iSlave WHDLOAD Erorrs with vasm

[field3d]

Hello. I’m trying to compile with vasm this islave for whdload to make an installer but I have some errors:

error 35 in line 32 of "myslave.islave.s": relocation not allowed
>               dc.l    DSK_1     

error 35 in line 33 of "myslave.islave.s": relocation not allowed
>               dc.l    Text

             incdir  Includes/
                include RawDIC.i

		SLAVE_HEADER
		dc.b	5		
		dc.b	0;SFLG_DEBUG	
		dc.l	DSK_1	
		dc.l	Text	 

		dc.b	"$VER: "
Text:		dc.b	"my slave"
		DECL_VERSION
		db	10,'my slave',0
		dc.b 0
		EVEN

DSK_1
         	dc.l    DSK_2      ; Pointer to next disk structure
                dc.w    2               ; Disk structure version
                dc.w    DFLG_DOUBLEINC  ; Disk flags
                dc.l    TL_1            ; List of tracks which contain data
                dc.l    0              
                dc.l    FL_DISK1	; List of files to be saved
                dc.l    0      
                dc.l    0 
                dc.l    0              
                dc.l    0             
		dc.l	0

Why I can’t compile or what is the error there?

[Don_Adan]

Try to change db to dc.b.
I dont see nothing wrong.

[jotd]

.islave files can have relocations (and they are required actually, as tables refer to other tables in an absolute manner). Turn reloc check off from vasm, it should not be used.

RawDIC is less demanding than whdload in that aspect.

[a/b]

The same problem here:
https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php...31#post1685431

[jotd]

not exactly. .islave are used for RawDIC, which require relocations.

whdload .slave (not .islave) don't support relocations, therefore need PIC checking.

[field3d]

@jotd Yes in fact is a islave to make an installer. But how you make the checking or the fix to compile?

[jotd]

remove -pic option from vasm command line for islave

[field3d]

Originally Posted by jotd

remove -pic option from vasm command line for islave

Oh yes JOTD as usually you are correct. It worked. Thank you

[field3d]

@JOTD I have a islave that is running fine and I compiled. But I have one in special that shows errors in track 4 that I asume is for the protections. Is there a way to skip that errors and that continue working? I noted there are some islaves that they ignore the errors even they warn you that will not be checked and you must be sure your image or disc is the correct one. This one I intend to do is with RAWDic but how can you skip the errors when reading the errors? Now it says error in track 4 retry or cancel nothing else then you can’t move forward.

[jotd]

use DMFM null for that track. check Arcade pool islave for instance

TLENTRY	4,4,$1600,SYNC_STD,DMFM_NULL

This will skip the track and insert $1600 bytes of zeroes in the image to make track computation easier.

[field3d]

Oh I see. I entered this:

TLENTRY 4,4,$1600,SYNC_STD,DMFM_NULL

Inside the tracks and I still looking the error:

https://ibb.co/sm6n6MQ

I don’t have checksums enabled nothing. This is controlled all via the islave source only or also in the ‘install’ script? If yes how you enter there to skip?

[Don_Adan]

Show full lists of decoded tracks.
Perhaps you decoded track 4 twice.
Can be only once.

[jotd]

you should clean up unused stuff like CRCs, simplify your slave, comment out other disks, focus on the first disk. You'll find the error.