Re: [Nasm-users] Directive for "file exists"

[Frank K. <fbk...@co...>]

Hi Aitor,

Now it looks like *my* last message didn't go out. That was the easy
one: "nasm -v" for version information.

Got some feedback from the win32-nasm-users Yahoo group:

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We have the all mighty make program... It is a must for
programmers...
http://directory.fsf.org/make.html

But it is hard to tell if this is the tool you need, since you
haven't
said what you want to do with such a feature...

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I don't see how "make" is going to help you... but it's nice to see that
win32 users are aware of gnu make :)

> I have another one:
> 
> == A
> %define  gotit
> ==
> 
> == B
> %include "A"
> 
> %ifdef gotit
> ...
> ===
> 
> I was just wondering if there was a clean way to do this, I intend "A"
> to be a simple format file with almost only strings to be translated by
> other people (and avoid the %define)

Mmmm... we can compare text... if you had one of the strings as a macro
parameter, you could do:

%ifidn %1 gotit
    ; do something
%else
    ; ...
%endif

Perhaps you could figure out a way to use that to avoid the "%define"...
Not really very "clean". Ordinarily, you'd "know" at assemble time
whether you had that file available or not. I assume what you want to do
is let your users do some "do-it-yourself internationalization", if
they've translated the strings(?). You may have to require the user to
plainly tell Nasm "we have the file"... or not.

Best,
Frank