Re: [Kicad-developers] MASM Boost dependency on Windows

2013-10-15 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 10/15/2013 2:03 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > On 10/15/2013 12:13 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >> On 10/15/2013 11:51 AM, Brian Sidebotham wrote: >>> On 15 October 2013 16:07, Maciej Sumiński >> > wrote: >>> >>> On 10/15/2013 03:33 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote:

Re: [Kicad-developers] MASM Boost dependency on Windows

2013-10-15 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 10/15/2013 12:13 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > On 10/15/2013 11:51 AM, Brian Sidebotham wrote: >> On 15 October 2013 16:07, Maciej Sumiński > > wrote: >> >> On 10/15/2013 03:33 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote: >> >> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 02:18:19PM +010

Re: [Kicad-developers] MASM Boost dependency on Windows

2013-10-15 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 10/15/2013 10:07 AM, Maciej Sumiński wrote: > On 10/15/2013 03:33 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 02:18:19PM +0100, Brian Sidebotham wrote: >>> As Dick says, this completely breaks cross-compilation of Boost. >> >> Well, can't say it is a good thing... as a workaround m

Re: [Kicad-developers] MASM Boost dependency on Windows

2013-10-15 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 10/15/2013 11:51 AM, Brian Sidebotham wrote: > On 15 October 2013 16:07, Maciej Sumiński > wrote: > > On 10/15/2013 03:33 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 02:18:19PM +0100, Brian Sidebotham wrote: > > As Dick s

Re: [Kicad-developers] MASM Boost dependency on Windows

2013-10-15 Thread Brian Sidebotham
On 15 October 2013 16:07, Maciej Sumiński wrote: > On 10/15/2013 03:33 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 02:18:19PM +0100, Brian Sidebotham wrote: >> >>> As Dick says, this completely breaks cross-compilation of Boost. >>> >> >> Well, can't say it is a good thing... as a

Re: [Kicad-developers] MASM Boost dependency on Windows

2013-10-15 Thread Maciej Sumiński
On 10/15/2013 03:33 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote: On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 02:18:19PM +0100, Brian Sidebotham wrote: As Dick says, this completely breaks cross-compilation of Boost. Well, can't say it is a good thing... as a workaround maybe supplying precompiled (preassembled!) object for tha

Re: [Kicad-developers] MASM Boost dependency on Windows

2013-10-15 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On Oct 15, 2013 8:18 AM, "Brian Sidebotham" wrote: > > On 15 October 2013 01:55, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote: >> >> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 10:45:38PM +0100, Brian Sidebotham wrote: >> > Yes, MinGW has GNU AS (It's part of binutils). I don't know why they've >> > implemented it with MASM instead fo

Re: [Kicad-developers] MASM Boost dependency on Windows

2013-10-15 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 02:18:19PM +0100, Brian Sidebotham wrote: > > Problem: gas uses AT&T syntax, not MASM one. YASM/NASM could be a better > > bet. > > > > So? The syntax isn't a reason as they've used GNU AS for the linux port. Duh... I don't know then:D unless MASM has some magic trick for

Re: [Kicad-developers] MASM Boost dependency on Windows

2013-10-15 Thread Brian Sidebotham
On 15 October 2013 01:55, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote: > On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 10:45:38PM +0100, Brian Sidebotham wrote: > > Yes, MinGW has GNU AS (It's part of binutils). I don't know why they've > > implemented it with MASM instead for the Windows platform. > > Problem: gas uses AT&T syntax, not

Re: [Kicad-developers] MASM Boost dependency on Windows

2013-10-14 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 10/14/2013 07:55 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote: > On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 10:45:38PM +0100, Brian Sidebotham wrote: >> Yes, MinGW has GNU AS (It's part of binutils). I don't know why they've >> implemented it with MASM instead for the Windows platform. > > Problem: gas uses AT&T syntax, I use

Re: [Kicad-developers] MASM Boost dependency on Windows

2013-10-14 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 10:45:38PM +0100, Brian Sidebotham wrote: > Yes, MinGW has GNU AS (It's part of binutils). I don't know why they've > implemented it with MASM instead for the Windows platform. Problem: gas uses AT&T syntax, not MASM one. YASM/NASM could be a better bet. But probably they

Re: [Kicad-developers] MASM Boost dependency on Windows

2013-10-14 Thread Tomasz Wlostowski
On 10/14/2013 11:58 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: On Oct 14, 2013 4:50 PM, "Dick Hollenbeck" mailto:d...@softplc.com>> wrote: > > > On Oct 14, 2013 4:45 PM, "Brian Sidebotham" mailto:brian.sidebot...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > On 14 October 2013 22:36, Dick Hollenbeck mailto:d...@softplc.com>>

Re: [Kicad-developers] MASM Boost dependency on Windows

2013-10-14 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On Oct 14, 2013 4:50 PM, "Dick Hollenbeck" wrote: > > > On Oct 14, 2013 4:45 PM, "Brian Sidebotham" wrote: > > > > On 14 October 2013 22:36, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > >> > >> For now just comment out context. We won't need it until building GAL P&S. Does mingw come with an assembler. Does it s

Re: [Kicad-developers] MASM Boost dependency on Windows

2013-10-14 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On Oct 14, 2013 4:45 PM, "Brian Sidebotham" wrote: > > On 14 October 2013 22:36, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: >> >> For now just comment out context. We won't need it until building GAL P&S. Does mingw come with an assembler. Does it suppprt inline asm? >> >> Ther are only a coulple of small files t

Re: [Kicad-developers] MASM Boost dependency on Windows

2013-10-14 Thread Brian Sidebotham
On 14 October 2013 22:36, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > For now just comment out context. We won't need it until building GAL > P&S. Does mingw come with an assembler. Does it suppprt inline asm? > > Ther are only a coulple of small files to assemble. > > Enabling context was a trial balloon. Seem

Re: [Kicad-developers] MASM Boost dependency on Windows

2013-10-14 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
For now just comment out context. We won't need it until building GAL P&S. Does mingw come with an assembler. Does it suppprt inline asm? Ther are only a coulple of small files to assemble. Enabling context was a trial balloon. Seems to have accomplished its goal. On Oct 14, 2013 4:27 PM, "Br

[Kicad-developers] MASM Boost dependency on Windows

2013-10-14 Thread Brian Sidebotham
I know it's only our own fault for being on Windows but the "Rev 4382: *) Switch over to FP_LIB_TABLE::Footprint*() functions" commit introduces the need for the Microsoft assembler, MASM to be installed to be able to build Boost. It's the context library that brings in this dependency. The only