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Toolchain
Set of programming tools that is used to perform a complex software development task or to create a software product

A toolchain is a set of software development tools used to build and otherwise develop software. Often, the tools are executed sequentially and form a pipeline such that the output of one tool is the input for the next. Sometimes the term is used for a set of related tools that are not necessarily executed sequentially.

A relatively common and simple toolchain consists of the tools to build for a particular operating system (OS) and CPU architecture; consisting of a compiler, a linker, and a debugger. With a cross-compiler, a toolchain can support cross-platform development.

For building more complex software systems, many other tools may be in the toolchain. For example, for a video game, the toolchain may include tools for preparing sound effects, music, textures, 3-dimensional models and animations, and for combining these resources into the finished product.

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See also

  • Computer programming portal
  • Buildroot – Tool for building Linux
  • Debian build toolchain – Set of programming tools for deploy packages for Debian repositories
  • DevOps toolchain – DevOps toolchain release package.
  • Framework – Type of library that helps structure other software
  • Library – Collection of resources used to develop a computer program
  • GNU toolchain – Collection of programming tools produced by the GNU Project
  • LLVM – Compiler backend for multiple programming languages

References

  1. "Toolchain Overview". nongnu.org. 2012-01-03. Retrieved 2013-10-21. http://www.nongnu.org/avr-libc/user-manual/overview.html ↩

  2. "Toolchains". elinux.org. 2013-09-08. Retrieved 2013-10-21. http://elinux.org/Toolchains ↩

  3. Imran, Saed; Buchheit, Martin; Hollunder, Bernhard; Schreier, Ulf (2015-10-29). Tool Chains in Agile ALM Environments: A Short Introduction. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 9416. pp. 371–380. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-26138-6_40. ISBN 978-3-319-26137-9. 978-3-319-26137-9 ↩

  4. "Toolchain Overview". nongnu.org. 2012-01-03. Retrieved 2013-10-21. http://www.nongnu.org/avr-libc/user-manual/overview.html ↩

  5. "Toolchains". elinux.org. 2013-09-08. Retrieved 2013-10-21. http://elinux.org/Toolchains ↩