License question regarding ML.EXE and LINK.EXE

[gwapo]

Hi all,

I own Visual Studio 2003 and Visual Studio 2005; both packages has the latest binaries for ML.EXE and LINK.EXE. If I replaced the binaries in MASM32 v9, will it be ok? I mean, am I violating licences by doing that?

Thanks,

-chris

[hutch--]

Nope,

As the licenced user of the VC product range, you can use the binaries where ever you like. take a little caution with the link version as it may mess up the preferred file alignment which will blow out the file size. From memory the linker in VC2005 will default to 512 bytes so it may not be a problem. I think ML version 8.00 squarks at a few bits in windows.inc which you may have to comment out.

[gwapo]

Thanks hutch, I'll take note of the differences of LINK.EXEs.

Regards,

-chris

[asmfan]

If there will be a problem with section alignment in file try to use /OPT: NOWIN98 in Link.exe to reduce filesize.