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[Wickeycolumbus]

Is there a version of DASM compiled for Intel Macs? I'm trying to run it on my new MacBook Pro but it requires me to install Rosetta from the disk it came with which I don't have at the moment. Thanks!

[batari]

Wickeycolumbus, on Thu Jul 21, 2011 5:54 PM, said:

Is there a version of DASM compiled for Intel Macs? I'm trying to run it on my new MacBook Pro but it requires me to install Rosetta from the disk it came with which I don't have at the moment. Thanks!

If you try to run a GUI-based PPC app, it will give you the option to download Rosetta instead of asking for a disk.

[Wickeycolumbus]

batari, on Thu Jul 21, 2011 5:56 PM, said:

Wickeycolumbus, on Thu Jul 21, 2011 5:54 PM, said:

Is there a version of DASM compiled for Intel Macs? I'm trying to run it on my new MacBook Pro but it requires me to install Rosetta from the disk it came with which I don't have at the moment. Thanks!

If you try to run a GUI-based PPC app, it will give you the option to download Rosetta instead of asking for a disk.

Thanks! Believe it or not, I'm having trouble finding PPC apps. Anyway, looks like Lion is dropping Rosetta support... Would it be easy to build a version for Intel Macs?

[SpiceWare]

Didn't realize DASM was PPC only. I'll see about building an Intel version next week as I'm heading out of town for the weekend.

[ibogost]

I managed to get dasm compiled for Intel, but I'm having some sort of problem related to macros.

I get illegal character errors reported from the assembler for some, but not all instructions defined inside MAC/ENDM. Sometimes these lead to Segmentation fault: 11 errors.

Assembling without Macro definitions works fine.

I thought maybe this was a text encoding issue, but experimentation with both the input and the compilation seems to suggest that it's not.

Has anyone run into this before with dasm?

[ibogost]

I asked around and it seems that the Macro and Repeat code in DASM has been buggy for some time now. Everyone's been using old binaries so they haven't noticed. Does anyone have source from earlier versions? I've tried compiling all the versions in the Sourceforge SVN and they all have the same problem... I don't have the time or patience to go dig in the code; would rather just find a build that runs.

[Joe Musashi]

I also gave compiling a try and ran into the same problem. So it looks like this is a 64bit issue. When I compile with a 32bit target (just replacing "CC= gcc" with "CC= gcc -m32" in src/Makefile) it seems to work.

When assembling the boing26.asm demo in the test directory with that, the resulting output is the same as the reference binary boing26.bin.ref. I also tried with the Medieval Mayhem source and that worked too.

If you want to give it a shot, below's the executable.

This is DASM 2.20.11 from here

http://sourceforge.n...tar.gz/download

compiled with gcc 4.2.1 that came with Xcode 4.1.

Of course, there are no guarantees how stable this build is.

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[ibogost]

OMG Joe I think this worked! I didn't download your binary yet (I will), but I tried the 32 bit compile and it seems to assemble properly. Need to do a few more tests to confirm.