I Have downloaded fasm16925, as well as the fasm dll, asmedit dll, and all of the examples i could find on this board, and a few projects that use fasm, including raw xml library, and the fasm tcc barebones tutorial on wiki.osdev.org, i also have the tcc source, and the source for tccboot. i have laid it all out in a single root directory "BrainStorm", where the source code for fasm and tcc are in "/source/", the fasm examples are in "/examples/" and the includes for fasm and tcc are in "/include/". the downloadable docs for fasm, and the wiki.osdev.org archive are stored under "/docs/". I have gone through and made a .bat file for each component and every example under "/BrainStorm", which are located in the folder with the source for that specific component, and in the root directory there is a file "buildall.bat" the changes directory to each component's directory and executes the build.bat located therein which creates the executable in "/BrainStorm/bin/" if it is a component, or "/BrainStorm/bin/examples/", If it is an example. Now What I Want To Know Is How Would I Go About Making All Of The Source Code Of Fasm be embedded into the executable, so i can, without the source code, reassemble it, or maybe if anybody could help out with using the dll. basically i want to say:

fasm selfassemble.asm fasm.tmp
sudo rm ./fasm
cp ./fasm.tmp ./fasm


where the contents of selfassemble.asm is something like:

call assemble, [internal_src]
move [start],[newlycompiledsrc]


where the memory location names are obvious in there usage and are part of the assembler itself,
and not necessarily present in selfassemble.asm

masonswanson,

Wow, that's quite an accomplishment. What did you want to say?

That would require extensive modifications to Fasm's source. Fasm's build system works off of a complex directory structure included with the include directive. If you were to try to assemble the main file embedded as a resource inside the executable, Fasm would read the include directive and would look for a file that doesn't necessarily exist.

You can always manually 'include' all the necessary sources into one large flat source code file.

here is the FASM core and front-end in one file, it is based on the windows version, i copied each file that was included's contents in place of the include statement

I Have Gone Through The Source And Reformatted It To Use Tabs Instead Of Spaces and each label (That I Could Find) Is the first thing on the line(There Is Nothing Before The Name Of The Label) and there Is A Blank Line Before It
For Example:

lol:
some code,here
some code,here
and some,here

lol2: ; Notice The Line Above Is Blank, It Makes For Slightly Easier Reading
some code,here
some code,here
and some,here


Then At The End Of The File I Added This:

build_self:
mysourcecode file "FASM.ASM"


but now i just need to figure out how to have The contents of fasm.asm be assembled and replace the original code section, is anybody on this board familiar with genetic programming?

ive heard of genetic programming but i dont believe its more powerfull than my truly geniusetic mind

the whole purpose would be to expand your metaknowledge or wisdom of yourself, self perception, and use that knowledge to be closer to the singularity