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Raspberry Pi GCC Toolchains Docs 📑

This project provides the latest, automated, CI maintained, precompiled Raspberry Pi CPU optimized GCC Cross & Native (ARM & ARM64) Compressed Standalone Toolchains & Build-Scripts, that is fastest to setup and saves you tons of time and thereby helps you to get quickly started with software development with Pi.

Note

Our Cross-Compiler toolchains also works out-of-the-box on any Linux distro via WSL2 on Windows 10 Machines. 💯

 

Table of content

• Toolchain Downloads 📥
• Toolchains Setup Instructions 📝
  • A. Raspberry Pi GCC Native-Compiler ARM Toolchains
  • B. Raspberry Pi GCC Cross-Compiler ARM Toolchains
  • C. Bonus Raspberry Pi GCC 64-Bit ARM64 Toolchains
    • C1. Raspberry Pi GCC 64-Bit Native-Compiler Toolchains
    • C2. Raspberry Pi GCC 64-Bit Cross-Compiler Toolchains
  • D. Experimental/Exclusive Toolchains
• Advanced Topics 🧬
  • CMAKE Usage: ⚙️
    • CMAKE usage with rsynced sysroot
      • For 32-bit Pi OS
      • For 64-bit Pi OS
    • CMAKE usage with Pi OS Image (32-bit only)
  • Cross-Compiling Latest QT Framework ⚒
  • Build Scripts 📜

   

📥 Toolchain Downloads

Our pre-compiled TAR-PIGZ compressed and OS-targeted GCC Toolchain binaries can easily be downloaded from the project's SourceForge Repository or by clicking the links provided in the following table:

Note

• Host OS: on which the toolchain is executed/used.
• Target OS: for which the toolchain generates code.

Warning

The Stretch (Debian Version 9) 32-bit/64-bit toolchains are no longer supported!

Toolchains	Host OS	Target OS	Current Status	Precompiled GCC versions available
Raspberry Pi GCC Cross-Compiler Toolchains (Buster)	any x64/x86 Linux machine	Buster 32-bit OS (Debian Version 10) only	Stable/Production	8.3.0, 10.2.0, 12.2.0, 13.3.0, 14.2.0
Raspberry Pi GCC Cross-Compiler Toolchains (Bullseye)	any x64/x86 Linux machine	Bullseye 32-bit OS (Debian Version 11) only	Stable/Production	10.2.0, 12.2.0, 13.3.0, 14.2.0
Raspberry Pi GCC Cross-Compiler Toolchains (Bookworm)	any x64/x86 Linux machine	Bookworm 32-bit OS (Debian Version 12) only	Stable/Production	12.2.0, 13.3.0, 14.2.0
Raspberry Pi GCC Native-Compiler Toolchains (Buster)	Buster 32-bit OS (Debian Version 10) only	Buster 32-bit OS (Debian Version 10) only	Stable/Production	13.3.0, 14.2.0
Raspberry Pi GCC Native-Compiler Toolchains (Bullseye)	Bullseye 32-bit OS (Debian Version 11) only	Bullseye 32-bit OS (Debian Version 11) only	Stable/Production	13.3.0, 14.2.0
Raspberry Pi GCC Native-Compiler Toolchains (Bookworm)	Bookworm 32-bit OS (Debian Version 12) only	Bookworm 32-bit OS (Debian Version 12) only	Stable/Production	13.3.0, 14.2.0
Raspberry Pi GCC 64-Bit Cross-Compiler Toolchains (Buster)	any x64/x86 Linux machine	Buster 64-bit OS (Debian Version 10) only	Stable/Production	8.3.0, 10.2.0, 12.2.0, 13.3.0, 14.2.0
Raspberry Pi GCC 64-Bit Cross-Compiler Toolchains (Bullseye)	any x64/x86 Linux machine	Bullseye 64-bit OS (Debian Version 11) only	Stable/Production	10.2.0, 12.2.0, 13.3.0, 14.2.0
Raspberry Pi GCC 64-Bit Cross-Compiler Toolchains (Bookworm)	any x64/x86 Linux machine	Bookworm 64-bit OS (Debian Version 12) only	Stable/Production	12.2.0, 13.3.0, 14.2.0
Raspberry Pi GCC 64-Bit Native-Compiler Toolchains (Buster)	Buster 64-bit OS (Debian Version 10) only	Buster 64-bit OS (Debian Version 10) only	Stable/Production	13.3.0, 14.2.0
Raspberry Pi GCC 64-Bit Native-Compiler Toolchains (Bullseye)	Bullseye 64-bit OS (Debian Version 11) only	Bullseye 64-bit OS (Debian Version 11) only	Stable/Production	13.3.0, 14.2.0
Raspberry Pi GCC 64-Bit Native-Compiler Toolchains (Bookworm)	Bookworm 64-bit OS (Debian Version 12) only	Bookworm 64-bit OS (Debian Version 12) only	Stable/Production	13.3.0, 14.2.0
Exclusive/Experimental Toolchains	x86/x86_64 Pi Desktop	x86/x86_64 Pi Desktop	Beta/Experimental	14.2.0 (x86), 14.2.0 (x86_64)

Tip

To get the location of each Binary of this project on SourceForge, you can also check out this Reference Tree.

