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GCC Configuration and Building Tutorial on Essential Abstractions in GCC GCC Configuration and Building Uday Khedker (www.cse.iitb.ac.in/grc) GCC Resource Center, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay April 2011 EA-GCC, Chamonix Configuration & Building: Outline 1/1 Outline • A conceptual overview of configuration and building • Details of configuration and building • Testing the built compiler Uday Khedker GRC, IIT Bombay Part 1 Basic Concepts EA-GCC, Chamonix Configuration & Building: Basic Concepts 2/1 Configuration Preparing the GCC source for local adaptation: • The platform on which it will be compiled • The platform on which the generated compiler will execute • The platform for which the generated compiler will generate code • The directory in which the source exists • The directory in which the compiler will be generated • The directory in which the generated compiler will be installed • The input languages which will be supported • The libraries that are required • etc. Uday Khedker GRC, IIT Bombay EA-GCC, Chamonix Configuration & Building: Basic Concepts 3/1 Pre-requisites for Configuring and Building GCC 4.5.0 • ISO C90 Compiler / GCC 2.95 or later • GNU bash: for running configure etc • Awk: creating some of the generated source file for GCC • bzip/gzip/untar etc. For unzipping the downloaded source file • GNU make version 3.8 (or later) • GNU Multiple Precision Library (GMP) version 4.3.2 (or later) • MPFR Library version 3.0.0 (or later) (multiple precision floating point with correct rounding) • MPC Library version 0.8.2 (or later) • Parma Polyhedra Library (PPL) version 0.10.2 • CLooG-PPL (Chunky Loop Generator) version 0.15.09 • jar, or InfoZIP (zip and unzip) • libelf versionInformation 0.8.12 (or later) (for LTO) Uday Khedker GRC, IIT Bombay EA-GCC, Chamonix Configuration & Building: Basic Concepts 4/1 Our Conventions for Directory Names • GCC source directory : $(SOURCE D) • GCC build directory : $(BUILD) • GCC install directory : $(INSTALL) • Important ◮ $(SOURCE D) = $(BUILD) = $(INSTALL) ◮ None of the above directories should be contained in any of the above directories Uday Khedker GRC, IIT Bombay EA-GCC, Chamonix Configuration & Building: Basic Concepts 5/1 Configuring GCC configure Uday Khedker GRC, IIT Bombay EA-GCC, Chamonix Configuration & Building: Basic Concepts 5/1 Configuring GCC configure.in config/* config.guess config.sub configure Uday Khedker GRC, IIT Bombay EA-GCC, Chamonix Configuration & Building: Basic Concepts 5/1 Configuring GCC configure.in config/* config.guess config.sub configure config.log config.cache config.status Uday Khedker GRC, IIT Bombay EA-GCC, Chamonix Configuration & Building: Basic Concepts 5/1 Configuring GCC configure.in config/* config.guess config.sub configure config.h.in Makefile.in config.log config.cache config.status Uday Khedker GRC, IIT Bombay EA-GCC, Chamonix Configuration & Building: Basic Concepts 5/1 Configuring GCC configure.in config/* config.guess config.sub configure config.h.in Makefile.in config.log config.cache config.status Makefile config.h Uday Khedker GRC, IIT Bombay EA-GCC, Chamonix Configuration & Building: Basic Concepts 6/1 Steps in Configuration and Building Usual Steps • Download and untar the source • cd $(SOURCE D) • ./configure • make • make install Uday Khedker GRC, IIT Bombay EA-GCC, Chamonix Configuration & Building: Basic Concepts 6/1 Steps in Configuration and Building Usual Steps Steps in GCC • Download and untar the • Download and untar the source source • cd $(SOURCE D) • cd $(BUILD) • ./configure • $(SOURCE D)/configure • make • make • make install • make install Uday Khedker GRC, IIT Bombay EA-GCC, Chamonix Configuration & Building: Basic Concepts 6/1 Steps in Configuration and Building Usual Steps Steps in GCC • Download and untar the • Download and untar the source source • cd $(SOURCE D) • cd $(BUILD) • ./configure • $(SOURCE D)/configure • make • make • make install • make install GCC generates a large part of source code during a build! Uday Khedker GRC, IIT Bombay EA-GCC, Chamonix Configuration & Building: Basic Concepts 7/1 Building a Compiler: Terminology • The sources of a compiler are compiled (i.e. built) on Build system, denoted BS. • The built compiler runs on the Host system, denoted HS. • The compiler compiles code for the Target system, denoted TS. The built compiler itself runs on HS and generates executables that run on TS. Uday Khedker GRC, IIT Bombay EA-GCC, Chamonix Configuration & Building: Basic Concepts 8/1 Variants of Compiler Builds BS = HS = TS Native Build BS = HS = TS Cross Build BS = HS = TS Canadian Cross Example Native i386: built on i386, hosted on i386, produces i386 code. Sparc cross on i386: built on i386, hosted on i386, produces Sparc code. Uday Khedker GRC, IIT Bombay EA-GCC, Chamonix Configuration & Building: Basic Concepts 9/1 T Notation for a Compiler C i386 i386 cc Uday Khedker GRC, IIT Bombay EA-GCC, Chamonix Configuration & Building: Basic Concepts 9/1 T Notation for a Compiler input language C i386 i386 cc Uday Khedker GRC, IIT Bombay EA-GCC, Chamonix Configuration & Building: Basic Concepts 9/1 T Notation for a Compiler input language output language C i386 i386 cc Uday Khedker GRC, IIT Bombay EA-GCC, Chamonix Configuration & Building: Basic Concepts 9/1 T Notation for a Compiler input language output language C i386 i386 cc implementation or execution language Uday Khedker GRC, IIT Bombay EA-GCC, Chamonix Configuration & Building: Basic Concepts 9/1 T Notation for a Compiler input language output language C i386 i386 cc implementation or name of the translator execution language Uday Khedker GRC, IIT Bombay EA-GCC, Chamonix Configuration & Building: Basic Concepts 10/1 Bootstrapping: The Conventional View ass m/c m/c Machine language Assembly language Uday Khedker GRC, IIT Bombay EA-GCC, Chamonix Configuration & Building: Basic Concepts 10/1 Bootstrapping: The Conventional View implementation language input language output language ass m/c m/c Machine language Assembly language Uday Khedker GRC, IIT Bombay EA-GCC, Chamonix Configuration & Building: Basic Concepts 10/1 Bootstrapping: The Conventional View implementation language input language output language C0 m/c ass Level 0 C Uday Khedker GRC, IIT Bombay EA-GCC, Chamonix Configuration & Building: Basic Concepts 10/1 Bootstrapping: The Conventional View implementation language input language output language C0 m/c ass ass m/c Level 0 C m/c Uday Khedker GRC, IIT Bombay EA-GCC, Chamonix Configuration & Building: Basic Concepts 10/1 Bootstrapping: The Conventional View implementation language Level 1 C C1 m/c C0 input language output language Uday Khedker GRC, IIT Bombay EA-GCC, Chamonix Configuration & Building: Basic Concepts 10/1 Bootstrapping: The Conventional View implementation language Level 1 C C1 m/c C0 m/c C0 input language ass output language Uday Khedker GRC, IIT Bombay EA-GCC, Chamonix Configuration & Building: Basic Concepts 10/1 Bootstrapping: The Conventional View Level n C implementation language Cn m/c Cn−1 input language output language Uday Khedker GRC, IIT Bombay EA-GCC, Chamonix Configuration & Building: Basic Concepts 10/1 Bootstrapping: The Conventional View Level n C implementation language Cn m/c Cn−1 m/c Cn−1 input language output language Cn−2 Uday Khedker GRC, IIT Bombay EA-GCC, Chamonix Configuration & Building: Basic Concepts 11/1 Bootstrapping: GCC View • Language need not change, but the compiler may change Compiler is improved, bugs are fixed and newer versions are released • To build a new version of a compiler given a built old version: ◮ Stage 1: Build the new compiler using the old compiler ◮ Stage 2: Build another new compiler using compiler from stage 1 ◮ Stage 3: Build another new compiler using compiler from stage 2 Stage 2 and stage 3 builds must result in identical compilers ⇒ Building cross compilers stops after Stage 1! Uday Khedker GRC, IIT Bombay EA-GCC, Chamonix Configuration & Building: Basic Concepts 12/1 A Native Build on i386 GCC Source Requirement: BS = HS = TS = i386 Uday Khedker GRC, IIT Bombay EA-GCC, Chamonix Configuration & Building: Basic Concepts 12/1 A Native Build on i386 C i386 i386 Execution language cc GCC Source Requirement: BS = HS = TS = i386 Uday Khedker GRC, IIT Bombay EA-GCC, Chamonix Configuration & Building: Basic Concepts 12/1 A Native Build on i386 C i386 C i386 i386 Execution language cc GCC Source Requirement: BS = HS = TS = i386 Uday Khedker GRC, IIT Bombay EA-GCC, Chamonix Configuration & Building: Basic Concepts 12/1 A Native Build on i386 C i386 C i386 i386 cc GCC Source Requirement: BS = HS = TS = i386 Uday Khedker GRC, IIT Bombay EA-GCC, Chamonix Configuration & Building: Basic Concepts 12/1 A Native Build on i386 C i386 C i386 i386 Stage 1 Build cc GCC Source C i386 i386 gcc Requirement: BS = HS = TS = i386 • Stage 1 build compiled using cc Uday Khedker GRC, IIT Bombay EA-GCC, Chamonix Configuration & Building: Basic Concepts 12/1 A Native Build on i386 C i386 C i386 i386 Stage 1 Build cc GCC Source C i386 i386 gcc Requirement: BS = HS = TS = i386 • Stage 1 build compiled using cc Uday Khedker GRC, IIT Bombay EA-GCC, Chamonix Configuration & Building: Basic Concepts 12/1 A Native Build on i386 C i386 C i386 i386 Stage 1 Build cc GCC Source C i386 i386 Stage 2 Build gcc C i386 Requirement: BS = HS = TS = i386 • Stage 1 build compiled using cc i386 • Stage 2 build compiled using gcc gcc Uday Khedker GRC, IIT Bombay EA-GCC, Chamonix Configuration & Building: Basic Concepts 12/1 A Native Build on i386 C i386 C i386 i386 Stage 1 Build cc GCC Source C i386 i386 Stage 2 Build gcc C i386 Requirement: BS = HS = TS
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