ORGams compatible crossdev-assembler. BUG reports expected

[krusty_benediction]

I'm using my own assembler since a while and pushing its updates here https://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/programming/basm-best-assembler-in-my-desk-room/

In this thread, I'd like to discuss of a new feature, and only this feature: orgams compatibility mode.
Of course, regular orgams users will probably not be interested in such a project, but it will ease project sharing and tests with other users.

I have added a minimal support to assemble ORGAMS projects. It has not been deeply tested yet (only on a single demo effect source code I have not written myself) and I know it cannot build all existing projects. I have no idea at which point it is limited in regards of existing source code in the wild. That's why I need your help to validate if it works with your sources.

Here are the current limitations I'm aware of:

- It parses orgams source code written in ASCII only. .o files are not editable with a standard text editor, but I can still add .o parsing if there are enough users of such functionality
- It does not respect orgams labels visibility rules. As I like the idea, i will probably implement it soon and backport it to the normal flavor of basm
- Content inside IF/ELSE blocs need to be valid ASM source code (maybe it is the case of orgams, i'm not 100% sure. )
- Numbers are not represented the same internally. Maybe there are errors in expression computations


If anyone is interested in a better support, I can improve the compatibility starting from next month.
Feel free to test and give bug reports in this thread or the github project https://github.com/cpcsdk/rust.cpclib/issues


basm.exe is available here https://github.com/cpcsdk/rust.cpclib/releases
Here is an example of using it in orgams mode to create the amsdos file test.bin :

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basm --orgams ./tests/asm/orgams_good_repeat.asm  -o test.bin --binary


The main difference with a regular use of basm consists only in adding --orgams flag

[Cwiiis]

This is great - I'd love to be able to easily assemble Orgams code on the desktop, it'd be ideal for small fixes/changes where I don't necessarily want to get going on the actual machine. Would also be neat possibly for automation too, though who am I kidding, I'm not going to bother with that

[krusty_benediction]

This project will probably not evolve anymore.

Instead of complexifying my assembler to have a more or less compatible orgams, I have worked on automatic control of emulators to assemble automatically orgams files using orgams on a PC.

I have also written some modern to orgams assembler converters to assemble with orgams files written for basm (sill work in progress).
It works properly only on Linux, but as I'm the only user, who cares