vasm "undefined symbol" is driving me nuts

[jotd]

Is there an option in vasm to stop on error when symbol isn't found instead of declaring it as external?

I get a lot of unresolved symbols when linking, just because some symbols aren't defined and that's VERY annoying since I have to search in the asm source for the symbol instead of getting the line of the error directly

[roondar]

Hmm, I don't think you generally can.

You can kind of do something similar as long as you only have one .asm file, by using -Fbin. That'll give errors during assembly for any symbol not defined in the .asm file being assembled.

However, the -Fbin format can't resolve external dependencies so it's probably not going to fix the problem.

[phx]

Of course you can: -x

[emufan]

this is somehow related, since I got that error message too.

I try to build an object file from the code below and I only get an outputfile,
which looks like a debug file:

*
* SAS server startup module
* Copyright 1995  NewTek, Inc.
* machine generated -- do not edit
*
	xdef    __XCEXIT
	xref    __Startup
	xref    __Shutdown
	xref    _ServerDesc

	section text,code

	moveq   #0,d0
	rts
	dc.l    $04121994
	dc.l    $2
	dc.l    $100
	dc.l    __Startup
	dc.l    __Shutdown
	dc.l    _ServerDesc

__XCEXIT:
	dc.l    $0
	dc.l    $0
	dc.l    $0

	end

using vasm -m68020 -x serv_s.a
with vasm -m68020 -Fbin serv_s.a I get the undefined symbol message.

I need a gcc compatible object file.

[phx]

This is a perfectly valid source. Three undefined symbols: __Startup, __Shutdown and _ServerDesc. All three are even declared by XREF. Having -x or not is irrelevant here.

You get "undefined symbol" with -Fbin, because -Fbin generates a raw binary output file. It cannot do that with unresolved symbol references.

You rather want to generate an object file, where such symbol references are allowed and resolved by a linker.

Use -Fhunk for AmigaOS hunk-format object files, or -Faout for Unix a.out format, supported by gcc.

[jotd]

-x is what I was looking for, thanks!

[emufan]

Originally Posted by phx

Use -Fhunk for AmigaOS hunk-format object files, or -Faout for Unix a.out format, supported by gcc.

thnx, little late, just tested: it does work as described.
plugin builds. but LW's modeller does not recognizes it. :/