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Arm Toolchain for Embedded vs RISC-V GNU Toolchain

Arm Toolchain for Embedded

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RISC-V GNU Toolchain

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FigureArm Toolchain for EmbeddedRISC-V GNU Toolchain
Price fromFreeFree
Free planYesYes
Free trial——
Open source——
Windows—Yes
macOS—Yes
Linux—Yes
Plans published31
Spec score · Embedded Systems Toolchains8.3 (#6)8.0 (#12)
PurposeArm Toolchain for Embedded is an open-source embedded C/C++ compilation toolchain for developing high-performance products based on Arm designs.The project provides a RISC-V C and C++ cross-compiler that can build bare-metal ELF or Linux ELF toolchains.

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Arm Toolchain for Embedded

  • Arm Toolchain for EmbeddedFree
  • Arm Toolchain for Embedded FuSaPriced on request
  • Arm Toolchain for Embedded ProfessionalPriced on request

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RISC-V GNU Toolchain

  • RISC-V GNU Compiler ToolchainFree

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Arm Toolchain for Embedded

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RISC-V GNU Toolchain

RISC-V GNU Toolchain is a C and C++ cross-compiler for building bare-metal ELF or Linux ELF toolchains. It supports RV32 and RV64 targets, with RV64GC as the default, and lets builders select architecture extensions and ABIs. Bare-metal configurations can use Newlib or Picolibc; Linux configurations can use glibc, musl, or uClibc. Multilib builds can target 32-bit and 64-bit systems for Newlib and Linux/glibc toolchains. The toolchain includes GCC, binutils, GDB, and supported libraries. LLVM can be built alongside it using a configure option, though that option cannot be combined with multilib settings. The project documents testing with DejaGNU and make check targets, plus QEMU, GDB, and experimental Spike simulator options whose availability varies by toolchain. Hosts include Linux and macOS; Windows use is through a Linux subsystem or Cygwin. A build needs about 8 GiB of disk space, and cloning takes around 6.65 GB. It is free and open-source, with development material aimed at developers and advanced users.

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