* If using MinGW, these can be obtained by installing the MSYS DTK
-- NASM
- * 0.98 or later is required for a 32-bit build
- * NASM 2.05 or later is required for a 64-bit build
+ * 0.98, or 2.01 or later is required for a 32-bit build
+ * NASM 2.00 or later is required for a 64-bit build
* NASM 2.07 or later is required for a 64-bit build on OS/X. This can be
obtained from MacPorts (http://www.macports.org/).
- The NASM 2.05 RPMs do not work on older Linux systems, such as Enterprise
- Linux 4. On such systems, you can easily build and install NASM 2.05
- from the source RPM by executing the following as root:
+ The binary RPMs released by the NASM project do not work on older Linux
+ systems, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. On such systems, you can
+ easily build and install NASM from a source RPM by downloading one of the
+ SRPMs from
+
+ http://www.nasm.us/pub/nasm/releasebuilds
+
+ and executing the following as root:
ARCH=`uname -m`
- wget http://www.nasm.us/pub/nasm/releasebuilds/2.05.01/nasm-2.05.01-1.src.rpm
- rpmbuild --rebuild nasm-2.05.01-1.src.rpm
- rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/$ARCH/nasm-2.05.01-1.$ARCH.rpm
+ rpmbuild --rebuild nasm-{version}.src.rpm
+ rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/$ARCH/nasm-{version}.$ARCH.rpm
- NOTE: NASM build will fail if texinfo is not installed.
+ NOTE: the NASM build will fail if texinfo is not installed.
-- GCC v4.1 or later recommended for best performance