This is a simple bash script that downloads, builds, and retrieves useful gnu mips64-elf tools used in N64 decompilation projects. This is useful for platforms like ARM, where mips64 binutil packages are not avaliable.
By default this script will get as, ar, ld, objcopy, and objdump. If you want to add any more programs, then you just need to edit the lines after PRINT_STEP 5. Note that some files get built as <program>-new for some reason, so you'll need to use theRENAME_AND_INSTALL_FILE macro instead of the INSTALL_FILE macro in that case.
The default output folder is called /binutils/ and will appear in the same folder as the script, and all the programs will have the prefix mips64-elf-. You can modify these settings at the top of the script.
wgetfor downloading the binutils source codetarfor extracting the downloaded.tar.xzfile.maketo build the source code
This script shouldn't be too slow on modern x86 computers. It does take advantage of all the computer's threads during the build phase. The Raspberry Pi 3 ended up taking over 10 minutes to complete, whereas my Ryzen 3600 system took less than a minute. Not sure if RAM speeds and/or capacities matter at all.
Here are some references based off the systems I use:
- Ryzen 3600 (with 16GB DDR4 3200 RAM)
- 47 seconds
- Intel Core i5-8250U (with 8GB LPDDR4 2400 RAM)
- 1 minute, 30 seconds
- Raspberry Pi 3 Model B (with 1GB LPDDR2 900 RAM)
- 10 minutes, 45 seconds