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From: mpierce@ewu.UUCP (Mathew Pierce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Assemblers
Summary: You need a linker
Message-ID: <1475@ewu.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 91 06:35:16 GMT
References: <39635@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Eastern Washington Univ. Cheney WA
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In article <39635@cup.portal.com>, Peter_Warren_Lee@cup.portal.com writes:
> I'm trying to get started programming is assembly language on the Amiga
> and need some advice on what assembler to buy. I tried A68K but can't
> seem to get anything useful out of it. It will create the .o file but
> how do you turn it into an executable file? Is there anyone out there
> that uses A68K regularly that can point me in the right direction?
> Thanks,
>                                    Pete
> 
>   Peter_Warren_Lee@cup.portal.com

To make use of the #?.o files (object files) you need to employ a linker
and the approriate libraries.  A68k will work fine, you need to get a
linker, I suggest the public domain Blink linker from the Software 
Distillery, it's available on may fred fish disks.  You will also need
the appropriate library, normally amiga.lib is used, but if you want to
stay PD, try the PD version of this called small.lib, I think that 
Matt Dillion put this together.  All in all, I would suggest that you get
the Blink linker, and get the Native Compiler Update from CATS, I don't have
the address right off, but I'm sure that someone can post it.  That should
get you going.

Matt Pierce