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@@ -1,30 +1,31 @@ -1. Installing NASM from source (Unix, MacOS X, Windows/Cygwin, - Windows/MinGW) -2. Installing NASM from source (Windows/MS Visual C++) -3. Installing NASM from source (DOS-Windows-OS/2/OpenWatcom) +1. Installing NASM from source (Unix, MacOS X; Windows - Cygwin; + Windows - MinGW; DOS - DJGPP) +2. Installing NASM from source (Windows - MS Visual C++) +3. Installing NASM from source (DOS, Windows, OS/2 - OpenWatcom) -1. Installing NASM from source (Unix, MacOS X, Windows/Cygwin, Windows/MinGW) -============================================================================= +1. Installing NASM from source (Unix, MacOS X; Windows - Cygwin; + Windows - MinGW; DOS - DJGPP) +================================================================ Installing NASM is pretty straightforward on Unix or Unix-like systems -with Perl and GNU tools installed, including MinGW for Windows with -MSYS installed. Perl is optional for compiling unmodified sources -from a tarball, but is required to build from git or for most source -modifications. +with a C compiler, Make, and standard shell tools installed, including +MinGW for Windows (with MSYS installed) and DJGPP for DOS with the +appropriate tools. Perl is not required for compiling unmodified +sources from a tarball, but is required to build from git or for most +source modifications. If you checked out source from git you will need to run autoconf to generate configure, otherwise you don't have to. -$ autoheader -$ autoconf +$ sh autogen.sh Then run configure to detect your platform settings and generate makefiles. -$ ./configure +$ sh configure You can get information about available configuration options by -running `./configure --help`. +running `sh configure --help`. If configure fails, please file a bug report with detailed platform information at: @@ -69,11 +70,11 @@ to install everything =) Thats it, enjoy! -2. Installing NASM from source (Windows/MS Visual C++) -====================================================== +2. Installing NASM from source (Windows - MS Visual C++) +======================================================== The recommended compiler for NASM on Windows is MinGW -(http://www.mingw.org), but it is also possible to compile with +(http://www.mingw.org/), but it is also possible to compile with Microsoft Visual C++ (tested with Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition.) To do so, start the "Visual C++ Command Shell", go to the directory @@ -86,18 +87,16 @@ up to date with regards to C99 compliance, and we are increasingly using C99 features in NASM. -3. Installing NASM from source (DOS-Windows-OS/2/OpenWatcom) -============================================================ +3. Installing NASM from source (DOS, Windows, OS/2 - OpenWatcom) +================================================================ -NASM has been reported to build correctly with OpenWatcom 1.7 on and -OS/2 platform. The NASM developers have not tested this on any other -platforms. +NASM has been reported to build correctly with OpenWatcom 1.7 on the +Windows and OS/2 platforms. In addition, it *should* work under DOS +with the DOS4GW DOS extender, although the NASM developers recommend +using DJGPP with the CWSDPMI DOS extender instead. A WMAKE make file is provided: > wmake -f Mkfiles\openwcom.mak <platform> ... where <platform> is "dos", "win32" or "os2". - -NASM is known to NOT compile correctly using OpenWatcom 1.7.1 as a -cross compiler with a Linux host (OpenWatcom bug report 751.) |