You could check this PreBuilt GNU Toolchain for building natively on Win10. Otherwise you could also setup a WSL environment in your win10, then you would also be able use any linux toolchains.

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{ "version": "2.0.0", "tasks": [ { "label": "build firmware", "type": "shell", "command": "make test", "options": { "env": { "INCLUDE": "${config:arm-none-eabi.include}", "LIB": "${config:arm-none-eabi.lib}", "LIBGCC": "${config:arm-none-eabi.libgcc}/thumb/v6-m/libgcc.a", } }, "osx": { "options": { "env": { "PATH": "${config:arm-none-eabi.bin}:${env:PATH}", } }, }, "linux": { "options": { "env": { "PATH": "${config:arm-none-eabi.bin}:${env:PATH}", } }, }, "windows": { "options": { "env": { "PATH": "${config:arm-none-eabi.bin};${env:PATH}", } }, }, "group": { "kind": "build", "isDefault": true, }, "problemMatcher": "$gcc" } ] } With the following makefile: .PHONY: test test: @echo $(PATH) @echo $(INCLUDE) @echo $(LIB) @echo $(GCCLIB) Version 8-2018-q4-major for Windows Released: December 20, 2018 ·
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Whats "gcc-arm-none-eabi" toolchain ??
Gcc-arm-none-eabi is the gcc compiler toolchain for arm outside of a hosted environment. This means that it compiles bare metal code: code running without an already existing OS. ‘Normal’ gcc uses libraries from the system where its installed, so if you compile a hello world links to and uses the standard library. Gcc-arm would mean that the compiler is a cross compiler: its installed on your system but it compiles for arm. On an arm processor could run a full fledged linux environment so a gcc-arm-aarch64-linux or something like that would compile a program on your pc for that arm system running linux. Now there are meriads of arm systems not running linux which needs code to be compiled for as well. This is the place for the none-eabi variant: it does not use any system library and uses a standard interface for calling functions and other stuff. So in other words this is just the bare metal cross compiler for arm systems. And who makes these? Anyone who wants to. Gcc is an open source project and anyone could compile the toolchain. With compiling you can ‘select’ your version: do you want to build a linux-on-riscv compiler running on your pc? Definitely possible! The linux distro repos contain a couple of standard versions of gcc of which arm-none-eabi is one More on reddit.com
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Cross compilation on Windows 10 with arm-none-eabi-g++ (10.3.1)
Describe the bug I am trying to cross compile the latest benchmark version (git hash 808571a) with the following cross compiler on windows 10: Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=c:\SysGCC\arm-eabi\bin\arm-none-eabi-g++.exe COLLECT_LTO_WRA... More on github.com
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$ arm-none-eabi-gcc -mcpu=cortex-m55 -mfloat-abi=hard · Arm GNU Toolchain 15.2.rel1 supports a set of multilibs in each toolchain. To list all multilibs supported by any of the toolchain, use --print-multi-lib option. For example, ... To check which multilib is selected by the arm-none-eabi toolchain based on -mthumb, -mcpu, -mfpu and -mfloat-abi command line options:
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Getting Started with the ARM GCC Compiler on Windows, Part 1: Installing GCC and Eclipse – The Hacker Workshop
Head over to this website and download the latest version of the compiler. The .exe version of the download includes a Windows installer, which makes installation easy. The current version happened to be gcc-arm-none-eabi-4_6-2012q2-20120614.exe when I wrote this blog post.
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For Windows, download the installer gcc-arm-none-eabi-5_3-2016q1-20160330-win32.exe.
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October 19, 2025 - $ ~/.local/xPacks/@xpack-dev-tools/arm-none-eabi-gcc/15.2.1-1.1.1/.content/bin/arm-none-eabi-gcc --version arm-none-eabi-gcc (xPack GNU Arm Embedded GCC x86_64) 15.2.1 ... The reported version is the upstream version, which is shorter than the xPack version, as the latter requires additional digits to identify the releases. For all platforms, the xPack GNU Arm Embedded GCC binaries are released as portable archives that may be installed in any location. The archives may be downloaded from the GitHub Releases pages. ... The Windows versions of xPack GNU Arm Embedded GCC are packed as .zip files.
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GitHub Action (compatible with Linux x86_64 and aarch64, macOS x86_64 and arm64, and Windows x86_64 platforms) to download, check, set up, and cache the arm-none-eabi-gcc compiler toolchain.
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gcc-arm-none-eabi toolchain, my major question is, why is it made and for what problem to solve ? before toolchains existed, what were the methods used to program a chip ??

also, who makes toolchains and how are they doing it ??

