#Manx linker hangs
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I picked up the books "Amiga Assembly Language Programming" by Jake Commander,
and the Compute! book "Amiga Machine Language Programming Guide" some time ago,
and I *finally* have time to start learning assembly on the Amiga. I typed in
the "HIWORLD.ASM" on page 76 of the Compute! book, and assembled it. When I
tried to link it via "ln hiworld.o -lc", the machine hangs…no guru, no
nothin'… Can someone tell me what I should be doing?? (PS. This is using
Manx 3.6A)
I hope that I can get this to work with the Manx assembler first, because I
don't have another assembler at the moment. Which is the assembler of choice
on the Amiga, and how much does it cost?
Thanks,
Steve
Steve,
I'd highly recommend CAPE from Innovatronics. Please be aware that this
opinion is somewhat biased since OTG Software has a marketing agreement with
Innovatronics – still, I think if you ask around, most everyone who has used
CAPE will recommend it over any other assembler currently available for the
Amiga.
David Hankins OTG Software
Thanks! I appreciate the recommendation!
Steve
Steve,
I use A68K almost exclusively, the only time I don't use it being when I have
to assemble someone elses code on a particular assembler to help with an
assembler dependent problem. A68K is available here in the ASM LIB, though
there is another version imminent, with better speed and a few enhancements.
I find Aztec to be a royal pain to use, since it tends to optimize things and
to use (A4) addressing unless you play with the command line.
CAPE is a good, fast assembler, but unfortunately has a crippled command line
when invoked from the CLI instead of from their own editor, which I refuse to
use, due to it not being CEDPro.
All in all, A68K is good, fast, and the price is right.
-larry
Larry,
Great! I'll look into that.
Thanks for the tip!
Steve
Larry,
What is crippled about CAPE's command line from CLI handling?
-Martin Murray
Martin,
You know, when I fired up CAPE for the first time, and decided that the
editor was not for me, I went looking through the manual for information about
running it from a CLI. At that time, I read somewhere in the manual that there
were only two command line switches available to the program when run from the
CLI. Looking in the manual now, I don't see any indication of that, and in fact
it says that you can use a number of switches.
It has been sitting on my shelf ever since. Puzzling. I certainly don't want
to give the wrong information about a product, and will do some further
digging.
-larry