Installing CYGWIN 32b

You will need this if you plan to use the Simplescalar compiler tools we are providing. We are using pre-compiled binaries and libraries for the Simplescalar compiler.

(But why don't you recompile the toolchain for a linux or windows machine? I did this long time ago and it is a non-trivial task. Moreover, given that it is fairly old and it is unlikely it will successfully recompile. EVen back then, the toolchain would not recompile with the then most recent gcc version. Library dependencies also complicate things further.)

Go to www.cygwin.com and go to their install page. Make sure you use the 32b setup. It will download a setup_x86.exe file, run it, and go through the steps. Uwaterloo has a mirror which is pretty fast for us. In the packages make sure you open the development submenu and include the following pacckages (this is if you wish to do the full assignment on a windows machine):