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Three simulators of the MIX computer, called mixvm, gmixvm
and mixguile, are included in the mdk tools. They are able to
run binary files containing MIX instructions written in their binary
representation. You can translate MIXAL source files into this binary
form using mixasm, the MIXAL assembler. So, in order to compile
the hello.mixal file, you can type the following command at your
shell prompt:
mixasm hello <RET>
If the source file contains no errors, this will produce a binary file
called hello.mix which can be loaded and run by the MIX virtual
machine. Unless the mixasm option -O is provided, the
assembler will include debug information in the executable file (for a
complete description of all the compilation options, see
mixasm). Now, your are ready to run your first MIX program, as
described in the following section.