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.gitignore

+__pycache__
+*.egg-info
+src/pipedream/asm/x86/instructions_xed.py

README.md

+# Pipedream
 
-# Install
+## Install
+
+### Generate the x86 instruction database
+
+Before installing Pipedream, it is necessary to generate the database of x86
+instructions from Intel XED:
 
 ```bash
-  ## create X86 instruction database from Intel XED.
   git submodule init
   git submodule update
   cd tools/extract-xed-instruction-database/
@@ -10,3 +15,20 @@
   make -C build -j
   build/extract-xed-instruction-database print-instr-db -o ../../src/pipedream/asm/x86/instructions_xed.py
 ```
+
+Alternatively, if you already have generated this file on another machine, you
+may copy it over as `src/pipedream/asm/x86/instructions_xed.py`.
+
+### Installing pipedream
+
+It is recommended to install python dependencies, as well as pipedream itself,
+into a virtualenv:
+
+```bash
+  virtualenv -p python3 venv
+  source venv/bin/activate
+  pip install -e .
+```
+
+Note that this will break if you did not first generate the x86 instructions
+database (see above).

setup.py

+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+from pathlib import Path
+from setuptools import setup, find_packages
+
+
+def parse_requirements():
+    reqs = []
+    with open("requirements.txt", "r") as handle:
+        for line in handle:
+            reqs.append(line)
+    return reqs
+
+
+def check_instructions_xed():
+    """ Checks that `instructions_xed.py` exists. Raises an Exception on failure. """
+    root_dir = Path(__file__).parent
+    instr_xed_path = root_dir / "src/pipedream/asm/x86/instructions_xed.py"
+    if not instr_xed_path.is_file():
+        raise Exception(
+            (
+                "Cannot find `instructions_xed.py` at {path}. Please check the "
+                "README for more details."
+            ).format(path=instr_xed_path.as_posix())
+        )
+
+
+check_instructions_xed()
+packages = find_packages(where="src/")
+
+
+setup(
+    name="pipedream",
+    version="0.0.1",
+    description="Pipedream",
+    author="CORSE",
+    url="https://gitlab.inria.fr/fgruber/pipedream",
+    packages=packages,
+    package_dir={package: "src/" + package.replace(".", "/") for package in packages},
+    include_package_data=True,
+    long_description=open("README.md").read(),
+    install_requires=parse_requirements(),
+)

tools/extract-xed-instruction-database/.gitignore

+CMakeCache.txt
+CMakeFiles
+Makefile
+cmake_install.cmake
+extract-xed-instruction-database
+xed-build-prefix