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This new and improved linker approximately halves link time for build/X86/gem5.opt for me compared to lld, the previously fastest linker. The -fuse-ld=mold option is supported by current versions of clang, and will be supported in gcc 12. To use the mold linker with gcc prior to version 12, you need to set the LINKFLAGS_EXTRA scons variable to pass in a -B option as described on this page: https://github.com/rui314/mold Change-Id: Ic5ad0e532fac078d384a0aebb3e04a4b04ce4880 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/57173 Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabe.black@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com> Reviewed-by: Earl Ou <shunhsingou@google.com>
This is the gem5 simulator. The main website can be found at http://www.gem5.org A good starting point is http://www.gem5.org/about, and for more information about building the simulator and getting started please see http://www.gem5.org/documentation and http://www.gem5.org/documentation/learning_gem5/introduction. To build gem5, you will need the following software: g++ or clang, Python (gem5 links in the Python interpreter), SCons, zlib, m4, and lastly protobuf if you want trace capture and playback support. Please see http://www.gem5.org/documentation/general_docs/building for more details concerning the minimum versions of these tools. Once you have all dependencies resolved, type 'scons build/<CONFIG>/gem5.opt' where CONFIG is one of the options in build_opts like ARM, NULL, MIPS, POWER, SPARC, X86, Garnet_standalone, etc. This will build an optimized version of the gem5 binary (gem5.opt) with the the specified configuration. See http://www.gem5.org/documentation/general_docs/building for more details and options. The main source tree includes these subdirectories: - build_opts: pre-made default configurations for gem5 - build_tools: tools used internally by gem5's build process. - configs: example simulation configuration scripts - ext: less-common external packages needed to build gem5 - include: include files for use in other programs - site_scons: modular components of the build system - src: source code of the gem5 simulator - system: source for some optional system software for simulated systems - tests: regression tests - util: useful utility programs and files To run full-system simulations, you may need compiled system firmware, kernel binaries and one or more disk images, depending on gem5's configuration and what type of workload you're trying to run. Many of those resources can be downloaded from http://resources.gem5.org, and/or from the git repository here: https://gem5.googlesource.com/public/gem5-resources/ If you have questions, please send mail to gem5-users@gem5.org Enjoy using gem5 and please share your modifications and extensions.