Any good MIPS Assembly compilers?
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I'm taking C++/Assembly in college in a few weeks, and I was wondering if you recommend any free MIPS Assembly compilers. I don't know if VS 6.0 does or not. Thanks.
By "Assembly compilers" do you mean assemblers or compilers?
I doubt whether the standard Microsoft tools do MIPS - you can't run (full) versions of Windows on MIPS processors. WinCE perhaps, but I think you need separate developer tools for that.
Of course GCC compiles for MIPS processors. You can build a cross compiler that runs on a PC and produces MIPS code, but you will need a whole toolchain and libraries built for MIPS of course.
It may be possible to build a GCC cross compiler on Windows on Cygwin, but is likely to be easier on Linux.
I'm sure there are commercial (extremely expensive) MIPS compilers which do super-optimisation and used for stuff like PS2 development. Your college might get an educational discount on one.
Mark
I doubt whether the standard Microsoft tools do MIPS - you can't run (full) versions of Windows on MIPS processors. WinCE perhaps, but I think you need separate developer tools for that.
Of course GCC compiles for MIPS processors. You can build a cross compiler that runs on a PC and produces MIPS code, but you will need a whole toolchain and libraries built for MIPS of course.
It may be possible to build a GCC cross compiler on Windows on Cygwin, but is likely to be easier on Linux.
I'm sure there are commercial (extremely expensive) MIPS compilers which do super-optimisation and used for stuff like PS2 development. Your college might get an educational discount on one.
Mark
You can configure GCC to generate MIPS code.
Metrowerks probably has a MIPS version of Codewarrior.
As for Visual Studio, if there is a way to target MIPS, you'll need to buy a specific version/package/extension... It doesn't come out of the box.
Metrowerks probably has a MIPS version of Codewarrior.
As for Visual Studio, if there is a way to target MIPS, you'll need to buy a specific version/package/extension... It doesn't come out of the box.
Hi,
Are you sure your university will not give you the necessary software? When I took a class like that, there was everything I ever needed, and some more on the class website. :)
Though admittedly, we never compiled MIPS into binary, just ran it on SPIM...
Vovan
Quote:Original post by philvaira
I'm taking C++/Assembly in college in a few weeks, and I was wondering if you recommend any free MIPS Assembly compilers. I don't know if VS 6.0 does or not. Thanks.
Are you sure your university will not give you the necessary software? When I took a class like that, there was everything I ever needed, and some more on the class website. :)
Though admittedly, we never compiled MIPS into binary, just ran it on SPIM...
Vovan
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Thanks for the link.
I'm sure we will be given the necessary software when school begins. I thought I'd start ahead since I'm a complete nerd.
I'm sure we will be given the necessary software when school begins. I thought I'd start ahead since I'm a complete nerd.
Quote:you can't run (full) versions of Windows on MIPS processors
NT used to run on MIPS. They dropped support around the NT4 timeframe.
I know that there was a version of msvc that created MIPS code. I don't know if it ran native or was a cross-compiler. I also don't know if there was a native IDE or not.
SPIM is the way to go to learn MIPS assembly. When your program screws up, you just get an error and a view of all the current regitsters and the stack. Much better than actually crashing your machine.
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