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

[LordAdef]

Hi JJ,

I downloaded the latest version. Question from a lazy searcher: whats is JBasic?

[zedd]

Hi JJ,

I downloaded the latest version. Question from a lazy searcher: whats is JBasic?

MasmBasics' long lost big brother?  jk
I believe it is like MasmBasic but specifically for 64 bit programming.

[jj2007]

what is JBasic?

Indeed, Zedd is right: it's a minimum environment for 64-bit programming. More precisely, dual programming: sources that do not use R9...R15 assemble most of the time both in 64- or 32-bit mode, with UAsm or ML alike.

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include \Masm32\MasmBasic\Res\JBasic.inc ; ## console demo, builds in 32- or 64-bit mode with UAsm, ML, AsmC ##
Init ; OPT_64 1 ; put 0 for 32 bit, 1 for 64 bit assembly
  Open "I", #1, "SkelDualConsole.asc"
  Print Str$("The source is %i bytes short\n", rv(GetFileSize, rax, 0))
  Close #1
  jinvoke MessageBox, 0, Chr$("JBasic is fantastic"), Chr$("Hello"), MB_OK or MB_SETFOREGROUND
EndOfCode

[LordAdef]

Thanks both!

I think Masmbasic is a great project. People under evaluate it due to the extra size. BUT, for large projects this extra size is null. Take the smallest GUI Frameworks around... They size to a minimal of 6mb

[jj2007]

Thanks, Alex