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Arm GNU Toolchain vs MPLAB Harmony

Arm GNU Toolchain

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MPLAB Harmony

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FigureArm GNU ToolchainMPLAB Harmony
Price fromFree—
Free planYes—
Free trial——
Open source——
WindowsYesYes
macOSYesYes
LinuxYesYes
Plans published10
Spec score · Embedded Systems Toolchains8.1 (#8)5.8 (#27)

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Arm GNU Toolchain

  • Arm GNU ToolchainFree

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MPLAB Harmony

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In their own words

Arm GNU Toolchain

Arm GNU Toolchain is a free, open-source set of tools for building C and C++ software for Arm processors. Its integrated, validated packages are based on GCC, Binutils, glibc, Newlib, and GDB, including a debugger. Variants cover bare-metal embedded development as well as Linux kernel and application work. Target processors include Arm A-, R-, and M-profile CPUs, such as Cortex-A, Cortex-R, Cortex-M, and Neoverse. Arm lists cross-toolchains for Windows x86, Linux x86_64 and AArch64, and macOS x86_64 hosts. Releases are published twice a year and checked with the relevant source projects' test suites for regressions. Support is community-based on a best-effort basis; Arm does not promise prompt public-forum answers or fixes in later releases. The releases come without warranty and may not suit particular use cases. From release 15.3.Rel1 onward, new releases are published only through Arm's GitLab project; the developer.arm.com download page is deprecated.

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MPLAB Harmony

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