From: "Stefan Viljoen" <rylan AT intekom DOT co DOT za>
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Subject: Re: Problem making from NASM generated o file
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 08:42:07 +0200
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Gary Slaughenhaupt <gary DOT slaughenhaupt AT ia DOT nsc DOT com> wrote in message
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> Help, I am a beginner
> I used NASM to generate an o file in coff format then when I try to make
it
> with gcc I get the following error.
>
> c:/djgpp/lib/crt0.o(.data+0xc2):crt0.s: undefined reference to `main'
> c:/djgpp/lib/libc.a(crt1.o)(.text+0x446):crt1.c: undefined reference to
> `main'
>
> What am I doing wrong?
> Thanks for your time!

Gary,

Check out my WWW site's programming page:

http://home.intekom.com/prog.html

I have exactly the info that you need. The problem you seem to have is that
you MUST link a .O file from NASM with a .O file containing a "main"
function that is written in normal DJGPP C - check out my page for examples
on exactly how to do this.

Regards,

Stefan Viljoen

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