I had the same problem - I have to use the non-free-as-in-beer,
certainly-not-as-in-speech MSFT Visual Studio .NET 2003 toolchain, plus
some other package thingy from MSFT that adds something to it. (I don't
remember).
I keep forgetting to suggest this to people who pop in here... can
someone who has the time and patience *please* take a run at getting
this to build with :
1) The free-as-in-beer MSFT tool chain
2) GCC and it's brethren, either via MinGW or Cygwin
I currently think of our tooling requirements as a barrier to entry.
As for ml.exe, I had the same problem when trying the free MSFT tool
chain, and I did find a free assembler somewhere that was meant to
replace ml.exe (it wasn't from MSFT).
This would be a great help, anyone....
geir
Paulex Yang wrote:
Mikhail
I tried same thing before, and failed in same reason, I cannot find this
message in mailing list archive, but I remembered I asked this question
before. The facts made me crazy is I had to download all those things
like MS platform SDK, .Net SDK and vctoolkit2003, and then had to hack
some files in platform SDK(not the *hack* really means, just copy some
file from one directory to another), however at last, I found I cannot
find free ml.exe to compile *.asm. Seems the ml.exe was free, but it
isn't now.
Mikhail Loenko wrote:
Hello
I'm trying to build Harmony on Windows XP with free MSFT soft only.
I've downloaded already ~1Gb of various free MSFT soft, made some hacks
on various files and now need to compile *.asm we have in native-src.
<note> our readme does not mention that type of files </note>
Is there any way to get ml.exe from MSFT for free?
Thanks,
Mikhail
