Question about includes and libraries

Hi,

I'm interested in learning assembly and I signed up for a course on udemy called Assembly Language Adventures by xorpd. He recommended this forum as a good place to ask questions.

His whole course is based on working in a Windows environment, but I prefer Linux. I'm using Ubuntu 16.04.1.

In this course I'm at the stage where I'm actually starting to read and write programs. Here is the first one:

Code:

; example for a very basic fasm program. (console based).

format PE console
entry start

include 'win32a.inc'

; =======================================
section '.text' code readable executable

start:
        ; program begins
        inc             eax
        inc             eax
        dec             eax
        inc             eax

        ; exit the process
        push    0
        call            [ExitProcess]

; =======================================
; Imports Section

section '.idata' import data readable

library kernel,'kernel32.dll'

import kernel,\
           ExitProcess,'ExitProcess'

I believe the program is including some library file that contains the 'ExitProcess'.

As a linux user, is there a similar library that I can include instead?

I assume there will be more library includes coming up in the course and I'm wondering how I should go about following along. I don't want to abandon the course because I think the instructor and the content is great. I've already learned a lot, but I want to write some programs now! Smile

Thanks for reading.

; fasm demonstration of writing simple ELF executable format ELF executable 3 entry start segment readable executable start: mov eax,4 mov ebx,1 mov ecx,msg mov edx,msg_size int 0x80 mov eax,1 xor ebx,ebx int 0x80 segment readable writeable msg db 'Hello world!',0xA msg_size = $-msg