MasmBasic

[vvanag]

Is Masmbasic open source? My AV on the corporate laptop complains. Can I download it and build it from source?

Also I see mentioned that it is a library of Macros, why not just include the source?

[jj2007]

Hi vvanag,

No, I'm afraid it's not open source. You can find bits and pieces all over the place, mainly in the Laboratory, but the whole thing is a >48,000 lines mess that I am not going to publish ever.

About half of it is macros (and you can see them all in \Masm32\MasmBasic\MasmBasic.inc), the other half is procs. Both are so complex that I have trouble understanding them myself. For example, Str$() alone is 457 lines long - see attachment

Re AV: a known problem for Assembly code. Heuristic scanners see "wow, not written in C or Python - very suspicious!" - and flag it as malware. There is a dedicated board for this