RVCT 4.0 Web Patch Build 870 Release Notes

Description

This RealView Compilation Tools (RVCT) 4.0 Web Patch Build 870 is intended for use with RealView Development Suite (RVDS) 4.0 products. It can be used to update any RVDS 4.0 Standard, Professional or Evaluation installation, whether previously patched or an original installation. It is NOT compatible with other releases of RVCT/RVDS or Keil MDK products.

This patch consists of updated RVCT/RVDS 4.0 compiler, linker, assembler, fromelf, and armar program executables, include files and C/C++ libraries.

Enhancements and Corrections

Details of the enhancements and corrections implemented by this patch are available on the ARM website

OS Platforms

This patch has been tested on the following supported platforms:

• Windows 7
• Windows XP SP2, 32-bit & 64-bit
• Windows XP SP3, 32-bit
• Windows Vista Business Edition SP1, 32-bit & 64-bit
• Windows Vista Enterprise Edition SP1, 32-bit & 64-bit
• Windows Server 2003 32-bit & 64-bit
• Red Hat Linux Enterprise 4 for x86, 32-bit & 64-bit
• Red Hat Linux Enterprise 5 for x86, 32-bit & 64-bit
• Solaris for SPARC 10

In addition, the patch has been tested on the following non-supported platforms:

• Windows 2000 SP4
• SUSE Linux 9.2
• Ubuntu Linux 8.10

Installation Instructions

To install the patch carry out the following steps:

1. Ensure that you are currently using RVCT 4.0. To do this, type:

   armcc --vsn

   and ensure that this returns RVCT 4.0 build 400 or later.

   
   

2. Extract all the files from the ZIP file into a temporary directory.

3. Copy the include directory from the temporary directory to replace your existing include directory. The existing directory can be located by the RVCT40INCenvironment variable, e.g:

   > echo $RVCT40INC
   ~/ARM/RVCT/Data/4.0/400/include/

4. Copy the lib directory from the temporary directory to replace your existing lib directory. The existing directory can be located by the RVCT40LIB environment variable, e.g.:

   > echo $RVCT40LIB
   ~/ARM/RVCT/Data/4.0/400/lib/

5. Copy the linux-pentium directory from the temporary directory to replace your existing linux-pentium directory. The existing directory can be located by the RVCT40BINenvironment variable, e.g.:

   > echo $RVCT40BIN
   ~/ARM/RVCT/Programs/4.0/400/linux-pentium/

6. The updated tools should now have been installed. To confirm this, open a DOS command prompt window and enter:

   armcc --vsn
   armlink --vsn
   armasm --vsn
   fromelf --vsn
   armar --vsn

   The version returned should be RVCT 4.0 build 870.

   
   

7. After unzipping the executables, you may find that they cannot be executed because the UNIX permissions have been reset. The workaround is to set the execute permissions for the user with, e.g.:

   chmod u+x armcc