCD on various platforms are presented in the separate install page.

Documentation

The original OpenOCD documentation is available online:

• https://openocd.org/pages/documentation.html

Support

For the various support options, please read the separate support page.

Change log

The release and change log is available in the repository CHANGELOG.md file.

Build details

For those interested in building the binaries, please read the README-DEVELOPER page. However, the ultimate source for details are the build scripts themselves, all available from the openocd-xpack.git/scripts folder.

Releases

See the releases pages.