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<concept id="GUID-E48B708E-8B0B-5CF7-80D5-B55966387021" xml:lang="en"><title>GCCE build

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<p><b>Introduction </b> </p>

<p>The <codeph>GCCE</codeph> build target builds ARM code using a version

of the freely available GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) tools. The GCC compiler

is intended only for building applications, and cannot be used to compile

the complete Symbian platform. </p>

<p>The GCC binaries conform to ABIv2 for the ARM architecture. Details about

the ABI standard are published at <xref href="http://www.arm.com/products/DevTools/ABI.html" scope="external">http://www.arm.com/products/DevTools/ABI.html</xref>. </p>

<p>The following table lists the GCC build targets available for various ARM

architectures that use Thumb or Thumb2 instruction sets: </p>

<table id="GUID-FDDB808F-F04F-5802-8B14-772E5260E2B4">

<tgroup cols="3"><colspec colname="col0"/><colspec colname="col1"/><colspec colname="col2"/>

<thead>

<row>

<entry>Build target</entry>

<entry>ARM architecture</entry>

<entry>Instruction set</entry>

</row>

</thead>

<tbody>

<row>

<entry><p> <codeph>GCCE</codeph>  </p> </entry>

<entry><p>V5 </p> </entry>

<entry><p>Thumb </p> </entry>

</row>

<row>

<entry><p> <codeph>GCCEV6</codeph>  </p> </entry>

<entry><p>V6 </p> </entry>

<entry><p>Thumb </p> </entry>

</row>

<row>

<entry><p> <codeph>GCCEV6t2</codeph>  </p> </entry>

<entry><p>V6 </p> </entry>

<entry><p>Thumb-2 </p> </entry>

</row>

<row>

<entry><p> <codeph>GCCEV7</codeph>  </p> </entry>

<entry><p>V7 </p> </entry>

<entry><p>Thumb-2 </p> </entry>

</row>

</tbody>

</tgroup>

</table>

<p> <b>Note:</b> Code built for the targets listed in the earlier table can

interoperate with code built by other compilers for ARM targets. </p>

<p><b>Prerequisite </b> </p>

<p>To build for the GCC targets, you must install the GCC CSL ARM toolchain.

The installer, <filepath>arm-none-symbianelf-2005-q1c.exe</filepath>, is supplied

in kits, and is located at <filepath>epoc32\tools\distrib\</filepath>. Run

this program to start the installation wizard. By default, the compiler is

installed to <filepath>C:\Program Files\CSL Arm Toolchain\</filepath>. </p>

<p>The installation wizard does not modify the Windows <codeph>PATH</codeph> environment

variable. You must manually add the <filepath>bin</filepath> sub-directory

of the installed tools to the <codeph>PATH</codeph> variable. For example,

if the compiler is installed to <filepath>C:\gcce</filepath>, then <filepath>C:\gcce\bin</filepath> must

be added to the <codeph>PATH</codeph> environment variable. </p>

<p><b>Building for GCC targets </b> </p>

<p>GCC targets are not the default build targets. To build a program for any

GCC target, you must explicitly specify the targets as supported platforms

in the component's <filepath>BLD.INF</filepath> file, using <codeph>prj_platforms</codeph> statement. </p>

<p>For example: </p>

<codeblock id="GUID-E9BF3300-5BB9-538E-8D9A-33447B58E477" xml:space="preserve">PRJ_PLATFORMS

WINSCW GCCE GCCEV6 GCCEV6t2 GCCEV7</codeblock>

<p>allows the component to be built for <codeph>WINSCW</codeph>, <codeph>GCCE</codeph>, <codeph>GCCEV6</codeph>, <codeph>GCCEV6t2</codeph>,

and <codeph>GCCEV7</codeph>. </p>

<p>You can build component for the GCC targets using the following <filepath>bldmake</filepath> and <filepath>abld</filepath> commands: </p>

<p><userinput>bldmake bldfiles</userinput> </p>

<p><userinput>abld build gcce | gccev6 | gccev6t2 | gccev7 [udeb | urel]</userinput> </p>

<p> <b>Note:</b> To build for <codeph>GCCEV6t2</codeph> and <codeph>GCCEV7</codeph>,

you need GCCE v4.2 that supports building ARM code for Thumb-2. </p>

<p>Binaries are generated in the <filepath>udeb</filepath> and <filepath>urel</filepath> sub-directories

of the <filepath>epoc32\release\&lt;GCC platform&gt;\</filepath> directory. </p>

<p>Import library (<filepath>.dso</filepath>) files are generated in the <filepath>epoc32\release\ARMV5\lib\</filepath> directory.

This directory is used, as the library file format has not changed since <codeph>ARMV5</codeph>. </p>

<p> <b>Note:</b> These are the same directories that are used for import libraries

generated by RVCT for different build targets, such as <codeph>ARMV5</codeph>, <codeph>ARMV6</codeph>,

and so on. This allows other applications to link to any library, regardless

of the build target for which they are generated. </p>

<p><b>ROM building </b> </p>

<p>The compiler setting allows the Symbian base components to include the

correct compiler-specific run-time libraries in the ROM image.</p>

<p>The default compiler used to build is ARM RVCT. This compiler is indicated

to <codeph>buildrom</codeph> using the argument <codeph>-DRVCT</codeph>.  </p>

<p>The toolchain from Symbian OS v9.1 also supports binaries built with the <codeph>GCCE</codeph> compiler.

Binaries built with this compiler can be combined in ROM with binaries built

with <codeph>RVCT</codeph> to the <codeph>ABIv2</codeph>. To do this, use

the <codeph>-D_GCCE</codeph> macro: </p>

<p><userinput>buildrom -D_EABI=ARMV5 -D_GCCE -otechview.img h2 techview</userinput></p>

<p>By default, if the binaries are not available in GCCE, they are taken from

the <codeph>ARMV5_ABIV2</codeph> directory, and if not in there also, they

are be taken from the <codeph>ARMV5</codeph> directory. (<codeph>ARMV5</codeph> is

necessary as some of the runtime DLLs will be present only in that directory.)

 </p>

<p>The order in which buildrom searches directories to get binaries to put

into ROM can also be specified explicitly using a <codeph>BINARY_SELECTION_ORDER</codeph> command

in an <filepath>oby</filepath> file. For example: </p>

<p><userinput>BINARY_SELECTION_ORDER = GCCE, ARMV5_ABIv2, ARMV5</userinput></p>

<p>The preceding command specifies explicitly that binaries should taken from <codeph>GCCE</codeph>,

then <codeph>ARMV5_ABIv2</codeph>, and then <codeph>ARMV5</codeph>. </p>

<p><b>Source issues </b> </p>

<p>The <codeph>GCCE</codeph> build target uses the same DEF file format as

the <codeph>ARMV5</codeph> target. By default, the GCC toolchian looks for

the DEF files in the project's <codeph>EABI</codeph> directory. </p>

<p> <b>Note:</b> The GCC compiler is very strict in checking that the source

code conforms to the ANSI C++ standard. Therefore, source code that previously

compiled with less strict compilers, such as RVCT 2.1, may no longer compile. </p>