binutils: binutils (GNU binary development tools) binutils: binutils: Binutils is a collection of binary utilities. It includes "as" (the binutils: portable GNU assembler), "ld" (the GNU linker), and other utilities binutils: for creating and working with binary programs. binutils: binutils: These utilities are REQUIRED to compile C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, binutils: and most other programming languages. binutils: binutils: binutils: