Moving program to GNU, few questions

[Brandon77]

I have a program based out of Green Hill's MULTI Software that needs to be moved to GNU so that may become a standalone executable, ported to run on an intel processor and a Motorola 68k. I have been working on this for a while but have several questions. The program currently consists of several c scripts, assembly files, and header files.

I realize I need a Linker script, a config script, a Makefile, and changes to all the code to make it function properly. However, there are some underlying details that I do not understand.

Right now I am working on the makefile and have the following question:

- Where do I compile the assembly files? Do they even need to be compiled? In most makefiles I have seen online they do not include the assembly files.


That is all for now but I will post other questions as they come up. Thanks for any help!!

[gerard4143]

If the assembly files are converted to GAS(AT&T) syntax and Linux then you can compile them using GNU GCC like:

as filename.s -o filename.o

ld filename.o -o filename

Note assembly code is notorious for being non-portable, you'll probably have to rewrite most of the assembler files...Gerard4143

[Brandon77]

If the assembly files are converted to GAS(AT&T) syntax and Linux then you can compile them using GNU GCC like:

as filename.s -o filename.o

ld filename.o -o filename

Note assembly code is notorious for being non-portable, you'll probably have to rewrite most of the assembler files...Gerard4143

Ok, so those commands can just be written into the makefile then. Thanks a lot!