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<h2 id="appendix-D">Appendix D: Building NASM from Source</h2>
<p>The source code for NASM is available from our website,
<a href="http://www.nasm.us/">http://wwww.nasm.us/</a>, see
<a href="nasmdoce.html#section-E.1">section E.1</a>.</p>
<h3 id="section-D.1">D.1 Building from a Source Archive</h3>
<p>The source archives available on the web site should be capable of
building on a number of platforms. This is the recommended method for
building NASM to support platforms for which executables are not available.</p>
<p>On a system which has Unix shell (<code>sh</code>), run:</p>
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sh configure
make everything
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<p>A number of options can be passed to <code>configure</code>; see
<code>sh configure --help</code>.</p>
<p>A set of Makefiles for some other environments are also available;
please see the file <code>Mkfiles/README</code>.</p>
<p>To build the installer for the Windows platform, you will need the
<em>Nullsoft Scriptable Installer</em>, NSIS, installed.</p>
<p>To build the documentation, you will need a set of additional tools. The
documentation is not likely to be able to build on non-Unix systems.</p>
<h3 id="section-D.2">D.2 Building from the <code>git</code> Repository</h3>
<p>The NASM development tree is kept in a source code repository using the
<code>git</code> distributed source control system. The link is available
on the website. This is recommended only to participate in the development
of NASM or to assist with testing the development code.</p>
<p>To build NASM from the <code>git</code> repository you will need a Perl
and, if building on a Unix system, GNU autoconf.</p>
<p>To build on a Unix system, run:</p>
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sh autogen.sh
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<p>to create the <code>configure</code> script and then build as listed
above.</p>
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