Release Archive Naming Cheat Sheet (Version 1.0)

Compact version of the Release Archive Naming guide.

General Rule

• End-user archives: <Project>_<version>_<os>_<os-arch>
• Developer archives: <project>_dev_<version>_<target>
• Developer archive names are always entirely lowercase.
• Developer archives include end-user files, debug symbols, and possibly source code fragments or pre-built libraries.
• <target>: <target-arch>-<target-os>[-<target-abi>][-static]
• <target-abi> is optional and may encode soft-float or hard-float.
• The -static suffix means no external library dependencies.

OSes

The list format is <os-arch> (<target-os>).

• Linux (linux)
• macOS (macos)
• Windows (windows)

OS and Target Architectures

The list format is <os-arch> (<target-arch>).

Linux

Common Desktop and Server

• i686 (x86)
• x86_64 (x86_64)
• aarch64 (aarch64)

Common Embedded

• arm (arm with eabi suffix in <target-abi>)
• MIPS-BE (mips with eabi suffix in <target-abi>)
• MIPS-LE (mipsel with eabi suffix in <target-abi>)

Less Common Desktop and Server

• PPC (powerpc)
• PPC64-BE (powerpc64)
• PPC64-LE (powerpc64le)

Less Common Embedded

• arm-hardfloat (arm with eabihf suffix in <target-abi>)
• MIPS-BE-hardfloat (mips with eabihf suffix in <target-abi>)
• MIPS-LE-hardfloat (mipsel with eabihf suffix in <target-abi>)
• RISC-V32 (riscv32)
• RISC-V64 (riscv64)
• MIPS64-BE (mips64)
• MIPS64-LE (mips64el)

macOS

• Intel (x86_64)
• Apple-Silicon (aarch64)
• Universal (universal)

Windows

• 32-bit (x86)
• 64-bit (x86_64)
• ARM64 (aarch64)

Target ABIs

Linux

• gnu (glibc)
• musl (musl)
• gnueabi (GNU libc with soft-float EABI)
• gnueabihf (GNU libc with hard-float EABI)
• musleabi (musl with soft-float EABI)
• musleabihf (musl with hard-float EABI)

macOS

macOS has no ABI variants, so the target does not use one.

Windows

• gnu (MinGW-w64 / GNU toolchain ABI)
• msvc (Microsoft Visual C++ toolchain ABI)