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nobody

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static library question
« on: May 10, 2005, 12:22:24 PM »
in MASM, there's includelib.. how do you use static libs in NASM?

Offline Frank Kotler

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Re: static library question
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2005, 01:11:35 PM »
I don't use Masm, so I'm not certain, but I'm pretty sure that Masm itself - the assembler - doesn't use "includelib" at all. Rather, when Masm calls "link" for you - which it does, unless you use the "/c" switch, IIRC - it passes the library name to "link" on the command line.

Since Nasm doesn't call a linker for you (which linker would it call???), there's no equivalent in Nasm - you'll need to add the name of the library to the command line *you* give your linker...

ld -o myfile myfile.o somelib.a
*link myfile.obj somelib.lib

...or whatever. You may need to provide the full path to the library, or - depending on the linker - the "LIB" environment variable may be read to provide a search path for libraries.

In short, libraries are a "linker issue", and "not Nasm's job, maaan." :)

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Frank