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Gcc-arm-none-eabi is the gcc compiler toolchain for arm outside of a hosted environment. This means that it compiles bare metal code: code running without an already existing OS. ‘Normal’ gcc uses libraries from the system where its installed, so if you compile a hello world links to and uses the standard library. Gcc-arm would mean that the compiler is a cross compiler: its installed on your system but it compiles for arm. On an arm processor could run a full fledged linux environment so a gcc-arm-aarch64-linux or something like that would compile a program on your pc for that arm system running linux. Now there are meriads of arm systems not running linux which needs code to be compiled for as well. This is the place for the none-eabi variant: it does not use any system library and uses a standard interface for calling functions and other stuff. So in other words this is just the bare metal cross compiler for arm systems. And who makes these? Anyone who wants to. Gcc is an open source project and anyone could compile the toolchain. With compiling you can ‘select’ your version: do you want to build a linux-on-riscv compiler running on your pc? Definitely possible! The linux distro repos contain a couple of standard versions of gcc of which arm-none-eabi is one
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It contains the compiler, linker, and other helpful utilities to make code that can be loaded onto a microcontroller. Before any of those utilities existed, you could literally flip switches on a console to set your program in memory. You had to know the hex values for all your opcodes, and how each one expected parameters to be formatted. Programs were very limited. Compilers came along (like gcc) that took slightly more readable code (like assembly or C) and automatically converted them into a binary file. Then linkers showed up to automatically connect up multiple C files and create more complex programs. At the same time, utilities like gdb and openocd showed up to help get that binary file into the memory of a microcontroller, using protocols like swd or jtag. Specifically though, arm (the company that creates the arm instruction set and cortex architecture, that chip makers like ST/Apple/etc license and use), maintains arm-none-eabi-gcc and provides it for free. It has some competition from paid compilers like Keil and IAR, but in most cases gcc is the best choice.
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It shows you how to install the following tools on Mac OS, Linux and Windows: ARM cross toolchain to compile and build Mynewt applications for the target boards. Debuggers to load and debug applications on the target boards. ARM maintains a pre-built GNU toolchain with gcc and gdb targeted at Embedded ARM Processors, namely Cortex-R/Cortex-M processor families.
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arm-none-eabi-gcc is the name of the cross-compiler itself. You will need to install it. Unfortunately, I don't know the Windows 10 STM32IDE, or where you can obtain the compiler.
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Errors with arm-none-eabi-gcc on Windows 10 Bash - Super User
February 20, 2017 - add-apt-repository ppa:terry.guo/gcc-arm-embedded sudo apt-get update apt-get install gcc-arm-none-eabi=4.9.3.2015q3-1trusty1 · Found this solution in the Ardupilot forum http://discuss.ardupilot.org/t/using-bash-on-windows-for-ardupilot-development/8604/7
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Cross compilation on Windows 10 with arm-none-eabi-g++ (10.3.1) · Issue #1375 · google/benchmark
March 17, 2022 - Describe the bug I am trying to cross compile the latest benchmark version (git hash 808571a) with the following cross compiler on windows 10: Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=c:\SysGCC\arm-eabi\bin\arm-none-eabi-g++.exe COLLECT_LTO_WRA...
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You can use MinGW for this; you just need to swap out the C++ toolchain for your chosen one. You can still invoke it from the MSYS console, and all your other tools will still work. There's nothing inherent to MinGW or MSYS that makes this "not supported".

Personally I install GCC 4.9 gcc-arm-none-eabi from launchpad.net, mount the toolchain's directory in MSYS then export the paths I need:

   mount 'C:\PROGRA~2\GNUTOO~1\4947E~1.920' /foo
   mount 'C:\PROGRA~2\GNUTOO~1\4947E~1.920\ARM-NO~1' /foo_local

To discover the short name for the paths, write dir /X at the Windows command prompt. On my machine, the paths above are equivalent to the following, respectively:

  • C:\Program Files (x86)\GNU Tools ARM Embedded\4.9 2014q4
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\GNU Tools ARM Embedded\4.9 2014q4\arm-none-eabi

The mounting only needs to be done once; the export directives may be added to /etc/profile:

   export CPPFLAGS="-I/foo_local/include"
   export CFLAGS="-I/foo_local/include"
   export CXXFLAGS="-I/foo_local/include"
   export LDFLAGS="-L/foo_local/lib -mthreads"
   export PATH=".:/foo_local/bin:/foo/bin:/bin:/opt/bin"

Then just run g++.

Or of course you can skip all the export business and just invoke your chosen GCC directly:

/foo/bin/g++
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If you're using MSYS2, MinGW compliance, you'll be able to install arm-none-eabi-gcc through pacman You can download it from here: https://www.msys2.org Follow the instructions to properly setup the environments. Then use this commands below

pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-arm-none-eabi-gcc mingw-w64-x86_64-libwinpthread-git

now you'll also need to add this into PATH,

echo "export PATH=$PATH:/mingw64/bin" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

Then, you can now call arm-none-eabi-gcc with the MSYS2 shell. See here for the details of this package https://packages.msys2.org/group/mingw-w64-x86_64-arm-none-eabi-toolchain

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[Solved] Problem with arm-none-eabi compiler variables on Windows - Usage - CMake Discourse
March 11, 2023 - Hi! After several hours of trying to build blink with pico-sdk “the harder way :)” (mostly playing with CMake and learning), I am coming for help. I have setup VS 2022, CMake 3.25, ARM GNU toolchain, Ninja. So far so good. But I cannot convince pico-sdk to compile “the way I want”. In my cmake I have these variables: set(CMAKE_C_COMPILER arm-none-eabi-gcc) set(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER arm-none-eabi-g++) These executables are in my path, I can call them in terminal and even CMake finds them. cmake...
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Welcome to the xPack GNU Arm Embedded GCC!
xpm install @xpack-dev-tools/arm-none-eabi-gcc@15.2.1-1.1.1 --verbose · The xPack Framework aims to automate the installation of multiple versions of development tools that are otherwise not easily available in common software distributions, across multiple platforms (Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux).
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Arm 64 Windows and Native - Development Platforms - PlatformIO Community
January 16, 2025 - I am trying to get the Native build to compile my project. I installed “GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain” (and “Arm GNU Toolchain arm-none-eabi” for good measure). Both this packages don’t have just a pure “gcc.exe” they hav…
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Provide instruction on how to install arm-none-eabi-gcc on Windows · Issue #922 · numworks/epsilon
March 13, 2019 - Follow directions and install everything needed for making a build on Windows. ... Zook@DESKTOP MSYS /c/Users/Zook/OneDrive/Desktop/epsilon $ make I18N apps/i18n.cpp QSTRDAT python/port/genhdr/qstrdefs.generated.h CXX apps/main.o /bin/sh: arm-none-eabi-gcc: command not found make: *** [Makefile:107: build/device/apps/main.o] Error 127
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