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Re: Recommended assembler for NES development beginner [POLL
Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2016 5:38 pm
by mikejmoffitt
For those who want to mess about with it, I easily compiled cc65 in the Ubuntu-on-windows setup that the Windows 10 Insider Preview (yuck) allowed me to use. I also had no trouble using the binaries I had built for my main Debian system. Obviously these aren't steps for beginners, but it did make the same makefile work on both operating systems (sort of) without any changes.
Re: Recommended assembler for NES development beginner [POLL
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2016 12:44 pm
by NovaSquirrel
mikejmoffitt wrote:but it did make the same makefile work on both operating systems (sort of) without any changes.
A more direct method is to just compile it with MinGW and the MSYS shell, which produces regular Windows executables. I think cc65 will just build on anything that has GCC and Make.
A beginner on Windows is just going to grab some pre-compiled executables though and those are easy to find for whatever assembler they choose.