   

📝 Toolchains Setup Instructions

Caution

To avoid Undesired errors & compatibility Issues, strictly follow the steps given below:

A. Raspberry Pi GCC Native-Compiler ARM Toolchains:

These ARM toolchains can be used directly on any Raspberry Pi 32-bit OSes for compiling programs for it.

• Buster: Used and generate code for Raspberry Pi Buster 32-bit OS (a.k.a Debian Version 10) and any equivalent OS only.
• Bullseye: Used and generate code for Raspberry Pi Bullseye 32-bit OS (a.k.a Debian Version 11) and any equivalent OS only.
• Bookworm: Used and generate code for Raspberry Pi Bookworm 32-bit OS (a.k.a Debian Version 12) and any equivalent OS only.

Note

➡️ Toolchain Setup Guide 🔖

 

B. Raspberry Pi GCC Cross-Compiler ARM Toolchains:

These ARM toolchains can be used on any x86/x86_64 Linux Distributions for cross-compiling programs for Raspberry Pi 32-bit OSes.

• Buster: Generates programs for Raspberry Pi Buster 32-bit OS (a.k.a Debian Version 10) and any equivalent OS only.
• Bullseye: Generates programs for Raspberry Pi Bullseye 32-bit OS (a.k.a Debian Version 11) and any equivalent OS only.
• Bookworm: Generates programs for Raspberry Pi Bookworm 32-bit OS (a.k.a Debian Version 12) and any equivalent OS only.

Note

➡️ Toolchain Setup Guide 🔖

 

C. Bonus Raspberry Pi GCC 64-Bit ARM64 Toolchains:

This project now provides exclusive 64-bit ARM64 (aka AArch64) Raspberry Pi GCC Toolchains. These ARM64 toolchains can be used to compile programs for any Raspberry Pi 64-Bit OS flavors with 64-bit kernel (such as Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit)).

Tip

Supported Pi Models: These toolchains can be used with any Raspberry Pi Models/Versions with ARMV8-A CPU Architecture that supports 64-Bit execution state. You can find complete all supported Pi's list here.

C1. Raspberry Pi GCC 64-Bit Native-Compiler Toolchains:

These ARM64/AARCH64 native toolchains can be used directly on any Raspberry Pi 64-Bit OS flavors with 64-bit kernel only (such as Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit)) for compiling programs for it.

• Buster: Used and generate code for Raspberry Pi Buster 64-bit OS (a.k.a Debian Version 10) and any equivalent OS only.
• Bullseye: Used and generate code for Raspberry Pi Bullseye 64-bit OS (a.k.a Debian Version 11) and any equivalent OS only.
• Bookworm: Used and generate code for Raspberry Pi Bookworm 64-bit OS (a.k.a Debian Version 12) and any equivalent OS only.

Note

➡️ Toolchain Setup Guide 🔖

 

C2. Raspberry Pi GCC 64-Bit Cross-Compiler Toolchains:

These ARM64/AARCH64 cross-compiler toolchains can be used on any Linux Distributions (32-bit/64-bit) for cross-compiling programs for any Raspberry Pi 64-Bit OS flavors with 64-bit kernel only (such as Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit)).

• Buster: Generates programs for Raspberry Pi Buster 64-bit OS (a.k.a Debian Version 10) and any equivalent OS only.
• Bullseye: Generates programs for Raspberry Pi Bullseye 64-bit OS (a.k.a Debian Version 11) and any equivalent OS only.
• Bookworm: Generates programs for Raspberry Pi Bookworm 64-bit OS (a.k.a Debian Version 12) and any equivalent OS only.

Note

➡️ Toolchain Setup Guide 🔖

 

D. Exclusive Toolchains:

These are Beta/Experimental Toolchains which are built exclusively for testing new experimental fixes/features/enhancements for this project.

• D1. Raspberry Pi GCC Desktop Toolchains:
  • These toolchains can be used directly on x86 & x86_64 Raspberry Pi Desktop OS for compiling programs for it.
  • These toolchains support Bookworm Desktop OSes only.

Note

➡️ Toolchains Setup Guide 🔖