Need help setting up my Qt project w/ NASM (MakeFile.Debug:98)

[A Former User]

Hello,

I have found a useful article on how to set up Qt for NASM assembler.
For testing purposes I wanted to return the contents of rax and display them inside a label.

But I keep getting the following error: Error: [Makefile.Debug:98: test.o] Error 2

Do I need an extra installation of NASM or certain compiler settings?

thanks

source:

.pro

QT       += core gui

greaterThan(QT_MAJOR_VERSION, 4): QT += widgets

TARGET = test_stuff
TEMPLATE = app

DEFINES += QT_DEPRECATED_WARNINGS

APIs deprecated before Qt 6.0.0

QMAKE_EXTRA_COMPILERS += nasm
NASMEXTRAFLAGS = -f elf64 -g -F dwarf
OTHER_FILES += $$NASM_SOURCES
nasm.output = ${QMAKE_FILE_BASE}.o
nasm.commands = nasm $$NASMEXTRAFLAGS -o ${QMAKE_FILE_BASE}.o ${QMAKE_FILE_NAME}
nasm.input = NASM_SOURCES

NASM_SOURCES = test.asm

CONFIG += c++11

SOURCES += \
        main.cpp \
        mainwindow.cpp

HEADERS += \
        mainwindow.h

FORMS += \
        mainwindow.ui

# Default rules for deployment.
qnx: target.path = /tmp/$${TARGET}/bin
else: unix:!android: target.path = /opt/$${TARGET}/bin
!isEmpty(target.path): INSTALLS += target

DISTFILES += \
    test.asm

mainwindow.cpp

#include "mainwindow.h"
#include "ui_mainwindow.h"

MainWindow::MainWindow(QWidget *parent) :
    QMainWindow(parent),
    ui(new Ui::MainWindow)
{
    ui->setupUi(this);
}

MainWindow::~MainWindow()
{
    delete ui;
}

extern "C" __int64 _testmain();



void MainWindow::on_pushButton_clicked()
{
    ui->label->setText(QString::number(_testmain()));
}

test.asm

section .text
global _testmain:function


_testmain:
mov rax, 1234
ret

[SGaist]

Hi,

Can you post the complete error ?

[A Former User]

@SGaist said in Need help setting up my Qt project w/ NASM (MakeFile.Debug:98):

Hi,

Can you post the complete error ?

Hi,

This is all I got:
[Makefile.Debug:98: test.o] Error 2
Got this after right clicking and select "display output". (translations added after "//")

process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, nasm -f elf64 -g -F dwarf -o test.o ../test_stuff/test.asm, ...) failed.
make (e=2): Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden. // the system cannot find the mentioned file

mingw32-make[1]: *** [Makefile.Debug:98: test.o] Error 2
mingw32-make[1]: Leaving directory 'D:/Dokumente/build-test_stuff-Desktop_Qt_5_12_0_MinGW_64_bit-Debug'
mingw32-make: *** [Makefile:36: debug] Error 2
05:37:11: Der Prozess "D:\Qt\Tools\mingw730_64\bin\mingw32-make.exe" wurde mit dem Rückgabewert 2 beendet. //the process "D:..." has been terminated with a return value of 2
Fehler beim Erstellen/Deployment des Projekts test_stuff (Kit: Desktop Qt 5.12.0 MinGW 64-bit) // Error while compiling/Deployment of "test_stuff..." 
Bei der Ausführung von Schritt "Make" //during the execution of "Make"
05:37:11: Verstrichene Zeit: 00:02.

[aha_1980]

Hi @SnuggleKat

stuff/test.asm, ...) failed. make (e=2): Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden. // the system cannot find

that sounds as if nasm is not in the PATH environment variable.

What happens if you type nasm in a command window?

Regards

[A Former User]

@aha_1980 said in Need help setting up my Qt project w/ NASM (MakeFile.Debug:98):

Hi @SnuggleKat

stuff/test.asm, ...) failed. make (e=2): Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden. // the system cannot find

that sounds as if nasm is not in the PATH environment variable.

What happens if you type nasm in a command window?

Regards

Hi,
do you mean cmd.exe?
Typing in "nasm" there doesn't lead to anything.
So I assume Qt doesn't come with an assembly compiler.

However, I have an installation of nasm from here
Added it as a path variable but no change

[aha_1980]

@SnuggleKat

do you mean cmd.exe?

yes

Typing in "nasm" there doesn't lead to anything.
So I assume Qt doesn't come with an assembly compiler.

Qt is a library, no compiler, so yes.

However, I have an installation of nasm from here
Added it as a path variable but no change

How did you do and verify this?

[A Former User]

@aha_1980 said in Need help setting up my Qt project w/ NASM (MakeFile.Debug:98):

How did you do and verify this?

By following the link of my last post you can find an installer.
I then added the installation path as system variable

[aha_1980]

@SnuggleKat

And does nasm work in Windows cmd.exe after you modified PATH? Otherwise there is still something wrong. Please post the output of echo %PATH% in that case.

Note that your need to re-open the cmd.exe after you made global environment changes.

[jsulm]

@SnuggleKat said in Need help setting up my Qt project w/ NASM (MakeFile.Debug:98):

So I assume Qt doesn't come with an assembly compiler.

No, the compiler does

[A Former User]

@aha_1980 said in Need help setting up my Qt project w/ NASM (MakeFile.Debug:98):

@SnuggleKat

And does nasm work in Windows cmd.exe after you modified PATH? Otherwise there is still something wrong. Please post the output of echo %PATH% in that case.

Note that your need to re-open the cmd.exe after you made global environment changes.

Processing echo %PATH% gave me the following:

C:\Users\acer>echo %PATH%
C:\PS3\ProDG\bin;c:\devkitPro\msys\bin;C:\mingw\bin;C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\iCLS Client\;C:\Program Files\Intel\iCLS Client\;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL;C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\IPT;C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\IPT;C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Windows Performance Toolkit\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Brackets\command;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\python27;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Windows Performance Toolkit\;C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Utilities 1.6\;C:\WINDOWS\System32\OpenSSH\;C:\Users\acer\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;C:\Users\acer\AppData\Roaming\Dashlane\6.1841.0.13779\bin\Firefox_Extension\{442718d9-475e-452a-b3e1-fb1ee16b8e9f}\components;C:\Users\acer\AppData\Roaming\Dashlane\6.1841.0.13779\ucrt;C:\Users\acer\AppData\Roaming\Dashlane\6.1841.0.13779\bin\Qt

[A Former User]

Ok, added nasm to my environment variables. Made a little mistake there.
Typing "nasm" into cmd now outputs:

nasm:fatal: no input file specified
type `nasm -h' for help

However, the error in Qt Creator remains the same
EDIT: It works now!

Just had to restart Qt :)

Thank you guys, you are awesome :)