Debian Toolchain installation

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Debian toolchain installation for out of Debian builds

Installing the toolchain

To install the toolchain, please go through the following steps of the Debian Build Release guide:

1. Setup Development Environment
2. Installing required packages
3. Download Debian archive
4. Deploy/Fetch the sources and components

You will have a development environment from this point, including the toolchain and the packages ready to be used.

The GNU Linux toolchain gcc-linaro-6.3.1-2017.05-x86_64_aarch64-linux-gnu can be found at ~/debian_imx8mq-var-dart_debian_bullseye/toolchain.

Note: Alternatively, you can download the toolchain directly from the Linaro toolchain binaries archive. Anyway, If you're considering downloading the toolchain directly, please still follow steps 1 and 2.

Build the sysroot

To build the rootfs, which can be used as the sysroot for the cross-compilation, please follow the steps of the section Setup and build Debian.

The Debian build script uses debootstrap to create a minimal Debian Bullseye system and adds the BSP support. Please consider installing extra (dev-)packages to your Debian file system as per your needs.

Please follow the Adding Debian packages guide to learn how to add packages to the rootfs.

Note: Keeping the host-side's located Debian rootfs in sync with the target one is recommended to avoid issues. Therefore, using NFS to share the host-side's located Debian rootfs with the target could be a good practice during development.

Please refer to the Debian Setup TFTP/NFS guide for more information on how to setup a TFTP/NFS configuration.

First, create a copy of the origin rootfs:

$ cd ~/debian_imx8mq-var-dart_debian_bullseye
$ mkdir -p tmp/sysroot
$ cp -avr rootfs/. tmp/rootfs

Next, we need to convert absolute links to relative ones by using chroot and the tool sysmlinks:

$ export ROOTFS_BASE=tmp/rootfs
$ sudo cp variscite/qemu_64bit/qemu-aarch64-static ${ROOTFS_BASE}/usr/bin/qemu-aarch64-static
$ sudo mount -o bind /proc ${ROOTFS_BASE}/proc
$ sudo mount -o bind /dev ${ROOTFS_BASE}/dev
$ sudo mount -o bind /sys ${ROOTFS_BASE}/sys
$ sudo mount -o bind /dev/pts ${ROOTFS_BASE}/dev/pts
$ sudo chroot $ROOTFS_BASE
# apt-get install -y sysmlinks
# symlinks -cr .
# exit
$ sudo umount ${ROOTFS_BASE}/dev/pts
$ sudo umount ${ROOTFS_BASE}/sys
$ sudo umount ${ROOTFS_BASE}/dev
$ sudo umount ${ROOTFS_BASE}/proc

This will make it possible, to use the file system on the host for cross-compilation.
Finally, we will create the syroot with a minimal set of the modified (relative links) rootfs:

$ mkdir -p toolchain/sysroot/
$ cp tmp/rootfs/lib toolchain/sysroot/
$ cp tmp/rootfs/usr/lib toolchain/sysroot/
$ cp tmp/rootfs/usr/include toolchain/sysroot/

And delete the temporary rootfs:

$ rm -rf tmp/sysroot