title: How to use intel pin tools on applications?
body: <p>I am trying to execute pin tools on my own executables. I am asked to use cache simulator (allcache) in order to collect miss rates.</p>
  
  <p>I'm struggling with the parameters and I faced with a lot of errors actually. </p>
  
  <p>The operating system is Win10-64 Bit but I'm using CygWin.</p>
  
  <p>Currently I am trying to trigger it with pin.exe which is under intel64/bin folder.</p>
  
  <p><code>$ pin.exe -t allcache.cpp -- myOwnThingy.exe</code></p>
  
  <p>But I'm getting this error:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>E: Failure to open DLL file C:\cygwin64\home\blabla\pin-3.7-97619-g0d0c92f4f-msvc-windows\intel64\bin\allcache.cpp</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Why does it need to open a <code>dll</code> file especially when there are only .cpps and header files in the examples?</p>