Has anyone gotten DASM to work on Ubuntu or other GNU/Linux system?

[Tjoppen]

Has anyone here rolled their own DASM on a GNU/Linux system and gotten it to work properly? Or know of a working binary anywhere?

 

I grabbed the svn repo at http://sourceforge.net/projects/dasm-dillon/ (http://www.atari2600.org/DASM doesn't work any more) and tried both dasm-2.20.11 and trunk, but the resulting binaries seem to have problems with macros.

I simply ran make on both the froehlich/dasm-2.20.11 tag and trunk and used the binaries.

Thinking this was a line ending issue, I also tried "dos2unix *.h *.asm" but to no avail.

 

I'm thinking DASM has a rather serious bug since it produces different errors every run.

Can anyone confirm this? I might open a ticket on the SourceForge page, but I fear it's no longer maintained.

 

Output from attempting to assembly this follows. dasm-2.20.11:

~/vcs/nyan$ ~/dasm-dillon/tags/froehlich/dasm-2.20.11/bin/dasm nyan.asm -f3 -onyan.bin

RAM: $6 bytes left

kernel.asm (50): error: Illegal character ''.

char = '' 1 (-1: 48)

kernel.asm (50): error: Syntax Error ''.

MACRO ERROR: 'SLEEP': Duration must be > 1

kernel.asm (50): error: ERR pseudo-op encountered.

Aborting assembly

 

~/vcs/nyan$ ~/dasm-dillon/tags/froehlich/dasm-2.20.11/bin/dasm nyan.asm -f3 -onyan.bin

RAM: $6 bytes left

kernel.asm (50): error: Illegal character '��'.

char = '�' -111 (-1: 40)

kernel.asm (50): error: Illegal character '�'.

char = '�' -9 (-1: -111)

kernel.asm (50): error: Illegal character ''.

char = '' 1 (-1: -9)

kernel.asm (50): error: Syntax Error ''.

MACRO ERROR: 'SLEEP': Duration must be > 1

kernel.asm (50): error: ERR pseudo-op encountered.

Aborting assembly

 

~/vcs/nyan$ ~/dasm-dillon/tags/froehlich/dasm-2.20.11/bin/dasm nyan.asm -f3 -onyan.bin

RAM: $6 bytes left

kernel.asm (50): error: Illegal character '�'.

char = '�' -28 (-1: 81)

kernel.asm (50): error: Illegal character ''.

char = '' 1 (-1: -28)

kernel.asm (50): error: Syntax Error ''.

MACRO ERROR: 'SLEEP': Duration must be > 1

kernel.asm (50): error: ERR pseudo-op encountered.

Aborting assembly

 

~/vcs/nyan$ ~/dasm-dillon/tags/froehlich/dasm-2.20.11/bin/dasm nyan.asm -f3 -onyan.bin

RAM: $6 bytes left

kernel.asm (50): error: Illegal character ''.

char = '' 2 (-1: 82)

Unrecoverable error(s) in pass, aborting assembly!

 

~/vcs/nyan$ ~/dasm-dillon/tags/froehlich/dasm-2.20.11/bin/dasm nyan.asm -f3 -onyan.bin

RAM: $6 bytes left

kernel.asm (50): error: Illegal character '�'.

char = '�' -19 (-1: 33)

kernel.asm (50): error: Illegal character ''.

char = '' 1 (-1: -19)

kernel.asm (50): error: Syntax Error ''.

kernel.asm (50): error: Syntax Error ''.

MACRO ERROR: 'SLEEP': Duration must be > 1

kernel.asm (50): error: ERR pseudo-op encountered.

Aborting assembly

 

trunk:

~/vcs/nyan$ ~/dasm-dillon/trunk/bin/dasm nyan.asm -f3 -onyan.bin

VCS.H (198): warning: Segments must have a name!

RAM: $6 bytes left

kernel.asm (50): error: Invalid character '�-'!

char = '�' -79 (-1: 48)

kernel.asm (50): error: Invalid character ''!

char = '' 2 (-1: 45)

kernel.asm (50): error: Syntax error!

