nasm/INSTALL
H. Peter Anvin b9957462d6 INSTALL: MSVC++ compilation instructions
Update compilation instructions for MSVC++, and point out that it's
not just Unix systems which can use the GNU instructions -- it also
applies to MacOS X and Windows with either Cygwin or MinGW.
2007-09-16 22:27:07 -07:00

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1. Installing nasm from source (Unix, MacOS X, Windows/Cygwin,
Windows/MinGW)
2. Installing nasm from source (Windows/MS Visual C++)
1. Installing nasm from source (Unix, MacOS X, Windows/Cygwin, Windows/MinGW)
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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.
If you checked out source from git you will need to run autoconf to
generate configure, otherwise you don't have to.
$ autoheader
$ autoconf
Then run configure to detect your platform settings and generate makefiles.
$ ./configure
You can get information about available configuration options by
running `./configure --help`.
If configure fails, please send bug report with detailed platform
information to <nasm-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net> and we will try to
help you asap!
If everything went okay, type
$ make
to build nasm, ndisasm and rdoff tools, or
$ make everything
to build the former plus the docs.
You can decrease the size of produces executables by stripping off
unnecessary information, to achieve this run
$ make strip
If you install to a system-wide location you might need to become
root:
$ su <enter root password>
then
$ make install
optionally followed by
$ make install_rdf
Or you can
$ make install_everything
to install everything =)
Thats it, enjoy!
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
Microsoft Visual C++ (tested with Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition.)
To do so, start the "Visual C++ Command Shell", go to the directory
where the NASM source code was extracted, and run:
> nmake /f Mkfiles/msvc.mak
We recommend MinGW over Visual C++ 2005 as we have found it to be more
up to date with regards to C99 compliance, and we are increasingly
using C99 features in NASM.