Help Generating an Executable w/out visual

[victorvmpm]

Please, that sounds great! it would really help me!

Thanks everyone and thanks in advance joemc!

[joemc]

here is a short sample of how you would run ml.exe and link.exe
it does not do all the features mentioned earlier. i cannot find source. may rewrite it, but i cannot find it.  Would not be hard to write from here, just need a few FindFirstFile and a little logic.

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include \masm32\include\masm32rt.inc

.data?
value dd ?

.data
item db "Test",13,10,0
szMLEXE db "C:\masm32\bin\ml.exe",0
szMLCMD db "/coff /Fo .\obj\jmake.obj /c jmake.asm",0
szLINKEXE db "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin\link.exe",0
szLINKCMD db "/subsystem:CONSOLE -LIBPATH:c:\masm32\lib .\obj\jmake.obj",0
sinf STARTUPINFO <>
pinf PROCESS_INFORMATION <>

.code

start:
cls


invoke GetStartupInfo, OFFSET sinf
invoke CreateProcess,OFFSET szMLEXE,OFFSET szMLCMD,NULL,NULL,FALSE, NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS,NULL,NULL,OFFSET sinf,OFFSET pinf
invoke CloseHandle,pinf.hThread

invoke WaitForSingleObject, pinf.hProcess, INFINITE

invoke CloseHandle,pinf.hProcess

invoke CreateProcess,OFFSET szLINKEXE,OFFSET szLINKCMD,NULL,NULL,FALSE, NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS,NULL,NULL,OFFSET sinf,OFFSET pinf
invoke CloseHandle,pinf.hThread

invoke WaitForSingleObject, pinf.hProcess, INFINITE

invoke CloseHandle,pinf.hProcess


inkey
exit
end start


edit:

just tested it and for some reason it is not accepting the /subsystem flag... idk why yet... it still assembles and links though.  just gives  a warning saying defaulting to console. Not sure how i did it before. i may disassemble it and find out what i did last time.   ML also has a linker built in if you would rather just call it. The only reason you would not want to use it is if your compiler wanted to output object files.

[joemc]

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[hutch--]

If you are going to do this stuff, write the build info as a batch file then run the batch file and you don't have any inheritance or process ownership problems.