On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Kuba Ober <kuba@mareimbrium.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 October 2008, Dmitry Bely wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Kuba Ober <kuba@mareimbrium.org> wrote:
>> >> For example, if you download and install OCaml MSVC from
>> >> http://caml.inria.fr and you open a MS Visual Studio 2005 MSDOS shell,
>> >> you can perfectly compile a native application (well I have not done it,
>> >> but I will try tomorrow ;-)
>> >>
>> >> All you need is "cl", "ml" and "link" I think (all are MSVC tools).
>> >
>> > And you need masm too, right?
>>
>> "ml" is just that masm. It's included into MS Visual Studio
>> Professional edition and up. For Standard edition and below there is
>> free www.masm32.com.
>
> masm32 has an absolutely horrendous license -- have you read it? It's
> crazy.

OK, I was wrong: masm (ml.exe) is already included into all non-free
Visual Studio 2008 editions and into free Express edition since 2008
SP1. So now it's not a problem at all.

> ml of course should be used if available, but otherwise nasm is there and
> is what should be used whenver masm is called for and unavailable.

Nasm and masm syntaxes differ. You cannot simply interchange them.

- Dmitry Bely