what does the assembler do is just convert the assembly language
source file into a object file. file name ended with .a .obj .o like extension.
I'm using nasm and suggest you too use it.With this command like you
assembling it to a object file.
nasm -f elf HelloWorld.asm
and you need a linker , I have mingw installed in my windows machine
so I suggested to use mingw ld linker to link this.But you need extra
libraries to pass to use the functions like _printf , so that we use the
gcc ( GNU C compiler's fontend for 'ld') , but actually 'ld' is using.
J:\EXERCISES\Assembly\hello>
J:\EXERCISES\Assembly\hello>nasm -f elf HelloWorld.asm
J:\EXERCISES\Assembly\hello>gcc HelloWorld.o -o HelloWorld.exe -e _main
J:\EXERCISES\Assembly\hello>HelloWorld
hello, World
J:\EXERCISES\Assembly\hello>
Compile it and see yourself,This is the code for HelloWorld.asm,
global _main
extern _printf
section .text
_main:
push message
call _printf
add esp , 4
ret
message:
db 'hello, World',10,0
NOTE: when you using a symbol as an entry point that symbol should
be global, and also you can specify the entry point using -e option in the
ld linker.
I think other linkers also give you to explicitly specify the entry point
of your program.
Download nasm and install mingw and do it by yourself. Best regards.
