Under Solaris, each of you will have your own directory for the
SimpleScalar simulator, but use a prebuilt installation of the other
tools (specifically, the cross-compiler that compiles C programs into
PISA executables).

Note that you will be using the big-endian version of SimpleScalar
tools under Solaris. For the assignments in this course, there will
not be a need for anything else.

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To build the SimpleScalar simulator:

1. Download the simplesim-3v0c.tgz file from the course web site into
   your home directory on any of the department Solaris machines.

2. Make sure that you have /usr/local/gnu/bin in your PATH ahead of
   /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin. If not, you can make this happen by
   executing the following command:

     (if you are using csh or tcsh):
	 setenv PATH /usr/local/gnu/bin:$PATH

     (if you use bash):
	 export PATH=/usr/local/gnu/bin:$PATH

2. Unpack the downloaded file using the following command:

     tar zxvf simplesim-3v0c.tgz

   At this point, you should have a subdirectory called simplesim-3.0

3. Build the simulator:

     cd simplesim-3.0
     make config-pisa
     make

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The cross-compiler can be accessed at:

     /home/mb/CompArch/bin/ssbig-na-sstrix-gcc

This is invoked the same as a native compiler, but generates PISA
executables instead of SPARC assembly.

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See the "SimpleScalar Familiarization Exercise" handout for
information about using the simulator and building your own PISA
executables.