A Dockerised installation of the aarch64 gcc cross compiler.

With this script, you can run a Docker container that will allow you to compile C programs for the ARM 64-bit architecture (also known as aarch64 or arm64).

TL;DR

To install:

$ apt install docker
$ git clone https://github.com/yds12/docker-gcc-aarch64
$ cd docker-gcc-aarch64
$ ./build.sh
$ ./install.sh

Press ENTER when prompted.

Add ~/.local/bin to PATH.

To run:

$ compile-aarch64 -o hello hello.c

Copy the hello executable to an aarch64 (arm64) machine and run:

$ ./hello
Hello from aarch64!

Install

To install this compiler container, you need Docker and a Linux computer.

Install Docker

If you are in Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint or other Debian based distro, run:

$ apt install docker

Build the Image

Run:

$ ./build.sh

Install the Compilation Script

This step is not strictly necessary, but it makes the use of the compiler easier.

Run:

$ ./install.sh

The installer will ask you the name of the command you want to compile. Just press ENTER to accept the default name (compile-aarch64).

Usage

From any directory, you can now cross-compile to aarch64 with the command:

$ <command-name> <args>

where <command-name> is the command name chosen in the installation (compile-aarch64 by default) and <args> are the arguments you want to pass to gcc.

For example, to compile the example hello.c file that comes with this repository, assuming the default command name, type:

$ compile-aarch64 -o hello hello.c

You can check that an aarch64 executable is generated in the working directory with:

$ file hello

If you skipped the install step above, you can compile by directly invoking the compile-gcc-aarch64.sh script, passing the arguments for gcc as in the previous example.

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