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"libcpu" is an open source library that emulates several CPU architectures

Primary LanguageC++BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" LicenseBSD-2-Clause

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"libcpu" is an open source library that emulates several CPU architectures, allowing itself to be used as the CPU core for different kinds of emulator projects. It uses its own frontends for the different CPU types, and uses LLVM for the backend. libcpu is supposed to be able to do user mode and system emulation, and dynamic as well as static recompilation.

Building

CMake version 2.8 or higher is required.

On Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install flex bison libreadline-dev

On Fedora:

sudo yum install flex bison readline-devel

To build libcpu:

make

Testing

To run the x86 front-end tests:

./test/scripts/8086.sh

License

Copyright (c) 2009-2010, the libcpu developers

Libcpu is distributed under the 2-clause BSD license.