circle-stdlib

Overview

The goal of this project is to provide C and C++ standard library support for the Raspberry Pi bare metal environment Circle.

Newlib is used as the standard C library. The fork circle-newlib contains the changes for building Newlib in combination with Circle.

mbed TLS can optionally be used for TLS connections in Circle (call configure with --opt-tls, see also the README file for circle-mbedtls).

Getting Started

Prerequisites

A toolchain from Arm GNU Toolchain Downloads:

• gcc 13.2.Rel1 hosted on Intel Linux or Windows 10 Subsystem for Linux (WSL) (build is tested with GitHub Action):
  • AArch32 bare-metal target (arm-none-eabi)
  • AArch64 ELF bare-metal target (aarch64-none-elf)
• gcc 13.2.Rel1 hosted on 64-bit Linux on Raspberry Pi (not tested, but reported to work):
  • AArch32 bare-metal target (arm-none-eabi)
  • AArch64 ELF bare-metal target (aarch64-none-elf)

Building the Libraries

Add the toolchain to the path, then:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/smuehlst/circle-stdlib.git
cd circle-stdlib
./configure
make

The configure script has the following options:

$ ./configure -h
usage: configure [ <option> ... ]
Configure Circle with newlib standard C library and mbed TLS library.

Options:
  -d, --debug                    build with debug information, without optimizer
  -h, --help                     show usage message
  -n, --no-cpp                   do not support C++ standard library
  -o, --option <name>[=<value>]  additional preprocessor define (optionally with value)
                                 can be repeated
  --opt-tls                      build with mbed TLS support
  -p <string>, --prefix <string> prefix of the toolchain commands (default: arm-none-eabi-)
  --qemu                         build for running under QEMU in semihosting mode
  -r <number>, --raspberrypi <number>
                                 Circle Raspberry Pi model number (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, default: 1)
  --softfp                       use float ABI setting "softfp" instead of "hard"
  -s <path>, --stddefpath <path>
                                 path where stddef.h header is located (only necessary
                                 if script cannot determine it automatically)

To clean the project directory, the following commands can be used:

make clean
make mrproper   # removes the configuration too

Building the Samples

make build-samples

Release History

See CHANGELOG.md.

License

This project is licensed under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3 - see the LICENSE file for details

Acknowledgements

• Rene Stange for Circle.
• The Newlib team for Newlib.
• The mbed TLS team for mbed TLS.