Re: [Nasm-devel] Question from the forum

[H. P. A. <hp...@zy...>]

On 08/29/2014 12:09 PM, Frank Kotler wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> There's a guy on the forum...
> 
> http://forum.nasm.us/index.php?topic=1960.new;topicseen#new
> 
> trying to build Nasm from source using VC++2005 or VS6 or such. He has 
> asked what tools we use to build the pre-built version of Windows, and 
> the Makefile. He seems to suspect that I'm refusing to tell him, but I 
> don't know. OpenWatcom, at one point, wasn't it? If anyone has a minute 
> to take a look and help the guy out, it'd be appreciated. (or I can pass 
> a message on)
> 
> Best,
> Frank
> 

We use MinGW-W64 on hosted on Linux (because our build server is a Linux
box.)

A reasonably modern MSVC++ should work, but the one he is using is ancient.

	-hpa