-For detailed information about building the simulator and getting
-started please refer to:
-* The main website: http://www.gem5.org
-* Documentation wiki: http://www.gem5.org/Documentation
-* Doxygen generated: http://www.gem5.org/docs
-* Tutorials: http://www.gem5.org/Tutorials
-
-
-Specific pages of interest are:
-http://www.gem5.org/Introduction
-http://www.gem5.org/Build_System
-http://www.gem5.org/Dependencies
-http://www.gem5.org/Running_gem5
-
-Short version:
-External tools and required versions
-
-To build gem5, you will need the following software:
-g++ version 4.3 or newer.
-Python, version 2.4 - 2.7 (we don't support Python 3.X). gem5 links in the
- Python interpreter, so you need the Python header files and shared
- library (e.g., /usr/lib/libpython2.4.so) in addition to the interpreter
- executable. These may or may not be installed by default. For example,
- on Debian/Ubuntu, you need the "python-dev" package in addition to the
- "python" package. If you need a newer or different Python installation
- but can't or don't want to upgrade the default Python on your system,
- see http://www.gem5.org/Using_a_non-default_Python_installation
-SCons, version 0.98.1 or newer. SCons is a powerful replacement for make.
- If you don't have administrator privileges on your machine, you can use the
- "scons-local" package to install scons in your m5 directory, or install SCons
- in your home directory using the '--prefix=' option.
-SWIG, version 1.3.34 or newer
-zlib, any recent version. For Debian/Ubuntu, you will need the "zlib-dev" or
- "zlib1g-dev" package to get the zlib.h header file as well as the library
- itself.
-m4, the macro processor.
-
-
-4. In this directory, type 'scons build/<ARCH>/gem5.opt' where ARCH is one
-of ALPHA, ARM, MIPS, POWER, SPARC, or X86. This will build an optimized version
-of the gem5 binary (gem5.opt) for the the specified architecture.