MACRO ERROR: 'SLEEP': Duration must be > 1

kernel.asm (50): ***panic***: ERR pseudo-op encountered, aborting assembly!

dasm: main.c:1290: exit_handler: Assertion `Ifstack == ((void *)0)' failed.

Aborted

 

~/vcs/nyan$ ~/dasm-dillon/trunk/bin/dasm nyan.asm -f3 -onyan.bin

VCS.H (198): warning: Segments must have a name!

RAM: $6 bytes left

kernel.asm (50): error: Invalid character '��'!

char = '�' -79 (-1: 48)

kernel.asm (50): error: Invalid character '�'!

char = '�' -125 (-1: -79)

kernel.asm (50): error: Invalid character ''!

char = '' 1 (-1: -125)

MACRO ERROR: 'SLEEP': Duration must be > 1

kernel.asm (50): ***panic***: ERR pseudo-op encountered, aborting assembly!

dasm: main.c:1290: exit_handler: Assertion `Ifstack == ((void *)0)' failed.

Aborted

 

~/vcs/nyan$ ~/dasm-dillon/trunk/bin/dasm nyan.asm -f3 -onyan.bin

VCS.H (198): warning: Segments must have a name!

RAM: $6 bytes left

kernel.asm (50): error: Invalid character ':'!

char = '' 17 (-1: 48)

kernel.asm (50): error: Invalid character ':'!

char = ':' 58 (-1: 17)

kernel.asm (50): error: Invalid character ''!

char = '' 2 (-1: 58)

kernel.asm (50): error: Unknown mnemonic ''!

MACRO ERROR: 'SLEEP': Duration must be > 1

kernel.asm (50): ***panic***: ERR pseudo-op encountered, aborting assembly!

dasm: main.c:1290: exit_handler: Assertion `Ifstack == ((void *)0)' failed.

Aborted

 

~/vcs/nyan$ ~/dasm-dillon/trunk/bin/dasm nyan.asm -f3 -onyan.bin

VCS.H (198): warning: Segments must have a name!

RAM: $6 bytes left

kernel.asm (50): error: Invalid character '�'!

char = '�' -77 (-1: 97)

kernel.asm (50): error: Syntax error in '0a�'!

dasm: main.c:1290: exit_handler: Assertion `Ifstack == ((void *)0)' failed.

Aborted

 

I'm using Ubuntu 11.04, though I doubt that's relevant.

[barnieg]

It's been a few months since I've done this but I had dasm working from the batari basic binary download which includes the executable, I've not had a chance to play with it since then:

 

http://bataribasic.com/download.html try the statically linked binary's

 

Barnie

[Joe Musashi]

I'm using Ubuntu 11.04, though I doubt that's relevant.

 

Are you using a 64bit Ubuntu? I think there's a bug in DASM that causes 64bit builds to not work properly. You should however be able to build a working 32bit binary.

 

I used the source from dasm-2.20.11.tar.gz. On Ubuntu 11.01 you just have to

 

- Install the g++-multilib: sudo apt-get install g++-multilib

- Change the DASM Makefile: In src/Makefile replace CC= gcc with CC= gcc -m32

- run the top Makefile

 

The Nyan Cat compiled and ran fine for me with that.

[esplonky]

i'm using fedora and i have no idea where to put my dasm files after i download them~

[Tjoppen]

I'm using Ubuntu 11.04, though I doubt that's relevant.

 

Are you using a 64bit Ubuntu? I think there's a bug in DASM that causes 64bit builds to not work properly. You should however be able to build a working 32bit binary.

 

I used the source from dasm-2.20.11.tar.gz. On Ubuntu 11.01 you just have to

 

- Install the g++-multilib: sudo apt-get install g++-multilib

- Change the DASM Makefile: In src/Makefile replace CC= gcc with CC= gcc -m32

- run the top Makefile

 

The Nyan Cat compiled and ran fine for me with that.

Thanks, that worked like a charm.

 

If I'm able to fix DASM in 64-bit mode I may send patches to the guy maintaining it.

Ooh, and I also saw dasm2 on sourceforge. Might check that out as well.