File input error

[gidak]

Hi to all
I am programming a program that will be a kind of IDE for programming nasm
my program is in c# and i run the compiler like this

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   Process p = new Process();
           
            p.StartInfo.Arguments="-f bin hi.asm -o hi.bin";
            p.StartInfo.FileName = @"C:\nasm.exe";
            p.Start();


but when i run it i get a:

nasm fatal unable to open input file

how can i fix this?
I looked at more threads that had the same problem but I cannot find the answare.
Just to make it clear: The file names are all correct and the paths.

p.s. If theirs a another way to compile nasm code from in a program ill be happy to here

[Rob Neff]

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        p.StartInfo.FileName = @"C:\nasm.exe";


Are you sure that you don't really mean:

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        p.StartInfo.FileName = @"C:\\nasm.exe";

Notice the extra backslash in my example.  Your example contains an escaped newline char '\n'asm.exe
Just a hunch as I'm more of a regular C/C++ guy myself...

[gidak]

It works ether way And i did try tow slashes (all options 2 back 2 front 1 back 1 front)
plus i dont think the problem is in the path cos it gets to nasm.exe but nasm is making the trouble (I think, probably with help of my code )

edit: Got it working, frgot to add:

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p.startinfo.workingdirectory=@"c:\\";man how im stupid

[Frank Kotler]

(No, "stupid" people don't do asm at all! )

You mention "another way"... I've done something similar - in asm, for Linux, using "sys_exec" to run Nasm from within my program. I don't think it'll be any use to you, but I'll post it if you want...

Best,
Frank

[gidak]

Ill be happy if you post it
nothing like getting more input to my brain XD
edit: BTW is their a archive of old nasm source code? (Not code demos)

[Frank Kotler]

Okay. This is "even worse than I remembered". I thought I had a "low level" or "raw" version - can't find it now. This uses macros... from .inc files that have been modified from their original form. It'll be even less use to you than I thought!

What I though might be relevant to the problem you were having (but apparently isn't) is the way arguments (and environment) are passed to sys_execve. I need an array of pointers to strings (both zero-terminated). The first arg needs to be the name of the program (argc is always at least 1), the rest of 'em are what we pretend was on the command line...

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section .data

; the argument strings
    editor db '/usr/bin/mcedit', 0   ; vi, emacs, e3, ...
    ed_in db 'hello.asm', 0

; the array to pass to sys_execve
    ed_args dd editor, ed_in, 0

    assembler db '/usr/local/bin/nasm', 0  ; Fasm, HLA, Gas, ...
    outform db '-felf', 0
    optim db '-O999', 0
    dbg db '-g', 0
    objname db '-ohello.o', 0
    inname db 'hello.asm', 0

    asm_args dd assembler, outform, optim, dbg, objname, inname, 0
   
    linker db '/usr/bin/ld', 0
    lnk_s db '-s', 0
    lnk_in db 'hello.o', 0
    lnk_out db '-ohello', 0

    lnk_args dd linker, lnk_s, lnk_out, lnk_in, 0

I thought you might need something like that to pass arguments, but apparently C# is different (duh!).

As you can see, everything's hard-coded in. The "interface" consists of putting the code you want to assemble in the directory with this program - named "hello.asm" (whatever it is). I was mostly just trying to run another program from my program... and get back! sys_execve doesn't "return", it just exits, so I had to sys_fork first, and sys_wait for the child to return. It was my first experience with sys_fork, and it took me a while to sort out "being in two places at once"! I think I got it, but I didn't get any farther with it...

If the .tar.bz2 is a problem (I think 7zip will do it) I can provide other formats, but I really don't think it "applies" to what you're doing.

Are you looking for an archive "of" Nasm code - the code to Nasm itself? Yeah http://www.nasm.us has got it going way back. If you're looking for code to assemble with Nasm... not much but "demos". Jeff Owen wrote a lot of stuff for Linux - all in Nasm - including an IDE (or two). He's abandoned it. I thought it was on SourceForge, but I can't find it now. I've got it, anyway. A bit too large to post the whole package here. Best documentation of sys_calls I've ever seen, among other things. Really ought to be archived! Maybe I'll break it down into postable chunks...

Best,
Frank

[gidak]

Thank you very much for all the help and support you gave me.
I hope to publish my program on the forums soon
Its not something very good cos i need to run the debugger as a external program but a nice source code editor
with options to make bin com exe and write boot-loaders to floppy's.

If you have any more ideas please tell me.