From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44DAFBBAF for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:38:57 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: As4BALuB9UhDWxLCbmdsb2JhbACBcpFtPq0qgWs X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,415,1220220000"; d="scan'208";a="18762207" Received: from ip67-91-18-194.z18-91-67.customer.algx.net (HELO server1.bertec.net) ([67.91.18.194]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 15 Oct 2008 14:38:56 +0200 Received: from kuba.bertec.net (kuba.bertec.net [192.168.2.16]) by server1.bertec.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6759B105761 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:38:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Kuba Ober To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Road to native windows OCaml... Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:38:53 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <200810131935.53365.kuba@mareimbrium.org> <200810141733.00108.kuba@mareimbrium.org> <87E4C4600F10448998C26E2084ABC7E0@countertenor> In-Reply-To: <87E4C4600F10448998C26E2084ABC7E0@countertenor> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200810150838.55095.kuba@mareimbrium.org> X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml:01 masm:01 masm:01 unixes:01 gcc:01 cheers:01 afaik:01 cheers:01 seo:98 wrote:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 output:02 native:03 On Wednesday 15 October 2008, David Allsopp wrote: > Kuba Ober write: > > On Monday 13 October 2008, Seo Sanghyeon wrote: > > > 2008/10/14 Kuba Ober : > > > > 2. I need to get OCaml to use nasm instead of masm. I would go as far > > > > as completely pruning any masm references from OCaml -- there is > > > > just no need for masm when a good, free alternative exists. nasm is > > > > a single standalone executable -- you can't get much better than > > > > that. Heck, it works on unixes too, so it could be used on all > > > > platforms. gas is horrible too -- it's only raison-d'etre is to > > > > process output from gcc. > > > > > > nasm is x86-only, so it couldn't be used on all platforms. > > > > masm is too, right? I'm looking for a free replacement to masm/gas on > > x86. > > > > Cheers, Kuba > > AFAIK masm is part of the Windows DDK so it has to be x64! Installing DDK is kind of a long shot. I certainly don't have it installed, even though I use Visual Studio daily. For ia32, OCaml should use nasm where it previously used masm, that's about all I wish for. For ia64, I don't care much, and if DDK provides masm-x64 then that's probably good enough. Cheers, Kuba