Re: [Boost-users] Building modular-boost on windows with masm32?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Building modular-boost on windows with masm32?
From: Oliver Kowalke (oliver.kowalke_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-07-02 14:20:39

2014-07-02 20:11 GMT+02:00 John Maddock <boost.regex_at_[hidden]>:

> I think the issue here is why should users need to install MASM when
> they're using GCC and have a perfectly good assembler already (as)?
>

because it is to much work to provide an assembler file for each assembler
tool avaialble - but you is welcome to port the code from masm syntax to
GNU as syntax.

> Besides I'm not sure that the assumption that a MASM produced assembly is
> always compatible with GCC-Mingw is a valid one - it may well be sometimes,
> but I think it depends how Mingw is built and configured - I'm not
> completely sure about though.
>

the binary format is defined by the underlying ABI