NASM assembly problems

[Brian Gladman]

mrgrynch at comcast.net wrote:
> I've been trying to build Brian Gladman's Win32 port of GMP, but cannot
> seem to get the assembly code to work.  I've downloaded the NASM
> compiler, placed it in it's own folder, and set my path.  Typing "nasm"
> from the command line (any command line) is able to find the program
> without a problem.
>  
> Attempting to build ANY of the assembly code portion, however, responds
> with the output below.  Any assistance would be appreciated.
>  
> Thanks,
>  -Dave
>  
> ------ Rebuild All started: Project: lib_mpn_p4, Configuration: Debug
> Win32 ------
> 
> Deleting intermediate files and output files for project 'lib_mpn_p4',
> configuration 'Debug|Win32'.
> 
> Performing Pre-Build Event...
> 
> 1 file(s) copied.
> 
> 1 file(s) copied.
> 
> 1 file(s) copied.
> 
> Performing Custom Build Step
> 
> The system cannot execute the specified program.
> 
> Project : error PRJ0019: A tool returned an error code from "Performing
> Custom Build Step"

You need to put the NASM executable in the VC++ binary folder, which is:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\bin

on my system (note that this is different on VC6 and VC8 beta).

You aslo need to make sure that the NASM executable is called nasm.exe
and not nasmw.exe.

I am happy to help with any other problems you run into.

  Brian Gladman