Yasm working with Win32

[Krasimir Angelov]

Is there any chance to have it working with all debug symbols? That
way it will be easier to use the Visual Debugger with GHC compiled
code.

Cheers,
  Krasimir

On 12/10/06, Peter Tanski <p.tanski at gmail.com> wrote:
> I thought you might like to know that after the Yasm developer, Peter
> Johnson, added support for complex relocations and a little testing,
> Yasm now works for Win32 (and, presumably Win64 but I am not able to
> test that far).  To try it yourself, grab the latest development
> snapshot, 'yasm-r1705.exe' or later from http://cvs.tortall.net/
> projects/yasm/snapshots/r1705/ .
>
> There is one caveat: the Yasm-output object file with complex
> relocations results in extra symbols that cause the Windows loader to
> choke.  You need to strip all symbols ('ld -s ...') after assembling
> the object file.
>
> Here is an example session:
>
> (in MSYS):
>  > ghc -pgma "yasm-r1705" -opta "-a x86" -opta "-p gas" -opta "-f
> win32" -optl-s hello.hs -o hello
> --yasm will complain that it does not recognise the "-c" option; this
> is an artifact in GHC
>
>  > hello
> yasm works!
>
> Notes:
> architecture: -a x86 (i386)
> parser: -g gas
> obj format: -f win32 (win32-COFF)
>
> Next on the list is to get GHC to build using Yasm and test it...
>
> Cheers,
> Pete
>
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