Re: [Caml-list] Road to native windows OCaml...

[Kuba Ober <kuba@mareimbrium.org>]

On Wednesday 15 October 2008, David Allsopp wrote:
> Kuba Ober write:
> > On Monday 13 October 2008, Seo Sanghyeon wrote:
> > > 2008/10/14 Kuba Ober <kuba@mareimbrium.org>:
> > > > 2. I need to get OCaml to use nasm instead of masm. I would go as far
> > > >   as completely pruning any masm references from OCaml -- there is
> > > >   just no need for masm when a good, free alternative exists. nasm is
> > > >   a single standalone executable -- you can't get much better than
> > > >   that. Heck, it works on unixes too, so it could be used on all
> > > >   platforms. gas is horrible too -- it's only raison-d'etre is to
> > > >   process output from gcc.
> > >
> > > nasm is x86-only, so it couldn't be used on all platforms.
> >
> > masm is too, right? I'm looking for a free replacement to masm/gas on
> > x86.
> >
> > Cheers, Kuba
>
> AFAIK masm is part of the Windows DDK so it has to be x64!

Installing DDK is kind of a long shot. I certainly don't have it installed,
even though I use Visual Studio daily.

For ia32, OCaml should use nasm where it previously used masm, that's about 
all I wish for.

For ia64, I don't care much, and if DDK provides masm-x64 then that's probably
good enough.

Cheers, Kuba