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Title: Problem with creating object file and linking
Post by: mo_greene on May 27, 2008, 08:01:59 PM

Helly,

I started doing some things with Assembler a few hours a go, so I am totally a beginner.

I've written a programm (taken from a book about Assembler):

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DATEN	SEGMENT

Meldung	 db "Assembler ist garnicht so schwer."
	       db "$"

DATEN	ENDS

CODE	SEGMENT

	ASSUME CS:CODE,DS:DATEN

Anfang:	mov ax, DATEN
	mov ds, ax
	
	mov dx, offset Meldung

	mov ah,9

	int 21h

	mov ah, 4Ch

	int 21h

CODE	ENDS

	END Anfang

When I try to create an object file and link this, a problem appears:

QuoteAssembling: C:\Users\David\Desktop\asm1.asm
C:\Users\David\Desktop\asm1.asm(12) : error A2004: symbol type conflict
C:\Users\David\Desktop\asm1.asm(27) : warning A4023: with /coff switch, leading
underscore required for start address : Anfang
_
Assembly Error

What went wrong?

Thanks a lot guys! :bg

Title: Re: Problem with creating object file and linking
Post by: MichaelW on May 28, 2008, 01:39:17 PM

I had no problem assembling and linking the code as is, using the ML from the MASM32 package and a 16-bit linker.

Edit: Perhaps I should have added that I assembled and linked with a batch file like this:

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ML /c mg.asm
pause
LINK16 mg.obj;
pause

Title: Re: Problem with creating object file and linking
Post by: Vortex on May 28, 2008, 08:49:01 PM

Hi mo_greene,

Welcome to the forum.

You should not use Masm's /coff swicth to assemble 16-bit asm code.

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