hi, currently i’m tryin to get sdl working with assembler, my problem is how
to define the main function (int main (int, char**); in c), because i’m
quite new to assembler. i’m using the macro assembler(MASM). thanks for help.–
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Assembler…that seems kinda silly unless you are writing to one specific
processor Like a PIC mirco or something.
Other than that there is little advantage of usgin asm over C w/ an optimzed
compiler.
The very idea of SDL is to be cross platform, which is the anti-thesis of ASM
…but if you really want to…then dump MASM (but not really), and use inline
assembly in your C code, that would probably be the best way to combine the
two.
Or you can make your assembly module into a libaray and then write your C
routine w/ SDL and link to your ASM built library.
most modern compilers support inline assembly now.
but I really haven’t a clue as to what M$ products do these days as I left in
the days win95 and haven’t looked back since (but I did like MASM)On Sunday 13 April 2003 8:48 am, se_police at gmx.de wrote:
hi, currently i’m tryin to get sdl working with assembler, my problem is
how to define the main function (int main (int, char**); in c), because i’m
quite new to assembler. i’m using the macro assembler(MASM). thanks for
help.
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deserve neither liberty nor safety. "
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…but if you really want to…then dump MASM (but not really), and use
inline
assembly in your C code, that would probably be the best way to combine the
two.
Or you can make your assembly module into a libaray and then write your C
routine w/ SDL and link to your ASM built library.hi, currently i’m tryin to get sdl working with assembler, my problem is
how to define the main function (int main (int, char**); in c), because i’m
quite new to assembler. i’m using the macro assembler(MASM). thanks for
help.
Hello!
You’re not alone… I would also be very interested in source code and code
examples doing exactly this. (This = Using SDL both from a “pure” assembler
and from inline asm in gcc for example.) Anyone?
Of course I know assembler and machine code is, kind of, against the
multiplatform philosophy of SDL, but it is totally in line with my own
use-the-tools-you-know-for-whatever-you-want philosophy. 
Later…
/M Andr?n>On Sunday 13 April 2003 8:48 am, se_police at gmx.de wrote:
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What about fun?On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 09:07:43AM -0700, Samuel wrote:
Assembler…that seems kinda silly unless you are writing to one specific
processor Like a PIC mirco or something.
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Assembler…that seems kinda silly unless you are writing to one specific
processor Like a PIC mirco or something.
i want to teach my self x86 assembly and currently i try to write a 2d tile
engine based on opengl and sdl, and i think using sdl only because it’s
platform independet is as sylly as using assembler, beacause sdl offer a much more
clean way to write mulitmedia application by handling the whole windwo
manager overhead, so the my whole init routine in c is just about 20 lines.
currently i use this part of code to declare my function, if my
understanding of c isn’t completly wrong, it should be right
_SDL_main PROC PUBLIC argc :DWORD, argv :DWORD
xor eax, eax
ret
_SDL_main ENDP
but it says at link time: unresolved external symbol _SDL_main–
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_SDL_main PROC PUBLIC argc :DWORD, argv :DWORD
xor eax, eax
ret
_SDL_main ENDP
but it says at link time: unresolved external symbol _SDL_main
The assembler may be changing the leading underscores. Did you
try just SDL_main and __SDL_main?
See ya,
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