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[DarkLordofthePenguins]

I started reading a PDF on NASM, and it requires certain files from the website. So I went to the website and downloaded the Linux ZIP (The website didn't have one for Mac OS X. There were versions for things like DJGPP and Cygwin but not Mac OS X. Go figure.) The object files were in the ELF format, so I reassembled the include file into Mach-O so the Mac version of NASM could read it. I hope that was enough.

But still, I keep getting this error when I use the %include directive:

first.s:1: error: `%include' expects a file name

I'm beginning to think it's not the executable format that's the problem, but something to do with the syntax. I used this line of code:

%include asm_io.inc

I don't think it has anything to do with the existence or readability of asm_io.asm, asm_io.inc, or asm_io.o. The assembler just isn't recognizing asm_io.inc as a filename for some reason.

[Alexander]

It is likely that it needs to be in 'string' format, i.e. %include "file.inc".

I would assume this would allow whitespace in file names where whitespace is allowed "my include.inc"

[DarkLordofthePenguins]

Yes, that works. Thank you.