What is included in binutils?

The GNU Binary Utilities, or binutils, are a set of programming tools for creating and managing binary programs, object files, libraries, profile data, and assembly source code.

What is GNU development tools?

The GNU Toolchain is a set of programming tools in Linux systems that programmers can use to make and compile their code to produce a program or library. The toolchain contains GNU m4, GNU Make, GNU Bison, GCC, GNU Binutils, GNU Debugger and the GNU build system.

What is GNU package?

GNU is an operating system which is 100% free software. It was launched in 1983 by Richard Stallman (rms) and has been developed by many people working together for the sake of freedom of all software users to control their computing. Technically, GNU is generally like Unix.

What is GNU tools in Linux?

How do you compile binutils?

2. Compiling binutils

  1. Checking the currently installed version of avr binutils. Run the following command: avr-as –version.
  2. Downloading the source code. Get the latest version from the binutils FTP site.
  3. Unpacking the archive.
  4. Configuring and compiling binutils.
  5. Next steps.

What are the different types of binutils?

The GNU Binutils are a collection of binary tools. The main ones are: ld – the GNU linker. as – the GNU assembler. addr2line – Converts addresses into filenames and line numbers.

What is the latest release of GNU Binutils?

The latest release of GNU binutils is 2.37. The various NEWS files ( binutils , gas, and ld ) have details of what has changed in this release. See the SOFTWARE page for information on obtaining releases of GNU binutils and other GNU software.

How do I access the development source tree of binutils?

If you plan to do active work on GNU binutils, you can access the development source tree by anonymous git: Alternatively, you can use the gitweb interface, or the source snapshots, available as bzipped tar files via anonymous FTP from ftp://sourceware.org/pub/binutils/snapshots.