Batch File - Building a Library

[dedndave]

i recently found an issue with MASM...

i created a response file with DIR/B, then assembled from the response file

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dir/b *.asm>.\Resp.txt
ml /c /coff /nologo @Resp.txt >..\LibErr.txt
MASM is prone to errors - even crashed once

so, i wrote a FOR loop, instead

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for %%f in (.\*.asm) do ml /c /coff /nologo %%f >>..\LibErr.txt
works every time   :P

[nidud]

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[dedndave]

if that works, it's probably more-or-less the same as using a response file   :P

[nidud]

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[jj2007]

Long file names as such are probably OK, but missing quotes around filenames with spaces are a problem. Check the response file for spaces, try to put quotes around these, and see if ML still chokes.

[dedndave]

the response file is not the problem
the problem seems to be that MASM doesn't fully "reset" between modules
by using a FOR loop, each module gets a fresh instance of MASM execution

[jj2007]

Strange. I always build MasmBasic using a response file, it never chokes with ML 6.15 .. 10 or JWasm.

[dedndave]

it generally works ok
but if any modules have errors, you may be in for a bumpy ride
that tells me that it's less than ideal, even if the modules have no errors

another place a response file is used is during installation of the Masm32 package
it seems to be a processor-intensive operation, and has even been problematic in some cases
perhaps the FOR loop method would relieve some of those issues

[jj2007]

but if any modules have errors, you may be in for a bumpy ride

Well, kind of... I do have errors sometimes, and one problem is that errorlevel doesn't work, so you have to detect it with different methods (i.e. checking the output):
   \Masm32\bin\%oAssembler% /c /coff @libtmpXY.rsp
   if errorlevel 0 goto okml

What I find definitely annoying is that even when there is an error in the first source, ML continues to assemble all my 26 source files - and it's so slow...
No way to make it exit, even with Dave's for loop it just continues... :(

[Vortex]

If you are working in the MSYS environment :

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for f in *.asm
   do
         /d/masm32/bin/ml.exe /ID:\masm32/include //c //coff $f
   done

http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS