Binutils
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Binutils is the GNU projects portable assember, linker & librarian project. These are the low level tools to create executables. The big advantage of binutils is that it's easy to setup a cross building toolset for another platform.
Binutils is able to target, and host a wide array of cpu's and platforms, although it's biggest use is for UNIX like systems.
The binutils homepage can be found here.
