Install Linaro cross-compiler on Mac OS X

If you need a cross-compiler for Mac OS X, you have two possibilities:

1. Install crosstool-ng and configure it
2. Download a preconfigured cross-compiler, as Linaro.

The fastest way is to choose the second option.

First, you have to download Linaro tool from the official site, going to the section ''Linaro Toolchain'' and selecting the pre-built binary you want.

We get the linaro-toolchain-binaries(little-endian) for Linux.

After installing the toolchain, you can find all that you need in

usr/local/linaro/arm-linux-gnueabihf



Now, to add the installation folder to the PATH environmental variable, you have to pick

/usr/local/linaro/arm-linux-gnueabihf/bin

and add it as shown in our guide.



Now you can start to compile. For example, if you have a file named test.c you have to type in a shell:

arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc -Wall -Wextra -c test.c