Re: [Geekos-devel] Geekos compile with cygwin info request

[David H. <da...@cs...>]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 03:56:44AM -0400, Alx Barker wrote:
> I'm trying to compile geekos-0.1.0 on cygwin (Win98-2E).
> I've tried "make" but am getting an error (shown below).
> Absolute newbie, any pointers would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> 
> Alx@default ~/src/geekos-0.1.0/build/x86/kern
> $ make
> nasmw -f win32 -DNEED_UNDERSCORE -i ../../../arch/x86/boot/ -i 
> ../../../arch/x86
> /kern/ -o lowlevel.o ../../../arch/x86/kern/lowlevel.asm
> make: *** [lowlevel.o] Error 255

Is Nasm definitely installed?  You might try changing the
definition of the NASM macro in the makefile to just "nasm"
instead of "nasmw"; I think the current releases for windows
don't call it "nasmw" any more.

FYI, the nasm web site is http://nasm.sourceforge.net/

-Dave