How to install Linaro toolchain in windows?

Question

I find Linaro toolchain in https://www.linaro.org/downloads/

but the files (such as gcc-linaro-6.2.1-2016.11-i686-mingw32_arm-linux-gnueabihf.tar.xz ) format tar.xz contains symbolic links.

How can .tar.xz be extracted in windows ?

Thank you,

Answer 1

You will have to run the following from your mingw environment:

tar xf gcc-linaro-6.2.1-2016.11-i686-mingw32_arm-linux-gnueabihf.tar.xz

Answer 2

For me also unzipping with 7zip (executed as administrator!) worked. When you unzip without administrator-rights you get an error in 7zip after unzipping.

It worked and created *.o and *.a files like crtbegin.o, crtend.o, libgcc.a, libgcov.a, ... in <path_to_your_extracted_compiler>\lib\gcc<compilername><version>\

Due to this files i assume that the symbolic links are created.