Libraries in Assembly

[mebob55]

This is probably a really stupid question with a really simple answer, but how do you make a static library in assembly? I wanted to make static libraries in assembly and use them in Visual C++.

[clive]

Take a look at this,
http://www.masm32.com/board/index.php?topic=14078.0

[ecube]

That link pretty confusing clive, he's a more straightforward approach

;yourlib.asm

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include \masm32\include\masm32rt.inc
myfunction  proto C :DWORD

.code
myfunction proc C param1:DWORD
;do whatever
ret
myfunction endp

end


;build.bat

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\MASM32\BIN\ML /c /coff yourlib.asm
\MASM32\BIN\link -lib /LIBPATH:\masm32\lib yourlib.obj
pause



;test.c

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#include <stdio.h>
#pragma comment(lib, "yourlib.lib");
int main()
{
myfunction(1);
}