I just installed IBM CELL SDK, CELL simulator and CELLIDE on my PC box with newest Fedora. It was a quite painful process and I couldn’t find anywhere full installation instruction. It’s a pity that IBM releases such interesting technology without proper support. So here is the full installation guide.
First get all the needed rpm’s and iso’s from IBM or other website:
systemsim-cell-3.1-25.f9.x86_64.rpm sysroot_image-3.1-1.noarch.rpm cell-install-3.1.0-0.0.noarch.rpm CellSDK-Extras-Fedora_3.1.0.0.0.iso CellSDK-Devel-Fedora_3.1.0.0.0.iso
Now let’s install sdk and simulator.
yum install tk rsync sed tcl wget rpm -ivh cell-install-3.1.0-0.0.noarch.rpm cd /opt/cell cellsdk --iso /root/cell/cellsdk/ install cellsdk_sync_simulator install
Open ~/.bash_rc with You favourite text editor and modify PATH there:
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/ibm/systemsim-cell/bin:/opt/cell/toolchain/bin
To run simulator from console use:
systemsim -g
Remember to use fast simulator mode, it’s very useful even on newest i7 :). Now let’s setup cellide (You don’t need to install Fedora Eclipse).
yum install cellide cell-spu-timing alf-ide-template fdpr-launcher ibm-java2-i386-jre
Time to download fix pack 3.1-SDKMA-Linux-x86_64-IF01 “intended only for RHEL” :), so Eclipse will detect local cell simulator. Install it.
rpm -Uvh cellide-3.1.0-7.i386.rpm
Finally run eclipse with:
./eclipse -vm /opt/ibm/java2-i386-50/jre/bin