I recently ordered Professional Assembly Language off of Amazon, very good book so far.
I'm in the first part of the book, setting up a good environment for developing in assembly. I installed MASM32, however, it appears the book will be mainly using the GNU/GAS/buildutil stuff for this.
Is it possible to us GAS, etc. on Windows 7? Running the setup.com file through the console window says it's a 16-bit application, which can't work on Win7 64 basically.
Any suggestions? Or should I,
-just try to use MASM32 while going through the book
or
-boot into Ubuntu (have it installed on both of my laptops)
I'm in the first part of the book, setting up a good environment for developing in assembly. I installed MASM32, however, it appears the book will be mainly using the GNU/GAS/buildutil stuff for this.
Is it possible to us GAS, etc. on Windows 7? Running the setup.com file through the console window says it's a 16-bit application, which can't work on Win7 64 basically.
Any suggestions? Or should I,
-just try to use MASM32 while going through the book
or
-boot into Ubuntu (have it installed on both of my laptops)
I'm not familiar with the book, but Amazon's description says it's for Linux, so Ubuntu is probably your best bet. Gas (etc.) is available for Windows - look for MinGW - but the code would be different for Windows.
Best,
Frank
Best,
Frank
I'll try that, thank you for your help. :)
Two additional options at your disposal if you want to use your Windows box for developing include setting up a Cygwin environment or using VirtualBox to run Linux inside a virtual machine. I've used both but prefer VirtualBox.