This guide will show you how to cross-compile SPEC2006 for Alpha using your regular old Ubuntu machine running on Intel. In particular, I have done this so that they can be run in gem5 for the Alpha ISA. I assume that you have a copy of the SPEC benchmarks and the input vectors. Extract SPEC2006 …

In this guide, I will walk you through a quick way to get gem5 built for the Alpha ISA using a Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit host. I have not tried these methods on any other platform. If you get stuck, you can always refer to the documentation at gem5.org. Nothing is presented here that doesn’t already exist …