arm-elf-eabi-gcc not in PATH

[torne]

Once you get it to actually build successfully, note that you don't need to change the path. The arm-whatever directory does not need to be in your path (and shouldn't be). The actual compiler binaries get installed to /usr/local/bin which is already in your path as you said, and that's all that needs to be there.

[oldschool83]

Okay, maybe then I am not downloading the right/full gcc component?

Installing the compiler takes about an hour and ends with the error message.. Should I have a folder arm-elf-eabi-gcc somewhere after installing the compiler?

[saratoga]

Okay, maybe then I am not downloading the right/full gcc component?

Installing the compiler takes about an hour and ends with the error message.. Should I have a folder arm-elf-eabi-gcc somewhere after installing the compiler?

Yeah, but only if you actually get it to install.

FWIW compiling under a VM is about a million times faster then cgywin, so unless you really can't spare a couple GB of disk space or don't have admin access on your box, you might want to use that instead.

[torne]

If it installs successfully you will end up with numerous files named arm-elf-eabi-gcc, arm-elf-eabi-ld, and so on in /usr/local/bin, and also a directory /usr/local/arm-elf-eabi.

[oldschool83]

Ok, I am not getting the arm-elf-eabi-gcc file in usr\local\bin. What am I doing wrong? Maybe I am missing some cygwin component from the initial setup of the program?

By the way, I ran rockboxdev.sh today on another PC and it has been processing for almost 5 hours now.. the arm-elf-eabi-ld file and the /usr/local/arm-elf-eabi folder were created all within the first hour. But I still don't have an arm-elf-eabi-gcc file...

[marc2003]

5 hours? that's just ridiculous.....

it took me around 10 minutes to install ubuntu from scratch inside a virtual machine. it then took another 10 minutes or so to run rockboxdev.sh to setup eabi...

(obviously you need to add whatever time it takes to download the 700mb ISO for ubuntu)

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[oldschool83]

I am not a linux guy and I find cygwin okay to work with.. don't want to go any deep into VM & etc.

If this doesn't work I'll just forget it. Btw it's still compiling.. 6 hours now and still no arm-elf-eabi-gcc file

[marc2003]

you don't have to be a linux guy. i'm certainly not. the setup wizard is like windows, you enter a few preferences, click next, next, next and let it do it's thing.

when you're on the desktop, you open a terminal and the commands are the same as you run in cygwin.

[oldschool83]

What do you know.. it worked!

Don't know what I did, maybe selected more gcc components from the install of cygwin. It compiled for hours and finally said DONE!

[Jack Sparrow]

I tried to compile and it says "the compiler you must use <arm-elf-eabi-gcc> is not in your path!"  I tried typing rockboxdev.sh and it brings back "rockboxdev.sh: command not found"

Do I need to do something else?  I am new to compiling, and really have no idea what I am doing.  Any help would be greatly appreciated

[saratoga]

I tried to compile and it says "the compiler you must use <arm-elf-eabi-gcc> is not in your path!"  I tried typing rockboxdev.sh and it brings back "rockboxdev.sh: command not found"

Do I need to do something else?  I am new to compiling, and really have no idea what I am doing.  Any help would be greatly appreciated

rockboxdev.sh is an actual program in the tools directory of your rockbox source checkout, not a generic shell command.  You have to cd to the right folder, or type the full path to it (e.g. tools/rockboxdev.sh if in the root of your source checkout).

[Jack Sparrow]

rockboxdev.sh is an actual program in the tools directory of your rockbox source checkout, not a generic shell command.  You have to cd to the right folder, or type the full path to it (e.g. tools/rockboxdev.sh if in the root of your source checkout).

Once I cd to the right folder, then what do I do?

[saratoga]

Run the command.  On Ubuntu and most linux this will probably involve something like 'sudo ./rockboxdev.sh'. 

[Jack Sparrow]

Thanks.  I've been running it for about 3 and a half hours now, and it still isn't done.  Any idea how long it should take?

...make that four hours

[funman]

Someone reported ten hours on cygwin.

I think it builds in 15 minutes max on linux.