This project is for BYU ECEn 425, and was taken from the CAEDM servers (/ee2/ee425/src/dist). The purpose for posting on GitHub is to make the build process available for Ubuntu 12.04+ and Mac OS X, along with any minor modifications along the way.

Disclaimer: For ECEn 425 projects, this may or may not compile exactly the same as the CAEDM machines

You can either clone this repo, or on the side click 'Download ZIP'.

To clone:

$ git clone https://github.com/plusk01/8086-toolchain.git

Prerequisites for Linux:

There are a few dependencies needed for this toolchain to be built correctly.

On Debian based systems (Ubuntu, etc), run the following in your terminal:

sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib g++-multilib libc6-dev-i386 lib32ncurses5-dev xterm

Tested on Ubuntu 16.04 x86_64, Ubuntu 17.04 x86_64 & Ubuntu 17.10

Prerequisites for Mac OS X:

Your system will depend on the X11 Window system, which is now called XQuartz. It can be found here. (Tested with version 3.7.7)

Tested on Mac OS X Yosemite.

Building on Linux/Mac:

Then, cd into the repo and run make:

$ cd 8086-toolchain/
$ make

If all goes as planned, you will have 5 binaries in your ./8086-toolchain/bin/ directory. If there are any problems, you can try cding into each of the tool directories and running make individually so you can see the warnings/errors more clearly.

To use the binaries from anywhere, see Setting Your Path below.

Put this at the bottom of your ~/.profile ~/.bashrc (Or whatever your shells startup script is).

# ECEn 425 binaries
export PATH="/Users/plusk01/Documents/8086-toolchain/bin":$PATH

Make sure to reload your shells startup by either closing your shell and reopening it, or using the source command:

source ~/.profile

This will actually add your toolchain bin to the path.

Linux:

• cdefs not defined: Make sure Linux prereqs are installed
• Parsing errors with Perl generated headers/macros: At some point the files were saved with 'DOS' line endings instead of Unix, so if you see a ^M (Windows carriage return char) that is likely the issue and saving (or overwriting) the file correctly should fix it. Make sure to blow away any generated files.
• If on Ubuntu 17.04 or higher, you may get the following error: xterm: cannot load font '-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1'. emu86 will still work fine. If you wish to fix the error, you can try following the steps in this form: https://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=1013

Mac:

• cpp does not remove // comments correctly: See Makefile example below, make sure to add -xc++ flag to cpp to remove c99 style comments.

lab1.bin:       lab1final.s
                nasm lab1final.s -o lab1.bin -l lab1.lst  # Step 4, Assemble

lab1final.s:    clib.S lab1asm.S lab1.s
                cat clib.S lab1asm.S lab1.s > lab1final.s # Step 3, Concatenate

lab1.s:         lab1.c
                cpp -xc++ lab1.c lab1.i    # Step 1, Preprocess
                c86 -g lab1.i lab1.s       # Step 2, Compile

clean:  
                rm lab1.bin lab1.lst lab1final.s lab1.s lab1.i

test:
                emu86 lab1.bin

Makefile error: If you copy this directly and paste into a Makefile, the tabs will often be converted to spaces. You will get a "Missing separator" error from make. Just replace the indentions with two tabs and it should work.