Fasm not in entropy?

[chasha420]

Hi guys, I just started getting my hands dirty in assembly language programming & I was reading about various assemblers like nasm, fasm, masm (for windows only) etc. & I have already installed nasm...but I haven't found fasm in entropy.

I visited their site "http://flatassembler.net/" & they have a linux build available...so should I just use that or is it possible to get fasm in entropy in the future?

Please don't flame, I don't have much knowledge in asm...just getting my feet wet...so if you have any advice for me, feel free to enlighten me

Thanks

[ShadowCat8]

Greetings,

I know that the repositories that Sabayon uses are based off of the portage tree from Gentoo. Well, in Gentoo, 'fasm' is not considered stable enough to be put in the portage tree, but is available in one of the overlays via layman.

Now, going through the Sabayon Entropy Wiki page, it looks like they do not recommend combining portage and Entropy VERY STRONGLY.

So, from what I can gather on this, you seem to have 2 choices:

1. Load up the sabayon-limbo repository and check if it's in there. Or,
2. Pull down the linux build (e.g. source code) for fasm and build it yourself.

HTH. Let us know.

[chasha420]

Hi there Shadowcat...thanks for the info. At this point I'm going through the book "Assembly language step by step - Programming with Linux"...which mainly uses the Nasm assembler...but I've seen a lot of sources out there on the web that relied on Fasm so I was just curious about it...perhaps in the future I'll go ahead and try it out.

As for the source, Fasm site only has binary builds...the linux build for some reason fails to get extracted from the archive...so it got me kind of turned off. They don't provide source either.

Anyway thanks for all the advice, appreciate it!


PS: Awesome avatar man

[Fitzcarraldo]

If it's still in the overlay bgo-overlay then, as root user in a Konsole/Terminal window, use the following commands:

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equo install git
layman -S
layman -d sabayon
layman -d sabayon-distro
layman -a sabayon
layman -a sabayon-distro
layman -S
layman -a bgo-overlay
emerge -1v fasm
etc-update # In case any config files need updating. Answer -3 and yes to all.
equo rescue spmsync # Tell Entropy what you did via Portage

The deletion and re-addition of the two SL overlays is 'belt and braces' in case you don't already have them or you have the old monolithic sabayon overlay added.

The package dev-lang/fasm has three USE flags:

# rebuild - rebuild fasm
# no_usr_bin - don't add a symlink in /usr/bin/fasm -> /opt/fasm/fasm
# lib - use the unix/libc version of fasm

No idea whether or not you want any of those, but, if you do, add USE="<use flags, separated by a space>" in front of the emerge command. Looks to me like you don't need to bother with any of them.

[chasha420]

Thanks Fitz...I'll give those a try & let you know what happened

[chasha420]

Hi Fitz this is what I get when I try to add bgo-overlay:

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# layman -a bgo-overlay

 * Adding overlay,...
 * Exception: Overlay "bgo-overlay" does not exist.

 * CLI: Errors occured processing action add
 * Exception: Overlay "bgo-overlay" does not exist.


[Fitzcarraldo]

In that case you'll need to use a local overlay if you want to install it via Portage. Google tells me that there is an ebuild on the following page: http://gentoo-overlays.zugaina.org/bgo- ... .32.ebuild