GitHub - eterevsky/exe: Learning how Windows executes programs and building hello.exe from scratch.

Building a Windows executable from asm

Add the directory with Visual Studio command line tools to PATH, for me: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.40.33807\bin\Hostx64\x64
Run MASM: ml64 /c /Fo hello.obj hello.asm
Link: link /SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE /ENTRY:main /OUT:hello_asm.exe hello.obj "c:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Lib\10.0.22621.0\um\x64\kernel32.Lib"
Run hello.exe

Name		Name	Last commit message	Last commit date
Latest commit History 12 Commits
hello		hello
.gitignore		.gitignore
LICENSE		LICENSE
README.md		README.md
build.bat		build.bat
build.py		build.py
build_mz.py		build_mz.py
dump.py		dump.py
hello.asm		hello.asm
hello.s		hello.s
hello_asm.exe		hello_asm.exe
hello_clang.exe		hello_clang.exe
hello_go.exe		hello_go.exe
hello_mac_clang		hello_mac_clang
hello_mac_go		hello_mac_go
hello_mac_rust		hello_mac_rust
hello_mz.exe		hello_mz.exe
hello_rust.exe		hello_rust.exe
hello_win.c		hello_win.c
hello_win.exe		hello_win.exe
hexdump.py		hexdump.py
mz.py		mz.py
parse.py		parse.py
pe.py		pe.py