From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Seemanta Dutta Subject: please help this newbie running asm programs!!! Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 19:11:05 +0530 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200301301341.h0UDf5Z25323@preshak.recjai.ac.in> Return-path: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org greetings all linux gurus... i am a newbie trying to port and run dos based 8086 programs under linux using as86, ld86 and elksemu. i have written a simple program like mov ah,09 lea dx,hello int 21h ( i have omitted my directives here,,,but i have used .text, .code and of course _start: label ) so far i have been able to assemble my program with as86 but i am not able to link it using ld86. the linker says : no start symbol am i missing something here?? i also studied the source code distro for bin86 but could not find any example programs that can be assembled and linked using these tools...i am stuck badly...in case i am mising something here please tell me asap...i shall ever be grateful to you...if possible also send me a copied and pasted program that can be assembled and linked to run under elesemu, along with the necessary steps to make sure ld86 does not report any error messages during linking. i thank u all in advance for ur help... urs sincerely, seemanta ;)