SimpleScalar/ARM Admin

Introduction

simplesim-arm is not tested or guaranteed to work on 64-bit Linux systems (like ours). But it seems to work. The trick is to make the source directory and build directory the same directory (denoted by --prefix below)..

Download

From the University of Michigan's SimpleScalar website, download:

  1. SimpleScalar/ARM
  2. SimpleScalar/ARM cross-compiler kit

Prepare

  1. On your build/distribution system, verify or install gcc 3.4: 
    
% yum list installed | grep compat-gcc-34
compat-gcc-34.x86_64                     3.4.6-4.1                     installed
% which gcc34
/usr/bin/gcc34
  2. We need to build everything with gcc34. Set environment variables accordingly: 
    
% setenv CC gcc34
% setenv HOST_CC gcc34

Build

Build SimpleScalar/ARM

  1. Unpack the distribution: 
    
% gunzip simplesim-arm-0.2.tar.gz
% tar -xvf simplesim-arm-0.2.tar
% cd simplesim-arm
  2. Follow Hao Wang's advice to comment out error-producing cygwin 'if' clauses.
  3. Make: 
    
simplesim-arm% make config-arm
simplesim-arm% make "CC=gcc34"

Build SimpleScalar/ARM cross-compiler kit

Build binutils

  1. Configure, Make, Make Install: 
    
binutils-2.10% ./configure --target=arm-linux --host=arm-linux --prefix=/util/simplesim/crossdir
binutils-2.10% make
binutils-2.10% sudo make install
  2. Add the crossdir binaries directory to your executable path to get ready for the next build: 
    
% setenv PATH ${PATH}:/util/simplesim/crossdir/bin
% rehash

Build GNU GCC

  1. Configure, Make, Make Install: 
    
gcc-2.95.2% ./configure --target=arm-linux --host=arm-linux --prefix=/util/simplesim/crossdir
gcc-2.95.2% make LANGUAGES=c
gcc-2.95.2% sudo make LANGUAGES=c install
gcc-2.95.2% cd ..
crossdir% sudo vi lib/gcc-lib/arm-linux/2.95.2/specs

[replace all occurrences of "elf32arm" with "armelf_linux"]

References

  1. http://www.simplescalar.com/v4test.html
  2. http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~taustin/code/arm/ANNOUNCE.ARM
  3. http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~taustin/code/arm-cross/ANNOUNCE.cross
  4. https://sites.google.com/site/pkuwangh/solutions/simplescalar