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Tomasz Grysztar 27 Nov 2017, 11:55
You could try to follow this very old topic. I have no idea if its advice is still viable, though.
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Fulgurance 27 Nov 2017, 12:21
Okay, i test that, thanks. But you don't want to add officialy your assembly for Gentoo ? Is this too much work?
It's a shame, because honestly for me, fasm is really an excellent assembler. Otherwise, I have a question for a personal project. Your assembler is created in C or with another assembler? I have read this article: https://www.swansontec.com/sintel.html I don't understand one part of this article, what is it mod R/M ? Are there libraries for write assembly instructions on file, in binary mode, or for facilitate assembly building ? For example, a library that can write one instruction on binary mode or little block of asm instructions with arguments on fonction ? I do not know if I am very clear? |
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ProMiNick 27 Nov 2017, 15:24
how fasm created? - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FASM
In case of 1 byte instruction opcode itself determine length of instruction and its operands. In case of multybyte instruction mod R/M is 2nd byte that purpose for determining length of instruction and its operands. My english bad too... I don`t understand "Are there libraries for write assembly instructions on file, in binary mode, or for facilitate assembly building ?" - What thou mean? If thou were windows user i could answer this question "For example, a library that can write one instruction on binary mode or little block of asm instructions with arguments on fonction ?" (In IDE it is possible to add assembly of instruction or blocks of instructions just from clipboard or throw selection and custom menuitems). But building that in console and in linux environment - for me it is impossible. Partialy because there(here) is not enough examples for teaching programming in fasm for linux. |
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Melissa 28 Nov 2017, 01:30
Although my distro carries it in standard repo, I simply untar in my home dir and symlink to executable.
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28 Nov 2017, 01:30 |
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Furs 28 Nov 2017, 13:17
Fulgurance wrote: Okay, i test that, thanks. But you don't want to add officialy your assembly for Gentoo ? Is this too much work? There's no point in tying it to a distribution. |
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28 Nov 2017, 13:17 |
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Fulgurance 31 Jan 2018, 13:57
If you don't make repository for Gentoo, can you allow me to make fasm package for Gentoo ? Don't worry, I would say that you are the author of the script.
How is it possible to recompile fasm ? |
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31 Jan 2018, 13:57 |
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Furs 31 Jan 2018, 18:15
FASM can recompile itself. So technically, you can't, without having the binary first.
You could use another assembler to compile it, but you'd have to edit the source with sed scripts or whatever to make it compatible. Not worth the effort IMO. |
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yeohhs 01 Feb 2018, 03:20
Fulgurance wrote: If you don't make repository for Gentoo, can you allow me to make fasm package for Gentoo ? Don't worry, I would say that you are the author of the script. From fasm LICENSE.TXT file: Quote:
Yes, you can distribute fasm (source and binary) but fasm is copyrighted software by Tomasz Grysztar, its legal owner and it's not Open Source. If Gentoo only accepts GPL or other Open Source software, fasm may not be accepted as a part of their packages distribution. You might want to consult Gentoo about this issue. After reading fasm's LICENSE.TXT, this is what I could conclude, if I'm not mistaken. I'm not a lawyer.  |
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01 Feb 2018, 03:20 |
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Furs 01 Feb 2018, 13:09
Who said about modifying anything? What you quoted applies to almost any open source license. I mean, it's not like you can take a GPL license and change it legally to something else like BSD, why would FASM's license be any different?
It doesn't even say you can't modify the code, only the license itself, which is sane and prevents abuse (the only license that allows to be changed are the "public domain" licenses like WTFPL or w/e it's called). Anyway, I suggested to use a sed or awk script to modify the source so that another assembler can compile it, if needed -- i.e. only "as needed" temporarily / automatically. Because FASM is self-compiled so you'll need the binary before compiling it, and that's not very Gentoo-like cause it wants to compile all software in its packages. You can always just use the binary directly though, without any package. |
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01 Feb 2018, 13:09 |
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Tomasz Grysztar 02 Feb 2018, 08:22
Furs wrote: What you quoted applies to almost any open source license. I mean, it's not like you can take a GPL license and change it legally to something else like BSD, why would FASM's license be any different? BTW, fasmg uses the 3-clause "revised" BSD License. |
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Fulgurance 03 Feb 2018, 10:05
Don't worry, Gentoo accept multiple type of license, no problem. And don't would like to edit fasm, just add repository for Gentoo.
Is it good for you Tomasz Grysztar ? If i understand, is it BSD-2 license, is it that ? Link: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/License_Groups/OSI-APPROVED |
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03 Feb 2018, 10:05 |
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rugxulo 20 Feb 2018, 05:16
Furs wrote: FASM can recompile itself. So technically, you can't, without having the binary first. For the most part, as is obvious to most of us, I can't even pretend to see the point in assembling FASM with something else. I know that's not really what was asked here (misunderstanding), but it's still curious. Anyways, to me, the simplest way is DOS (not Linux), rebuild an ancient .COM version of FASM, and use that to build later versions and finally newest version. I tested this with 1.40 (.COM), 1.64, and 1.72. While I didn't yet rebuild the .COM with anything else, at least I have found that it's a good place to start. So it's reasonably possible. (Probably not directly useful for Gentoo, but hey, you can rebuild various DOS-compatible environments there, in a pinch.) See here for a simple .BAT script. |
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