Package Details: mars-mips 4.5-5

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/mars-mips.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: mars-mips
Description: An IDE for programming in MIPS assembly language intended for educational-level use
Upstream URL: http://courses.missouristate.edu/KenVollmar/MARS/index.htm
Licenses: MIT
Submitter: robertfoster
Maintainer: robertfoster
Last Packager: robertfoster
Votes: 28
Popularity: 0.022258
First Submitted: 2010-02-13 10:49 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2020-02-02 17:36 (UTC)

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defty commented on 2022-09-28 05:48 (UTC)

Does anyone else get 100% CPU usage spikes whenever opening an assembly file?

BigfootLives commented on 2020-02-02 16:45 (UTC)

Note for future users: Adding -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on -Dswing.aatext=true to mars-mips.sh will fix janky font rendering.

davebloggt commented on 2016-12-19 11:17 (UTC)

For some reason the PKGBUILD tries to extract the .jar-file with bsdtar and fails. It seems to ignore the noextract line. I fixed that by replacing the line noextract=('Mars${_ver}.jar') with noextract=("Mars${_ver}.jar") in the PKGBUILD.

<deleted-account> commented on 2016-09-19 17:47 (UTC)

Could someone please create a GTK version using java-swing-joxy-git? Perhaps repackage as mars-mips-gtk or perhaps build it into mars-mips as an option to load the GTK. I tried using java-swing-joxy-git while loading the jar and the gtk graphics (icons, etc.) wouldn't load until mouse over or some other redraw interaction.

ShadowMitia commented on 2016-09-19 11:04 (UTC)

It would be nice to be able to transmit commandline arguments to the MARS program.

Marcel_K commented on 2014-05-06 22:35 (UTC)

Just one last remark: you can use Bash's parameter expansion to create the 4_4 part in the URL/file name: pkgver=4.4 _ver=${pkgver%.*}_${pkgver#*.} Now ${_ver} will contain 4_4

Marcel_K commented on 2014-05-06 19:03 (UTC)

I retract the part about noextract: the license file is inside the .jar file, so you should extract it anyway to obtain it.

Marcel_K commented on 2014-05-06 18:49 (UTC)

A few other improvements should (or could) be made: - as this package contains no ELF executables, 'arch' should be set to 'any'; - you could add a noextract value to prevent extracting of the .jar-file (which you don't need); - according to the Java Package Guidelines [1], .jar-files should be installed in /usr/share/java/${pkgname}/ instead of in /opt; - only the shell script should be installed as executable, the other files should be installed with permissions 644; - you should add 'exec' (without the quotes) before and "$@" (including the double quotes) after the command line in the mars-mips shell script to feed the command line parameters to the Java program (also see the Java Package Guidelines); - as there is an icon installed in /usr/share/icons/hicolor you should call gtk-update-icon-cache in an .install file and add gtk-update-icon-cache as a dependency (see GNOME Package Guidelines [2]); - somehow, the MIT license is not a common license included in the licenses package; therefore you should include it within /usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/ [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Java_Package_Guidelines [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME_Package_Guidelines#GTK_icon_cache

Marcel_K commented on 2014-02-14 16:33 (UTC)

Please quote all instances of $pkgdir en $srcdir to allow for spaces in directory names.