On 17/11/2007, Stefan Teleman <Stefan.Teleman at sun.com> wrote: > > > Shawn Walker wrote: > > > yasm is probably on the fringe of needed software. Most programs tend > > to use the C compiler's built in asm support to do what they need to. > > Though unfortunately, most of them use GNU syntax which makes life > > difficult. > > you need yasm to build x264, and you need x264 if you want MPEG4 decoding. so, > yasm is far from optional.
I hadn't got that far yet, so I hadn't run into that dependency. Thanks for the heads up. > yasm assembler syntax is neither GNU as nor AT&T as, it's its own variant, > only > compatible with nasm. Yep; which is where I became familiar with yasm -- through nasm. Back when I used to contribute to ZSNes. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall
