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Why would you distribute NASM, or any other assembler, with your own code? You list it as a requirement to build your code. Would you also distribute GCC?
by J_Darnley 12y ago
Why would you distribute NASM, or any other assembler, with your own code? You list it as a requirement to build your code. Would you also distribute GCC?
- nkurz 12y agoLogically this makes fine sense, but for whatever reason, I don't think I've ever encountered a popular open source program that required a specific assembler other than 'gas' unless the entire codebase was written for that assembler. I don't think I've encountered it in academic code either. But for whatever reason I've encountered a few that distribute NASM or another assembler. I don't know exactly why this would be. I'm trying to find out. Do you have examples where requiring NASM (or another assembler) as an external dependency has worked for projects in the past? I'm sure they must exist --- I just don't know of any.
- J_Darnley 12y agoFFmpeg. It requires NASM or YASM if you don't want to cripple it by disabling the external assembly.