Gem5

• Setup scons

  • Download from here
  • cd scons-3.1.0 in my case
  • python setup.py install

• Install zlib

  • apt-get install zlib1g-dev

• Install Boost, issues faced on some machine

  • apt-get install libboost-all-dev

• Installing m4 Macro Processor on Ubuntu Linux

  • wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-latest.tar.gz
  • tar -xvzf m4-latest.tar.gz
  • cd m4-1.4.17 in my case
  • ./configure
  • make
  • make install
  • Good to Delete m4-latest.tar.gz

• Install Mercurial to get hg working

  • apt-get install mercurial

• hg clone http://repo.gem5.org/gem5

• cd gem5

• scons build/X86/gem5.opt

Rather doing these setups, I would really suggest to use Docker Image

• Just Run this command

  • docker run --name gem5 -it gem5/gem5 /bin/bash
  • scons build/X86/gem5.opt

• If you want to customize something look and make custome Docker Image, DockerFile is also placed there.

• So, with or Without docker, If

  • scons build/X86/gem5.opt command succeeds, I believe setup is complete.
  • Since above command takes a lot of time to execute, I suggest you to pull below image with everything complete, just waiting to run your code.
  • docker run --name gem5 -it harshkasyap/gem5 /bin/bash
  • docker stop gem5
  • docker start gem5

Now, Get, Set and Go to run your first command, Follow this