x86 Assembly on a Mac

Question

Does anyone know of any good tools (I\'m looking for IDEs) to write assembly on the Mac. Xcode is a little cumbersome to me.

Also, on the Intel Macs, can I use gener

Answer 1

Running assembly Code on Mac is just 3 steps away from you. It could be done using XCODE but better is to use NASM Command Line Tool. For My Ease I have already installed Xcode, if you have Xcode installed its good.

But You can do it without XCode as well.

Just Follow:

1. First Install NASM using Homebrew brew install nasm
2. convert .asm file into Obj File using this command nasm -f macho64 myFile.asm
3. Run Obj File to see OutPut using command ld -macosx_version_min 10.7.0 -lSystem -o OutPutFile myFile.o && ./64

Simple Text File named myFile.asm is written below for your convenience.

global start
section .text

start:
    mov     rax, 0x2000004 ; write
    mov     rdi, 1 ; stdout
    mov     rsi, msg
    mov     rdx, msg.len
    syscall

    mov     rax, 0x2000001 ; exit
    mov     rdi, 0
    syscall

section .data

msg:    db      "Assalam O Alaikum Dear", 10
.len:   equ     $ - msg