Compiling my own 'yasm' executable

[Robert Riebisch]

Peter Johnson wrote:

> For Unix systems, the easiest way to do this is to edit the Makefile.inc's
> to un-include the modules you don't want included in the build.  With
> DJGPP, it's almost easier; just edit Mkfiles/Makefile.dj and remove the
> modules you don't want; just be sure to remove both the _OBJS and the
> YASM_MODULES portions for each module.

Thanks! Works fine. :-)

> Yes, we will.  Currently yasm only supports the old-style nasm bin, which

OK :-)

> only allowed 3 sections (.text, .data, .bss).  NASM at one point added
> enhanced bin support, which allows other section names and positioning
> flags.  We'll do the same; look for it in 0.6.

I found another small 'nasm'-thing, that 'yasm' doesn't support:
  .hd:      Db '1' - 80h, ':', ' ' + 80h
or
  badtext:  Db 'Bad partition table!', ' ' + 80h
This will result in error message "label or instruction expected at
start of line".

Seems like '' constants mathematics are not allowed so far.


Another problem:
I cannot build our http://www.bttr-software.de/products/bootmgr/#down
:-(

I get "Exiting due to signal SIGABRT" with my minimized
yasm-r1546.tar.gz DJGPP build or with yasm-r1546-dos.exe/yasm-r1546.exe
it is:

***
        c:\tmp\2\yasm.exe -o..\..\bootmgr.com  bootmgr.asm
INTERNAL ERROR at libyasm/bytecode.c, line 284: written length does not
match op
timized length
Abort!
***

Robert Riebisch
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BTTR Software
http://www.bttr-software.de/