Getting Started

• Download the Sniper source code from ...
  • git clone ...

• Download the latest Pin kit from the Pin downloads page
  • Extract Pin into sniper/pin_kit
  • Or set PIN_HOME to the location of Pin if you use a different directory or shared Pin location

• Compile Sniper. Some extra dependencies (a pre-compiled copy of the Python interpreter environment) will be downloaded automatically, so make sure you have a working internet connection when you make Sniper for the first time
  • make

• Running an application
  • ./run-sniper -- echo hello
  • cd test/fft; make run

Next steps

• Sniper configuration

• Porting applications to Sniper

• Accessing simulator hooks from inside an application

Prerequisites

• GCC 4.3
• A recent Pin version (for example, 2.10-43611 as of Nov 2011)
• Boost 1.38+