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Installation

Requierements

• A supported system : Linux, Cygwin or FreeBSD,
• Perl 5 (tested with 5.8.8),
• A C++ Compiler or/and a C compiler (like g++ and gcc from GCC) and GNU make,

For now, CompilerBenchmarks' suite just supports tcc, gcc and g++ compilers. It has been tested on ARM (HP iPAQ Hx4700) and x86/x86_64 compatible architectures.

Dependencies

• swig, the Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator (1.3.29 or above),
• Both python and python-dev (2.4.4 or above),
• Both libxml2 and libxml2-dev (2.6.16 or above),
• tar (1.14-2.2 or above),
• gzip (1.3.5 or above),
• unzip (5.52 or above),
• grep (2.5.1 or above),
• patch (2.5.9 or above),
• bzip2 (1.0.2 or above),
• make (3.80 or above), and, finally,
• wget (1.9.1 or above)
• Some distribution, like Mandriva, also need perl-devel (5.8.8 or above).

See the documentation of your distribution to get clues on how to install these pre-packaged programs.

Download

See project's download area on SourceForge.

A page also details available downloads.

Installation

compbenchmarks is providen as a GNU gzipped-tarball package. Traditionnal installation process is used :

• tar xzvf compbenchmarks-x.y.z.tar.gz
• cd compbenchmarks-x.y.z
• ./configure
• make
• make test # optional, yet really recommanded

Optionaly, you may want to install it on your system to make it accessible to all users :

• make install

Usage

At this point, you should take a look to compbenchmark-core and compbenchmark-plan programs.