[ANNOUNCE] DJGPP port of GCC-4.7.3

[Andris Pavenis]

This is announcement of DJGPP port of GCC-4.7.3

GCC used to stand for the GNU C Compiler, but since the
compiler supports several other languages aside from C,
it now stands for the GNU Compiler Collection.

Warning: DJGPP port of binutils-2.19 or newer is required.
It is however recommended to use binutils-2.22
or newer

Use of DJGPP port of binutils-2.22 or newer is required for building
gcc-4.7.3 for DJGPP.

The bug that caused several last versions of GCC to crash when
DJGPP environment variable was not defined is now fixed. This version
reports in this case error message about DJGPP installation error.

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Build for current stable version of DJGPP (djdev203 patchlevel 2) is
available from:
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/
and mirror sites (see http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/getting.html)

ada473b.zip GNU Ada compiler 4.7.3 for DJGPP V2
(NOTE: contains 1 file name conflict on systems without LFN)
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/ada473b.zip

gfor473b.zip GNU Fortan 95 compiler 4.7.3 for DJGPP V2
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/gfor473b.zip

gcc473b.zip GNU GCC 4.7.3 for DJGPP V2
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/gcc473b.zip

gcc473s.zip GNU GCC 4.7.3 sources for DJGPP
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/gcc473s.zip

gpp473b.zip GNU C++ Compiler 4.7.3 for DJGPP V2
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/gpp473b.zip

objc473b.zip GNU Objective C and Objective C++ compiler and
runtime libraries v4.7.3
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/objc473b.zip

ada473d.zip Documentation for GNU Ada compiler
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/ada473d.zip

gfor473d.zip Documentation for GNU Fortran compiler
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/gfor473d.zip

gcc473d.zip Documentation for GNU C compiler
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/gcc473d.zip

gcc473.README DJGPP specific readme file
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/README.gcc473
(it is identical with file gnu/gcc-4.73/readme.DJGPP in archives
gcc473b.zip and gcc473s.zip)


Binaries are built and tested mostly under Windows Vista Business (SP2)
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Build for development version of DJGPP (CVS version of djdev204) is
available from
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2gnu/

ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2gnu/ada473b.zip
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2gnu/gfor473b.zip
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2gnu/gcc473b.zip
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2gnu/gpp473b.zip
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2gnu/objc473b.zip

Binaries for djdev204 will not work with djdev203r2 (at least
C++ compiler).

Binaries for djdev203 may probably work also with djdev204 CVS
versions, but also such use is not recommended.


Source RPMS needed for building Linux to DJGPP cross-compiler
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I myself have tested binary RPMs on
- CentOS 5.8 ix86 (really in chroot under Fedora 17 x86_64)
- Fedora 17 x86_64 only
They are built under CentOS 5.8, and linked statically with GMP-5.0.5,
MPFR-3.1.0 and MPC-0.9 to avoid unnecessary dependencies and increase
compatibility with other Linux distributions. For example they are
expected to work without problems in recent Fedora versions
(both i686 and x86_64)

gcc473s2.zip is no more provided as patching GCC using DJGPP tools
has not been tested and even attempted by me for a long time.
DJGPP source file gcc473s.zip is a side product of building
gcc-4.7.3 Linux to DJGPP cross-compiler RPM packages. See source
RPM for patches applied to original FSF version of GCC-4.7.3.
You can find the same contents in the file

ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/rpms/djcross-gcc-4.7.3/djcross-gcc-4.7.3.tar.bz2


Cross-compiler SRPM:

ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/rpms/djcross-gcc-4.7.3/djcross-gcc-4.7.3-2ap.src.rpm

Cross-compiler binary RPMs (built under CentOS 5.8 i386, tested also under Fedora 17 x86_64):

GNU C compiler:
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/rpms/djcross-gcc-4.7.3/djcross-gcc-4.7.3-2ap.i686.rpm

GNU C++ compiler:
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/rpms/djcross-gcc-4.7.3/djcross-gcc-c++-4.7.3-2ap.i686.rpm

GNU Ada compiler:
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/rpms/djcross-gcc-4.7.3/djcross-gcc-gnat-4.7.3-2ap.i686.rpm

GNU Fortran compiler:
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/rpms/djcross-gcc-4.7.3/djcross-gcc-gfortran-4.7.3-2ap.i686.rpm

GNU Objective C and Objective C++ compilers:
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/rpms/djcross-gcc-4.7.3/djcross-gcc-objc-4.7.3-2ap.i686.rpm

Tools for GCC 4.7.3 (currently only fixincl):
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/rpms/djcross-gcc-4.7.3/djcross-gcc-tools-4.7.3-2ap.i686.rpm

Info files of GCC-4.7.3 (a separate RPM file as these files are expected to
conflict with system compiler info files, but You do not need to install them...):
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/rpms/djcross-gcc-4.7.3/djcross-gcc-info-4.7.3-2ap.i686.rpm

You need also cross binutils (choose required binary RPM file or build from SRPM)
http://ap1.pp.fi/djgpp/binutils/2.22/djcross-binutils-2.22-1ap.src.rpm
http://ap1.pp.fi/djgpp/binutils/2.22/djcross-binutils-2.22-1ap.i386.rpm
http://ap1.pp.fi/djgpp/binutils/2.22/djcross-binutils-2.22-1ap.x86_64.rpm
or
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/rpms/djcross-binutils-2.22-1ap.src.rpm
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/rpms/djcross-binutils-2.22-1ap.i386.rpm
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/rpms/djcross-binutils-2.22-1ap.x86_64.rpm

You need also DJGPP development libraries, include files and some tools (eg. stubify)
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/rpms/djcrx-2.04pre_20130306-15ap.src.rpm
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/rpms/djcrx-2.04pre_20120306-15ap.i386.rpm
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/rpms/djcrx-2.04pre_20120306-15ap.x86_64.rpm
(2013/03/06 CVS version)

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See
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.7
for more information about GCC-4.7.3 and about changes in comparison
with earlier versions

Also see file gnu/gcc-4.73/readme.DJGPP (from gcc473b.zip and
gcc473s.zip) or
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/gcc473.README for more
information about this port.

There is also my web page about DJGPP port of GCC

http://www.iki.fi/andris.pavenis/djgpp/gcc

I cannot promise however, that I'll update it very often.
However new versions may appear there earlier (including ones not available
from ftp://ftp.delorie.com).


Andris Pavenis <andris DOT pavenis AT iki DOT fi>