To:	bodfish AT austen DOT notis DOT com (John Bodfish)
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: Converting Assembler programs
Date:	Wed, 30 Nov 94 09:21:44 +0200
From:	"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>

> Yak Icons runs on top of xlib, a VGA Xmode library which is mostly written
> in assembler; I suppose it's Borland's Turbo Assembler (TASM ?).
> I suppose I will need to either re-assemble this source or somehow
> convert the object modules in the xlib library.
> As for the first choice: I don't know, and would rather not know, 8086
> assembler coding. Is there a tool that'll help me (meaning: *magically* do
> it) convert the assembler code I've got to something djgpp's "as" will
> accept? 

There is a version of Microsoft's MASM (6.5?) which has an option
to generate COFF object files, which the ld linker of DJGPP can use.
Another problem which you should keep in mind is that using VGA in
protected mode has its own problems, so the original code could be
assembled and linked with your program OK, but then bomb at run-time.

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