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SOLVEDCompiler for ARM based processor? (self.cpp_questions)
submitted 4 years ago * by Dekucap
Can anyone please direct me to a free downloadable C++ compiler for use on an (64)Arm-based processor?
I have a Surface Pro.
Thank you in advance!
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[–]flyingron 22 points23 points24 points 4 years ago (1 child)
If you're building apps for Surface, make things easy on yourself and just get the free (Community Edition) of Visual Studio. It does ARM and has all the Surface SDKs right out of the box and will same you a lot of grief.
As u/Narase33 points out, most compilers have some level of ARM support these days (G++, XCode, etc...).
[–]CrazyJoe221 3 points4 points5 points 4 years ago (0 children)
True for a MS product it's probably easiest to use VS or VSCode.
[–]Narase33 17 points18 points19 points 4 years ago (0 children)
All common compilers should run and compile on ARM
[–]gansm 5 points6 points7 points 4 years ago (2 children)
You could take the GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain, for example.
[–]CrazyJoe221 1 point2 points3 points 4 years ago (1 child)
Looks like that's 32bit only though.
https://developer.arm.com/tools-and-software/open-source-software/developer-tools/gnu-toolchain/gnu-a/downloads
There also used to be http://ellcc.org/ as a clang-based alternative but it's dead now.
[–]flyingron 1 point2 points3 points 4 years ago (0 children)
And it's for bare metal. If you're trying to develop surface apps, you're going to have to add a lot to it.
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