It really says something when the only way to compile your product on Windows is to use a competitor's product.Ĭross-compilation is not a native Arm toolchain for WindowsĪ Windows computer that can't natively run a compiler and needs another computer to cross-compile binaries/executables for it to run is in the same class as a smartphone since you can't develop and test on the same device. If you go to Arm's website, they have a page where you can download MinGW GCC for an x86 device to cross-compile for an Arm device. There are feature requests open for them to add native Arm support, but it is not ready yet. There are no Arm implementations of the MinGW or MSYS development environments therefore, no Arm GCC or Arm Clang toolchain is available yet on Windows, either. The open source situation isn't any better. Since MSVC is closed source, the only way to get native support for MSVC on Arm is for Microsoft to implement it.

NET and VS Code, but this doesn't help C++ developers. Microsoft doesn't provide Arm versions of Visual Studio, VS Build Tools, or even just Microsoft Visual C++ they expect Arm developers to cross-compile C++ software on an x86 host or emulate x86 software. Microsoft's official developer toolchain is quite bad on Arm.

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