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author | Bruce Forstall <brucefo@microsoft.com> | 2018-06-28 12:20:31 -0700 |
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committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2018-06-28 12:20:31 -0700 |
commit | 1ad9c94ef5e541e9c8ac29606515d6f54e0e445c (patch) | |
tree | b0ad543f55da6ee3621518a45d0185dde0d353cb /Documentation | |
parent | 96a47e0f4a48ef3c5c59ec40f69c4923a6699e56 (diff) | |
parent | 7d13196f03eda0afd556245f53c4bffcf2626785 (diff) | |
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Merge pull request #18689 from BruceForstall/UpdateArmBuildDocumentation
Update ARM/Linux build directions
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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/building/linux-instructions.md | 29 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/building/linux-instructions.md b/Documentation/building/linux-instructions.md index 98222c520d..750421f33b 100644 --- a/Documentation/building/linux-instructions.md +++ b/Documentation/building/linux-instructions.md @@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ In order to get clang-3.9, llvm-3.9 and lldb-3.9 on Ubuntu 14.04, we need to add ~$ wget -O - http://llvm.org/apt/llvm-snapshot.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add - ~$ sudo apt-get update -Note: arm clang has a known issue with CompareExchange (#15074), so for arm you have to use clang-4.0 or higher, the official build uses clang-5.0. - +Note: ARM clang has a known issue with CompareExchange ([#15074](https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/15074)), so for ARM you must use clang-4.0 or higher. The official build uses clang-5.0. + For other version of Debian/Ubuntu, please visit http://apt.llvm.org/. Then install the packages you need: @@ -98,6 +98,29 @@ After the build is complete you will be able to find the output in the `bin` fol Build for ARM/Linux =================== +The CI system and official builds use Docker to build ARM for Linux (for example, see the latest build [here](https://ci.dot.net/job/dotnet_coreclr/job/master/job/arm_cross_checked_ubuntu/lastSuccessfulBuild/consoleText)). The Docker container has pre-built rootfs directories containing the required tools. To build this way, do the following: + +* Install Docker, probably Community Edition, on Windows, Mac, or Linux, from https://www.docker.com/. Some useful post-install setup is: + * Linux: add your user to the docker group, this will avoid running docker with `sudo`: + + `sudo usermod -a <your account name> -G docker` + + * Windows: switch to Linux containers. This can be done by right clicking on the Docker icon in the lower right corner and clicking "Switch to Linux containers". +* Build using the Docker container (this is a `bash` script, for simplicity): + +``` +ROOT=/Users/me/git/coreclr +DOCKER_ARGS="run -i --rm -v ${ROOT}:/mnt/coreclr -w /mnt/coreclr -e ROOTFS_DIR=/crossrootfs/arm -e CAC_ROOTFS_DIR=/crossrootfs/x86 microsoft/dotnet-buildtools-prereqs:ubuntu-14.04-cross-e435274-20180426002420" +docker ${DOCKER_ARGS} /mnt/coreclr/build.sh arm checked cross crosscomponent +docker ${DOCKER_ARGS} /mnt/coreclr/build-test.sh arm checked cross generatelayoutonly +``` + +Make sure you update the `ROOT` environment to point to your git clone of the coreclr repo. + +The current Docker tag being used by the CI can be found in the `getDockerImageName` function in the [netci.groovy](https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/master/netci.groovy) file. + +Libunwind issue +--------------- Libunwind-arm requires fixes that are not included in Ubuntu 14.04, yet. The fix allows libunwind-arm not to break when it is ordered to access unaccessible memory locations. First, import the patch from the libunwind upstream: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libunwind.git;a=commit;h=770152268807e460184b4152e23aba9c86601090 @@ -124,7 +147,7 @@ index 1ed3dbf..c643032 100644 ``` Additional optimization levels for ARM/Linux: -Oz and -Ofast -============================================================ +------------------------------------------------------------ This instruction is to enable additional optimization levels such as -Oz and -Ofast on ARM/Linux. The below table shows what we have to enable for the code optimization of the CoreCLR run-time either the size or speed on embedded devices. |