Installing the ULM Generator

We will generate a ULM (Ulm Lecture Machine) virtual machine from a description of an ISA (Instruction Set Architecture). For this machine also a debugger can be generated if a working installation of the FinalCut library is available.

For WSL Users

First install the packages autoconf, libtool, autoconf-archive, make, g++, pkg-config, libncurses5-dev.

Installing the FinalCut Library

Install the library with the following commands:

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git clone https://github.com/gansm/finalcut.git
cd finalcut
autoreconf --install --force
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install

Installing the ULM Generator

Install the generator with the following commands:

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git clone https://github.com/michael-lehn/ulm-generator.git
cd ulm-generator
make

Updating a git Repository in General

With git clone ... you cloned, i.e. downloaded a repository. One for the finalcut library and one for the ulm-generator. Often developers make changes to that repositories and you want to obtain these updates.

There two ways to get the updates:

• Delete the old repository and clone it again.

• Download just the changes the changes with git pull. If there are no updates available then you get an according message and that's it.

Using the git pull alternative is obviously more elegant. You are saving bandwidth. But there are other (ground shaking and mind blowing) advantages of using `git` that we might discuss a bit in class.

Updating finalcut

Change into the finalcut directory and run the following commands:

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git pull
make
sudo make install

Updating ulm-generator

Change into the ulm-generator directory and run the following commands:

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git pull
make