I haven't run m5 under Cygwin in a long time, and it didn't work well last time I tried. The easiest way to run m5 on a windows machine is to run it under linux in a virtual machine (there are several free ones, like VMware's freebie version and VirtualBox).
Steve On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Lisa Hsu <[email protected]> wrote: > Generally M5 is run in a linux/unix environment. If you want to run on a > windows platform, you'd have to install cygwin and run it under that. I > know Steve has some experience with this, but the general practice is to use > a *nix machine. > Lisa > > On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Uthaiwan Srimongkolpitak > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> To whom it may concern, >> >> This is my first time that plan to use m5 simulator on window xp. I >> don't know the basic installation of M5. Please help me out: >> 1. I dowload files from http://repo.m5sim.org/ and full system file from >> http://m5sim.org/wiki/index.php/Download. >> >> My question is which directory I should use to locate all extracted >> files? -->Right now I locate all in the subfolder, M5, under local drive, >> C:\ . >> >> 2. Then regarding on the instruction of how to compiling and installing on >> http://m5sim.org/wiki/index.php/Compiling_M5, I download g++, python, scons, >> swig, zlib, and m4. >> >> My questions are: >> (1) About m4, how to locate all extracted file of m4 and which version >> of m4 that you recommend? --> Right now, I did is separating each version >> under its subfolder of m4 folder which is under local drive, >> c:\m4\m4....(each version) >> >> (2) Then, I have try to compile m5 using dos, cmd.exe, on several path, >> c:\ or c:\m5, or c:\m5\build_opts, with form, >> scons build/<arch>_<mode>/m5.<binary>. The result is error message, >> 'scons' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable >> program or batch file. I also try it on python and it is neither work. >> Please tell me how to compile on which tool? >> >> Please help me out. >> J&J Group >> _______________________________________________ >> m5-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users > > > _______________________________________________ > m5-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users > _______________________________________________ m5-users mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users
