Guide to create static lib for PB in masm, fasm

[Keya]

"Why port when you can import?" - Some lazy (or efficient?) programmer i happen to agree with

See also:
* Guide to create static C lib for PB in Linux/OSX using gcc
* Guide to create static C lib for PB in Windows/Visual Studio
I think it is really awesome Purebasic allows us to use .lib libraries so im trying to get comfortable with the basics of that
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If there's a setpath(s).bat in your masm/fasm directory (or \bin\) run that first! ...

1. Create mylib.asm:
MASM:

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.486
.model flat, stdcall
.code

start:

addnums proc num1:dword, num2:dword
 mov eax, num1
 mov ecx, num2
 add eax, ecx
 ret ;eax
addnums endp

end start

FASM:

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format MS COFF
public  addnums as '_addnums@8'
include 'win32a.inc'

section '.text' code readable executable

proc addnums num1,num2
 mov eax, [num1]
 mov ecx, [num2]
 add eax, ecx
 ret ;eax
endp

2. Compile .asm to .obj:

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MASM: ml /c /coff mylib.asm
FASM: fasm mylib.asm

3. Compile .obj to .lib:
fasm seemingly cant create libs so i use masm32's lib.exe for both:

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lib /out:mylib.lib mylib.obj

4. Call mylib.lib from Purebasic:

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Import "mylib.lib"  ;Import, not ImportC
  addnums.l (num1.l, num2.l) As "_addnums@8"  ;8 as there are 2x4-byte params
EndImport

Define num1.l, num2.l, result.l
num1 = 2:  num2 = 5
result = addnums(num1, num2)  ;should be 7
Debug "Result=" + Str(result)

[Lunasole]

Thanks, looks pretty simple. If only I can write libs in ASM

PS. Did you even tried to use GCC on Windows? I've seen many C projects ready to build both by VC and GCC, but failed to build any of them with GCC ported to windows. I was trying with DevC++ IDE which has GCC binaries for windows.
The reason is that now many VC projects using version 2013 or newer - extremely bloated and useless IDEs unlike VC 2010 (damn, when I installed VC 2013 it increased size of windows 7 registry files by ~100mb [several times larger and trashed that it was before] and that didn't cleared up after uninstall), and compiling them using VC 2010 becomes hard and requires lot of fixes in some cases.

[DontTalkToMe]

If you are interested: I use GCC on windows, or to be more precise TDM-GCC

http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/

I use CodeBlocks and I often compiled open source libraries, most of which are using CMake and create a makefile for CodeBlocks.

it increased size of windows 7 registry files by ~100mb [several times larger and trashed that it was before] and that didn't cleared up after uninstall)

That's typical. Large programs when "uninstalling" leave behind tons of files in different folders and garbage in the registry. I would make them pay a fine for every file left on my system. Idiots.

[Keya]

yes ive been using TDM-GCC too quite a bit where C is required it seems one of the friendlier C compilers, if there is such a thing. I also try compiling C with PellesC, Visual Studio, and lcc, but usually TDM first. But for all of C's portability it has a funny knack of usually only liking any one of the four - and having said that I haven't looked into Codeblocks yet but keep seeing it pop up so i'll have to check that out next
(disclaimer: im no good with C and some would argue i shouldnt have even graduated to basic yet, but yes i am proud of my masm32 example that adds two numbers together)

[DontTalkToMe]

@keya

(disclaimer: im no good with C and some would argue i shouldnt have even graduated to basic yet, but yes i am proud of my masm32 example that adds two numbers together)

You look pretty snappy to me, there is a good programmer in the making in you, and you know it. Just wait and see !

If you pardon my impudence