[cfarm-users] Modern GCC for mips64 machines

[Zach van Rijn]

On Thu, 2018-10-18 at 19:29 -0400, Jeffrey Walton via cfarm-
users wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I'm interested in testing a build under a more modern GCC
> built on mips64.
> Eventually I'd like to try the MIPS builtins/intrinsics like
> discussed
> at https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/downloads-mips/documents
> /MD00927-SIMD-programming-whitepaper.pdf
> .
> 
> From gcc22:
> 
>     $ gcc --version
>     gcc (Debian 4.6.3-14) 4.6.3
> 
> And:
> 
>     $ ls -l /opt/cfarm/gcc-latest
>     lrwxrwxrwx 1 iulius iulius 36 Dec 10  2017 /opt/cfarm/gcc-
> latest
> -> /home/iulius/autobuild/bin/gcc-7.2.0
> 
> But:
> 
>     $ ls /home/iulius/autobuild/bin/gcc-7.2.0
>     ls: cannot access /home/iulius/autobuild/bin/gcc-7.2.0: No
> such
> file or directory
> 
> It looks like there may be something available.
> 
> Any ideas on how I can access a newer compiler?

If you have any interest in trying out pre-built toolchains,
which you can use out of your home directory, there are a few
available (including MIPS64) here, for GCC 8.2.0, 7.3.0, and
6.4.0 (the latter are linked toward the bottom of the page):

    https://musl.cc/

You can feel free to reach out if you need other configurations.

> 
> Jeff

ZV