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Zephyr SDK (Toolchains, Development Tools)
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Make Picolibc the default libc and Newlib an optional component for SDK GNU toolchain #833

Open stephanosio opened 4 weeks ago

stephanosio commented 4 weeks ago

Since Picolibc is now the default libc for Zephyr serving as a complete replacement of Newlib and only niche applications are using Newlib, there is no good reason to ship Newlib in the SDK GNU toolchain distribution by default in spite of its significant download size and disk space requirements.

With the above in mind, this proposes to rearrange the SDK GNU toolchain distribution such that:

  1. Picolibc is the default libc under the toolchain prefix (i.e. (TOOLCHAIN_PREFIX)/(TARGET)/lib/lib{c,m}.a and the headers under (PREFIX)/(TARGET)/include will be from Picolibc).
  2. Newlib is placed under its own prefix, (TOOLCHAIN_PREFIX)/newlib, and distributed as a separate "overlay" archive, toolchain_overlay_(TARGET).{tar.xz,7z}, that can be downloaded optionally.
stephanosio commented 4 weeks ago

cc @keith-packard

keith-packard commented 4 weeks ago

Yup, this might take a bit of re-arranging inside crosstool-ng, but we've already demonstrated we can make newlib work this way for newlib-nano.