Third Party applications for Ubuntu on POWER

Advance Toolchain

The Advance Toolchain is a set of development tools, i.e. compiler, libraries, debugger and profiling tools, that help developers take leading edge advantage of IBM's latest POWER hardware features.

The following steps will guide you on the installation process of the Advance Toolchain. Detailed information is available in the Advance Toolchain documentation.

Firstly, import the Advance Toolchain GPG key by running:

wget ftp://ftp.unicamp.br/pub/linuxpatch/toolchain/at/ubuntu/dists/precise/6976a827.gpg.key
sudo apt-key add 6976a827.gpg.key

Note: In the following steps, replace atX.X by the desired version, e.g. at8.0.

Native installation (on POWER)

Add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb ftp://ftp.unicamp.br/pub/linuxpatch/toolchain/at/ubuntu trusty atX.X

Then, install the packages by running:

sudo aptitude install advance-toolchain-atX.X-runtime \
                      advance-toolchain-atX.X-devel \
                      advance-toolchain-atX.X-perf \
                      advance-toolchain-atX.X-mcore-libs

Cross compiler installation (on Intel)

The Advance Toolchain supports cross compilation from Intel processors and generating binaries for POWER processors.

Add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list in your Intel-compatible computer:

deb [arch=i386] ftp://ftp.unicamp.br/pub/linuxpatch/toolchain/at/ubuntu trusty atX.X 

Then, install the packages by running:

sudo aptitude install advance-toolchain-atX.X-cross-ppc64 advance-toolchain-atX.X-cross-ppc64le

For more information on how to use the Advance Toolchain cross compiler visit this page.

IBM SDK for PowerLinux

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