1. Codesourcery Arm Toolchain

CodeSourcery G++ Lite Edition is a freeware or Sharware? Any help please? Please see the link 'http://www.codesourcery.com/sgpp/lite_edition.html'.

When I tried to download a newer version of Code Sourcery G Lite for ARM, I noticed that I was redirected to another company and it is really hard to find anything on that site about Sourcery G Lite for ARM. Does anybody know the status on the Sourcery G Lite for ARM project?

Is it still alive, does people still work with it? Will it be available in the future? Update: They seem to have renamed the project into, so maybe the question is not relevant?

Update: Mentor Graphics is closing the project, it is no longer a viable alternative. Notes: The current viable place to get gcc for ARM seems to be from Linaro. It seems that Sourcery CodeBench Lite for ARM is no longer available. Mentor Graphics appears to produce a Lite toolchain for other processors, but not for ARM. They now direct you to obtain a trial of their commercial toolchain for the ARM processors. Update 27 January 2015: the downloads are not available from these links anymore The last Sourcery CodeBench Lite releases for ARM that I can find still available for download from Mentor Graphics are:. These contain GCC 4.8.1.

Codesourcery Arm Toolchain

They were available as of 18 Nov 2014. No telling how long that will remain true.

This summary overlooks the critical difference between sources vs executable builds and the lite edition vs. The compiler itself. If Mentor is still shipping a GCC derivative in their paid product for ARM, then they have an obligation to provide the complete corresponding sources thereof without redistribution restrictions While they may have stopped providing a read-to-go download, that doesn't mean you aren't able to create your own build to use.

Likely there is (or will be) some other source of a ready-to-go build. – Nov 19 '14 at 18:14. 'Another Company' is the EDA giant Mentor Graphics. Whether they plan to embrace, extend, and extinguish the excellent G Lite toolchain or not, I do not know. I do know that they're in business to sell Really Expensive Software. Like other companies, they sell a front-end for Code Sourcery G Lite, and it's in their best interests to hide it as best as possible. Codesourcery.com didn't do as good a job hiding it.

Mentor Graphics hid it pretty well, which makes me skeptical of about their 'commitment to the future of open source for embedded development.' However, they do a decent job of getting you to the commercial version, which, by the blessed GPL, contains links to the source. I got to it by following the menu set and scrolling to the very bottom to find the personal, academic, and lite versions: Those links direct you to the mysteriously difficult-to-navitage pages. The subscription breadcrumb in the URL and repeated suggestions to log in are for paid support and trials of the IDE.

Just ignore them. From that page, you'll see something like the following, with a link to the EABI version (An acronym for the, use this if you want to program bare-metal apps) as well as versions which link against the libraries that will be installed with other operating systems. Clicking on the EABI 'All versions' link from this page brings you to, the site you linked in your comment. You're correct, there are no backwards links. Use your browser history to navigate. Slightly OT: I've used the Code Sourcery paid tools (they came free with a TI DSP DSK).

The debugging utilities would be handy for a beginner, but the rest of the tool set (the editor, the project builder, the GUI compiler configurator) was a pain. I ended up using an external text editor, and just using the app for compiling and debugging. Smartftp serial downloads.

I certainly don't think it was worth $2800. You're taking the right route with the Lite edition. Yes, CodeSourcery is very much a viable company. I work closely with the CodeSourcery team (now at Mentor Graphics) on product strategy.

The CodeSourcery Lite toolchains have been renamed Sourcery CodeBench Lite as you've noticed. Most of them were recently updated to gcc 4.6 this month. We've also expanded devices support as well. Full source code to the Lite releases is available as it always has been. December 2012 update: New releases for Sourcery CodeBench Lite are out including updates to GCC 4.7.2, binutils 2.23, eglibc 2.16, and GDB 7.4.50.