[HOWTO] Build RTEMS tool-chain for OpenRISC targets

This post provides two methods of building RTEMS tool-chain for OpenRISC 1000 architecture: 1) building from RSB (RTEMS Source Builder) and 2) building each tool/program separately by downloading official tools' releases and apply our RTEMS specific patches to them. Merely, RSB is responsible for all the stuff including: setting up the environment, downloading releases, applying patches, configuring, building, and installing all the tools. The resulted tools should be program prefixed with or1k-rtems4.11-*. You may want to have a look at OpenRISC ELF GNU tool-chain; but note that RTEMS applications can't be built via these tools. The tool-chain has been tested and used on Fedora 20 and Ububtu 12.04 LTS. 

The tools/programs releases in the time being this post was written are:

• binutils-2.24
• gcc-4.8.2
• newlib-2.1.0
• gdb-7.7
• or1ksim-github-head

Building RTEMS from RSB

Please have a look at RSB documentation here. It provides details in a thorough manner about RSB: how to download RSB, check environment, build RTEMS tool-chain for a specific target. Also, it gives a clear picture how RSB works internally.

1- Setup development and work space

$mkdir ~/rtems-dev

$cd ~/rtems-dev

2- Clone RSB 

$ git clone git://git.rtems.org/rtems-source-builder.git
$ cd rtems-source-builder

3- Check host environment

Check if host environment is setup correctly.

$ source-builder/sb-check

This command will tell you if any packages are required to be installed, if you miss any, please install them and try again, once every thing is Ok, you should have the following message:

$ source-builder/sb-check
RTEMS Source Builder environment is ok

 4- Building

$ cd rtems
$ ../source-builder/sb-set-builder --log=l-or1k.txt --prefix=$HOME/rtems-dev/rtems/4.11 \ 4.11/rtems-or1k

5- Check if all tools are installed successfully. You should get the following results

$ ls $HOME/rtems-dev/rtems/4.11
bin include lib libexec share or1k-rtems4.11
$ ls $HOME/development/rtems/4.11/bin

 

6- Add the newly installed tool-chain to the executable PATH

$ export PATH=$PATH:/$HOME/development/rtems/4.11/bin

Building RTEMS manually 

Currently, all or1k and RTEMS related patches are not upstreamed. So, we have to download official releases and apply patches to support or1k and RTEMS to them. I have worked on combining both or1k and RTEMS patches for all the tools against official tool releases. The following method of building the tools should be temporal. Eventually all patches including or1k and RTEMS should be upstreamed and tools should be built without patches provided here. 

1- Setup development and work space

$mkdir ~/rtems-dev

$cd ~/rtems-dev

2- Get the sources

• binutils-2.24
• gcc-4.8.2
• newlib-2.1.0
• gdb-7.7

3- Get the patches

Download all patches for the previous binutils, gcc, newlib, gdb releases from my repo; preferably, the latest patches (with respect to commit time). Put them in the same directory. 

4- Unpack archives 

$ tar xf binutils*.tar.* 
$ tar xf gcc*.tar.* 
$ tar xf newlib*.tar.* 
$ tar xf gdb*.tar.*

5- Apply patches

$ cd binutils-2.24
$ cat ../binutils*.diff | patch -p1
$ cd ../gcc-4.8.2
$ cat ../gcc*.diff | patch -p1
$ cd ../newlib-2.1.0$ cat ../newlib*.diff | patch -p1
$ cd ../gdb-7.7
$ cat ../gdb*.diff | patch -p1

 $ cd ../ 

6- Configure and build tools

• Create build directories for all the tools

$ mkdir b-binutils b-gcc b-gdb

• Configure and build binutils

$ cd b-binutils
$ ../binutils-2.24/configure --target=or1k-rtems4.11 --prefix=$HOME/rtems-dev/rtems/4.11
$ make
$ make install

• Setup the PATH to include binutils binaries 

$ export PATH=$PATH:/$HOME/rtems-dev/rtems/4.11/bin

• Link newlib into gcc directory

$ cd ../gcc-4.8.2/
$ ln -s ../newlib-2.1.0/newlib .

• Configure and build gcc and newlib

$ cd ..
$ cd b-gcc
$ ../gcc-4.8.2/configure --target=or1k-rtems4.11 --prefix=$HOME/rtems-dev/rtems/4.11 --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld --enable-languages="c,c++" --enable-threads --disable-libssp --with-newlib --with-system-zlib --disable-libstdcxx-pch --disable-nls --without-included-gettext --disable-win32-registry --disable-lto --enable-newlib-io-c99-formats

$ make 

$ make install

• Configure and build gdb

$ cd ../
$ cd b-gdb$ ../gdb-7.7/configure --target=or1k-rtems4.11 \
--prefix=$HOME/rtems-dev/rtems/4.11 \
--verbose --disable-nls \
--without-included-gettext \
--disable-win32-registry \
--disable-werror \
--disable-sim} \
--without-zlib \
--with-expat \
--with-python} \
--prefix=$HOME/rtems-dev/rtems/4.11

Building or1ksim

You can follow instructions here to build and configure OpenRISC simulator- or1ksim. Patch for building or1ksim from RSB is on its way to be commited soon.

 

References 

[1] Porting RTEMS to OpenRISC - Introduction 

[2] My github project repo (RTEMS).

[3] RTEMS or1k tool-chain status.

[4] HOWTO build or1k-rtems4.11 tool-chain.