source: general/prog/nasm.xml

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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY nasm-download-http "https://www.nasm.us/pub/nasm/releasebuilds/&nasm-version;/nasm-&nasm-version;.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY nasm-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY nasm-md5sum        "2b8c72c52eee4f20085065e68ac83b55">
  <!ENTITY nasm-size          "1008.1 KB">
  <!ENTITY nasm-buildsize     "41 MB" >
  <!ENTITY nasm-time          "0.2 SBU">
]>

<sect1 id="nasm" xreflabel="NASM-&nasm-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="nasm.html" ?>


  <title>NASM-&nasm-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="nasm">
    <primary sortas="a-NASM">NASM</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to NASM</title>

    <para>
      <application>NASM</application> (Netwide Assembler) is an 80x86
      assembler designed for portability and modularity. It includes a
      disassembler as well.
    </para>

    &lfs121_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&nasm-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&nasm-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &nasm-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &nasm-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &nasm-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &nasm-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Optional documentation: <ulink
          url="https://www.nasm.us/pub/nasm/releasebuilds/&nasm-version;/nasm-&nasm-version;-xdoc.tar.xz"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">NASM Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (for generating documentation):</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="asciidoc"/> and
      <xref linkend="xmlto"/>
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of NASM</title>

    <para>
      If you downloaded the optional documentation, put it into the
      source tree:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>tar -xf ../nasm-&nasm-version;-xdoc.tar.xz --strip-components=1</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      Install <application>NASM</application> by running
      the following commands:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      This package does not come with a test suite.
    </para>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      If you downloaded the optional documentation, install it with the
      following instructions as the <systemitem
      class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>install -m755 -d         /usr/share/doc/nasm-&nasm-version;/html  &amp;&amp;
cp -v doc/html/*.html    /usr/share/doc/nasm-&nasm-version;/html  &amp;&amp;
cp -v doc/*.{txt,ps,pdf} /usr/share/doc/nasm-&nasm-version;</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directory</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>nasm and ndisasm</seg>
        <seg>None</seg>
        <seg>/usr/share/doc/nasm-&nasm-version;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="nasm-prog">
        <term><command>nasm</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a portable 80x86 assembler
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="nasm nasm-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-nasm">nasm</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="ndisasm">
        <term><command>ndisasm</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is an 80x86 binary file disassembler
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="nasm ndisasm">
            <primary sortas="b-ndisasm">ndisasm</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>