MASM example from Japheth's JWASM distribution.

[hutch--]

I was having a poke through Japheth's JWASM distribution files and found this public domain masm2htm converter. Did a quick fiddle to set it up for the libraries I have for VC2003 and it builds fine in both masm and jwasm. Shame about the extra 30k of c library junk but I could not be bothered re-writing it as it works fine and is plenty fast enough.

[z941998]

Where can I get a copy of Libc.lib, external link issue

[UtillMasm]

http://alink.sourceforge.net/

i guess here.

[japheth]

Where can I get a copy of Libc.lib, external link issue

I used the static LIBC.LIB from MS VC++ Toolkit 2003. The libs contained in current MS VC versions should do as well. Alternatively, you can use file LIBC32S.LIB, which can be found in http://www.japheth.de/Download/HX/HXDEV216.zip, directory LIB. With the latter, executable file size will be just 12 kB.

[z941998]

Thanks, got it.

[Vortex]

Hi Hutch,

Instead of Microsoft's VC run-time library, you can use a smaller one to get a small executable :

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\masm32\bin\ml /c /coff masm2htm.asm
\masm32\bin\polink /SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE /LIBPATH:\masm32\lib masm2htm.obj kernel32.lib msvcrt.lib crt0\crt0.lib


The result is masm2htm.exe having a size of 5120 bytes.

[hutch--]

Thats very impressive Erol, sounds like a good replacement for LIBC where you don't need or want all of the added functionality that it bundles with a single call to a maths function.

I took the option of using MSVCRT directly as it still allows the user defined entry point and no static libraries and the current build with a self centering window is 3k which is a reasonable size. Sad to say it does not seem to offer much advantage of a direct masm template once the crt is not available. I see that VC when tweaked carefully is capable of apps in the 100k range that have a massive amount of functionality for their size but it will mean carefully picking what gets added so it does not blow the size out.