Installing SPIM MIPS Emulator

[Triple777ER]

Hello people,

This is my first post on FedoraForum. This comes about as I am having difficulty installing the MIPS emulator on my PC. I am currently a university student and have an assignment which requires the emulator on my home PC so I can work at home.

Here is what I have done so far;

- I have manually installed it from http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~larus/spim.html, using the instructions on the page.

-Next, when I installed 'X-windows'(not sure if my Fedora had it installed already but I installed it again using yum)

-When I come to the step where it says 'xmkmf' and 'make'. The 'xmkmf' step works fine, but when I enter 'make', it builds the files but shows up with a lot of errors which regard to the 'xspim.c' file in the directory. Some of these errors are;

xspim.c:871: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘compose’
xspim.c:872: error: ‘compose’ undeclared (first use in this function)
xspim.c: In function ‘put_console_char’:
xspim.c:909: error: ‘shell1’ undeclared (first use in this function)
xspim.c:909: error: ‘XtGrabNone’ undeclared (first use in this function)
xspim.c:912: error: ‘console’ undeclared (first use in this function)
xspim.c: In function ‘error’:
xspim.c:928: error: ‘message’ undeclared (first use in this function)
xspim.c: In function ‘run_error’:
xspim.c:962: error: ‘message’ undeclared (first use in this function)
xspim.c: At top level:
xspim.c:972: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘w’

-I looked up previous forums and found this on ubuntu forums which mentions the necessary packages required;

flex bison byacc libx11-dev libxaw7-dev build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`

-And another website which shows the required packages, here; http://www.nepherte.be/spim-on-linux/

-I have checked whether I have the packages and I have all of them installed. Is this a problem to do with the '.c' file or the specified directory for installation?

Cheers
Triple

[leigh123linux]

What's wrong with using the fedora repo that they provide ?

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/


Install the release rpm then use yum to install spim

[Triple777ER]

Hey Leigh,

I tried doing that, and it says;

Examining cbi-package-config-10-10.i386.rpm: cbi-package-config-10-10.i386
cbi-package-config-10-10.i386.rpm: does not update installed package.
Nothing to do

Looks like I already have it installed.

[leigh123linux]

OK, try

su
yum  install spim

[Triple777ER]

Hey Leigh,

I have installed Spim, but I need XSpim. I have all the required files for Xspim.
I tried

yum install xspim

but looks like there isn't any such package.